Opening of the Heart

We begin in the Name of God,
Everlasting Mercy, Infinite Compassion.

Praise be to God, Loving Lord of all the worlds.
Everlasting Mercy, Infinite Compassion.
Eternal Strength of every living being,
Whose Majestic Power embraces us on the day of the great return.

Only You do we adore, and to You alone do we cry for help.
Guide us, O God, on the path of Perfect Harmony,
the path of those whom You have blessed
with the gifts of Peace, Joy, Serenity, and Delight,
the path of those who have not been brought down by anger,
the path of those who have not been lost along the way.

Amen.

(a new English translation of the Fatiha, translated by Bilal Hyde)

Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers

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In Praise of Evolvable Systems

The very weaknesses that make the Web so infuriating to serious practitioners also make it possible in the first place. In fact, had the Web been a strong and well-designed entity from its inception, it would have gone nowhere. As it enters its adolescence, showing both flashes of maturity and infuriating unreliability, it is worth recalling what the network was like before the Web.

From: In Praise of Evolvable Systems - Clay Shirky

Dear Mama - Tupac Shakur

I wish I could take the pain away
If you can make it through the night there's a brighter day
Everything will be alright if ya hold on
It's a struggle everyday, gotta roll on
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated

The Art of Computer Programming

For a guy who’s devoted to exploring, this is fitting. “The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of life,” he says. “If you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always disappointed.” Perhaps, he adds, what seems like a liability is really a stroke of luck. “If I had been good at making estimates of how long something was going to take, I never would have started.”

From Love at First Byte

In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent

"You don't patent the obvious," he said during a recent interview. "The way you compete is to build something that is faster, better, cheaper. You don't lock your ideas up in a patent and rest on your laurels."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/technology/16wireless.html

Bangladeshi innings

Source: CricInfo

Man with a Blog

The only blogger in the world whom I know personally. Nice to have a good and honest man like him as my friend.

Inspiring Words

I am not saying that Bangladesh is on top of everything. Far from it. Our list of failures is much longer than the list of successes. I bring up the list of successes to point out how wrong we are when we throw up our hands in the air to say in frustration that we'll never make it. This list of successes will convince anybody that not only will we make it, we have already made it in any respects, and will do better than many others around us, and like us.
Good news that comes out from these successes is that we have created the capacity to address all our problems roundly and solidly. Not only we have gained self-confidence, we are ready to earn the confidence of the world. Soon a Bangladeshi passport can bring out admiration and respect from others, rather than suspicion and disrespect.

Muhammad Yunus

Source: Growing up with two giants