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

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My Bad

Blogging after long time.

Damn ......... time goes so fast. Sometimes it seems like in a blink of an eye I just spend one year.

Fear of Death

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.

Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

— Rabindranath Tagore, Fruit-Gathering

Yezidis

Yezidis have no religious marriage ceremony -- the tradition is to kidnap one's intended bride from her family's house and hold her for a year before making a dowry arrangement.

Celebrating Feast, Iraq's Yezidis Fear for Future

Bangladeshi Blogs

Today I browsed some blogs by Bangladeshis. Good to see guys residing in and out of Bangladesh giving their opinions about many things related to Bangladesh.

Blogs I browsed today:
Mozammel Haque Photography Blogs
Nazzina's Photo Blog
Bongo Vongo
Close your eyes and try to see

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me

Our mistakes are the peaks in our opportunities for learning.

Australian Travel Advice

Australians in Bangladesh should exercise caution and monitor developments that might affect their safety. The risk of possible terrorist attacks against Western interests in Bangladesh remains. Australians should avoid all travel to the Chittagong Hill Tracts region.

From: Travel Advice For Bangladesh

This warning comes when Deceptions over Iraq is strongly condemned by ex-heads of Australian missions.

I to Eye

What accounts for my accomplishments? My faith. My firm belief. Everything my survival, my existence, my passion is from religion. - Rani Padampasee, Founder of Bengal School of Shotokon, freelance writer for the Dhaka-based English newspaper The Daily Star, mother of two.

From Portraits of Women Empowerment in Bangladesh by Fariba Alam.

Poor People in a Poor World

Food production successes show up in unlikely places. Powerful people in powerful capitals labeled Bangladesh a "basket case," for example, and called for "triage" at its independence in 1971. Golden Bengal now grows its own food, as described in a heartening chapter 4. The cultivators of Bangladesh have taken the world by surprise, from which we can draw reinforcement for important growth enhancing and poverty alleviating principles.

From : POOR-WORLD DEVELOPMENT: Wringing Success from Failure in Late-Developing Countries - Lessons from the Field

Today's article

"Even though people in Bangladesh are used to grappling with flood damage every year, they will need a lot of help this year in recovering their household stability and preparing for the next planting season," Coutts says. "The international community must not forget about the enormous problems here after the disaster images fade from the TV screen."

From: As Bangladesh Battles Floods, Experts Warn Worse May Follow