Thursday, February 18, 2010

Spam in the Name of Allah!

I got an email to one of my group adds:

Send these 5 names to 11 muslims, believe me ur biggest problem will be solved Insha Allah.
Ya ALLAH
Ya KARIM
Ya AWWAL
Ya AAKH ER
Ya MUJEEB
Don't delete it. Try it even if u don't believe it.

Kaaba, Mecca

Hmmm, I usually ignore this kind of messages. Or, if I know the sender personally, I dare to send him/her a reply warning him not to contribute in spamming.

Shamim from 38D batch of IBA posted a nice reply. I liked it so much that I couldn’t resist to share it to my blog:

Before forwarding this type of mail please think about some very basic things.

1. What is the reference of this speech. Is it supported by Quran or Hadith?

2. The Names of Allah is no doubt very good. But this way "5 names to 11 muslims", from where one has found this number?

3. "your biggest problem will be solved" encourages to use the names of Allah for the benefit of dunia, not for akherat.

4. You are assuring by "believe me". How can you assure that?

I suppose this is one type of Fitna. We usually receive this type of mail in several group mails also.

There are some assurances of financial improvement, official promotion, problem solving etc. So one with little knowledge about Islam sent the message to 11 muslims and didn't get any problem solved can make an ill comment to the name of Allah and lose his Iman easily.

Before circulate any mail relating Islam please be sure that it is supported by Quran or Hadith or both. because the responsibility imposes upon you.

May Allah help us to prevent ourselves from any Fitna.

 

I think this explains a lot.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Politicians are Bad

On the other day one of my relatives was saying our politicians are this, our politicians are that. He was nagging about incompetency of our politicians. Well, that’s not something new. That’s the usual and most favorite time pass of Bangladeshis.

In a BBC Songlap Motia Chowdhury quoted “A country gets the leader it deserves.” Truly said. Similar promise is made by Allah. In hadith it is mentioned, if a Muslim nation does not kayem salaat, Allah will provide tyrant leader for that nation. Well, what is the logical relationship between salaat and leadership – that’s another story.

If you think you would be a better politician, why don’t you run for one? If you are chicken enough not to do so, please keep your sorry mouth shut. Focus to some productive work.

You can’t probably make a difference to the whole nation, but you can for sure to a couple of persons’ lives or to families.

Ask not what Bangladesh has done for you, ask what you have done for Bangladesh (adaptation from JFK).

Should Software Engineers Read?

Software engineers should read, no matter companies give them special time slot for reading or not. Companies take only 8 to 10 hours of a day. What about rest hours? A good engineer reads everyday, one to two hours at least. 4/5 hours in the weekend. You don't have to go far, we have many examples of that kind of SE right here in Bangladesh.

I think SE is a profession which is more like an artist, a musician, a writer or a doctor. To be a good professional of these kinds one need to merge his/her hobby and work. If you are not that passionate or committed, don't nag by saying your company doesn't allow you time for R&D. Go and find some other job for living. Be an accountant for example. Accounting practice is almost same for last 50 years. In IT, if you are out of touch for a year, you are an alien.

IT industry in BD is not yet in R&D mode. We are still playing at the lower end of the value chain. Whose primary responsibilities is it to promote ourselves to higher value chain? Businessmen? Not really.
IT industry is always dominated by geeks. And it is engineers’ primary responsibility to bring in innovation, learn high value job and gradually create a situation where R&D becomes part of the company’s job.

So, if your project manager is mean enough not to allow you reading tech stuff when you are free, do it at home. Learn and implement some interesting things in your work and show your manager how your learning helped the company to yield customer satisfaction or save time of the developers. Maybe your manager will change mind.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Google releases Buzz

One of my friends wished Buzz becomes another Facebook.

I don't think it's gonna be something near to Facebook. Both Windows Live and Yahoo tried this, without much buzz in fact :).

The future lies in somewhere else; interoperability of social networking and IM. That means no matter what platform you are in (Facebook, Buzz, Twitter, Live, Yahoo)... everyone sees everyone. For example, being a Buzz user you should be able to add your friends in Facebook, without you ever signing up for Facebook.

I mean if a gmail user can send an email to yahoo mail users, why can't a Facebook status update reach a Live user (if both agree to see each other)?


That's something we deserve and should demand for, don't we?

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Welcome 2010

Good bye 2009 and welcome 2010.

Where to start a promising and exciting year, other than right from the wild nature? To rejuvenate, to educate and to recharge ourselves with energy and promise we went back to the nature this January.

Lawachara is a national reserve forest located in Sreemangal, which is also famous for the highest rainfall, orange orchard, export quality tea, indigenous people like Manipuri and Khasia, and the natural reserved lake - Baikka in the vicinity.

We started our journey early in the morning.

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The tea garden was fabulous.

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The landscape was breath-taking …

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Not quite was the navigation through it.

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and little things that made us laugh.

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The woods were dark and deep

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and dangerous species lurking around, DSC_0110DSC_0238

but we had miles to go before we sleep.

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As we knew 2010 is a year to fly

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on the wings of our weaved dream.

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[We took loads of pics visit our Facebook Fanpage to see more.]