U.S Presidential Elections are coming pretty soon. And I want you guys to go and vote. Do your research, and cast your vote and make a difference. But before you pick your candidates from the two main parties, you might want to check out the third one and that is me.

You guys know with the growing readership here at Balkhis, someone was nice enough to send my name into this virtual show and I got selected. Yay me. Check out the video and let me know.

This video is for people who don’t vote. Please do your research and make a difference by voting. Please Please Please….

Now Watch the Video and Enjoy.

So what do you think? I know it is a prank lol. But I only put it on the web just to tell people that they should vote and make a difference.

Now if you want to trick your readers, you can do it simply. Just copy the codes below, and change the name to whatever you want.

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So last week was exhausting specially the weekends. I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep, but other than that it was cool. So I have compiled a list of posts from the last week that you will enjoy.

Timestamping is Your Friend

It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who you Know

How To Use Online Forums and Message Boards to Promote a Blog

How to embed picasa album slideshow in wordpress blogs?

These were some of the reads from the blogs that I read. Now if you missed last week’s post on Balkhis

How to create a simple accordions in Wordpress

How much is your site worth?

Tip Sunday University of Florida vs. LSU

Pimp My Blog Winner for September 2008

So as I mentioned to you guys that I was going to the NCAA Football game last night where my school University of Florida played Louisiana State University. Well the game was suppose to start at 8, but they open the gate 90 minutes before. So me and couple friends were in the stadium about 80 minutes before the kick off. This was my first time going to a gator game because until last year I had no interest in this.

Well now my seats were all the way up top to get a clear view of everything. There were 90,000+ Fans attending the game last night. Obviously UF Gators won woot. The final score was 51-21.

If you have been to any of the college football games, you should know parking is a big pain. Well here in UF Parking is a big pain in the ass during the game. If you ride the bus, they charge you $8, and they move slower then I can walk. Well my apartment is about 2.9 miles away from the stadium. But I didn’t walk all the way. I drove and park my car in front of my friend’s dorm who lives about 1.5 miles away from the stadium. Then we all walked from there. Hey atleast I didn’t walk the whole trip.

Anyways, I got the whistle, air horn and all that but found out that I can’t take those in the stadium eh. Lame…. But any who, I got myself a new gator shirt, Face paint and the cap.

Check out some of the pictures from the game. Note: None of the pictures are actually of playing the game because duh I was watching a long with 90,000 other people.

Okay, So I know you guys were waiting for this one. After the long wait and I have finally made my decision. The winner for this month’s Pimp My Blog is

Otooo

Simon has been an active reader on my site for a long time, and he was last month’s top commentator. I think he deserves the winner spot for September 2008.

With the rule changes and all the picks will not be random from now on. A must requirement though is you still have to be subscribed to Balkhis via email.

So why don’t you subscribe yourself for this month’s drawing. Keep commenting as the more I notice you the higher your chances are. Don’t send me an email please please please. Because I have received a lot of those saying I should just pick them over the others. I won’t name anyone. OK, so simple way of getting noticed is commenting and commenting and more commenting…

Today I will be at University of Florida Football game against LSU (Louisiana State University). So tomorrow you will see my pictures with face paint and others… hopefully If you are coming to the game send me an email

Hey guys,

I am Atif from Techytuts.com – Computer and Internet Tutorials and Resources this is my first guest blog ever. So I will write it short to avoid mistakes. First of all I personally think that this is something must have to show off your skills in your blog or website. This one has got a good interaction and good visual effects, And today basically I’m going to show you how to create accordions of your wordpress posts for some extra ordinary looks. I will show you up how you can set up the accordions, regarding styling you got to do it your self. We will go in 4 easy steps to accomplish this.

First off you need to download this small file accordian.pack.js and save it into your template directory.

Now open up a typical wordpress theme…and search for <?php wp_head(); ?>

One you find it, add this line just above it. To make it look like this. Make sure the accordian.pack.js file do exists in your template directory.

<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/accordian.pack.js”></script>
<?php wp_head(); ?>

For the third step, go to the body tag and replace it with this one…

<body onload=”new Accordian(‘basic-accordian’,5,’header_highlight’);”>

And for the final step, which is a little tougher one… Search for <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> and add this line above it.

<?php $i = 0; ?>
<div id=”basic-accordian” > <!–Parent of the Accordion–>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

Now search for while <?php (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
and add these lines below it

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!– Start of each accordion item –>
<div id=”test<?php if (!($i == 0)) {echo $i;} ?>-header” class=”accordion_headings” ><?php the_title(); ?></div>
<div id=”test<?php if (!($i == 0)) {echo $i;} ?>-content”>
<div class=”accordion_child”>

Finally search for <?php endwhile; ?> and add these lines above it

</div>
</div> <!– End of each accordion item –>
<?php $i++; ?>
<?php endwhile;?>
</div>

Your job’s done. You can do the custom styling using css. You can see the working demo here

PS: Good color combination and best suitable time complexity according to the users you expect on your website will make this script useful an attractive and