Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

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Backup your blog could be an easy task if you're running it on your hosting space. You'll probably just backup the database using phpMyAdmin and backup files using FTP. However, backup could be a hard task for bloggers using free services like Blogspot, BlogSome or Wordpress.com.

Why taking backup?
Backup is important because your priceless post could gone one day due to a hack attack, hardware failure on your blogging service provider, blocking your site or migration from blog to blog!!!

I've searched a little for ways to make blog backup easy, I'll try to introduce them here.

After being detained since May 7, 2006, for non legal charge, at last Alaa has been released today June 20, 2006. He'll be back home at tomorrow or after.

Congradulations to Alaa and his wife Manal.

The news is spreading out very fast and very loud, find below some links.

On Blogosphere:

One of the interesting aspects of blogging is that you get a view of how a person thinks about a certain subject. Be it dating, politics, religion, society, food, people, technology, or simple happenings in the person’s daily life. What you have then, is the person’s thoughts and opinions in the form of words they [...]

Make The Poor Sing and The Victims Happy

Ceremony Mission:
The main ceremony mission is to stress on freedom of speech and to highlight the background of the current events that we have seen all its chapters. These incidents that results for arresting about 800 Egyptian from various political parties and others with no political party affiliations or sectarian. Seven bloggers are among those detainees’ people as far as we can know.

Ceremony Idea:
The ceremony idea began when some Egyptian bloggers wanted to collect donation for "Upkeeping Committee of Detainees" provided by "Hisham Moubarak Center for Legal Assistance" as a limited financial support to help the continuity of this committee services to detainees.

Originally by Socrates:

Alaa Abd El-Fatah was arrested today together with around ten more activists during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with sixty activists who were arrested over the past two weeks in a non-violent sit in as well who were held in custody for two weeks under investigation for "crimes" that if anything would raise only mockery including: humiliating the president, possession of "publishing equipment" (graffiti spray) and blocking traffic. The first group of activists arrested two weeks ago was supposed to have their cases reviewed by prosecution today, so as to release or renew holding them under investigation. In solidarity with them 200 lawyers approached as a defense council, a number of judges, and a number of activists among whom were Alaa and his colleagues gathered around the court house. Authorities denied the activists entry to the court house, in addition to attempting to present the "detainees" files only, and not the detainees themselves to prosecution. For hours, Alaa and his fellow activists shouted slogans against the government, sang and showed solidarity with their detained fellow activists. At the end of the demonstration police forces surrounding the group increased, refused to let them leave and started picking those to arrest, Alaa and ten others. They were taken to the nearby police station were they were denied lawyers, or any visitors. Lawyers are now standing outside the station just monitoring in case the arrested activists are taken somewhere else, which is exactly what happened. Three of them were taken blindfolded to another police station and were released later.

D’après les informations fournies par Manal and Alaa's bit bucket l’aggregateur des blogs égyptiens, lauréat du premier prix spécial Repoter Sans Frontières de l’année 2005 du concours international "BOBS, best of the blogs," organisé par la radio allemande Deutsche Welle, Alaa Abd El Fattah vient d’être arrêté le dimanche 7 mai avec 14 autres pendant qu’ils se rendaient à une manifestation, devant le siège du syndicat des journalistes égyptiens, contre la comparution de deux juges devant un conseil disciplinaire.

D’après les informations fournies par Manal and Alaa's bit bucket, l’aggregateur des blogs égyptiens, lauréat du prix spécial Repoter Sans Frontières de l’année 2005, Alaa Abd El Fattah vient d’être arrêté le dimanche 7 mai avec 14 autres pendant qu’ils se rendaient à une manifestation, devant le siège du syndicat des journalistes égyptiens, contre la comparution de deux juges devant un conseil disciplinaire.

In the blogoshpere world, most of the times I write comments that is important to me and want to keep an eye on interesting discussions. So, I used some methods to accomplish this and I'll explore them here.

Client-side Methods:

• Using Del.icio.us social bookmarking:

Bookmark all posts that's I have commented or which are interested to me to follow and tag it with common tag.

• Create a blog for comments:

Some people create blogs and post their own comments twice, one of the original post page and second on there comment blogs with the original post URL and use this blog to follow up there blogs. I do something similar here in my drupal-based blog. Created a new content type (using felxinode) with fields like: Post Title, Post URL, Comment Body and Comment Date/Time. I used it for a while and you can find it under Linkblogs tag. However, after few posts, I found this boring and inpractical.

Microsoft had 11% wiped off their sales overnight according to the BBC.

Microsoft will be relying on sales from its Xbox games console and SQL database software to help bolster revenues.

While Vista will be lunched in 2007 instead of the half of 2006 " | It's just a start.

Microsoft had 11% wiped off their sales overnight according to the BBC.

longhorn is the start of microsoft's downfall or rather it has been for 6 years

More than 50% of Microsoft's income comes from its Windows operating system and its Office business software suite

I thought it'd be a lot more than that

Microsoft will be relying on sales from its Xbox games console and SQL database software to help bolster revenues.

I bet visual studio makes them a lot of money as we

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Contrairement à l’image reçue, l’Iran est un pays où le débat politique est très virulent et où la la répression et la censure n’ont jamais empêché les gens de s’exprimer ni de lutter pour acquérir plus de liberté. A travers la lecture de ce livre l’image véhiculée par les médias d’un pays de mollahs, fermé, intolérant et obscurantiste, cède la pas à une autre image. Celle d’un pays moderne en lutte pour sa liberté et où Internet joue le rôle qu’avaient joué les audio-cassettes durant la révolution de 1979 : un outil de conscientisation, de contestation et d’information. v

I was chatting with a mate of mine about blogging. And it reminded me of smoking. Once you start smoking, it’s very difficult to quit (and no, it’s not an emotional habit - it’s physiological). As they say, once a smoker, always a “quitter”, never a non-smoker (nevermind the support groups and the fancy leaflets).I [...]

Ladies and gentelman, boys and girls, it gives me great pleasure to announce that one of the earliest Egyptian bloggers has made a come back. Put your hands mice clicks together for . . . Mind Bleed.For the last six months DNA*, the author of Mind Bleed, has been absent from the blogosphere. But before [...]

Does this constitute a come-back?Maybe. Maybe not. We can go into much detail on why I took the time off, and why I came back. The question is, is there a point? Does anyone really care? Unlikely.What does this mean now? Not much. A few bits and bobs need to be screwed down here and [...]

I'm experimenting with new images for the header, so this blog may display various images in the header over the next few days. Or, laziness may prove too powerful and I may just settle on the current picture. The reason for the change is that I thought the image and title should reflect one classic [...]

I've renamed the site--four times in the last twenty-four hours. The original name was very close to my heart, mainly because it came from a poem about Alexandria. Which is why, after sifting through various other names, I came back to Alexandria.This identity crisis is in part due to the ecstatic scenes of people celebrating [...]

So some of friends in PeaceMakers group had began blogging. First of them was Sheref on moony, a song and a riddle. Then come Lorine on clear, she began but didn't continue, wish it can go on. The Eyewitness began to blog too with Unspoken Words. He/She want to keep his/her name unspoken . Now, The Son of the Man had began to write his papers on El Garag. I'm sure his writtings will inspire you.

Most bloggers need to urge visitors to add their syndicate to visitors' feedreaders. As online feedreaders is more available now and popularly used by readers, it preferable to add a block that make subscription to your blog easier for those users.

Here below, find a table of almost all online feedreaders names, links to add your syndication to their users and image link used.

Today, I receive an email from Maktoob to announce starting of their blogging service. I remembered from a month ago, I see another arabic company (Albawaba) begining this service too.

After some searching, I found 2 other companies that providing blogging services recently. Thinking that this's good that some arabic companies begin to occupy with recent technologies, but none of them are Egyptian . May be I should propose begining this service in my company. Of course, I can't forget the generous Manalaa.net free drupal hosting offer (that I'm using it now) but I don't think Alaa gonna make it a wide public service.

Ritzy Mabrouk, the owner of a very famous blog in Egypt (http://missmabrouk.blogspot.com/) has disappeared. Her last post was on November 10, 2005 @ 5:00AM.

Miss Mabrouk is a foreigner that lives in Maadi, Cairo. No one knows her real identity. Readers who loved reading her blog wondering "Where could she go?"

Is she incarcerated like Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman? No one has any clue.