Dreamer

15th Attempt to Kill Hitler and Operation Valkyrie!

2009-05-22T23:54:00.001-07:00

After the last samurai again I am impressed by Tom Cruise in Valkyrie. This film is based on the real historic evidence “German Resistance”. Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was alive again in Tom Cruise. If you’ve any interest about Hitler and Nazi please see this film. Here is the plot:

During World War II, Wehrmacht Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) is serving with the 10th Panzer Division in Tunisia. A pair of British P-40 Warhawk fighters strafe the Germans, during which Stauffenberg is wounded, and is later evacuated home to Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, Major General Henning von Tresckow (Branagh) attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler by smuggling a bomb aboard the Führer's private airplane. The bomb, however, fails to detonate and Tresckow safely retrieves it to conceal his intentions. After learning that the Gestapo has arrested Major Hans Oster, he orders General Olbricht (Nighy) to find a replacement. After recruiting von Stauffenberg into the German Resistance, Olbricht delivers von Stauffenberg to a meeting of the secret committee which has coordinated previous attempts on Hitler's life. The members include General Ludwig Beck (Stamp), Dr. Carl Goerdeler (McNally), and Erwin von Witzleben (Schofield). The Colonel is stunned to learn that no plans exist for after Hitler's assassination.

After a bombing raid on Berlin, he lights upon using the plan Operation Valkyrie, which involves the deployment of the Reserve Army to maintain order in the event of a national emergency. The plotters carefully redraft the plan so that they can dismantle the Nazi regime after assassinating Hitler, by overthrowing the SS and imprisoning Hitler's closest advisors. Realizing that only General Fromm (Wilkinson), the head of the Reserve Army, can initiate Valkyrie, they offer him a position as head of the Wehrmacht in a Post-Nazi Germany and recruit him into the fold: however, Fromm initially refuses. With the rewritten plan needing to be signed off by Hitler (Bamber) himself, von Stauffenberg visits the Führer at his Berghof estate in Bavaria. In the presence of his inner circle, Hitler praises von Stauffenberg's heroism in North Africa and signs off on the plan without fully examining the modifications.

At Goerdeler's insistence, von Stauffenberg is ordered to assassinate both Hitler and SS head Himmler at the Wolf's Lair bunker. At a final briefing, Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim (Berkel) instructs the committee members in how to use pencil detonators. Von Stauffenberg also reaches out to General Fellgiebel (Izzard), who controls all communications at Wolf's Lair, to cut off communications after the bomb blast. On July 15, 1944, von Stauffenberg attends a strategy meeting at Wolf's Lair with the bomb in his briefcase, but with Himmler not present at the meeting, von Stauffenberg does not get the go-ahead from the committee leaders until the meeting is over. Meanwhile, the Reserve Army is mobilized by Olbricht, unbeknownst to Fromm, to stand by. With no action taken, von Stauffenberg safely extracts himself and the bomb from the bunker, and the Reserve Army is ordered to stand down, believing that the mobilization was training. Enraged, von Stauffenberg goes to the committee to protest the indecisiveness and blames the bungling of Goerdeler, who has been selected to be chancellor after the coup. When Goerdeler demands that von Stauffenberg be relieved, Beck informs him that the SS is searching for him and implores him to leave the country immediately.

On July 20, 1944, von Stauffenberg and his adjutant Lieutenant Haeften (Parker) return to the Wolf's Lair. To von Stauffenberg's dismay, he discovers that the conference is being held in an open-window summer barrack, whereas the plotters had intended to detonate the bomb within the walls of the bunker for maximum damage. While his adjuntant waits with a getaway car, von Stauffenberg leaves the briefcase at the meeting. With the bomb armed, von Stauffenberg leaves the barrack (thanks to a diversion caused by Fellgiebel) for the getaway car. When the bomb explodes, von Stauffenberg is certain that Hitler is dead and flees the Wolf's Lair, bluffing his way past a checkpoint. Before shutting down communications, Fellgiebel calls Mertz about the explosion but cannot clearly convey whether or not the Führer is dead.

As von Stauffenberg flies back to Berlin, Olbricht refuses to mobilize the Reserve Army until he knows without a doubt that Hitler is dead. Behind Olbricht's back, Mertz forges his signature and issues the orders anyway. With Operation Valkyrie underway, von Stauffenberg and his fellow plotters order the arrest of Nazi party leaders and SS officers and begin to take control of Berlin's government quarter, which will allow them to command the entire Reich. Rumors reach Berlin that Hitler survived the blast, but von Stauffenberg dismisses them as SS propaganda. Meanwhile, Fromm learns from Field Marshal Keitel that Hitler is still alive. The General refuses to join the plotters, resulting in his arrest. When Hitler reaches the Reserve Army by telephone, the SS officers are released and the plotters in turn are besieged inside the Bendlerblock. The headquarters staff flees, but the ringleaders are arrested. Most are eventually tried and executed, while some commit suicide. Von Stauffenberg shouts "Long live sacred Germany!" before being executed by a firing squad.

Operation Valkyrie

Eventually the conspirators came to rely more on Reserve Army in Berlin and other districts to stage a coup against Nazi regime. Olbricht now put forward a new strategy for staging a coup against Hitler. The Reserve Army had an operational plan called Operation Walküre (Valkyrie), which was to be used in the event that the disruption caused by the Allied bombing of German cities caused a breakdown in law and order, or a rising by the millions of slave laborers from occupied countries now being used in German factories. Olbricht suggested that this plan could be used to mobilize the Reserve Army to take control of German cities, disarm the SS and arrest the Nazi leadership, once Hitler had been assassinated. During August and September 1943, Tresckow took long sick leave in Berlin to draft the "revised" Valkyrie plan with fine details and precise time tables. Revised orders and additional proclamations that would pin blame for the uprising on the Nazi party were typed by Tresckow's wife, Erika, and his secretary, Countess Margarete von Oven, who wore gloves so as not to leave fingerprints. ^[25] These 1943 papers were recovered by the Soviets after the war and were finally published in 2007, which showed Tresckow's central role in the conspiracy and idealistic motivations of the resistance group at that time. Knowledge of Jewish Holocaust was a major impetus for many officers involved. ^[26]

German World War II Colonel Von Stauffenberg (left) and actor Tom Cruise (right). Cruise was attracted to the role based on the resemblance of his profile to the colonel's.^[2]

However, when Tresckow was assigned to command of a battalion at the Eastern Front in October 1943, he was no longer in position to actively plan or effect the coup. Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who met Tresckow in August 1943 and worked together on revising Valkyrie plan, took the responsibility for planning and executing Hitler's assassination. Even his promotion a month later to Chief of Staff of the Second Army did not bring him much closer. To gain access to Hitler, Tresckow proposed to his old comrade General Rudolf Schmundt, Hitler's Chief Adjutant and Chief of Army Personnel, to create new department of psychological and political warfare to evaluate data and make reports directly to the Führer. Schmundt, who was still well-disposed to his old friend but came to impression that Tresckow disaproved of Führer, quietly let the matter drop. Tresckow also applied to become General Adolf Heusinger's delegate in the Army High Command (OKH) during the latter's two month leave, which would also give him access to Hitler's meetings, but Heusinger, who was earlier approached by conspirators, rejected it apparently for the same reason. ^[27]

By the time Stauffenberg was appointed Chief of Staff of Reserve Army and was ready to carry out the assassination attempt, the Allies had already landed in Normandy. When Stauffenberg sent a message to Tresckow through Lehndorff to ask whether there was any point in making attempt since there was no practical purpose to be served, Tresckow urged him not only to attempt the assassination but to go ahead with the coup in Berlin even if assassination were to fail. He argued that there must be an overt act of German opposition to Hitler regardless of consequences. He also told Philipp von Boeselager and Margarite von Oven that 16,000 people were being killed daily not as casualties of war but as result of murders perpetrated by the Germans. Hitler had to be killed to put an end to it. A few days before the coup attempt, Tresckow confided to a friend that "in all likelihood everything will go wrong"; asked if the action was necessary nevertheless, he replied, "Yes, even so."

Dear Friends,

Please follow this link and you’ll be surprised http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg

I am giving this film 4.3 out of 5. Bravo!

The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas: Novel to Film!

2009-05-04T09:35:00.001-07:00

After long days I have seen such a good film! It is simply melting my heart and bringing tears. A fabulous masterwork by the director Mark Herman. In November 2008 this film was released in USA.

The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas is originally a novel by Irish novelist John Boyne which was published in 2006. Here is the plot summery from Wikipedia:

This book is about a simple eight-year-old boy named Bruno who liked nothing more than going to school or playing around with his friends. But because of his father's job, is forced to move from his home in Berlin to Poland, near a concentration camp. From his bedroom window, Bruno spots a fence behind which he sees men in 'striped pyjamas'. These are Jews, and they are in a Nazi concentration camp. One day his parents come to an agreement that both Bruno and Gretel, his sister, need a tutor for their education, so they hire Herr Liszt. To Bruno, Herr Liszt is the most boring teacher anyone could ever have; he teaches social studies instead of reading and arts, which Bruno prefers. So, in boredom and confusion, Bruno wonders what is going on at "Out-With" and why people are always dressed in striped pyjamas there. One afternoon, he goes exploring, and meets a Jewish boy called Shmuel, a name Bruno has never before heard but that apparently is quite common in the concentration camp. Shmuel soon becomes Bruno's friend and Bruno visits every afternoon to talk. Bruno is told by Gretel that the people in the striped pajamas on the other side of the fence are Jews and that he and his family are "the opposite".

The story ends with Bruno about to return to the family's old home in Berlin. As a final adventure, he agrees to dress in a set of striped pyjamas and digs under the fence to help Shmuel find his father, who went missing in the camp. The boys are unable to find him, and just as it starts to rain and get dark, Bruno decides he would like to go home, yet the Nazis in the area of the camp force the boys to go on a march. Neither boy knows where this march will lead. However, they are soon crowded into a gas chamber, and the author leaves the story with Bruno pondering, yet unafraid, in the dark holding hands with Shmuel. "...Despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go".

In an epilogue, Bruno's family spend several hours at their home trying to find Bruno, before his mother and Gretel return to Berlin, only to discover he is not there as they had expected. A year afterwards, his father returns to the spot that the soldiers found Bruno's clothes (the same spot Bruno spent the last year of his life) and, after a brief inspection, discovers that the fence is not properly attached at the base and can form a gap big enough for a boy of Bruno's size to fit through. Using this information, his father eventually pieces together what happened to Bruno. Several months later, the Red Army arrives to liberate the camp and orders Bruno's father to go with them. He goes without complaint, because "he didn't really care what they did to him anymore".

Mark Herman simply makes this novel into a fantastic screenplay. But what I like most is the Cinematography and Lighting. I can’t forget the last shot where lots of Stripped Pajama was hanging in front of the gas chamber. That was a masterpiece of photography. Also the heartiest salute goes to James Horner for great music.

I am recommending to all you folks to watch this film.

Panacea

2009-03-13T17:02:00.000-07:00

I used to be a Panacea and now I am drowning. May be I am searching something or I just don’t want to do something but my pain is killing me with every single bit of my heart. Can’t stay at home nor leave it.

Should I pray? To whom?

I took this photograph about 3years ago in my village. I found this photo after years in my old hard disk. I am really lucky! Yes I am! I am loving this photo. This was taken with a a Nikon D40 with 55mm lens. I have already posted this in my Flickr.

আমি’ই কনফিউসড

2009-01-31T04:07:00.001-08:00

আমার টেলিভিশন দেখার সুযোগ খুব কম হয়। তাই অনেক কিছুই জানি না আমি। কয়েকদিন আগে আমি হরলিক্স এর একটা বিজ্ঞাপন দেখলাম যেখানে বলা হয়েছে হরলিক্স খেলে বাচ্চারা হবে টলার, স্ট্রংগার এবং শার্পার। সুন্দর কথা। আমার কোন অভিযোগ নেই। ইন্ডিয়ানদের বানানো জমকালো বিজ্ঞাপন। কিন্তু আপত্তিটা অন্য জায়গায়!

আমি ঠিক বুঝলাম শার্পার এর উদাহরন হিসেবে কেন কনফিউজ করাকে বুঝাবে? যেখানে পুরো মানব জাতির সাধনা কনফিউশন থেকে বের হয়ে আসার আর তারা (!) কিনা শেখাচ্ছে কনফিউজ করা? এটা কী ধরনের রসিকতা। বুঝতে পারলাম ইন্ডিয়ান নামক চাপাবাজ জাতিটার কাছে এটাই স্বাভাবিক কিন্তু আমাদের দেশে কেন এই বিজ্ঞাপনটা অনুমোদন করা হলো? খুবই কষ্টিত হলাম। এই চাপাবাজ জাতিটা কি আমাদে মিডিয়াটা পুরোটাই কিনে নিয়েছে?

কেউ কি জানেন বিজ্ঞাপন বিষয়ক আমাদের কোন নীতিমালা আছে কিনা? আমার মতে কিছু বিষয়কে এখনই প্রতিরোধ করা উচিৎ।

১. যদি কোন বিদেশী পণ্যকে বাজারজাত করতে হয় তবে তার বিজ্ঞাপনটা অনবশ্যই এ’দেশের মতোন করে নির্মান করতে হবে। কোন ধরনের ডাবিং করে নয়।

২. বিজ্ঞাপনটি অবশ্যই মানসম্মত হতে হবে। তার মানে হলো পয়সা দিয়ে হুট করে কোন কিছু দেখাতে পারবে না। (মনে আছে নিশ্চই: ডিজুসের কিছু বাজে বিজ্ঞাপন সরকার বন্ধ করে দিয়েছিল)।

এই কাজটি করলে একটা অনেক বড় লাভ হবে: আমাদে বিজ্ঞাপন শিল্প অনেক বিশী প্রতিষ্ঠিত হবে। যেহেতু আমরা মুক্ত বাণিজ্যে বাস করছি তাই সেটা পণ্যের মধ্যেই সীমিত করে রাখার এখন উপযুক্ত সময় এসেছে। পণ্যের সাথে ফ্রিতে বিজ্ঞাপণ আমদানী বন্ধ করা উচিৎ এখনই। নইলে মনে হচ্ছে একটা চাপাবাজ প্রজন্ম তৈরি করব আমরা!

Way against Piracy!

2009-01-16T13:02:00.001-08:00

Piracy is a word which is a nightmare to publishers (books, audio, video and software). I am involving both in Internet & Software Industry as well as Media Industry. So I am really in pain about piracy. I am worried about the Audio and Video industry in Bangladesh. Before this write up I have talked over 20 audio/video publishers and producers to hear from them. All are really in pain. Piracy simply eating their profits and sometimes it is eating their own foods! Today I am going to share my ideas against piracy! I think this will be a great help to our aud/vid industry.

Facts:

It is true that no way stop piracy completely.

Creativity will not dye so new Audio and Video product will arrive.

As we’ve industry of Audio and Video, so we’re talking about professionals who are involved here. We must save them. But how?

Here is some generic data:

1. Our audio industry releases thousands of Albums (DAT, CD, DVD) in a year. They publish this in traditional ways. For CDs they simply provide a jewel case with CD and a paper case with audio track info and CD. For 95% case this is the common practice.

2. And video industry (DVD/VCD) simply publish them in a jewel case.

My question is why people will buy this thing as they can download them from internet? Or even the pirate store they can have them with almost 3times cheaper than the original price. What is more they’ll have from the original publications?

-Answer: Nothing. But for Audio they can see the Lyric written into the Jewel Case.

So for this lyric consumer will buy them? –I don’t think so.

Study 1: Few days ago I went to Firm Gate (the huge hub traffic in Dhaka City and also the it has huge quantity of pirate stores for audio/video) and found one store in Footpath who was selling two MP3 CD for 20 taka (about 30cents). That was a great surprise for me. I didn’t know that it was that cheap! Even in my calculation the production cost is almost 20taka! I saw lots of people was buying it. More than 400songs for 20taka. Really cheap! And they don’t know even it is Piracy!

Study 2: Currently Bangladesh has a huge density of cell phone users. And most importantly this cell phone handset market is captured by some none branded Chinese products! Those phones are really cheap and has huge feature which is really amazing. And the bonus feature is: they have multimedia in all senses. So these sets are used as entertainment device. No one is buying a MM3 player nor a CD player now, they simply buy a phone. When they buy it, the shop simply upload lots of music/videos into the cell phone’s MMC. You can find this services even in root level of Bangladesh! Well, we’re in hi-tech! Really!

But still we’ve a industry and we’ve to save the professionals!

Time to shake hand with Fine Art People and Ad Agencies: Our industry is producing Audio-Videos in a generic way. There is no improvisation in packaging. What if they deliver the CD/DVDs in a way so that buyer think they’re purchasing a souvenir or with a value or even sometimes with very little amount of money! I believe that’ll work.

Innovation in Delivering: Ask the fine art guys to create something new for the CD/DVDs. Tell them to make the folder as sculpture so that the CD/DVDs can be delivered as a show-piece. So that consumer can also put that as a piece of art work!

Add Values: Embed some values with the packaging so that consumer can use that values to get more things. It can be a lottery or quiz contest, or a free ticket to an event. For those extra values grab some sponsor who will pay for their promotions. It is not a big deal!

Have Sponsors: Lots of promotional product or companies you’ll find around! Grab some of them to promote themselves with your CD/DVD product. So that you can have some fund to reduce the price.

If you combine my 3 ideas with your publications definitely you can sell more of your product. So fight against piracy is nothing but selling more. That’ll help to restore the industry and can give piece to the professionals in relevant industry.

Coppersmith Barbet!

2008-11-14T14:09:00.001-08:00

I took this shot from Jahangir Nagar University Campus, in TSC area. This tree was a Banyan Tree. This bird with his folks was dancing over the branches of that tree. The number of birds was some hundreds. They were eating the fruits of the tree. And they looked very happy (may be the meal was really delicious) while they’re singing and dancing.

পাখিটার বাংলা নাম ভুলে গেছি। সুন্দর একটা নাম আছে। কেউ্ দয়াকরে আপডেট করে দিন। আমার পাখি বিষয়ক জ্ঞান অনেক কম। এই ছবিটাও আমার ফ্লিকারে আপলোড করেছি।

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টোপা পানা!

2008-11-13T12:00:00.001-08:00

ছবিটা টোপা পানার। আমরা যারা গ্রামে বড় হয়েছি তাদের কাছে অনেক পরিচিত এটি। অবশ্য ইদানিং এই জলজ উদ্ভিদ আর চোখে পড়ে না। কার্প জাতীয় কিছু মাছের দৌরাত্বে এগুলো ভালো জন্মায় না।

ছবিটা তুলেছিলাম সাভার এলাকা থেকে। একটা পুকুর থেকে। শ্যাওলাভরা একটা পুকুরের দেখা অনেক দিন পরে পেয়েছিলাম। সেই পুকুরের মধ্যে অনেকটা বিষন্ন হয়ে ছিল এই টোপা পানাটি। দলবল ছেড়ে একাকী!

ছবিটি তুলেছিলাম নাইকন ডি-৮০দিয়ে। লেন্স ব্যবহার করেছিলাম সম্ভবত ৩০০মিমি ম্যাক্র। অ্যাপারচার প্রায়রিটিতে।

আমি সবসময় র’তে ছবি তুলি। র প্রসেস করার জন্য ব্যবহার করেছি অ্যাডমি ক্যামেরা র ৪.৫।

অনেক আগের তোলা ছবি। বরাবরের মতোন এটি আমার ফ্লিকারে আপলোড করেছি। ছবিটা খুব ভালো মানের কিছু হয় নি। কিন্তু আমার স্মৃতি’র স্বার্থে রেখে দিলাম। আপনাদেরও ভালো লাগবে না। তবুও শেয়ার করলাম। সবাবইকে শুভেচ্ছা।

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2008-11-11T01:24:00.001-08:00

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A simple thought on Blogging Platform: WP vs. WPMU; case Bangla.

2008-11-11T01:16:00.001-08:00

This blog, www.nirjhar.com is on WordPress Engine. From this you can imagine I am a great fan of WordPress though I am not a regular blogger but reader indeed! I am a regular reader of TechCrunch (www.techcrunch.com actually my favorite site in this world :)) and it is also a blog. The Great blog.

Few days back I started observing my native blog platforms very closely. While watching Somewherein Blog (www.somewhereinblog.net), Amar Blog (www.amarblog.com) and some individual bloggers (which are also in wordpress. Example Shahidul Alam’s blog http://shahidul.wordpress.com) for my test cases and after while Nations’ largest newspaper The Daily Prothom Alo launched their own blogging site (www.prothom-aloblog.com). That was also a positive step for this country, Bangladesh. The largest print media is shacking hand with web based media. For me it is a milestone.

Origin of Blog (From Wikipedia)

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists^[56] and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, such as WebEx, created running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical connections between messages on a metaphorical "corkboard."

The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student atSwarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,^[57] as is Jerry Pournelle.^{[citation needed]} Dave Winer's Scripting News is also credited with being one of the oldest and longest running weblogs.^[58]^[59] Another early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site in 1994. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance, and such journals were also used as evidence in legal matters.

In 1993, Dr. Glen Barry started publishing the first political blog -- the "Forest Protection Blog" (originally entitled "Gaia's Forest Conservation Archives") at http://forests.org/blog/ -- both to campaign for forest protection and as his Ph.D. project^[60]. This political blog initially used the gopher protocol, and has been on the web continuously since Jan. 1995, making it the web's first and longest continuously running political blog. The work has since evolved into the world's largest environmental portals.

Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, such as WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger or LiveJournal, or on regular web hosting services.

Blogging and Bangla:

Apart from the blogging history a new era was brought in Bangladesh on 16th December, 2005 on the day of Nations “Victory Day”. On that day somewherein net launched the first Bangla (Bengali, bn) blogging platform with full support of Unicode (UTF-8) with phonetic Bangla keyboard input. Before that Bangla bloggers were using Blogger to write their Bangla blog with external unicode keyboard like Avro, Ekushey, Bijoy. But blogger wasn’t in Bangla. My favorite Developer Hasin Hayder was the developer of this blog. And again in 2008 hasin created the new Bangla blogging platform Prothom-aloblog. Congratulations Hasin.

And now, blogging in Bangla is really easy for the easy typing method and easy Unicdoe conversion tools. And creating local blogging community is a trend now in Bangladesh. Each day I am getting question from people “How can I start a blog platform?” and My answer is always Wordpress. And then they asked what wordpress? Is it WP or WPMU (WordPress Multi User)? Then I have to answer them with care.

Here is some facts.

WordPress	WordPress MU
Supports one blog with multiple bloggers. Bloggers can’t use a avatar picture by uploading in database.	Supports multiple blogs and multiple bloggers. Bloggers can write for multiple blogs. Blogger can use avatar.
Famous for its “5 minute install.” In practical it needs actually some seconds if you use some service like SampleScript or Fantastico :).	Setup is more involved. Really tough.
No advanced hosting requirements. Any host with a MySQL Database support will do.	Your host needs to support wildcard DNS to use the sub domains feature. And most of the cases few hoster (very costly) has this feature. You can’t use this in a Shared Hosting service.
Instant installation (through Fantastico, etc.) supported by many webhosts.	FTP time! You can reduce it by uploading in .zip format and decompress with Shell extension or CPanel File Manager. But still this is kind of Geek work.
Each user is assigned a role level (subscriber, contributor, author, editor, administrator).	In addition to the standard WordPress roles, you can also specify “site admins” who can add/edit/delete all blogs and users.
WordPress receives updates first.	MU users must wait for WordPress updates to be applied to WordPress MU.
Administrators can edit themes, plugins, and code files from within WordPress.	The Theme Editor, Plugin Editor, and Manage Files sections are all disabled for security reasons.
Plugins can be enabled/disabled by the blog administrator.	The site admin can opt to have plug-in disabled altogether (the default setting), or allow blog administrators to enable/disable plug-in that have been uploaded. Plug-in can also be uploaded to a special “mu-plug-in” folder, where they will be executed automatically on all blogs. (Some plug-in won’t function property when run this way, however.)
If you have multiple blogs running standard WordPress, you’d need to upload plugin updates to each one.	Plugins for all WordPress MU blogs are stored in one place. Update once, and it takes effect on all the site’s blogs.
If you have multiple blogs running standard WordPress, you’d need to login to each one separately to access the administration.	You can switch between blog admins using a simple drop-down menu.
Allows you to use most HTML in your posts, but strips out PHP.	In addition to removing PHP, WordPress MU is more strict in regards to what post HTML it accepts. For example, it will strip out class/ID attributes, inline styles, <span> tags, etc.
WordPress allows posting via email.	WordPress MU lacks this feature.
WordPress lets you customize its list of update services.	WordPress MU doesn’t let you specify update services.

Facts are collected from WordPress Expert Blog and modified in many part. Thanks Wordpress Experts. :)

I think there are other issues involving this comparison. As I am not an expert so dear folks please update here. I’ll love to put those.

Why WordPress?

Here is my points for WordPress:

It is really stable and fast.
Very easy to setup.
Versy easy to manage posts, comments, tags, categories and Spam.
Has huge range of Theme (template) to furnish the blog.
Plenty of tools (plug-in) is ready to enrich the blog.
You can post through Windows LIver Writer, MS Office, ScribeFire and Other supported offline applications.
The message compositing composer is really attractive with rich media support.
Using the custom fields is really handy.
Easy to track back the posts.

If I highlight number 6 (desktop blog posting software) both Somewhereinblog and Prothom-aloblog doesn’t have this feature. Only amar blog (www.amarblog.com) has it as because of WordPress MU.

Moderated Media in Bangladesh:

In Bangladesh every media is moderated. If you think of a printed media they’ve huge moderation due to the limitation of space. So few of lucky person can write their (The Editors and Journalists are lucky, they’ve some space their :)). When Bangla blogging started with the slogan “Badh Bhangar Awaj” as it implies the sound of breaking off the dam to unlock the free expression of motions, emotions, interactions in Bangla blogs the writers (bloggers) were happy. At least they’ve a place where they can write whatever they like. After while the blog community was polluted due to slang and personal attack. Then the blog company started to moderate the posts. Then again the moderated media is reborn.

For this reason many bloggers started their own personal blog. Because they believe blog is still their their Web Log.

ঢাকায় থাকি!

2008-09-23T12:02:00.001-07:00

ছবিটা মিরপুর থেকে তোলা। মিরপুর-ঢাকা। আমি এই শহরে বাস করি। প্রায় এক বছর আগে তুলেছিলাম। কোন বর্ণনার প্রয়োজন আছে কি?

Touchpad Scrolling Problem in Google Chrome!

2008-09-09T11:13:00.001-07:00

Another problem found in Google Chrome. I can scroll down in my laptop touch pad scroll but can't do the up scrolling. I can't understand the problem. This is really very pathetic. I need this scrolling support.

এক কাপ চা

2008-08-25T01:43:00.001-07:00

মাঝে মাঝে এক কাপ চায়ের জন্য নিজেকে অনেক তুচ্ছ লাগে। যে সময়টা চা বানাতে ইচ্ছে করে না। প্রথমতঃ সকাল বেলা। ঘুম থেকে উঠে প্রথম চা বানাতে পারি না। কারো জন্য আপনা থেকেই প্রতীক্ষা করি। খুবই খারাপ কথা। খুবই দুখের কথা। এক কাপ চা আমার জীবন নিয়ন্তা! বড় ভয়ের কারন। এই এক কাপ চা যে কতই ভয়ঙ্কর হতে পারে এখন বুঝতে পারি! ইংরেজরা যদি আমাদের চা না খাওয়া শেখাতো, আমি কি চা খেতাম। আমরা কী চা খেতাম?

৯দিন পরে ভাত খেলাম আজ

2008-08-22T03:47:00.001-07:00

শিরোনাম দেখে অবার হওয়ার কিছু নেই। গত মাসে হঠাৎ আবিষ্কার করলাম আমার ওজন খুব বেড়ে গেছে। নিজের শরীরের ওজন বহন করতে পারছি না, হাপিয়ে যাচ্ছি। মহা ঝামেলার কথা! আমি এক রকম আতঙ্কিত হয়ে খুব ভোরে শিপলু ভাইকে (সাফকাত আহমেদ) ফোন করলাম। ঘুম ভাঙা গলায় শিপলু ভাই আমাকে আশ্বস্ত করলেন যে বুদ্ধি আছে। আর না করেই যাবে কোথায়! এসবের জন্য উনিই দায়ী!

(এই ছবিটা শিপলু ভাইয়ের ফ্লিকার থেকে নিলাম। ওনার ফ্লিকারে শুধু খাবার দাবার)
শিপলু ভাইয়ের সাথে প্রথম দেখা ২০০৬ সালে। কিন্তু তার আগ থেকেই জানি ওনাকে। আমার বন্ধু রবিন অনেক বলেছে ওনার কথা। রবিনের ভাষায় 'শিপলু ভাই খাই-দাই পাবলিক। ধর তোর মন খারাপ: শিপলু ভাই তোকে মন ভালো করার খাবার খাওয়াবে। কিংবা মন ভালো; তো খাওয়াবে অন্য ধরনের খাবার।' তো এই হলেন আমার না দেখা শিপলু ভাই। ২০০৬ এর জুনে যখন পেইজফ্লেক্স এ জয়েন করলাম, তখন প্রথম দেখা হলো কলিগ হিসেবে। বিশাল চেহারা এবং শান্ত। সব সময় হাসিখুশি। দেখা হওয়ার প্রথম দিনেই উনি সবাইকে খাওয়ালেন।

আমরা যখন ঢাকায় অফিস নিলাম, তখন তার মুখে সব সময় খাওয়া দাওয়ার গল্প। এবং এক সময় আবিষ্কার করলাম খাওয়া দাওয়া বিষয়টা আসলে খুব খারাপ নয়। এই আবিষ্কারের আগে আমার চেহারাটা মোটামুটি শুকনাই ছিল। এ্রর পর শুরু হলো অঘটন। আস্তে আস্তে ফুলতে থাকলাম। ঢাকা শহরের এমন কোন রেস্টুরেন্ট নাই যেটায় যাওয়া হলো না। খা্ওয়া আর খাওয়া! এটা মোটামুটি মুটিয়ে যাওয়ার ইতিহাস; এখন বর্তমানটা শুরু করি!

শিপলু ভাই আমাকে যে জ্ঞান দিলেন তা হলো Glycemic index রিলেটেড। আমি এখানে লিংক টা দিচ্ছে উইকিপেডিয়া থেকে Glycemic_index. আমার জ্ঞানের সারাংশটা অনেক ভয়াবহ; আমার প্রিয় সব খাবার বাদ দিতে হলো। কারন সাদা ভাত, রুটি সবগুলারি ইন্ডেক্স মান অনেক বেশী। সুতরাং আমার ভাত ছাড়তে হইল। তো আমি কি খাওয়া শুরু করলাম?

অবশ্যই পোলাও নয়! (হা হা হা হা) আমি সব্জি খাওয়া শুরু করলাম। খারাপ নয়। এবং সাথে লাল আটার রুটি। বেশ মানিয়ে নিলাম। সব্জিতে কিন্তু আলো থাকা চলবে না। নো কার্বহাইড্রেট।

গতকাল ছিল টমি মিয়ার ফেস্টিভাল। গেলাম চীন মৈত্রি সম্মেলন সেন্টারে। ফাহমিদা আপার সাথে (ফাহমিদা নবী)। সেখানে গিয়ে খেলাম পোলাও। তেব মাত্র ছেট্ট এক চামচ। বাকীটুকু সব্জি এবং সালাদ আর সামান্য মাংস। ইচ্ছে করেই খেতে পারি নি। টমি মিয়ার খাবার জঘন্য। ওই লোক রান্না করা ছেড়ে দিলেই পারে। তবে অনেকদিন পরে ভাতের স্বাদ, খারাপ নয়। যারা যারা মোটা হচ্ছেন এই বুদ্ধি নিতে পারেন। যা করতে হবেঃ

১. নো মোর রেস্টুরেন্ট।

২. নো মোর সাদা ভাত এবং সাদা রুটি।

৩. নো মোর আলু।

এতে কিন্তু অনেক লাভ। যেমন রেস্টুরেন্ট এর মাসের বিলটা বাঁচবে। শরীরটা একটু ব্যালান্সড হবে। তাই শিপলু ভাই। ধন্যবাদ। শরীরটা এখন একটু ভালো।

I am the X-Files Fan!

2008-08-15T23:17:00.001-07:00

My own believe start when I read Eric Von Daniken for the first time. The time when I was just 14. Well it kind of long journey; but I have started and started to believe it. After meeting X-Files TV series I was the mad one. Didn't miss a single episode. Then in my university life: purchased all 9seasons in DVD and started it again.

This believe brought my best friend:

I started to read and study these things alone. In 2001 I met Shaju (Famous drummer in Bangladesh, Member of famous band: Artcell) who is a great Daniken freak! We have started with a common interest. This particular phenomenon made him my best friend. Still he is my best friend.

When I start X-Files re viewing, that vary time the first movie Fight The Future was released. Still you can find this move in my DVD player ready! Well I am kind of freak!

And Today:

Today I have seen the the new movie trailer in HD mode (link below). Well, the old blood and old passion. But didn't call Shaju! I am sure he'll call me. I forgot some other name: Robin and Mouly. These couple are X-Files freak too. They are my firend and X-Colleague :). Guys, I am missing you.

Here is the new movies poster. The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

PG13,1hr 44min

Genres:

Sci-Fi,Action

Released:

July 25, 2008

Director:

Chris Carter

Distributor:

20th Century Fox

Starring:

David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly ...more

Watch Trailer

Watch the trailer

Synopsis: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully with this long-delayed big-screen continuation that revives the series six years after it headed off the air in 2002. Creator Chris Carter returns to direct, co-writing the script with series veteran Frank Spotnitz for 20th Century Fox. Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet and rapper Xzibit co-star in the stand-alone sequel. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

Make your business communication better using Google Apps without any cost.

2008-04-05T11:44:00.001-07:00

Are you running a small business? Are you looking for better mail services for your domain? Do you want to see your team member’s task list or appointments?

If you feel in this way, I have better options for you which are absolutely free. And the services are provided by a giant called Google. Do not wonder. I am not Joking. I am going to talk about Google Application Services.

By using Google Apps you can customize various services like mails, calendar, docs, and sites and start page for your own domain.

In this article I’ll discuss the Setup of Google Apps and use of it. So I’ll separate the article into two parts.

1. Setup Google Applications.

2. Using Google Applications for your domain.

How to setup Google Apps for your domain?

For this implementation, you need a domain. If you already have a domain then make sure your domain management allows full DNS control. If you don’t have the full DNS service then you’ve to host your domain to a DNS hosting service. Don’t worry, there are lots of free DNS hosting in the Internet. If you or your company don’t have a domain name (think you’ve) then register a domain with any good service provider whom are providing full DNS management. I’ll suggest Yahoo or Godaddy for this. Both Yahoo and GoDaddy provide full DNS control. The other usual providers only provide the name server entries.

Remember:

You've to verify your domain in Google first. For this you need to upload a file in your web site root folder (public html folder root).

First Step:

1. Go to www.google.com/a

2. Click on Business and Employee (image shown).

3. Click on Get Started (Image Shown)

4. Click on Standard Edition Sign Up (image shown).

5. Check the Administrator radio button (detailed in image) and enter the domain name without www. Example: interlink-bd.com (I am using this domain for this article) and hit get started.

6. Fill the form carefully because this will be the Administrative account for this Application Service under the domain. Remember all * mark fields are mandatory. Just estimate your members’ quantity and put the approximate value in the Number of user’s field. Let’s say 200 that mean your organization has at least 200 of users. After finishing the form hit Continue.

7. Create the Administrative email address of this Domain user group and accept the Agreements.

8. You're all done. You need to verify this domain. You can that all services are Not Active. Just do the verification. As I told earlier that you need to put a file on the web root folder. That time has come. Click on Verify Domain Ownership.

9. From drop down select Upload HTML method. Now open Notepad application (or any text editor) and copy and paste the text googlefffff***** (it can be vary) on it and save as the file as googlehostedservice.html. Now upload the HTML file to the root director of your website. Now Click on Verify.

10. Wait until the Domain has been verified. Take a snacks break. And come back and hit refresh on the browser.

11. Hopefully you can see your domain has verified. Now have a look on Email section. Click Activate on Email. You have to change the MX entry for your domain. Please select your Domain Service provider from the dropdown menu and see the instruction how to change the MX entries. I am giving you a image for GoDaddy as I am using its service. If your service provider is not listed here just go for the general instruction. Remember, you need the full DNS access for this purpose. If your provider does not providing Full Access ask for it. If they can't then you've to host your DNS to a DNS hosting provider. Don't worry. You'll find lots of free DNS hosting services. After changing the MX records hit the 'I have completed these steps' button.

12. You can see all services are active except Email and Chat. This'll take another 25minutes maximum though it has been said 48hours maximum. In the mean time let’s do something more. That is customizing the addressing.

Google provides unique address for each service. In general mail address access link will be mail.google.com/a/domain name but you can customize it by creating a C Name record like mail.yourdomain and point it to Google applications. For this method, you need to login your domain control panel again and give some times in C Name records section.

1. Click on Email link. Then Click on Change URL link. Point to the custom field and change the name to your desired name.domain and hit Continue>>.

2. Now the application system is telling you to create a C Name records called mail (which you input before) and point it to ghs.google.com. Do it. And then hit I've completed these steps. In this way customize all your service URL. I am giving you my DNS entries image.

You're almost ready to use this free service by Google for your domain. Now only one thing left, you've to add users in this valuable service.

1. From the Google application control panel Click on Crea te new user’s link.

2. Now Create users entry individually or multiply and set password for each account. (Best practice will be set a password in common and tell them to change it immediately.)

3. You can create mail list. For example your company has a billing department which has 5 employees. Just create a list name 'billing' and add all billing people on it. So that if anyone mails to billing@domain all billing personnel will get that mail.

4. Make a Catch All account. If a mail comes to an address which is not created to your domain you can let it to store a particular email address or you can discard it. You can do this thing from the Email options. For this just click on Email link from apps control panel and set it.

This is the first version of this tutorial actually. I'll modify this upon your feedback. Don't forget to write to me if you feel anything or facing problem doing this.

lrnirjharATgmailDOTcom <<write here.

coal breaking

2007-04-02T09:57:00.001-07:00

coal breaking, originally uploaded by lrnirjhar.

taken at kurigram district of bangladesh.

Flickr

2007-04-02T08:33:00.001-07:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Amit

2006-12-20T03:54:00.000-08:00