While we’re celebrating Hari Raya Aidil Fitri, everyone were busy with preparing for the big makan-makan tomorrow, we have launched a new website design for arciium.com, right on 1st Syawal

In this design (it is not actually my design, I just combine the design from here and there), we keep the main features like Online Users, ChatBox, Forum and RSS feeds. We have a few main features that surely will enhance your browsing experience. Make sure to check it out.

• Featured content. (We will post latest program report here)
• Featured video (Hope someone can help with videos. Any video that can tell people what we do)
• Twitter search. (This widget will search twitter bloggosphere for any entry that contain arciium)
• Tag Cloud
• Share this article (You can see there are few social network icons the bottom of each article page. You can share any article in any social network listed there. This is a useful tool for event promotion in the future.)

Hope everyone were happy with what we have for now. I did try my best, to find some time for this, and this is as far as I can give for now. From time to time we will make this website a better place to hangout

* Credit to Arif Sukarno, I steal your yellow icon in the header from your design here.

Second Hand Bag
Owner: Mangat
Price: RM 360 (boleh dirunding)
Contact No: 016-6656158

Features:

* Karrimor Lifetime Guarantee
* Designed specifically for women
* Hydration system compatible
* Pull-out-rain-cover
* 2 compartments
* Progress fixed side pockets for extra storage
* 2 pockets in flap
* Flap compression budgie cord
* Front map pocket
* Mesh stash pockets
* Rope strap
* Base load straps
* Elasticated chest strap
* Ice axe strap and lash attachment
* Haul loop
* Double base
* Key clip

Sukan mendaki gunung adalah salah satu aktiviti rekreasi yang di gemari hampir semua ahli Adventure Club IIUM. Mereka melihat sukan ini sebagai salah satu cabang untuk menyihatkan badan di samping mempunyai beberapa kelebihan tersendiri. Antara gunung yang popular di kalangan mereka ialah Gunung Tahan, Gunung Nuang, Gunung Bunga Buah, dan beberapa gunung lain di sekitar Malaysia.

Sukar untuk dinafikan bahawa sukan ini membawa seribu satu kelebihan kepada penggemarnya. Antara kelebihan utama sukan ini ialah dapat menyihatkan anggota badan. Seperti yang kita ketahui, aktiviti mendaki gunung memerlukan kekuatan mental dan fizikal yang luar biasa. Kita hendaklah bersedia sepenuhnya sebelum sesuatu ekspedisi untuk memudahkan pergerakan pasukan. Tapi ada sahaja yang membawa masalah tiap-tiap kali ekspedisi, biasala kan, bukan orang lain.

Kelebihan kedua sukan ini ialah dapat melihat kebesaran ciptaan Allah yang Maha Esa. Antaranya ialah keindahan terbenam dan terbitnya matahari, kesegaran air terjun yang mengalir, tebaran bintang-bintang di angkasa, kejinakan binatang-binatang di hutan, dan khasiat tumbuh-tumbuhan. Dengan melihat kebesaran ini, moga-moga dalam masa yang sama dapat meningkatkan kesedaran kita betapa pentingnya untuk menjaga keindahan alam yang dianugerahkan oleh Allah yang Esa.

Dalam masa yang sama, sukan ini dapat melupakan kita kepada masalah-masalah yang kita hadapi di kotaraya. Ketika berekspedisi tidak kedegaran bunyi-bunyi bising kereta, kesesakan lalu lintas yang teruk, gangguan bunyi dari bilik rakan, dan kerja yang diberikan lecturer. Di sini, kita dapat merehatkan minda kita dan bermuhasabah untuk menjadi manusia yang lebih berguna.

Cinta, jodoh, kawan karib, skandal dan isteri juga merupakan salah satu kelebihan istimewa aktiviti mendaki gunung. Abang dan kakak-kakak dari Latepackers merupakan contoh yang sesuai kepada kita. Perkahwinan mereka dilihat bahagia di samping dikurniakan anak-anak sebagai penyeri keluarga. Sesuailah untuk kita ahli-ahli ARCIIUM untuk mencari calon yang sesuai sebelum dikebas orang. Hahaha..

Aktiviti ini juga dapat memupuk pelbagai sikap positif kepada penggemarnya. Antaranya kerjasama dalam pasukan, disiplin diri, rasa bertanggungjawab dan menepati masa. Secara teori memang mudah untuk ditulis dan difahami. Namun, sikap-sikap ini memerlukan penekanan yang lebih terutama kepada ahli-ahli ARCIIUM sendiri.

Kesimpulannya, sukan mendaki gunung ini mempunyai kelebihan dan manfaat tersendiri kepada penggemarnya. Oleh itu, aku menyeru kepada kawan-kawan aku semua supaya meneruskan aktiviti ini sampai kita mati. Hahaha..

Currently we have a hard time managing our own gallery. Start from harddisk space problem, then it goes to spammer. Last time I checked, our gallery have more than 30,000 albums, that I never know about!! Now, its working fine, have reconfigure some permission and security issues.

Anyway, we have setup a new gallery for our website. Now we are using PicasaWeb, reachable at http://www.picasaweb.com/arciium/. Picasa really release my headache, with its easy file upload through Picasa Desktop. Just select the picture files, upload, define the target album, and just wait

In PicasaWeb they also provide geotagging, where we will tag where the picture was taken in Google Map. IT wont be precise at the moment, but we will have an idea on where the picture was taken.

You can start browsing for the pictures uploaded there. The latest picture is our Hari Raya trip. You can comment on the pictures, and please use the button “share” on top-left side, send it to our friends, as one of promotion method.

One more thing to add, the only problem with Picasa Web

To upgrade, here is the options.

It will cost us USD 20 for 10GB for one year. We have already used half of 1GB free space. We will figure out how to solve that

BTW, please check Picasa 3 new features at http://lifehacker.com/5059302/picasa-3-betas-new-features and youtube video on Picasa 3 additional features.

I just found this website. Searching for a good way to log our activities, TripTracker is just a nice place we could use.

TripTracker have an easy and straightforward interface, I think almost anyone could use it. You will start with creating your own profile, and start adding your trip. The information that will be aggregated within TripTracker is the trip overview with real GPS data, mapped on Google Earth,ebudy trip journal, and photos. TripTracker also provide a good companion, Tripracker Uploader, a software we could use to upload pictures from our Desktop. It will automatically resizes photos we’re uploading automatically, which will signifantly reduce upload time.

One thing I could not figure out is how to add the GPS log manually. Because in the website, they have the feature to import GPS log file from major GPS devices and also from Google Earth file. Hope someone could help me, generate KML file from Google Earth traces.

TripTracker was meant to a long journey traveller actually. Some of them having a thousand-mile trip, across continent. So, Google Earth mapping would be a suitable companion to visualize their trip. However, we still could use it. It’s free, who give a **** where we went to

TripTracker – http://www.triptracker.net