Happy Ramadhan 2008 1429

Happy Ramadhan 2008 AC / 1429 AH for all Muslims around the world who perform thirty-day long fasting. The starting day of Ramadhan this year most probably on Monday 1st of September or Tuesday 2nd of September 2008.
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Turkey beat Croatia 3-1

The most shocking upset yet of Euro2008’s quarter final

Turkey defeated Croatia in a penalty shoot-out following a remarkable last few minutes of extra-time in Vienna Friday to reach the semi-finals of the European Championships and a meeting with record champions Germany.

Anyone dare to put their money for Turkey against Germany in semifinal?

Ahmadiyya Indonesia

A news many Muslim in Indonesia has expected the Indonesia’s government to do on Ahmadiya much earlier

Indonesia’s Government has placed severe restrictions on the activities of the minority muslim, Ahmadiya sect which has been denounced as deviant by Islamic hardliners. See here the six points of the decree against Ahmadiyya (in Bahasa Indonesia)

The decree, according to Radio Australia reports has

…falls short of the outright ban demanded by fundamentalists.

Barack Obama

The last two primaries which end on Tuesday has ended the fierce battle between two democratic rivals which Obama, as expected, came out as the winner. The news is not who’s the winner, but when will Hillary Clinton budge and concede defeat ro Obama and leave him alone which seems what is happening right now. IHT reports that

Hillary Rodham Clinton will endorse Barack Obama on Saturday, bringing a close to her 17-month campaign for the White House, aides said. Her decision came after Democrats urged her Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Obama.

No Smoking Day

It’s no smoking day today (Saturday) May 31:

The theme of this year’s World No Smoking Day is ‘Smoking-Free Youth’. Health organisations will again put their heads together to ensure complete enforcement of the Prohibition of Smoking and Protection of Non-Smoker Ordinance 2002. .. Smoking kills 4.9 million people worldwide every year and tobacco will be the biggest cause of premature deaths by 2030 - about 10 million every year.

I am happy that I have the luxury to be able to quit smoking. To be part of those who celebrate it. Really am.
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70 Modern Blogger Blogspot Templates

70 Modern Blogger Blogspot Templates Mashable has patiently collected 70 very attractive blogger.com / blogspot free templates from around the internet for you to enjoy. It also showed the screenshot of every template which will make blogger / blogspot users can easily peek trhough the ‘gallery’. Many of the templates are wordpress-like with a bit blogspot ‘feel’.

Good works and worth visiting particularly for blogger / blogspot users.

This is the advantage of blogger.com / blogspot compared to other free blog provider: you can pick any best templates available. Just in case you’re a bit confused how to change your blogger.com templates using outside designs, see here.

All in One SEO Pack Plugins

This plugins seem good and promising both for newbie and oldies wordpress blogger alike. If it means what it says, the plugins really what any bloggers are looking for: a SEO tools which aint require you to sweat it out. Just install it, activate it and wait for the result.

Interested? Download it here.
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (83): Rima Fauzi

World is beautiful, every normal and spirited being thinks so. The most salient feature of its beauty lies in the heterogeneity of its populace called human. The differences of our physical appearance,colors of our skin, our eyes and hairs. And on top of it all: the differences of our mindset, preference, leaning and way of thinking we attach to or led or want others to believe. Thus emerges various religions brought about by many prophets, school of thoughts introduced by many great philosophers. It’s natural therefore if every single religion and philosophical thoughts for or against any religion have their own followers. It also means that we have choices to choose to lead our life. Afterall, life is about choice and world gives us freedom to choose. Whatever you wanna be, just be it.
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Problems with Wordpress 2.5 Drafts and Posts

After I upgraded wordpress 2.2 into the latest version of wordpress 2.5, it seems there’s a problem whenever I try to write a posting / article or to upload images or files and to attach it to a post. I thought it due to something wrong with the upgrade process. So I intended to ask my host provider who did the job. Before doing that, I reluctantly googled the www if such problem ever occurred to someone else before.

Bingo! Raj Dash of Performancing.com seemed to have very similar problem like me. Even more he has a good review on the whole wordpress 2.5 performance and dashboard design which he says “disappointing.” Below I quoted from Raj Dash’s experience of what also happens to my blog after upgrading:
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