Menduniakan Indonesia Melalui Bridge-Blogging

Menduniakan Indonesia Melalui Bridge-Blogging
March 19, 2008

Tahukah anda istilah Bridge Blogging? Kalau menurut informasi yang saya baca di internet, bridge blogging adalah, menulis blog dalam bahasa inggris atau bahasa asing di luar bahasa ibu si penulis blog, dengan tujuan agar orang di luar negaranya, atau pun di belahan dunia mana pun bisa memiliki pengetahuan tentang seluk beluk negara asal si penulis blog.
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How to Quit Smoking

I, finally and officially, Quit Smoking and today is the seventh day. 21 March 2008 was the starting day.

It’s been a long while that the intention and willingness to call it a day emerged. What I need was a momentum to start afresh the whole thing. Includng to begin leaving the “chain-smoker” label behind.

And when the moment came, I took it with both hand. Now, it’s the seventh day I live without any cigarette smokes filling my lung. Some friends amazed, surprised and shocked. But it’s just natural to go from one extreme to another if you’re determined to do so. Nothing is impossible.
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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.[1]

It is the economic system in which the means of production are owned by private persons, and operated for profit and where investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are predominantly determined through the operation of a free market. Capitalism is usually considered to involve the right of individuals and corporations to trade, incorporate, employ workers, and use money, in goods, services (including finance), labor and land. By definition, production and distribution in a capitalist system are governed by the free market rather than state regulation, though this does not exclude the state defining and enforcing the basic rules of the market and may include the provision of a few basic public goods and infrastructure. Classic unrestrained capitalism is currently confined to theory, as “all of the capitalistic societies of the West have mixed economies that temper capitalism” with interventionist government regulation and social programs.[2]

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[1] Merriam Webster Dictionary
[2] Wikipedia

Fundamentalism

1 aoften capitalized : a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching b: the beliefs of this movement c: adherence to such beliefs
2: a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles “Islamic fundamentalism” “political fundamentalism”.[1]
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Religion

A religion is a set of tenets and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience. The term “religion” refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.[1]

Featured religions and beliefs

Atheism The ideas and views of people who don’t believe in God.
Baha’i One of the youngest of the world’s major religions.
Buddhism A way of living based on the teachings of Siddartha Gautama.
Candomblé A religion based on African beliefs, originating in Brazil.
Christianity The world’s biggest faith, based on the teaching of Jesus Christ.
Hinduism A group of faiths rooted in the religious ideas of India.
Islam Revealed in its final form by the Prophet Muhammad.
Jainism An ancient philosophy and ethical teaching that originated in India.
Jehovah’s Witnesses A Christian-based evangelistic religious movement.
Judaism Based around the Jewish people’s covenant relationship with God.
Mormon The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Paganism Contemporary religions usually based on reverence for nature.
Rastafari A young religion founded in Jamaica in the 1930s.
Santeria Afro-Caribbean syncretic religion originating in Cuba.
Shinto Japanese folk tradition and ritual with no founder or single sacred scripture.
Sikhism The religion founded by Guru Nanak in India in the 15th Century CE.
Taoism An ancient tradition of philosophy and belief rooted in Chinese worldview.
Unitarianism An open-minded and individualistic approach to religion.
Zoroastrianism One of the oldest monotheistic faiths, founded by the prophet Zoroaster.[2]

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[1] Wikipedia
[2] BBC

Socialism

Socialism refers to any of various economic and political concepts of state or collective (i.e. public) ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods and services, some of which have been developed into more or less highly articulated theories and/or praxis. [1] In a Marxist or labor-movement definition of the term, socialism is a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done with the goal of creating a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community. [1]
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How to Create a Favicon

Did you see a little image to the left of my fatihsyuhud.com address url in your browser? It’s called favicon. Favicon can only be installed in a self-hosted blog / website or in a free blog / website where user is allowed to access the template such as blogger.com / blogspot. Now, however, wordpress.com allow bloggers to use favicon too with specific way. See the how-to here for wordrpess.com favicon.

Here’s how to make a Favicon and Install it into Blog / Website

1. Create a favicon image online by uploading any image from your computer here. Click the “Generate Favicon ico.”

2. Name it favicon.ico and save it to your computer.

3. Upload the saved favicon into your website locate it at the same place with index.php (it applies to self-hosted wordpress) or index.html, or index.asp. In my case, uploaded the image into http://fatihsyuhud.com/favicon.ico

4. Insert the following code in your blog or website header. In the case of self-hosted blog, put it in theme header:


<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

5. Save. And done.

Free Wordpress Blog with AdSense

[Update 10 Dec 2008] Edublogs.org is no longer free. Read here for more.

Edublogs.org, a free blog services using the latest wordpress blogging platform with 100,000 plus users has just announced a surprising offer: now you can put the juicy AdSense code, indeed any javascript code, into your sidebar widget. One who loves blogging, loves latest wordpress utility with its Google friendly interface, loves free blog services, and loves making money online can just put these many attributes in one words: Edublogs.org. Sign-up, and you’ll just get what you want. I’ve already had an account in edublogs.org but it’s mainly for back-up purposes. But now I may change my mind.

Actually there are already two popular free blog providers that offer javascript-enabled wordpress namely blogsome.com and blogs.ie. Unfortunately, both are never upgrading their wordpress software into the latest version which make them look very “old.”
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Threaded Comment Wordpress Plugins

I have just added the brians’ threaded comment plugins (formerly nested comment plugins) here in this blog. I’ve planned to upload this nice plugins long ago but still couldn’t find the right time to do so or just forgot once I connect to the internet. This plugins is nice in the sense it’ll make disscussion more lively: the third commentator, for example, who wants to comment on the first comment can just easily click the “reply this comment” in the comment #1 precisely like the way mailing list works.

Unfortunately, just like any other wordpress plugins, it can only be done in a self-hosted blog. Wordpress.com, the free blog services owned by Automattic–the wordpress blogging platform company–has yet to include it into its by-default wordpress.com build up.
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London Europe’s Dirtiest City

A survey reveals that
London is the dirtiest and most expensive European city according to a survey of well-travelled tourists.

The UK capital edged Paris into second place for both unwanted titles according to the study from the TripAdvisor company.

Those who want a bargain holiday head first for stag party favourites Prague and Budapest, while visitors looking for a clean environment love Zurich and Copenhagen.

Suppose the survey was conducted around the world, would Jakarta, the Indonesia’s capital, get the ‘honor’ in the top ten slot?
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