Virtual Politics
The Five Princes
Concerned about falsified data on the presidential election, they set up kawalpemilu.org website, despite living in different countries. They were not partial to either presidential candidate.
MISSING a flight to California from Singapore became a 'blessing in disguise' for 30-year-old Felix Halim. He works at Google in California, and stopped in Singapore after being on the jury of a computer programming competition in Moscow on July 9. Because he was engrossed in making the website kawalpemilu.org, which was being used as a reference for the results of the 2014 presidential election in Indonesia, he forgot to check his ticket. He should have been flying back to Google's head office in California, USA.
He thought the plane was to take off at 2pm. It actually took off at 2am. At 2am, he was still working on web coding so as to make the site user-friendly. "That missed flight cost me US$300, more than it cost to make the website," he said with a laugh.
December 16, 2014
The Five Princes
Concerned about falsified data on the presidential election, they set up kawalpemilu.org website, despite living in different countries. They were not partial to either presidential candidate.
MISSING a flight to California from Singapore became a 'blessing in disguise' for 30-year-old Felix Halim. He works at Google in California, and stopped in Singapore after being on the jury of a computer programming competition in Moscow on
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