When it comes to blogging everyone has a piece of mind that they want to share. If you are blogging to make your living, you should get the right help from right people. There are probably thousands of blogging blogs.  Here is my top ten blogging blogs.

1. Daily Blog Tips

This is probably one of the best resource that a newbie blogger could have.  If you are trying to start off your blog in the right way, this is a blog that you must follow.  Author of this blog is Danial Scocco. Make sure you check out his popular posts. They are just full of good information. He also takes questions from his visitors and blogs about it.  One of the musts.

2. ProBlogger

One of the famous blogger on the web.  Darren Rawse, author of Problogger, posts on variety of different topics. His posts on monetizing your blog is very useful. You will find the right tools in monetizing your blog. He also lets a lot of other bloggers to guest post on his blog. He covers pretty much every aspect of blogging and you will want to his ideas in practice.

3. Copy Blogger

This is a place where you can see different perspectives of blogging.  Their authors make good observations and you will feel like you are in the place.  There are things that you will certainly put them in practice.  Copyblogger is also a great example of a succesfull weblog. From design to content, Brian Clark has put up a great blog.

Since I have created this blog, I have tried couple of themes. For the last couple of months, blog’s default theme has been a theme that I designed.  I had no intention to change it to another design but while I was editing BorderPx Theme, I learned couple of CSS tricks. They looked neat.  I changed couple of things around, whcih led me to change the whole design. For those who are not familiar with Tenth Blog, I just changed the look of my blog.

Compare to the old one, new design has a lot of changes.Nothing very professional though. I think I have gotten better working with CSS and that’s the whole point to me.  So, the reason I’m making this post is that I would like to know what others think about this new look:

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I know there are things that are missing, such as a proper footer.  They will be added or fixed as soon as I find some time to work on this new design.

Design should look okay in pretty much every major browser. Even though I have fixed the major problems in Internet Explorer’s older versions, such as ie6, there are some minor problems.

This blog is best viewed by Firefox, Safari and Opera and IE 7 and above.

Themes Screenshot from GmailBlog

Gmail engineers just released themes for Gmail. To access these themes:

1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. If there isn’t already a notice box in your inbox, click on “Settings”, which is located at top right of your screen.
3. Last tab is “Themes” tab, click on them to  change them.

Themes are only avaliable for Newer version of Gmail. If you can’t see Gmail Themes tab, that means that you are using the old version of gmail, which can be changed by clicking on “Newer Version” right next to settings link.

Right now, there are 31 themes available to choose from.  They are pretty nice actually. Some of them really worth a try.  Also, gmail now has a different default skin as well.

Wordpress team just released the third beta version of Wordpress 2.7. First thing you will notice will be the new background color, new background color is a darker tone of white color. I think this makes the new design easy on the eyes. New design has that soft & clean look.  There are a lot of fixes, 160 to be precise.  They changed submenu fonts.  New menu has been improved. Overal, it’s probably a beta release that you don’t want to miss out on. If you’re already using a 2.7 version, scroll down to bottom right of your admin panel and click on “stay updated” then follow instructions.  If you are still using 2.6, here is the download link for 2.7 Beta 3.

• Numerous style improvements and refinements.
• All admin notices now go under the page title.
• PHP Notice fixes.
• Dashboard widget options now properly save.
• Menu fixes.
• New design for Quick Edit.
• Canonical feed URL fixes.
• Walker fixes.
• An update for Hello Dolly.
• Plugin installer updates.
• Numerous font updates.
• Updated login logo.
• Click here to read more….

I gotta say I’m pretty impressed with new design. They are making it better on every release. I can’t wait for the next one.

One thing I dislike about ubuntu is that every time they release a new version, things get messed up. This happened to me when I upgraded my ubuntu to 7.10 as well.

Ubuntu Logo

So I immediately upgraded my ubuntu to 8.10. Connecting to the Internet(wireless) is always an issue among the users. I should say “newbie/inexperienced users”. I couldn’t connect to the internet because my wifi driver was disabled. Ubuntu the system itself has not provided me with good information to enable it. It tells you how you can check whether it’s enabled or disabled, and that’s it. If it’s disabled, it doesn’t tell you how to enable it. Anyways, you need to go on to their support forums and see if someone has already posted about the issue you are having and chances are someone already have. So next step would be to see if your product matches with theirs. If it doesn’t match, you keep searching on forums and eventually you will have to post your own topic. Sometimes, you don’t even get a response to your post. This literally can take hours.

This is one of the things that I want to see in ubuntu. They should either make ubuntu come with everything ready to work or they should prepare better documentation for common cases.  Anyhow,  here is what I did to get my wireless working again.

Thanks to “Ayuthia” for his helpful posts.

sudo modprobe -r b43 b44 ssb wl
sudo modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip
sudo modprobe wl
sudo modprobe b44
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

If you are like me, who doesn’t understand much from linux and ubuntu, you are going to need to search the ubuntu forums to find the right piece of code to execute in terminal. It’s pretty much try and fail until you find the right one.

Those five command lines fixed my problem but everytime I reboot ubuntu, it would require me to execute them again and to fix that problem, you need to edit “rc.local” file in the system. To do that;

You need to edit “rc.local” and add following code at the end.

Open terminal and type this
gksudo gedit/etc/rc.local

and add this just before “exit 0″

modprobe -r b43 b44 ssb wl
modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip
modprobe wl
modprobe b44
/etc/init.d/networking restart

After you save, you can restart your system. If you need further instructions, you should go ahead and post at ubuntu support forums. Also, here is my product info.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:16:cf:71:b1:f1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl ip=192.168.1.101 latency=0 module=wl multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

As said, different devices require different installations. So good luck on searching the forums.