How to Quit Smoking

How to Quit SmokingI, 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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Free Wordpress Blog with AdSense

Free Wordpress Blog with AdSenseEdublogs.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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London Europe’s Dirtiest City

London Europe’s Dirtiest City how about Jakarta?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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Omar and Osama bin Laden

Omar and Osama bin LadenMedia loves controversy because it drives attention from readers. ‘Bad news is a good news’ says the villain in the James Bond’s “Tomorrow Never Dies”. Bad news does not necessarily only means natural disaster, war, collateral damages, terrorism or anything that could easily be comprehended as closely related to blood and death. It could aslo stand for anything that consists of a sort of paradoxical meaning from the perceived understanding of common people about something or someone.  That’s why the recent brouhaha of Umar (Omar) bin Laden son of Osama bin Laden who offered to bridge peaceful solution between his father and the West got so much attention from the media, and the readers because it offers the extreme paradox from what the world, particularly the West, perceived with the word “bin Ladin”
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Former President Soeharto Dies

Indonesia Former President Soeharto DiesGeneral (retired.) Soeharto, the second Indonesian president, who has been in a very critical condition for few weeks, has died today in the RSPP (Rumah Sakit Pustat Peramina) hospital Jakarta. Indonesian government has decided to have a  national mourning for seven days starting from now.  He will be buried tomorrow morning in Astana Giribangun of Central Java as per his request. Yet, the possibility that he’ll be buried in Jakarta is not ruled out, reports Detik.com.

As a human being he deserves our prayer and forgiveness; and to his big family our condolences. May God rest his soul in peace. As a statement and politician who ruled Indonesia for 32-long years, he might make mistakes. Let the law decides and take decision based on justice for all.
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Wordpress.com Gives Away 3 GB Free Space

Wordpress.com Gives Away 3 GB Free SpaceIt seems that wordpress.com want to leave a landmark in the history and set the trend of free blogging service in the same way gmail.com did for the free email space capacity by giving away a three-gigabytes space to enable you to upload as much as any rich files you could imagine. In comparison to other free blog providers, wordpress describes it simply:

To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing the same thing for free.

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Free New Blogger Templates

Free New Blogger blogspot TemplatesWordpress blogging platform is arguably the most widely used free blog software right now for self-hosted  blog. Its openness to outside plugins makes it getting popularity among the coders as well. Wordpress.com, the free blog provider owned by Wordpress founder, Matt Mullenweg, gains popularity in a very azaming speed. That’s said, blogger.com / blogspot is still the darling to some bloggers especially for its javascript-enable policy. Making it a chance for blogger to monetize it.

For those stylish blogger, however, the problem lies on its limited and archaic by-default templates. And that has, fortunately, motivated some templates designers to create various new blogger / blogspot template  to use for free. Here’s the links of free blogger templates for you to download. If you know some other interesting blogger template design, please tell us the URI address in the comment box below.

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Suharto

Suharto Former Indonesia presidentFormer Indonesia president is now in a very critical condition. All Indonesia media as well as the foreign reporters keep a close watch over his probably last-minute existence. Indonesia TV channel update the news live almost every half an hour from RSPP (Rumah Sakit Pusat Pertamina) hospital. The former dictator known to some as the smiling assassin for his hard policy against any opposition during his 32-year dictatorial rule is now raising heated debates among grass root Indonesian including bloggers.
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Floods and Landslides in Indonesia

Floods and Landslides in IndonesiaFloods everywhere,

… landslides and floods have killed at least 65 people in heavily populated Central and East Java after torrential rains lashed the region. … While activists blame such disasters on the disappearance of trees that stabilise soil and help absorb rain, local officials have insisted the unusually heavy downfalls have destabilised already vulnerable hilly areas.

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