Articles filed in 2007 October

At the water cooler: October 31, 2007

Posted on October 31, 2007 in the water cooler
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In an office setting, the ubiquitous water cooler is a place for employees to discuss newsworthy events or simply office gossip. (You’ll usually see me near the coffeemaker instead).

Here at ManiaRavings, the “Water cooler” is simply a category for links to other websites - so it’s no novel idea ! Darren calls it “Speedlinking” for example, some call it “Linky Love” and others simply call it “From my RSS reader” - what a mouthful !
I should mention though, that some American Sports networks do use the term “Water cooler” to discuss off-beat sports stories. Continue reading

Hadith - October 27, 2007

Posted on October 26, 2007 in Spiritual
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Virtues of Knowledge (which is learnt and taught for the sake of Allâh)

Mu’âwiah (may Allâh be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allâh said,

“When Allâh wishes good for someone, He bestows upon him the understanding of religion.”

- Narrated by Al-Bukhâri and Muslim

How to make the most of Blogging Communities

Posted on October 25, 2007 in Blogging
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The past week, I was quite active in blogger based communities like MyBlogLog, BUMPzee and blogcatalog.

In this entry I am going to tell you what I’ve been doing (more specifically on MyBlogLog) and how I’ve been trying to get people to read my blog. Continue reading

A weekend of reuniting

Posted on October 22, 2007 in Social
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What a beautiful weekend I’ve had ! I am so not looking forward to the mid-term test on Wednesday but I’ll have to sit down and study for it - eventually !

I spent past weeked catching up on family and friends, starting with a reunion at my college. Continue reading

A WYSIWYG editor for ExpressionEngine

Posted on October 21, 2007 in Blogging Computing
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The default text area for publishing entries in ExpressionEngine is only partially WYSIWYG. It gets primitve when editing lenghty posts and working with images.

If you are not happy with any of the desktop solutions out there, an extension for ExpressionEngine exists, that will convert those text areas into rich text editors ! Continue reading

Playing with Flock 1.0 Beta

Posted on October 19, 2007 in Computing
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Flock is a Firefox based browser, that is developed with social networking in mind. I have been using it for a year and a half and it has become my favourite browser on Windows. I am writing this post in Flock’s built in blog editor. Flock 1.0 beta was released this morning, just one day before it’s second birthday ! Continue reading

Welcome to ManiaRavings new home!

Posted on October 18, 2007 in Blogging
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It took several weekends but I have finally pulled it through ! There is so much to talk about this transition and it’s going to be difficult to put it all together considering the constraints of time and space. I am quite happy about how things have progressed over the last few months and I am more excited of my plans of dealing with this blog over the next year.

In this first article on this new location I am going to talk about:

  • Some reasons about moving to the new domain
  • Choosing ExpressionEngine for a blogging platform
  • The new design and colours
  • What I plan to post for the next 6 months Continue reading