~ Al-Uqsur

Salam alaikum,

so they like to call it Luxor in english.. though the term itself is from Qasr (palace), err.. a superlative form of 'fortified' Qasr, i suppose.

on a semi crazy side note though, these semantics here remind me of the word 'Thug'; The english word Thug comes from the Indian subcontinent word 'Thuggee'. The thuggee(s) were described as a cult of people engaged in the multiple murder & looting/robbery of travelers.
o well..

- Resuming;

cairo sky-view

cairo to luxor

oh.. qabristaan :)

alexandria sky-view

landed

luxor street-view

getting all set to visit the place around, inshAllah.
stuffed some warm clothes, just in case.

Its a nice rare chance to observe the youm Ashoora fast at the very place where Musa alehi salam (Moses) & his nation were ultimately saved from the ultimate tyrant & his ill-willed ilk.

Aside from the faraaina's (pharoas) fancy palaces making it an open air museum (of ibrat :p i suppose) & what not.. there are some ancient 12th century Masaajid im really interested in.

Masjid Al Hajjaj

I'll inshAllah be posting more about their history, sharing snaps etc..
[i mean i certainly would prefer these to the dog-faced dead-guys rampant over here ^_^ ]

Right frikin' now though, i need to focus on this flamboyant presentation preoccupying me from much of my sharing mood..

room-view

door-way

 presentation doodads

outlook


nile-view

another shot showing cruise

terrace mise en scène

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~ Coolish

Salam alaikum,

was just checking egypt weather forecasts on Wolfram Alpha, I came to know that Wolfram alpha can now input TeX too.

This is awesome addition to the search tool.
For someone who is familiar with TeX syntax, it is pretty easy to manipulate with functions, play around with plots & datasets.

Even MS Words equation editor supports LaTeX commands..
:) makes your life worth living with equations like so;

coolish.. init?

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~ Fun with Fone

Al salam alaikum,

just givin' this blog a blurb style instead.. since i might not find enough time to be a raconteur all the time :)

i've been tweaking mod'ing around with my doodad lately.
sharing here the lock & home-screens, just sirey-raahey(btw).

[click to zoom in]

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~ Hajj; the journey of Hearts

Salam alaik,

'Hajj' literally means to set out..
And there is a major difference between setting out & hanging out (for the heck of it).
For setting out is with a sincere solid intention -- infact ambition -- to go out & about to achieve something.
[ keep repeating these semantics to myself; helps me to purify my intention from time to time.]

1800's oldest snaps ever of Kabah tuLLAh

As we age, our life journey exerts an effect on us of types, we grow get seasoned so on & so forth.
Likely so, the journeys we embark on for places of kinds, render our thoughts & the way we look at our lives & ourselves mature enough to get the best out of our days ahead of us..

closeup

Hajj journey is one such life-changing event.
I don't even consider it a journey.. its more than that.. its odyssey.. an ongoing never ending one.
Uniformity, simplicity, serenity.. all packed at one place at one time.. its amazing.

[& uniform reminds me of this vid & the dude in it on wearing ihram.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-74409sjM


No particular plans to write an all elaborated evocative article on Hajj today.
Just sharing the feel here & some Hajj tips i've learnt to keep handy;

Shukar (thankfulness) - Always do shukar, try remembering & recalling all the blessings of Allah.

Sabr (patience) - Increase ur sabr scope & span [as in; What are the things you do sabr on? What are the ones on which you lose it? List them, and then start moving things into sabr list]

Dua (prayer) - "O Allah, make the last part of my life the best part in front of u, and the last deed the best deed in front of u."

Time/Places for Dua:

1. After drinking Zamzam water.
2. Looking at Kabah-tu-LLah
3. During Tawaf (circumambulation), b/w Rukn-al-Yamani & Hijr-ul-Aswad
4. While standing on Safa & Marwa hills.
5. Youm al Arafah.
6. In Muzdalifah.
7. After stoning Jamarah.

I find this link particularly useful;
The_inner_dimensions_of_hajj

Take the Quiz in the Extras top tab, & lets see how well you fare in your general knowledge of Hajj, & doing so get the yummy cookie of unlocking the 'Hidden Extras'..


Quran recitation from 1885;

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~ To a Research Rookie

Salam alaikum,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

so i got this pm from someone somewhere the other day, that went like so;

On 09/14/10 8:14 PM, He wrote:

Hi...
I am a undergrad. fresh mechanical engineer from NUST-PNEC and I've keen interest in R&D but the problem is I don't want to go abroad or join defence organizations due to some personal reasons... I had the following questions in my mind:

1. How can I actively participate in R&D?
2. What is the advantage of writing a research paper?

Thnx in Advance..

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On the fly, i wrote back;

wa alaikum salam warahmatuLLAh brother,

am traveling, hence the delayed response.
its best to start with a salam -- if it ain't a generic statement you've sent to many besides me.
your questions are intriguing & need a detailed response, which i will inshallah, once feasible.
meanwhile, i'll be interested to know those personal reasons that hinder you from joining defense orgz back home.

wa'salam
- bother the brevity, courtesy of my doodad..err..iphone.

--------------------

I received yet another swift one this time;

5:33 AM, He wrote:

Asalam-o-Aliekm,

Jazakallah for correcting me... Well, I contacted professionals already in this field and i found that u were one of them... :)

I can wait for ur response.. but pls reply as soon as possible.

About defense, I ve seen some results like Dr. AQ Khan, therefore i feel uncomfortable.

Wsa'lam

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So yeah, once in shape i had to reply, which went like so;

Wa alaikum salam warahmatuLLAh,

wa iyyak, & here is the detailed reply i promised earlier on;

There are several ways of participating in R&D.
But prior to pointing em all, you first need to evaluate yourself, your skill-set and aptitude / interests to figure out if you are:

a) a theoretical guy
b) a practical guy
c) or both.

If you love to read n understand equations working behind a system, without giving a bunny's bum to the reality of the system / you are clueless about the where abouts of stuff in a car engine / never messed up with your computer hardware and OS for the fear of it -- then you should go into theoretical research.

If equations give you creeps and you love to destroy and fix things -- then you should be doing experimental research.

If you are jack of all -- then you are one great resource for this country.

Next you need to evaluate:
what are you interested in?
Solar energy / wind turbines / engineering design / structures / control systems, ... the list goes on & ever.
The best way is to shortlist the areas.

Finally, you need to see if you've acquired enough to carryout research in your area of interest. You need to either join a group already working in the area (in a university or a company), or find people / professionals / classmates interested in the same topic.

Now, in order to share your idea with other people for them to understand your thoughts, you need to write it down.

For that, first you need to jot down quite briefly what do you want to achieve?
what approach you will take?
and what do you expect?
this should be the first para and will be the abstract of the document.

Next, you need to write the introduction section, which will provide the motivation behind the idea ;
- why is this idea important? whats the need?
if anyone else has already worked on the idea, then;
- what did they do? and what are the shortcomings of their work if any?
& then your own approach in simplest words;
- whats soo new about it? and what are its advantages?

You'll then provide your method of tackling the problem, and give a prediction about its performance.

The most important thing is clarity of the document, i.e., when given to different people, each gets the same picture of your approach. Now thats not easy! (but not impossible either)

Why to go through so much pain?
So that, others can understand your idea, your approach and help you improve your idea. Someone can tell you its already thought about, giving you critical feedback; your approach lacks this and that. Someone could just suggest other possible approaches etc.
This will give you an idea if your idea is worth it or not.

Once the groundwork for your research has been laid down, you can carry it out, be it derivations, or making a system, or both.

Last but not the least, you need to tell the world what you did. This will require you to write a research paper, which will target a wider audience, and will provide more diverse feedback and thus your research will continue to improve on...inshAllah.

hth..
n good luck!
---
by the by, some suggested reads;
~ tips for technical paper
~ how to have a bad carrier in research

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~ Reality of Calamity

Salam alaik,

no place to take a nap.. :/

Just encountered this on my surf-slide;
Viewpoint Column..

Calamity clears out the reality of a man, just like rage reflects the inner self.

The irony seeps in, when after every any calamity a group of people - who (rest assured) ain't even remotely affected by that calamity themselves, leading an absolutely 'eat drink n be merry' lifestyle - start crowing out together, categorizing any said calamity as a test only & mocking at the other set of people doing istighfaar. Sometimes even ending up (out of sheer ignorance or arrogance - whichever that is) jesting & jeering the obligation & Beloved's Sunnah of repentance itself.

No body gives (or should give) a dead dime or a bunny's bum on what such intellectually-dishonest among us have got to say out of their skewed sense of Ahkaam of Islam, but when it comes down to open mockery of Quran & Sunnah...then may Allah guide them or wipe them  (out)

Without delving into much of that hoopla; a trash tarnishing our national demeanour, i'd jot down few bullet-points here to clear out once n for all;

• Allaah says (interpretation of the meanings):

“Whatever of good reaches you, is from Allaah, but whatever of evil befalls you, is from yourself”
[al-Nisaa’ 4:79]

• Allaah says (interpretation of the meanings):

“And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned. And He pardons much”
[al-Shoora 42:30]

• Allah says, translation of which is;

“And We sent not the signs except to warn”
[al-Israa’ 17:59]

• And Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Did the people of the towns then feel secure against the coming of Our punishment by night while they were asleep? Or, did the people of the towns then feel secure against the coming of Our punishment in the forenoon while they were playing? Did they then feel secure against the Plan of Allaah? None feels secure from the Plan of Allaah except the people who are the losers.” 

[al-A’raaf 7:97-99]

• Allaah says (interpretation of meaning):

“Verily, We sent (Messengers) to many nations before you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم). And We seized them with extreme poverty (or loss in wealth) and loss in health (with calamities) so that they might humble themselves (believe with humility).
When Our Torment reached them, why then did they not humble themselves (believe with humility)? But their hearts became hardened, and Shaytaan (Satan) made fair‑seeming to them that which they used to do.
So, when they forgot (the warning) with which they had been reminded, We opened for them the gates of every (pleasant) thing, until in the midst of their enjoyment in that which they were given, all of a sudden, We took them (in punishment), and lo! They were plunged into destruction with deep regrets and sorrows”
[al-An’aam 6:42-44]

• Allah says, translation of which is;

“Say: ‘He has power to send torment on you from above or from under your feet, or to cover you with confusion in party strife, and make you to taste the violence of one another.’”
[al-An’aam 6:65]

• Allah says, translation of which is;

“Evil (sins and disobedience to Allaah) has appeared on land and sea because of what the hands of men have earned (by oppression and evil deeds), that He (Allaah) may make them taste a part of that which they have done, in order that they may return (by repenting to Allaah, and begging His Pardon)”
[al-Room 30:41]

• Allah says, translation of which is;

“We will show them Our Signs in the universe, and in their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that this (the Qur’aan) is the truth. Is it not sufficient in regard to your Lord that He is a Witness over all things?”
[Fussilat 41:53]

• And Allaah said concerning the nations of the past, translation of which is:

“So We punished each (of them) for his sins, of them were some on whom We sent Haasib (a violent wind with shower of stones) [as on the people of Loot (Lot)], and of them were some who were overtaken by As-Saihah [torment — awful cry, (as Thamood or Shu‘ayb’s people)], and of them were some whom We caused the earth to swallow [as Qaaroon (Korah)], and of them were some whom We drowned [as the people of Nooh (Noah), or Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) and his people]. It was not Allaah Who wronged them, but they wronged themselves.”
[al-‘Ankaboot 29:40]

• Al-Bukhaari narrated in his Saheeh from Jaabir ibn ‘Abd-Allaah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that when the aayah (interpretation of the meaning) “Say: ‘He has power to send torment on you from above” was revealed, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “A’oodhu bi wajhika (I seek refuge in Your Face”; “or from under your feet”, he said, “A’oodhu bi wajhika (I seek refuge in Your Face).” (Saheeh al-Bukhaari, 5/193).

(Abu’l-Shaykh al-Isbahaani narrated from Mujaahid concerning the Tafseer of this aayah, “Say: ‘He has power to send torment on you from above”: (this means) al-Sayhah (the shout or tumult), stones and strong wind; “or from under your feet”, (means) earthquakes and being swallowed up by the earth.)

• The great scholar Zakariya al-Ansaari (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

It is mustahabb for everyone to beseech Allaah in supplication and so on when earthquakes and similar events, such as thunderbolts and strong winds, happen, and to offer prayers on his own in his house lest he be negligent, because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said, when the wind blew strongly: “O Allaah, I ask You for its good and the good of what is in it and the good of what it is sent with, and I seek refuge in You from its evil and the evil of what is in it and the evil of what it is sent with.” Narrated by Muslim.
End quote.
[Asna al-Mataalib Sharh Rawd al-Taalib (1/288). See also Tuhfat al-Muhtaaj (3/65).]

Al-‘Allaamah Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: “Allaah sometimes gives the earth permission to breathe, which is when major earthquakes happen; this makes people feel scared, so they repent, give up sins, pray to Allaah and feel regret [for their sins]. When there had been an earthquake, some of the Salaf said: your Lord is warning you. When Madeenah was struck by an earthquake, ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with you) addressed the people and said: if there is another earthquake, I will not stay here with you.”
[mentioned by Ibn al-Jawzi in al-Muntazam, among the events of the year 20 AH.]

And there are many similar reportes from the Salaf.

Undoubtedly, the earthquakes & such calmaties that are happening these days are among the signs which Allaah uses to frighten His slaves. All the earthquakes and other things which happen and cause harm and injury to people are because of shirk and sins, as Allaah says (interpretation of the meanings):

“And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned. And He pardons much” [al-Shoora 42:30]
“Whatever of good reaches you, is from Allaah, but whatever of evil befalls you, is from yourself” [al-Nisaa’ 4:79]

Solution:

Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

"What must be done at the time of an earthquake or other calamity, or an eclipse, strong wind or flood is to repent to Allaah, may He be glorified, and to beseech Him and ask Him for well-being, and to remember Him a great deal and ask Him for forgiveness, as the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said at the time of an eclipse: “When you see that, then turn to remembrance of Allaah and call upon Him and ask for His forgiveness.” Agreed upon. It is also mustahabb to show compassion to the poor and needy, and to give charity to them, because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: “Show mercy, you will be shown mercy.” (Narrated by Ahmad) And he said: “Those who show mercy will be shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Show mercy to those who are on earth and the One Who is in heaven will show mercy to you.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi. And he (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: “The one who does not show mercy will not be shown mercy.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari. It was related from ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azeez (may Allaah have mercy on him) that he used to write to his emirs when earthquakes took place telling them to give charity.

One of the means of being safe and sound from all evils is for those in authority to hasten to restrain and impose an immediate crack-down on the foolish elements in society, & compel them to behave & adhere to the truth, and to implement the laws of Allaah among them, enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil [Amr bil Ma'roof wa nahi anil Munakr], as Allaah says interpretation of the meaning is:

“The believers, men and women, are Awliyaa’ (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors) of one another; they enjoin (on the people) Al‑Ma‘roof (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one to do), and forbid (people) from Al‑Munkar (i.e. polytheism and disbelief of all kinds, and all that Islam has forbidden); they perform As-Salaah (Iqaamat-as-Salaah), and give the Zakaah, and obey Allaah and His Messenger. Allaah will have His Mercy on them. Surely, Allaah is All-Mighty, All-Wise”
[al-Tawbah 9:71]

“Verily, Allaah will help those who help His (Cause). Truly, Allaah is All‑Strong, All‑Mighty.
Those (Muslim rulers) who, if We give them power in the land, (they) enjoin Iqamat‑as‑Salaah [i.e. to perform the five compulsory congregational Salaah (prayers) (the males in mosques)], to pay the Zakaah and they enjoin Al‑Ma‘roof (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one to do), and forbid Al‑Munkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism and all that Islam has forbidden) [i.e. they make the Qur’aan as the law of their country in all the spheres of life]. And with Allaah rests the end of (all) matters (of creatures)”
[al-Hajj 22:40-41]

“And whosoever fears Allaah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).
And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine. And whosoever puts his trust in Allaah, then He will suffice him. Verily, Allaah will accomplish his purpose. Indeed Allaah has set a measure for all things”
[al-Talaaq 65:2-3]

And there are many verses with similar meanings."

End quote.
[Majmoo’ Fataawa Ibn Baaz (9/150-152).]

Earthquakes (or floods) are one of the great signs of Allaah in this universe, with which He tests His slaves as a reminder or to instil fear of Him or as a punishment. Man must remember, when the signs occur, his weakness, incapability, humble status before Allaah and his need of Him, so he turns to Allaah, may He be exalted and glorified, in supplication, beseeching and humility, in the hope that Allaah will lift this great distress from the people.

Hence,

What Muslims and others who are accountable and of sound mind must do is to; repent to Allaah, adhere firmly to His Religion and avoid all that He has forbidden of Shirk and sin, so that they may be safe and attain salvation from all evils in this world and the next, and so that Allaah will ward off from them all harm, and bless them with all good. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“And if the people of the towns had believed and had the Taqwaa (piety), certainly, We should have opened for them blessings from the heaven and the earth, but they belied (the Messengers). So We took them (with punishment) for what they used to earn (polytheism and crimes).” [al-A’raaf 7:96]

And Allaah says concerning the People of the Book (interpretation of the meaning):

“And if only they had acted according to the Tawraah (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel), and what has (now) been sent down to them from their Lord (the Qur’ân), they would surely, have gotten provision from above them and from underneath their feet” [al-Maa’idah 5:66].

In light of overwhelming evidence form Quran & Sunnah, Scholars respond that when there is an earthquake or some other sign such as an eclipse, strong winds or floods, one should hasten to repent to Allaah and pray to Him for safety, and to remember Him much and seek His forgiveness, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said when there was an eclipse:
“If you see anything like that, hasten to remember Him, call on Him and seek His forgiveness.”
(Part of an agreed-upon hadeeth narrated by al-Bukhaari (2/30) and Muslim (2/628)).

It is also mustahabb (recommended, encouraged) to show compassion to the poor and needy, and to give charity to them, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:

“Show mercy, you will be shown mercy.”
(Narrated by Imaam Ahmad, 2/165)

“Those who are merciful will be shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Have mercy on those who are on earth, and the One Who is in heaven will show mercy to you.”
(Narrated by Abu Dawood (13/285), al-Tirmidhi (6/43)).

“Whoever does not show mercy will not be shown mercy.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5/75), Muslim (4/1809)).

It was reported that when there was an earthquake, ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azeez (may Allaah have mercy on him) would write to his governors telling them to give in charity.

The Prophet ( peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever meets the need of his brother, Allaah will meet his needs.” (Agreed upon; al-Bukhaari, 3/98; Muslim, 4/1996).

And he ( peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever relieves a believer of some of the distress of this world, Allaah will relieve him of some of the distress of the Day of Resurrection. Whoever makes things easier for one who is suffering hardship, Allaah will make things easier for him in this world and in the Hereafter. Whoever conceals a Muslim’s faults, Allaah will conceal his faults in this world and in the Hereafter. Allaah will help a person so long as he helps his brother.”
(Narrated by Muslim, 4/2074). And there are many ahaadeeth on this topic.

One should offer du’aa’ as inspired by Allaah to ask for mercy and help from Allaah, may He be exalted and glorified, so that He might divert this calamity from the people.

Allaah is the only One Whom we ask to reform the affairs of all the Muslims and to bless them with proper understanding of Islam and help them to adhere steadfastly to it and repent to Allaah from all their sins. We ask Him to reform all those who are in authority over the Muslims’ affairs and to support the Truth and eradicate falsehood through them, and to help them to rule the people according to the laws of sharee’ah, and to protect them and all the Muslims from misguidance and temptation and the tricks of the Shaytaan, for He is Able to do all that.

May the blessings and peace of Allaah be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and companions, and those who follow them in truth until the Day of Resurrection.

And Allaah knows best.

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~ The Suicidal Assassins

Salam alaikum,

They are amongst us; as family members, as friends, as sibling, as parents, as children.
Beware! since these assassins attempt to victimize themselves and those around them to a slow painful death.

Personally they are perfectly normal humans, with no wish to inflict damage to their near and dear ones.
But they choose to embrace a dis-ease which is like a slow-mo suicide.
The affecting effect is long-term, with long-reach & is devastating.
Even people of high intellect get infected to it by choice, and in doing so prove that education, knowledge & intelligence can't rid one of stupidity.

Do you recognize them?
These are the people puffing n coughing deadly smoke out of their mouths every now n then, hurting themselves & people around them through passive smoking, knowing its hazards all along; .. these are the cigarette addicts, commonly called the (active) Smokers.

A smoker is guilty of several accounts, a few are listed like so:

1. Life and health is trusted from Allah to humans, taking care of it is a duty. A smoker ignores this duty. 
2. Smoking is slow suicide which is forbidden in Islam.
3. Smoking is an addiction which is forbidden in Islam
4. Smoking is a waste of time. 
5. Spending money on smoking is a waste of money; 'israaf'.  
6. A smoker ignores the warning given by people around him, and on the cigarette packs, and therefore holds complete responsibility for his actions.  
7. A smoker is a threat to the life of his wife and lil children. 
8. A smoker is a threat to his friends and colleagues. 
9. A smoker has a foul smelling mouth which causes discomfort to Allah's creatures while praying in congregation.
10. A smoker is a potential fire hazard. 
11. A smoker is harmful to nature around him, such as, plants, birds etc. 

I, by no means, am attempting or tempting to create hatred against smokers, rather these sick people need our attention & care; we need to brain-storm a way to knock some sense into them.
May Allah rid all the smokers of their addiction.
Amin.

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~ Innovation exploitation

Salam alaik,

Prediction or extrapolation offers the ultimate test of the information-content one possesses.
This process is most evident in toddlers, trying to explore the world around learning to walk n talk.
The ability that the Creator; Allah, has bestowed upon them is to be curious enough to learn_by_making_mistakes.
In other words, this ability allows one to compare an expected_out_come against actual _out_come.

Herez a make up example to explain: a child has some cool toy with black n white colors on it which he likes. Now he looks at the black n white colored stove & ponders, "hmmm... this (stove) looks cool, must be playable." Poor child burns his hand but learns a great deal - albeit the hard way - that all black n white stuff ain't so cool.
There was an error in the prediction - a great deal in this case - but lesson learnt was lasting nonetheless.

A less forgiving case is that of exercise questions at the end of chapters, written by seasoned authors.
A student uses the information given in the chapter to solve the exercise questions (which are not plug_this_formula_n_get_answer sort), only to find out that he couldn't quite get hold of it.
He goes back, reads up the same info over again from the perspective of the question, & try giving it another shot based on that info.
He, actually, is predicting & then improving on his grip about the subject from his initial error.

Same is the concept of Kalman filtering, i'm into these days.

Its a probability-based digital filter capable of filtering 'white noise', using its own error-information.

Here, the difference between a prediction and reality is called "innovation", & learning is all about exploiting that "innovation".

more on it laterz sometime.. inshAllah

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~ Soaring the Simulation

Salam alaik,

Thinking Vectors & Matrices.. its either my way or MATLAB's way..

On a semi-sarcastic side note though, Guys having C or Java background write a MATLAB script just as they'd do that in C, i.e. using loops.
MATLAB is all about vectors & matrices.. so loops could be avoided consideably.
To wit - Consider this simple example;

Lets say we've got two vectors, like so;

a = [1 2 3]' and, b = [4 5 6]'

Now if we wantna take the dot product in C, we would write something like this for loop in C;

c[i] = a[i]*b[i];

While in MATLAB its simply;

c = a'*b; %(a Transposed x b),

So, in essence it does the looping for us.. clean & simple.

Coming back to Simulations..
A cool tool for writing communication system simulations; MATLAB, offers two approaches to do so;

1. MATLAB scripting language.
2. Simulink blocksets.

The former is recommended for the proof_of_concept development usually required in academic & research projects, while the latter is for rapid prototyping in time-constrained industrial projects.
I, for one, usually use the first approach, as my work involves research & development.
The key to make a script time-efficient is to;

a. Think in vectors and matrices.
b. Avoid unnecessary loops here & there.
c. Initialize large vectors and matrices before use.

With these simple tips one could make life quite easy.

Happy scripting...

But wait..

Sometimes the curves you get from MATLAB simulations aren't smooth enough, even after several 100th of runs. I usually smooth them out using:

sgolayfilt(your_variable, m, F)

where m=2,F=21.

Result: cool looking curves, at the expense of one additional line in simulation section of your paper.

Furthermore, I also change the font size & width of the curves using;

h = plot(my_x, my_y); hold on; grid on;
set(h, 'linewidth', 3);
set(get(h, 'parent'), 'fontsize', 14);

Result: .. even cooler 

;o)

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~ Casting out the Colors

Salam alaik,

MATLAB generates cool looking colored ps-files.
Unfortunately thoguh, most of the conferences & periodicals ask for gray scale images instead.
It gives you a big pain_in_the_neck tryna find suitable colors that could be distinguished at gray-scale level, esp in cases when markers don't serve the purpose well enough.

So..
I've discovered a simple Color to gray scale trick.
How to get around it is a little more tricky.
& by the end of the toil u'll get MATLAB generated PS-files, by editing the ps file directly.

First off, search for lines similar to;

/c8 { 1.00000 0.000000 0.000000 sr} bdef

Now lets dissect down this piece by piece..

/c8: According to my calculations '/c' means color here and '8' is numbering that may vary.

{1.00000 0.000000 0.000000 sr}: The RGB values; all values should be same & less than one for grey-scale. Note that all 'zeros' mean black, and all 'ones' mean white. Darker values are harder to distinguish, so I suggest giving more gap in values chosen between 0-0.5. While, less gaps can be afforded for values between 0.5-1.0.

That little doo-dad will clear the remainder of the picture. Like so;
Here is an example of a color image;

Now ,we require 6 gray-scale values. I used [0 0.3 0.55 0.65 0.75 0.85], & VOILA!
Here is the result;

aint that a neat trick right there?
It actually isn't much of a trick..
see if u could come up with more trix.

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~ Fiddling with Figures

Salam alaik,

People've got an awesome practice of saving figures in the simulation script just after results are finalized.

Its a jolly good habit for all i can tell, since it pretty much prevents a lot of future headache.

No rocket science there..
The function to save a MATLAB figure file "saveas"; can save in several formats including fig (matlab figure), bmp (bitmap - though not recommended), ai (adobe illustrator), psc2 (colored post-script - recommended for latex), so on n so forth.

Fig files are useful in another sense, i.e., the data is automatically secured with it. n i'll show you in a minute -inshAllah- how data could be extracted from the saved fig files;

1. Open the saved .fig file using open function. e.g., open abc.fig
2. Use gcf to get the current figure pointer/handler and save it in a variable, e.g., h = gcf
3. Use get command to get hold of the children of the gcf, H = get(h, 'children')
4. Finally, search for the handle of the child which containts all the plots.
5. Suppose H(2) is the child with all the plots, then use H2 = get(H(2), 'children')
6. Now use set(H2(i)), where i = 1 to number of plots, to list all the properties and change their values.
7. Similarly, use the get(H2(i)) to fetch the values of all the properties.

For example, the script below extracts data from the plots.

clear all;

% open the .fig file

open test.fig; 

% get the current graph handle

h = gcf; 

% get the children of the figure file

H = get(h, 'Children');

% For this specific case the 2nd child has all the plots

H2 = get(H(2), 'Children');

Y = [];

for i = 1:length(H2)

% get the data of y-axis

    Y = [Y; get(H2(i), 'YData')];

end

Here is a test.fig, i fiddled with using the above script;

..enjoy.
n happy scripting!

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~ M-ary Constellations

Salam alaik,

M-ary Phase shift keying (PSK) is not only simple but mathematically elegant too.

The symbol values are the Mth root of unity & is given like so:

exp(j.2.\pi.m/M), where m = 0, ..., M-1.

Use the same expression in MATLAB with a bit of rotation for fun :p

% the number of constellation points
M = 16;
m = 0:M-1;

% obtaining the constellation points with pi/M rotation
PSK_16 = exp(j*2*pi*m/M - j*pi/M);

Here is the plot I quickly designed; the Mth roots of unity with rotation..

Try out this 'M-ary_Quadrature_Amplitude_Modulated_Constellation' construction for yourself, & lemme know how good you go.

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~ Communication..

Salam alaik,

have been a happy man ever since the advent of VoIP..

VoIP is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things.
But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.
What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of digital communications exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Otoh, I need to communicate with hundreds of people all over the world as I write my periodicals.
I also want to be responsive to the people who read & review those articles and have questions or comments.

My goal is to do this communication efficiently, in batch mode --- like, one day every three months. So if you want to talk to me about any topic, please use good ol' snail mail and send a letter to my postal address..
You might also try faxing me. Chances are that it'll be seen last, perhaps once every six months instead of three.
:o)

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~ G-volution

Asalam alaikum,

The other day i was thoroughly amazed to know that my audi A6 mechanic is infact a molecular biologist
:O
i asked him as to what on earth was he doing in a car-ridden garage instead?
To my unsurprise though, he pointed towards his awesomely handsome earnings, his BMW & his yemeni nationality barring him from government run high-profile specialized (& saudialized) laboratories.
He asked me to teach him english linguistic skills (on top of presenting a persian cat as a gift).
I asked him to teach me arabic instead, & keep his pet since his lil kids were all teary on their father's decision.

On the more -
I'm interested in this system;
(a want & not a need)

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyy8Z-39aOs

Returning -

Telecommunications, especially mobile communication has been through drastic changes in recent years, & there is no sign of stopping to rest anytime sooner.

Remember the days when mobile unit was hard to fit in deepest of pockets with a single technology? & now a palm device holds a whole plethora of multiple technologies!..

The vision of doing better, & faster has lead us from narrow band digital 2G, to wide-band 3G with internet access, with us knocking the doors of all IP packet switched network; Next-Gen ultra-boardband 4G - where G stands for generation & not just guesstimation.

Fourth-generation (4G) mobile systems dictate entirely new approaches & novel infrastructure solutions to seamlessly integrate the existing wireless technologies including wireless broadband (WiBro), 802.16e, CDMA, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and etc.

The key features of 4G mobile systems can be summarized as follows.
First, 4G mobile systems are all-IP based heterogeneous networks that allow users to use any system at any time and anywhere.
Then, 4G mobile systems provide end-users with high-speed, large volume, good quality, global coverage, and flexibility to roam between different types of technologies.
Finally, 4G mobile systems provide high-data-rate services to accommodate numerous multimedia applications such as video conferencing, on-line gaming, etc.

Yet the vision still continues...

What comes up is 5G..
& what stores in for 5G?
Well, for one, one of the candidate candy ideas is the use of 'Cognition' in communicating mobile.
The vision to give emotions & feelings to the mobile set itself to sense its surroundings.

The motivation behind cognition is efficient utilization of one of the most precious (& costly for telecom companies for that matter) resources in telecom; the frequency band.  Since even at its busiest, current technology is not capable to consume the alloted band completely & every now & then chunks of this precious resource are left unused here & there; referred to as spectrum holes.

5G promises to utilize this otherwise wasted portions of frequency, by putting intelligence or cognition in a mobile set. Two types of users are envisioned in this recent paradigm; primary users, secondary users.

Primary users have priority over secondary users, i.e.; secondary users could only gobble up the leftover pieces of the pie (frequency band).
The challenge is in finding those left-overs portions, as they keep on changing their position and size.
This calls on for sensing of the environment (radio sensing), and then analyzing it (radio scene analysis) and finally predicting the next empty slot. Only then 5G technology will have the ability carryout a meaningful communication.

Cognitive Radio is the new hype..
cog. rad. band wagon is now the focus of attention & tremendous research efforts are going down this direction.

wonder how many generations will come n go..
& like ever propping up dimensions (specially after the discovery of quantum mechanics) we'll end up with like 15 G or something..

So lets just make hay while the sun shines!

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~ AlhamduliLLAh

Asalam alaikum,

The day is a heavy day..
i just received a reply for my application.. stating that all faculty positions are full.
AlhamduliLLAh..
'but' its hard & Allah knows..

In comparison, this weak alhamduliLLAh of mine reminds me of a lady, who lives here & worked at a local school.
I came to know that she was a widow with two sons & a daughter.
Her elder son, on whom she invested much, & who grew up to get a good education & nice job with a cool '0' meter flashy car, met with a horribly fatal accident on Yanbu highway & died on spot.
The guy was 25 & his mother was in pakistan to shop for the upcoming marriage of his engaged son.
He was burried in Makkah Mukarramah alongside his father.

Life went on..

Her daughter got married.. & the younger son grew up to be independent with a car of his own & both mother & son went to Madinah Munawwarah.
On their way back, they met with a horrible accident.. mother survived, boy din't.
He was 25, engaged & soon to be married.
When she woke up in the hospital & was able enough to bear the burden of the news, the doctors told her about it & told her to do Sabr & say 'AlhamduliLLAH', so they can proceed with the burial.
She din't say it right away.. for her grief won't let her believe..
The docs asked her to say 'AlhamduliLLAH', so they can proceed with the burial, because they couldn't proceed if not given the consent of the mother (in form of AlhmaduliLLAh).
Eventually.. she uttered AlhamduliLLah..
And it was then, that he was buried in Madinah Munawwarah.

The power of alhamduliLLAH.. & life goes on with her today.

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~ Med Shred #1

Salam alaikum,

Thought to revisit here after a sporadic hiatus owing to a bit of blogathy & more of blogstipation really.

Its been a while since I've been pestering insisting my spouse to maintain an online collection of her learning experiences. Not only will it serve as a first hand experience narrative, but may prove to be priceless resource in the long run too (inshAllah).

But, as it turns out.. there are some time issues in way of sitting & organizing thoughts, i suppose - a difficult thing indeed.

Nonetheless, every now & then i'll be posting here whatever bits I receive from her & reproduce them as is (albeit a lil face-lifting though :p) on this blog of mine, till such time i set up a new one for her own personal use.

Title of such entries will remain the same, as in; 'Med Shreds' with a sequel #.
Here goes the first one;
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By: Dr. Naz. S.

I got convinced lately, that there are not many informal cancer resources online. None in Riyadh that I know of.
I've been told that jotting down daily learning in a bullet form, will help boost the response in upcoming challenges.
I've also been told that if I do that, it'll be like an online encyclopedia for people to cross reference on things I've recollected over time.
So, after making a good intention, of sharing knowledge in which ever way possible for the greater benefit of humanity, I will be writing (inshAllah) from now onwards.

He was an inspirational speaker, a visionary & carried out revolutionary work in health & education sectors.
Its been long since King Faisal died an unexpected death.
But his hospital which was inaugurated in 1975, still continues to be (sadqah jariyah) one of he best in whole of the middle east, its research center being the only recognized center of excellence in the whole region (besides israel).

The other day I heard Dr saheb ask tess; "Is the new physician at her seat?.. if yes send her in!"
I kind of felt like being summoned for another viva. But times have changed. Gone are the golden soul crushing days of med school life.

The discussion that day was just about how things were going with me, & if i was finding the patient follow up work interesting at all.

Dr. Saheb, who is an Allama Iqbal med school graduate, a Brooklyn Downstate hospital trained M.D., a Medical Oncologist Consultant, was narrating how the center has achieved yet another prestigious membership of an International Cancer Research body, & the amount of effort placed into it in terms of patient follow up & data collection.

In the course, he asked me to define a one liner difference between a tumor stage & a tumor grade, also asked me to describe in a sentence whats a tumour marker, where is it produced, its role?

Then went on to ask for types & phases of clinical trial (of which i was unaware, as i am fairly new to this kind of stuff)

He gently asked me to go grab a gist of what a clinical trial is, its origin prerequisites, & get a grip of its phases etc, & get back to him with whatever i gained..

I started exploring & reading & came to know the basic salient stand points that demarcate Clinical trials on humans from those on animals.

Although it is understandable to focus on goals of contributing to the field of science, keeping in mind our society values & the rights and welfare of individuals, but it is not considered ethical behavior to use humans solely as means to an end.
So, in order to exhibit & lay down the importance of demonstrating respect for research participants, there are certain set of principles used to define ethical research and the regulations, policies, and guidance.

In my self study session for the given assignment, I came to know that the first ever concept of a Clinical Trial (more so an ethical clinical trial) was  introduced by Ibn e Seena (Aivcenna) in 1025 A.D in his bool Al-Qanoon fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine).

It was a time when Muslim world was the pioneer in Research & Development.

He laid down rules for the experimental use and testing of drugs on human subjects, and wrote a precise scientific guide for practical experimentation for discovering and proving the effectiveness of medical drugs.
Ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina simple rules and principles for testing the effectiveness of new medications form the basis of modern clinical trials:

• The drug must be free from any extraneous accidental quality.
• It must be used on a simple, not a composite, disease.
• The drug must be tested with two contrary types of diseases, because sometimes a drug cures one disease by its essential qualities and another by its accidental ones.
• The quality of the drug must correspond to the strength of the disease. For example, there are some drugs whose heat is less than the coldness of certain diseases, so that they would have no effect on them.
• The time of action must be observed, so that essence and accident are not confused.
• The effect of the drug must be seen to occur constantly or in many cases, for if this did not happen, it was an accidental effect.
• The experimentation must be done with the human body, for testing a drug on a lion or a horse might not prove anything about its effect on man.

Qanoon (which means "law" in Arabic), the Canon of Medicine remained a medical authority up until early 19th century. It set the standards for medicine in Europe and the Islamic world, and is Abu Ali ibn AbduLLAh's most renowned written work alongside Kitab al-Shifa (The Book of Healing).
Qanoon was used at many medical schools—at University of Montpellier, France for instance, as late as 1650, to understand the basis & ethics of research. Much of the book was also translated into Chinese as the Huihui Yaofang (Prescriptions of the Hui Nationality). The Canon also formed the basis of Unani medicine, a form of traditional medicine practiced in subcontinent.
The principles of medicine described by the Qanoon ten centuries ago are still taught at UCLA and Yale University, among others, as part of the history of medicine.

Then I came to know that physician Frederick Akbar Mahomed of subcontinent origin, who worked at Guy's Hospital in London made substantial contributions to the study of high blood pressure during his short professional career from 1872 to 1884, when he died at the age of 35.
In the process of clinical trials during his detailed clinical studies, he separated chronic nephritis with secondary hypertension from what we now term in medical as 'essential hypertension'.
He also founded 'the Collective Investigation Record for the British Medical Association'; this organization collected data from physicians practicing outside the hospital setting (extramural) and was the precursor of modern collaborative clinical trials & medical transcription.

Another famous clinical trial was James Lind's demonstration in 1747 that citrus fruits cure scurvy disease. He compared the effects of various different acidic substances, ranging from vinegar to cider, on groups of afflicted sailors, and found that the group who were given oranges and lemons had largely recovered from scurvy after 6 days.

Dr. Saheb asked me to take a 3 hours online certification exam on 'Protecting Human Research Participants in clinical trials.'
It was basically a test of medical ethics, mainly regarding how to be gentle, generous & at the same time meticulous with your patients.
Questions revolved around some basic qualities like Justice, Beneficence & Respect for persons, their medical rights, their Anonymity & their Autonomy.
I scored 20 out of 21 (alhamduliLLAh).

Its just the beginning of the journey full of learning & serving & sawab (hopefully)

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~ SubhanAllah

Salam alaikum,

Even in the events surrounding us are signs for those who ponder..

Allah is uniting us through the name of his beloved Rasool (salaLLAhu alehi wa alihi wassalam - fidaa ummi wa abi) & the cause for his honor.. some 1,500 years after him.

The phenomenal activism is just mind blowing & its pretty humbling, i'd say, to see Muslims of all colors, races, ethnicities & Jama'at platforms left & right unifying for this cause.. subhanAllah.

Video

Rulings & Jurisprudence;

Our attitude concerning mockery of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)

http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/86109

Regarding the hadeeth about the blind man who killed his slave woman because she reviled the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)

http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/103739

Confusion about the hadeeth of the blind man 

http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/111252

Ruling on one who insults the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 

http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/22809

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~ The Secret Door

Salam alaikum,

Much has been going on this past week in my head (& in real life ofcourse :p), specially since a journal dead-line is fast approaching & the time is neigh.

I was mulling over multiple speedy options including telecommuting (which - unlike the general perception - needs a lot of freelance selfemployed selfdiscipline), specially when my dean will be on a hiatus, flying off to france pretty soon, only to return next month - inshAllah.

It was close to getting all overwhelming & before i'd freak out, I was provided with this nice read by my consort from one of her med handbooks & clinical training manuals.. & somehow it all made quite a relevant sense to me in these times, even though i've nothing to do with this field whatsoever.

Here goes the refreshing read;


On being busy: Corrigan’s secret door;

“I work much better in chaos”..
- Francis Bacon.

Chaos is not always an enemy: certainly there is no shortage of it in hospitals, consulting rooms, and other battle-grounds.

Can we prepare ourselves to use chaos well? Being fore-warned allows us to be fore-armed, enabling us to adapt to being busy, or at least to wink at each other as we slide down the cascade of long hours--> excessive paperwork--> too few beds--> effort_reward_imbalance--> compromised care from too few resources--> trouble with superiors--> difficult patients--> too many deaths--> failure to reconcile personal and family life with professional roles.

Thus, Logistic regression shows our consequent problems are predicted by 5 stressors:
1 Lack of recognition of own contribution by others.
2 Too much responsibility.
3 Difficulties keeping up to date.
4 Making the right decision alone.
5 Effects of stress on personal/family life.

We may think that it is modern medicine that makes us ever busier, but doctors have always been busy.
Dr. James Paget, for example, would regularly see over patients each day, sometimes travelling many miles, on his horse, to their bedsides.

Dr. Dominic Corrigan was so busy 180 years ago that he had a secret door made in his consulting room to escape the ever-growing queue of eager patients.

We are all familiar with the phenomenon of being hopelessly over-stretched, and of wanting Corrigan’s secret door. Competing, urgent, and simultaneous demands make carrying out any task all but impossible: the junior doctor is trying to put up an intravenous infusion on a shocked patient when his ‘bleep’ sounds. On his way to the phone a patient is falling out of bed, being held in, apparently, only by his visibly lengthening catheter (which had taken the doctor an hour to insert). He knows he should stop to help but, instead, as he picks up the phone, he starts to tell Sister about “this man dangling from his catheter” (knowing in his heart that the worst will have already happened). But he is interrupted by a thud coming from the bed of the lady who has just had her varicose veins attended to: however, it is not her, but her visiting husband who has collapsed and is now having a seizure. In despair, he turns to the nurse and groans:
“There must be some way out of here!!”..

At times like this we all need Corrigan to take us by the shadow of our hand, and walk with us through a metaphorical secret door into a calm inner world. To enable this to happen, make things as easy as possible for yourself—as follows;

First, however lonely you feel, you are not usually alone. Do not pride yourself on not asking for help. If a decision is a hard one, share it with a colleague.

Second, take any chance you get to sit down and rest. Have a cup of coffee with other members of staff, or with a friendly patient (patients are sources of renewal, not just devourers of your energies).

Third, do not miss meals. If there is no time to go to the canteen, ensure that food is put aside for you to eat when you can: hard work and sleeplessness are twice as bad when you are hungry.

Fourth, avoid making work for yourself. It is too easy for junior doctors, trapped in their image of excessive work and blackmailed by misplaced guilt, to remain on the wards reclerking patients, rewriting notes, or rechecking results at an hour when the priority should be caring for themselves.

Fifth, when a bad part of the rota is looming, plan a good time for when you are off duty, to look forward to during the long nights.

However busy the ‘on take’ or 'on call', your period of duty will end.
For you, as for Macbeth:

'come what come may,

time and the hour runs through the roughest day.'

Riding the wave;

In Macbeth, toil and trouble go hand in hand, but sometimes we work best when we are busy. This is recognized in the aphorism that if you want a job done quickly, give it to a busy (wo)man. Observe your colleagues and yourself during a busy day. Sometimes our energy achieves nothing but our own inundation. At other times, by jettisoning everything non-essential, we get airborne and accomplish marvellous feats. As with any sport, we have to break into a sweat before we can get into the zone, where every action meets its mark.

But note that what keeps us riding the wave of a busy day is not what we jettison but what we retain: humour, courtesy, a recognition of the work of others, and an ability to twinkle.

A smile causes no delays, and reaches far beyond our lips.

In our public medical personas, we often act as though morality consisted only in following society’s conventions: we do this not so much out of laziness but because we recognize that it is better that the public think of doctors as old-fashioned or stupid, than that they should think us evil. But in the silences of our consultations, when it is we ourselves who are under the microscope, then, wriggle as we may, we cannot escape our destiny, which is to lead as often as to follow, in the sphere of ethics. To do this, we need to return to first principles, and not go with the flow of society’s expectations.

To give us courage in this enterprise, we can recall the aviator’s and the seagull’s law:
'it is only by facing the prevailing wind that we can become airborne, and achieve a new vantage point from which to survey our world.'

Our analysis starts with our aim: to do good by making people healthy. 'Good' is the most general term of commendation, and entails four cardinal duties:
1 Not doing harm. We owe this duty to all people, not just our patients.
2 Doing good by positive actions. We particularly owe this to our patients.
3 Promoting justice—i.e. distributing scarce resources fairly and respecting rights: legal rights, rights to confidentiality, rights to be informed, to be offered all the options, and to be told the truth...
4. Promoting autonomy.

Don’t think of good and evil as forever opposite; good can come out of evil, and vice versa - this fundamental mix-up explains why we learn more from our dissolute patients than we do from saints..

[...so on & so forth]

Source

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~ Projects

Salam alaikum,

While having a lil light chit chat with a good friend of mine, he sent some funny stuff my way.
A disgruntled I.T dude, as he is, its kinda expected coming form him.
umm..
a bit too gynecological (or obstetric?) perspective of IT, i dare say :D.. but here goes nothing;

I.T. Designations:

1) Project Manager is a person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in One month.

2) Developer is a person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a baby.

3) Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks a single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.

4) Client is the one who doesn't even know why he wants a baby.

5) Marketing Manager is a guy who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and woman are available.

6) Resource Optimization Team reckons they don't need a man or woman; they'll produce a child with zero resources.

7) Documentation Team deems they don't care whether the child is delivered, they'll just document 9 months.

8) Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with the PROCESS of baby production.

And lastly..

9) Tester is a person who always tells his spouse that this is not the Right baby!

The How's :

>> How a web-design goes straight to hell?

That's how !

>> How projects really work?
click the below to zoom..

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