…but we won’t let them.
I picked this up from this blog:
Ibn Rajab mentions “As far as taking it as a day of Mourning, like the Rafidhah do, because of the Murder of al-Husayn ibn Ali that day, then these are the actions of those whose efforts have gone astray in this worldly life, thinking that […]

With all of the hype about the new Apple iPhone, Starry Hope offers 10 reasons to get a Nokia N800 instead.
My favorite reason, of course, is that it runs a variant of Debian GNU/Linux.

For those of you looking for lectures on ‘Ashura, Imam Husayn, etc., The Islamic Society of Followers of Ahl-ul-Bayt has a comprehensive list of the many of the lectures that are available from various English-speaking scholars and speakers around the world.

Disclaimer: Please take heed when I say this. KDEnlive is still in early development. It is NOT ready for professional/commercial use. Chances are, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you won’t even get it installed, but if you do, be forewarned.
Phew! OK, having cleared that up, I can now […]

Here is all kinds of video footage of Tahira smiling. I think you’ll find it enjoyable. She’s only 2 months old.
Here is the embedded video (for streaming)
Here is a direct download (46MB MPEG4)
Video editted using KDEnlive (see next post for info on it).

I’ve recently received word that Netflix will start offering a “watch it now” feature, which will stream movies to subscribers’ computers. You can watch a demonstration of it at Hacking Netflix.
Being a 4-DVD Netflix subscriber myself, I decided to investigate. In their FAQ, they already list the system requirements as “Windows XP or […]

This is the story of Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, an Iranian young lady who was sentenced to death for stabbing and killing the man who attempted to rape her.
After a year of wrangling in the Iranian courts, her verdict was unanimously overturned by the superior court.
It is sad that it even came to that, […]

If you ever need to make a startup script for GNU/Linux but are feeling particularly lazy (or lacking in scripting skills), here is a web-based script generator that does most of the work for you. All you have to do is fill out a simple form.

I had heard through the grapevine that the latest version of SuSE had a new “start menu” (actually the K-menu) in KDE. I thought little of it since I don’t have SuSE, but then I heard that people were using it on other distros and that KDE developers might put it into KDE 4 […]

Zahra bowling (with a little help).