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International Relations

The world is green, the world is blue and I just want to live it. The trees break out in verdant hue, the sky’s azure, the lake’s in view, and people dancing all around, the breeze; the sound; the shaking ground. The winter now is over and we all can play once more. Boys and …

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A Flexible Programming Style

I feel that too much has been made of proscriptive paradigms. OOP is useful in its place. Aspects of the Functional paradigm have their strengths. All paradigms contain at least snippets of the Procedural paradigm. There are places where each is appropriate. A well written code base will include the best tool for the purpose. …

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Why the Royal Albert Hall booking system is unfair.

You can add concerts to your schedule in advance but not actually get a ticket until some arbitrary booking date. When that date arrives you get put in a queue. Your position is random and not related to when you booked. There is little opportunity for a second chance. You get the seats you specified …

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Added to Aftermath

I have added a second chapter to the story “Aftermath“:

New poem : ‘Fruitless’ added.

Just added a new poem Fruitless

Utility classes are anathema

When I learned HTML there were no style sheets. Tags such as <b> <u> and <i> were common. <hx> tags were used to get a size you wanted. Then came CSS. HTML markup could become purely semantic. Now we could use <hx> to provide semantic information and leave formatting to the CSS. HTML for Semantics; …

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Changing you primary health centre on line (Indonesian citizens only)

When you first register with BPJS, you have to specify the health centre (e.g. Puskesmas) that you will use to get medical care under BPJS.  If you need to change this, you can, but only once. NOTE: This will not work if the NIK on your BPJS health card is specified as ‘null’. i.e. If …

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Services provided by BPJS

The following services are covered by the BPJS health insurance scheme: 1. Health services in clinics or health centers First level health services (according to the class you choose) include: Free administration fee for health services. Get promotive and preventive services. For example, such as consultations, routine immunizations, about family planning programs and health checks to …

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How to register for BPJS Health online

1. Fill in your personal data First. open the online BPJS Health website page here  (when I checked, the page was missing – you may have better luck). Please fill in your personal data according to the personal files that you have correctly. Including data regarding full address, date of birth and National Identity Card …

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Using BPJS

BPJS is Indonesia’s  national health service. It is a subscription service, i.e. you pay a monthly fee and this entitles you to free health care. Since it is now available to ex-pat residents, I though it might be useful to post a translation of the procedures for using it, gleaned from the official sources (at …

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