7 golongan dinaungi Allah pada hari kiamat (hadith)

Tajuk : Tujuh Golongan Insan Contoh
http://ii.islam.gov.my/hadith/hadith1.asp?keyID=207

Hadith : Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda yang maksudnya:” Sebilangan manusia yang dinaungi Allah di bawah naungan-Nya pada hari kiamat iaitu hari yang tidak ada sebarang naungan padanya selain daripada naungan Allah; di antaranya ialah: 

Pemerintah yang adil, 

pemuda yang hidupnya sentiasa dalam mengerjakan ibadah kepada tuhannya, 

orang yang hatinya sentiasa terikat dengan masjid, 

dua orang yang berkasih sayang kerana Allah di mana kedua-duanya berkumpul dan berpisah untuk mendapat keredaan Allah, 

orang yang dipujuk oleh perempuan yang kaya lagi rupawan untuk bersatu dengannya lalu ia menolak dengan berkata:” Aku takut kepada Allah!”, 

orang yang bersedekah secara bersembunyi sehingga tangan kirinya tidak mengetahui apa yang diberi oleh tangan kanannya, 

dan orang yang menyebut atau mengingat Allah dengan keadaan tidak ada dalam ingatannya perkara lain, lalu menitis air matanya kerana mengingatkan sifat Jalal dan sifat Jamal Allah.” 

- Riwayat Abu Daud dan Ibnu Majah

Daydream achiever

Daydream achiever,  By Jonah Lehrer, The Boston Globe
A wandering mind can do important work, scientists are learning - and may even be essential
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/31/daydream_achiever/?page=3

One of the simplest ways to foster creativity, then, may be to take daydreams more seriously. Even the mundane daydreams that occur hundreds of times a day are helping us plan for the future, interact with others, and solidify our own sense of self. And when we are stuck on a particularly difficult problem, a good daydream isn't just an escape - it may be the most productive thing we can do.

Bing Augmented Maps

Microsoft Adds "Augmented Reality" to Bing Maps, Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24800/?a=f

Microsoft just added an interesting new feature to Bing Maps--augmented reality. Actually, it's a bit more like augmented reality in reverse.

A new function, called Streetside Photos, takes real images and video clips and neatly stitches them onto the Bing Map's street-level view, using a clever combination of geolocation information (from a GPS-enabled device, or added manually by the user) and imaging-matching algorithms.

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Que_Sera,_Sera_(Whatever_Will_Be,_Will_Be)

Doris Day - Que Sera Sera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

IEEE 802

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802

IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks.

The services and protocols specified in IEEE 802 map to the lower two layers (Data Link and Physical) of the seven-layer OSI networking reference model. In fact, IEEE 802 splits the OSI Data Link Layer into two sub-layers named Logical Link Control (LLC) and Media Access Control (MAC) , so that the layers can be listed like this:

• Data link layer (LLC Sublayer,MAC Sublayer)
• Physical layer

IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN) & Mesh (Wi-Fi certification)
IEEE 802.15 Wireless PAN
IEEE 802.15.1 Bluetooth certification
IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee certification
IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access (WiMAX certification)
IEEE 802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
IEEE 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Network

You've got to work on important problems.

Richard Hamming "You and Your Research",
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar, 7 March 1986
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

... And I started asking, "What are the important problems of your field?" And after a week or so, "What important problems are you working on?" And after some more time I came in one day and said, "If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?" ...

... If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work. It's perfectly obvious.

Good and Bad Procrastination, December 2005, Paul Graham
http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good rocrastination.

Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.
Good in a sense, at least. The people who want you to do the errands won't think it's good.

In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on),

Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions:
- What are the most important problems in your field?
- Are you working on one of them?
- Why not?

What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?

bersabarlah dengan ujian...

"Demi sesungguhnya! Kami akan menguji kamu dengan sedikit perasaan takut (kepada musuh) dan (dengan merasai) kelaparan dan (dengan berlakunya) kekurangan dari harta benda dan jiwa serta hasil tanaman dan berilah khabar gembira kepada orang-orang yang sabar." (Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayat 155)

(Iaitu) orang-orang yang apabila mereka ditimpa oleh sesuatu kesusahan, mereka berkata: Sesungguhnya kami adalah kepunyaan Allah dan kepada Allah jualah kami kembali. (Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayat 156)

Hikmah di sebalik musibah, Bicara Agama, Arkib Utusan Online 12/12/2008
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2008&dt=1212&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Rencana&pg=re_01.htm

Apa pun bentuk bencana atau musibah yang melanda, pada hakikatnya ia memiliki peranan yang besar dalam mendidik jiwa kita.

"Tidak ada sesuatu musibah pun yang menimpa seseorang kecuali dengan izin Allah; dan barang siapa yang beriman kepada Allah, nescaya Dia akan memberi petunjuk kepada hatinya." (Surah At-Taghabun: 11)

Dalam satu hadis, Rasulullah SAW bersabda yang bermaksud: "Mereka yang banyak menerima ujian itu ialah para nabi, siddiqin dan salihin, kemudian mereka yang mengiringi..."

Segala ujian itu seharusnya ditempuh dengan penuh kesabaran kerana ini akan mendekatkan lagi dirinya kepada Allah SWT. Ingatlah bahawa Allah sentiasa bersama orang yang sabar.

"TABAH DALAM MENGHADAPI UJIAN", Khutbah Jumaat - 18 JANUARI 2008, JAIS
http://www.jais.gov.my/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=522&Itemid=1

Kemanisan Dalam Ujian, Minda Tajdid, Dr Asri
http://drmaza.com/home/?p=967

"Your brain is like a sleeping giant" -Tony Buzan

Guna minda untuk jadi hebat berjaya hebat
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0205&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Bicara_Agama&pg=ba_03.htm

Minda yang hebat mampu melahirkan manusia yang super hebat. Manusia yang super hebat mampu membawa perubahan atas muka bumi bukan sahaja untuk dirinya, keluarga dan masyarakat malah untuk manusia sejagat.

Tetapi ramai manusia yang mensia-siakan hidup kerana tidak membangunkan akal dan minda. Inilah manusia yang biasa-biasa sahaja - merasa cukup dengan apa yang menimpa dirinya dan tidak punya kekuatan untuk berubah. Sedangkan Tony Buzan berkata dalam bukunya Make The Most of Your Mind, "Otak ibarat raksasa yang sedang tidur."

Can birds fly in the rain?

FLYING IN THE RAIN - Those Amazing Birds
http://www.norcalblogs.com/birds/2010/01/flying-in-the-rain.html

Birds are waterproof. Their feathers, made of protein similar to our fingernails, have interlocking barbs to make them both flexible and water resistant. Feathers overlap one another like roofing tiles to make the bird both aerodynamic and water repellent. Birds also have an oil gland at the base of their tail which they use to put a waterproof coating on their feathers.

So birds do fairly well during a rainstorm, at least for a short time.

Can birds fly in the rain?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070420144714AAPFJk8

YES, birds certainly can fly in the rain. Their feathers are oily and repel water.

How do birds keep dry in the rain?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_birds_keep_dry_in_the_rain

Birds keep dry in the rain becuase their feathers have a certine oil on them.Water just slides past the oil leaving the birds nice and dry

BigDog - An amazing four legs robot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigDog

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station. BigDog is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the hopes that it will be able to serve as a robotic pack mule to accompany soldiers in terrain too rough for conventional vehicles. Instead of wheels or treads, BigDog uses four legs for movement, allowing it to move across surfaces that would defeat wheels. The legs contain a variety of sensors, including joint position and ground contact. BigDog also features a laser gyroscope and a stereo vision system.

Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

DARPA's Amazing Robot Pack Mule Keeps its Balance On Ice
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-03/darpas-amazing-robot-pack-mule-keeps-its-balance-ice

Theory vs Practice

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_L._A._van_de_Snepscheut

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut/ Yogi Berra.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fact_and_theory

bibliophile (book lover)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliophilia

Bibliophilia is the love of books. Accordingly a bibliophile is an individual who loves books, especially "for qualities of format." A bookworm loves books for their content, or otherwise loves reading. Bibliophilia is generally considered to be an incorrect usage; but some would merely call it a recent one. The practice of loving or collecting books is dubbed bibliophilism, and the adjective form of the term is bibliophilic. Also, a bibliophile may be a book collector. 

Bibliophilia is not to be confused with bibliomania, an obsessive-compulsive disorder involving the collecting of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged, and in which the mere fact that an object is a book is sufficient for it to be collected or loved.