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Run - Yay - Snap - Sigh

After work yesterday, my sister and I ran - seriously RAN big time - for the tube.

My trip went a little something like this.

Touched my ID card to the clock in/out machine at 10.15pm, walked swiftly through a maze of exits to finally reach the bus stop in good time (10.21pm). I stayed on the bus for roughly ten minutes then got off and waited about 20 seconds for my sister - who met me, red and out of breath. The lift pings and we get in and go underground to catch the tube. From a (really far) distance, the tube is waiting with it's doors open - probably been there a while which means it's going to leave any second. So

We run..

Downhill - no idea why the ground is like that. I thought I'd fall and just roll all the way to the Oyster Touch in/out. I didn't though - yay!

Has the price of gold gone up...

... or has the value of currency gone down?

It is an interesting way of looking at things - something that was being dicussed on Russia Today at some point a few days or weeks ago.

Generally, we are told that the value of Gold has doubled or so over a period of time.

Another way of looking at the same information is that you now need twice as much currency to buy the same amount of gold.

So has the value of gold gone up or has the value of currency gone down without us even noticing?

In the Presence of the Divine: Establishing Connection in Salah

“Guard strictly your (habit of) prayers, especially the middle prayer, and stand before Allah in a devout (frame of mind).”

[Al-Baqarah: 238]

For many, it is a recurring struggle to fruitfully perform the Salah under mental seclusion from the confining world surrounding us, to turn to Allah in solitude under full submission, to seek His pleasure and intensify the one-to-one relationship with the All-Mighty. Based on the commended work of the renowned scholar, Imam Al-Ghazali’s “Minhajul Arifeen”, we will be enlightened with a unique dimension to enhance our spiritual connection with the Creator, a step-by-step approach starting from beyond the intention to perform the Salah to the supplication made after the tashahud and more.

Saturday 27 November, 2010
9.30am-5.00pm

Potential... and the path to Drupal 7

This website (http://www.therevival.co.uk) is built using drupal 6.

It has been based on drupal since early 2008 - within a month of the launch of Drupal 6 and one of the few early sites at that time with moderate complexity that could use Drupal 6 that early (Drupal sites generally use the base CMS as a framework with other modules used to add finctionality - the new version 6 of drupal had been released, but some big and important modules were not compatible for a few months).

Now almost 3 years later, more later than the people involved with Drupal expected, the next major version of Drupal, Drupal 7 is close to being released.

This leaves me with three options:

  1. Ignore Drupal 7 completely - don't fix what aint broken

Haj 2010: Iran slams West

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Iran Leader: Hajj symbol of Monotheism

Mon Nov 15, 2010

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described the annual Hajj pilgrimage as a symbol of monotheism and spirituality.

"During the Hajj season, the Ka'ba, which is the secret to unity and dignity, and the symbol of monotheism and spirituality, hosts enthusiastic and hopeful individuals, who converge on the birthplace of Islam, from across the world in response to God Almighty's invitation," said the Leader in a message on the occasion of the annual Hajj rituals.

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