Author: Adnan

Ten blogging tips from the Ultimate Blogger.

Do you know Jorn Barger? The answer will be negative for most of you except the geeks. Well he is often called as the Father of Blogs. Barger coined the term weblog on December 17, 1997; ten years ago this week for the first time to describe the process of logging the web as he surfed. And in 2007, Blogging is now probably the most important matter for the netizens. No one can actually count how many blogs are there in blogsphere. According to the CyberJournalist, the blogosphere is doubling about once every 6 and a half months. Not only the blogs also the blog lingo like Klogs, Plogs, Vogging etc. has been grown in a large extend. So tips from the Father will obviously be helpful for all the bloggers. Just go through the tips and enhance your blogging. By the way , Happy Birthday Blogs! Original link of these tips can be found here.

  1. A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)
  2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
  3. If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your idea well articulated elsewhere already.
  4. Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.
  5. You can always improve on the author’s own page title, when describing a link. (At least make sure your description is full enough that readers will recognize any pages they’ve already visited, without having to visit them again.)
  6. Always include some adjective describing your own reaction to the linked page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)
  7. Credit the source that led you to it, so your readers have the option of “moving upstream.”
  8. Warn about “gotchas” — weird formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don’t camouflage the main link among unneeded (or poorly labeled) auxiliary links.
  9. Pick some favorite authors or celebrities and create a Google News feed that tracks new mentions of them, so other fans can follow them via your weblog.
  10. Re-post your favorite links from time to time, for people who missed them the first time.

16th December: The Victory Day

Celebrate the 37th anniversary of Bangladesh’s glorious Victory Day. On this occusion, please uphold the spirit of liberation, secularism and democracy as opposed to autocracy, theocracy and/or any closed system that hinder peoples progress.

Surrender of Pakistani Military 1971

Pakistan’s Lt. Gen A. A. K. Niazi signs the instrument of surrender on December 16, surrendering his forces to Lt. Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora representing the Mitro Bahini.

As a Bangladeshi I sincerely believe that dream of the three million martyrs and the two hundred thousand women victims shall not be perished and Bangladesh will find her place as a dignified, democratic and secular country in the history. We are waiting for a brighter future.

Victory Day greetings to all my readers and friends.

ATM manual for boys and girls

  • Instructions for boys:

1. Drive to ATM
2. Insert Card
3. Enter PIN
4. Take cash, card and receipt
5. Drive away

  • Instructions for Girls:

1. Drive to ATM booth
2. Back up and pull forward the car to get closer
3. Shut off engine
4. Put keys in purse
5. Get out of car because you’re too far from machine
6. Search for card in purse
7. Insert card
8. Hunt in purse for grocery receipt with PIN written on it
9. Enter PIN
10. Study instructions
11. Hit “CANCEL”
12. Re-enter correct PIN
13. Check balance
14. Look for envelope
15. Look in purse for pen
16. Make out deposit slip
17. Endorse checks
18. Make deposit
19. Study instructions
20. Make cash withdrawal
21. Get in car
22. Check makeup
23. Look for keys
24. Start car engine
25. Check makeup again
26. Start pulling away
27. Stop!
28. Put the hand brake on
29. Get out of car
30. Take the card and receipt
31. Get back in car
32. Put card in wallet
33. Put receipt in checkbook
34. Enter deposits and withdrawals in checkbook
35. Clear area in purse for wallet and checkbook
36. Check makeup
37. Put car in reverse
38. Put car in drive
39. Drive away from machine
40. Drive 3 kilometer to shopping mall

Dhaka Re-defined

I’ve never seen Dhaka from this view angle before. Thanks to Mr. Rajesh Barua for sharing these stunning photos of Dhaka city. After seeing these photographs, I have to admit that I did not take a close look to Dhaka before. The city is so much beautiful. The first one was taken from the Kaarwan Bazaar SAARC fountain and the second one is Khilgaon Flyover. The third one is most probably from the junction of Dhanmondi 1 and Science Laboratory. And the fourth one is from Dhanmondi Lake, one of my most favourite tranquil place of Dhaka.

Veneration to the Heroes of the Nation.

 

Martyred Intellectuals’ Memorial Monument, Mirpur, Dhaka.

14th December, the Martyred Intellectuals Day. The intellectuals of Bangladesh were brutally killed a couple of days before the final victory of the Liberation War in 1971. Pakistani military aided by their local collaborators (known as Razakaars) most notably the Al-Badr and Al-Shams, systematically executed over 200 of East Pakistan’s (formar name of Bangladesh) intellectuals and scholars. Professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were rounded up in Dhaka, blindfolded, taken to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different sections of the city and executed en masse, most notably at Rayerbazar and Mirpur.

Our history can’t be fulfilled without them. They were the brightest sons of Bangladesh who died for the freedom of our motherland. We’ll never forget them. They’ll exist in our heart as long as Bangladesh exists. They are our hero.

Story of a Martyred Intellectual of 71’s war

14th December 1971, history remorses for the killings of intellectuals of Bangladesh in this day. When the Pakistani Military realized that they were totally unable to defeat Bangladesh in the Liberation war, they tried to crack the psychological strength of freedom fighters by killing numerous intellectuals of Bangladesh. But off course they failed!! I am here to tell the story of one of such bright sons of Bangladesh, who was happened to my relative.

Nizamuddin Ahmed, younger brother of my grand-father, is a martyred intellectuals who was killed on 14th December 1971, just before two days of the Victory of Liberation War. I never saw him actually, but my grandfather never forgot his brother for a single moment in the rest of his life.

Nizam Uddin Ahmed

Nizamuddin Ahmed was born in Munshiganj in 1929. He was a journalist. He passed B.A (Hons) and M.A in Economics from Dhaka University in 1959. Later he joined Pakistan Press International. He became the editor of PPI in 1969 and was promoted to the rank of general manager.

He was an ardent supporter of the liberation war of Bangladesh. He used to send news items on the atrocities of the Pakistani forces to various foreign news media. He had taken New York Times journalist McBrown to a guerrilla camp to collect authentic news. He provided BBC with authentic news under strict censorship. For this reason he was taken to General Rao Forman Ali’s office on two occasions.

On December 12, 1971, while he was taking his lunch, members of Al-Badr (a branch organization of Razakaar) picked him up from his residence forcefully. At that moment there was none but his mother in the house. That was the last time his mother saw him alive. After the victory of Bangladesh, my grand-father took every possible steps to find out his brother’s body, whether he was dead or alive. But his body was never been found.

We’ve passed 36 victory days but the murderers were went unpunished. Not only Nizamuddin, the Razakaars (now they formed Jamat-e-Islami) killed numerous intellectuals from Bangladesh at 1971. But what our political leaders did with them? Whether it was Awami League or BNP, they just made collaboration with them for the power. And at the present day the Caretaker Government is doing actually nothing to the Jamat-e-Islami for their past misdeed. These beasts are roaming in our country, which costs the blood of 3 million martyrs. Does our politics really think of our country? I don’t know. But one thing is sure that I hate the Razakaars as well as the political parties and the individuals, who have already abandoned their moralities for the wealth and power by supporting the Razakaars.

Can’t we dream of a Bangladesh, which is free from the liberation war opposer? Can’t we do something to make the liberation war’s martyr’s dream true?

Eid-ul-Adha will be on December 21, 2007.

According to the lunar calendar, this year Eid-ul-Adha in Bangladesh will be celebrated on December 21 (Friday). After their meeting, in a press briefing, Islamic Foundation Bangladesh has announced the date officially, this evening. So the government holidays will be Decemebr 20, 21 and 22 (Thusrday, Friday and Saturday accordingly).

Happy Eid-ul-Adha to all in advanced 🙂 .