I don’t use baghira as my window decorator or as my widget style in KDE, but I’ve always loved the sidebar. Well, ever since I installed Kubuntu, the sidebar has always been missing. I’ve heard others on the Ubuntu forums complain about this. I decided to check the actual files that get […]

I know I know. I’ve been a bad blogger. I just haven’t felt like writing anything lately. Well, here are 10 things currently on my mind.
1. My expected new addition, inshaAllah (Please pray for us — and tell Umm Zahra to go to the doctor!).
2. The house issue. We’re still thinking […]

I hate to write negative things about Muslim organizations, but I also feel it is my duty to warn people about questionable business practices so that they do not fall for the same traps as I have.
We have recently had dealings with a company called Guidance Financial Group. They describe themselves as a company […]

“You will give me candy.”

It truly is just the simple things. KAddressbook has a cute little feature that allows you to enter the birthdays of your contacts. Well, if you use the whole Kontact suite, it will tell when the person’s birthday is coming up and how old they will be.
That is all fine and dandy, except […]

Today, at the Zainabia, we had a pot-luck lunch for the Prophet’s Birthday (may Allah bless him and grant him and his family peace). We prayed at the Zainabia and then took all of the food and the kids to the park. The park that we went to is very beautiful. What […]

We’ve had some little visitors lately, and apparently Zahra is terrified of them. Whenever she sees ants, she screams and runs away. She’s not afraid of thunderstorms, the “Were-Rabbit,” or the dark, but ants, they scare her. And I’m not talking about the big black ones, just the tiny brown ones.

This KDE application called “Basket” is perfect for someone like me. I do a lot of research on a plethora of topics. I am constantly cutting and pasting. Something like Knotes is nice, but it does not help much with organizing all of my notes or compiling them.
Here are some of the […]

…has worn off. You know, there is something about writing a book, I mean actually consciously choosing to write one, not the kind that gets compiled after you realized that you had thousands of pages of random thoughts, that becomes ritualistic. I’ve written since I was a child, but it has always been […]