I come across this urdu blog, it is about linux slax in urdu.
http://www.urduweb.org/mehfil/showthread.php?p=174661#post174661
A nice effort for urdu.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Welcome to East Africa
Leaving Karachi
So finally after many ifs and buts it is decided that I have to go to Uganda to meet some our clients and see what are the actual problems they are facing.
So the journey starts at around 2 AM 25th of January 2007 (just to tell you all this is my first international flight)
I reached Karachi airport at around 0230 as I have to catch the flight at 0530, I entered the departure area, had baggage screened and then went for boarding pass (I got that after around 30 minutes wait as some ladies were there with lots of things and they are not willing to leave anything behind and having discussion with the attendant there on how to take all they have without paying any money ;)).
I reached to Lounge after passing through a jumma bazaar (they call it duty free also).
Anyways I pass that and reached to the lounge and then wait starts, there is almost 2 hours in flight and I am hungry, Lets eat something yes there is McDonald's (i learned an interesting thing about McDonald's that they have runners from departure lounge to Main Branch in Airport parking for food),
At around 0430 they started doing arrangements for boarding, we get into the plane, and soon it departed for its destination (i.e. Dubai),
Dubai Airport
After a flight of 1 hour and 45 minutes we landed in Dubai. I had to catch my next flight in about 1 hour 25 min, It was my first visit to dubai airport and had no idea about the size of airport. We start walking and after walking almost a kilometer we reached a place where people were in row passing through security check for next flight departure It was like people were clearing for security :D in Dubai.
By the time I reach to my gate for boarding to next flight only 10 minutes left for flight, I got lucky :)
The next flight is heading Entebbe (Uganda) via Addis Ababa.
In East Africa
It was a long flight after almost 5 hours flight we reach Addis Ababa (not our final destination) it is a nice green and clean airport, with many Ethiopian airline planes lined up. After staying for around 1.5 hours we left for our final destination Entebbe. Now we are about to land, all I see were greenery everywhere and suddenly plane landed on air strip.
Final Destination
After about 1 hour flight we landed on airport of Entebbe (UGANDA), as we lined up in the immigration area of airport there was a big army officer with a big German shepherd dog sniffing through luggage that was scared me a bit (but nothing went wrong) and after paying 30 USD visa fee and some interrogation by the officer (as I got green Passport) I was allowed to enter, I got my luggage and about to pass through the custom counter I passed through the green channel had a checking by narcotics guys and fortunately after about 5 minutes of interrogation he let me go, and now I am in Entebbe Uganda, waiting for my ride to Kampala where I will be staying.
More Later :)
Moodle
I would like to introduce a product here named MOODLE (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning). moodle is an open source project that is started approx. in early 2000. the product is web based and has 23145 sites in 173 countries (that includes Pakistan). I have worked on this and customized it for one on my clients in US. they are using this for training their employees.
There are universities in Pakistan as well:
Moodle is SCORM compliant and courses can be imported and exported into other SCORM compliant course creation tools.
I am not listing everything here to find out more check http://www.moodle.org
I recommend this as e-Learning management tool.
There are universities in Pakistan as well:
- Bahria University, Islamabad Campus.
- Bioinformatics@PERN
- BizNet e-Learning Management System (Demo Version)
- Businsess and Society
- Courses
- Courses Taught by Junaid Haroon
- Distance Learning Portal
- Ghulam Mustafa Course Page
- H a r G a h (GIFT University)
- Lahore University of Management Sciences
- LUMS Course Management System
- LUMS Course Management System
- PCIT, FSD
- Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology
- The Voice of Quran - Online Education
Moodle is SCORM compliant and courses can be imported and exported into other SCORM compliant course creation tools.
I am not listing everything here to find out more check http://www.moodle.org
I recommend this as e-Learning management tool.
its been long time
Yes, its been long time but I am here again and will try to be more frequent then before.
I have been to East Africa recently and it was a good experience altogether I will be sharing the experiences with the world soon. It was solely a work visit so there isn't anything about jungles and their citizens (animals).
These days I am struggling on what is good for me (career wise).
I have been to East Africa recently and it was a good experience altogether I will be sharing the experiences with the world soon. It was solely a work visit so there isn't anything about jungles and their citizens (animals).
These days I am struggling on what is good for me (career wise).
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
rain in karachi
After 2 months of wait and lots of prayers bring rain to karachi. I strongly believe most of the karachities pray it should not rain as we all know a 80mm rain can sunk this city, major rain nallahs overflow and all the water comes into city. Just imagine if ever karachi gets the rain like mumbai did this summer, or a hurricane hits like in US.
its time to think what wrong here...
its time to think what wrong here...
Monday, August 22, 2005
Traffic Chalans
If you driving shahrah-e-Faisal you will see a bus lane, now there is new rule, if you mistakenly found on that lane either traffic police person wlll stop you of he does not bother, if he stops you he will charge you of "breaking lanes" fee for this is Rs:100/= and if you argue with him he will show you a charge says, "driving in wrong lane" fee for this is 50/=.
This is my second incidence that I found out what I have been doing for past 5 years is now wrong and without warning I will be penalized according to samajh and know how of traffic counstable about the rule.
God Bless police and people of this country.
This is my second incidence that I found out what I have been doing for past 5 years is now wrong and without warning I will be penalized according to samajh and know how of traffic counstable about the rule.
God Bless police and people of this country.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
The flying circus
I am pasting an article by Shakir Hussain published in TheNews on 10th August 2005
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As a child I remember being taken to the Lucky Irani Circus, and being entertained by their performers, the elephant, and the lions. As the years have gone by, the famous Lucky Irani Circus is no longer what it used to be, and like everything else in Pakistan, the old is being replaced by the new with no attempts being made to preserve our heritage. In fact, as fellow columnist and cousin, Khusro Mumtaz, pointed out in these pages on Monday, our government officials are at the forefront of destroying what we've grown to cherish. Punjab home secretary Waseem Afzal has not been reprimanded or punished for damaging one of the Muslim world's greatest mosques when it was hijacked for his daughters' wedding; nor has he had the self-respect to tender his resignation for violating the rules and laws of the land.
But there is one man who is on a mission to keep the tradition and spirit of the Lucky Irani Circus alive, and it is our very own Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Throughout his tenure he has stuck to the traditions of Pakistani governance and has broken from his corporate traditions at Citibank, where he trained and rose through the ranks. PM Aziz's flying circus can at any point decide to take off to the capitals of the world with an entourage which would make most nouveau riche African Americans green with envy. A special plane from PIA is used to ferry the ministers, officials of the Prime Minister's Secretariat, mandarins, businessmen and journalists to the destination of choice within 24 hours. The entourage is usually 50-strong and the composition depends on who has been a good little boy or girl.
The current Japanese trip is a bit of a mystery for a number of reasons. The first being that on Monday Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the lower house of parliament after his bill to reform the postal system was defeated in the upper house. He has called for fresh elections on Sept. 11, and the defeat is being called a huge blow to Mr Koizumi, as he staked his reputation on the Reform Bill. Now, imagine that in the midst of his battle for political survival, Mr Koizumi has an entire planeload of Pakistanis to contend with and entertain. And, boy, do these guys want to be entertained! Insider sources have told this columnist of various trips of this prime minister and many before him, where ministers have fought with each other over limousines, corner hotel rooms with views, who will sit where on the dinner table, etc. The thought of the ever-so-polite Japanese prime minister having to deal with this lot during this highly stressful time, and I want to send the poor man a case of Saki to soothe his nerves. Throw in the fact that Tuesday, Aug. 9, was the anniversary of the horrific nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, and one of the things on the agenda is Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme! A vast number of Pakistanis shudder at the thought of Islamabad having nuclear weapons, so imagine what the mild Japanese must think.
Upon hearing of the Flying Circus's departure from the Land of the Pure, I immediately sensed that PM Aziz must have set up this trip to cheer the Japanese up on the anniversary of the devastation of Nagasaki. He is, after all, a very thoughtful man, and a planeload of fellow circus colleagues is exactly what the shrink must have ordered. Curious about the size of the delegation, I decided to call up the office of the prime minister's press secretary, Javed Akhter. Since he had already left with the prime minister, I spoke to a very helpful gentleman by the name of M. Aslam. Mr Aslam informed me that he didn't have any idea how many people had gone on the junket, since that's the kind of information only the "saab" had. Hmmm. But wasn't this the office of the prime minister's press secretary? Yes, well but we aren't privy to this information. Ah, makes complete sense. He gave me the number of a certain Mr Akram Shaeedi who's a PIO. Called his offices to find out that he was out of the office and no one knew when he'd be back. Asked his staff members about the size of the delegation and the number of people, and no one seemed to know. One sweet staffer told me, "Sir yeh to khufia baat hai, hum jaison ko to nahein batate" (Sir, this is classified information, which they don't share with the likes of us). Given the fact that a whole plane went, we can rest assured that the taxpayers' money was utilised to the maximum!
PM Aziz's governance skills and sensitivity have to be given kudos, though. The country is passing through one of the most tense political periods since 9/11, with the local body elections round the corner, allegations and counter-allegations flying between the religious parties and the government, floods are ripping through the country, the operations against foreign madrassah students is in full swing. Yet the prime minister has given the gift of the circus to the Japanese and the Chinese through Pakistan's brand new "Look East" strategy! For he's a jolly good fellow...
The writer is an entrepreneur and business consultant.
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As a child I remember being taken to the Lucky Irani Circus, and being entertained by their performers, the elephant, and the lions. As the years have gone by, the famous Lucky Irani Circus is no longer what it used to be, and like everything else in Pakistan, the old is being replaced by the new with no attempts being made to preserve our heritage. In fact, as fellow columnist and cousin, Khusro Mumtaz, pointed out in these pages on Monday, our government officials are at the forefront of destroying what we've grown to cherish. Punjab home secretary Waseem Afzal has not been reprimanded or punished for damaging one of the Muslim world's greatest mosques when it was hijacked for his daughters' wedding; nor has he had the self-respect to tender his resignation for violating the rules and laws of the land.
But there is one man who is on a mission to keep the tradition and spirit of the Lucky Irani Circus alive, and it is our very own Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Throughout his tenure he has stuck to the traditions of Pakistani governance and has broken from his corporate traditions at Citibank, where he trained and rose through the ranks. PM Aziz's flying circus can at any point decide to take off to the capitals of the world with an entourage which would make most nouveau riche African Americans green with envy. A special plane from PIA is used to ferry the ministers, officials of the Prime Minister's Secretariat, mandarins, businessmen and journalists to the destination of choice within 24 hours. The entourage is usually 50-strong and the composition depends on who has been a good little boy or girl.
The current Japanese trip is a bit of a mystery for a number of reasons. The first being that on Monday Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the lower house of parliament after his bill to reform the postal system was defeated in the upper house. He has called for fresh elections on Sept. 11, and the defeat is being called a huge blow to Mr Koizumi, as he staked his reputation on the Reform Bill. Now, imagine that in the midst of his battle for political survival, Mr Koizumi has an entire planeload of Pakistanis to contend with and entertain. And, boy, do these guys want to be entertained! Insider sources have told this columnist of various trips of this prime minister and many before him, where ministers have fought with each other over limousines, corner hotel rooms with views, who will sit where on the dinner table, etc. The thought of the ever-so-polite Japanese prime minister having to deal with this lot during this highly stressful time, and I want to send the poor man a case of Saki to soothe his nerves. Throw in the fact that Tuesday, Aug. 9, was the anniversary of the horrific nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, and one of the things on the agenda is Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme! A vast number of Pakistanis shudder at the thought of Islamabad having nuclear weapons, so imagine what the mild Japanese must think.
Upon hearing of the Flying Circus's departure from the Land of the Pure, I immediately sensed that PM Aziz must have set up this trip to cheer the Japanese up on the anniversary of the devastation of Nagasaki. He is, after all, a very thoughtful man, and a planeload of fellow circus colleagues is exactly what the shrink must have ordered. Curious about the size of the delegation, I decided to call up the office of the prime minister's press secretary, Javed Akhter. Since he had already left with the prime minister, I spoke to a very helpful gentleman by the name of M. Aslam. Mr Aslam informed me that he didn't have any idea how many people had gone on the junket, since that's the kind of information only the "saab" had. Hmmm. But wasn't this the office of the prime minister's press secretary? Yes, well but we aren't privy to this information. Ah, makes complete sense. He gave me the number of a certain Mr Akram Shaeedi who's a PIO. Called his offices to find out that he was out of the office and no one knew when he'd be back. Asked his staff members about the size of the delegation and the number of people, and no one seemed to know. One sweet staffer told me, "Sir yeh to khufia baat hai, hum jaison ko to nahein batate" (Sir, this is classified information, which they don't share with the likes of us). Given the fact that a whole plane went, we can rest assured that the taxpayers' money was utilised to the maximum!
PM Aziz's governance skills and sensitivity have to be given kudos, though. The country is passing through one of the most tense political periods since 9/11, with the local body elections round the corner, allegations and counter-allegations flying between the religious parties and the government, floods are ripping through the country, the operations against foreign madrassah students is in full swing. Yet the prime minister has given the gift of the circus to the Japanese and the Chinese through Pakistan's brand new "Look East" strategy! For he's a jolly good fellow...
The writer is an entrepreneur and business consultant.
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Saturday, July 02, 2005
Use of mobile is prohibited on shahra-e-faisal.
Today I learned that use of mobile phone on Shahra-e-Faisal is prohibited, though it is prohibited on all the roads but you will get a chalan on shahrah-e-Faisal only .. must be a security measure as this road is used by VIPs of our country...
When the constable stops me he gave me two options, either i give him my mobile which was I am sure not a rule, other is to get 500/- rupee chalan, then there is another option comes, aap khud sochlo... 200/= rupey dey dou. aur jao ..
But i decided to get a chalan, and when that constable took me his boss he gave me a 200/= rupee chalan.
I dont know why it happens
I dont know how it happens..
but it happened :)
I got chalan of 200/- in place of chalan of 500/- or mobile detention.
why these people make rules and before they inform us, they start to implment them...
and there is no rule or check on expenditure of our VIPs, why all the rules are for us; the working class.
When the constable stops me he gave me two options, either i give him my mobile which was I am sure not a rule, other is to get 500/- rupee chalan, then there is another option comes, aap khud sochlo... 200/= rupey dey dou. aur jao ..
But i decided to get a chalan, and when that constable took me his boss he gave me a 200/= rupee chalan.
I dont know why it happens
I dont know how it happens..
but it happened :)
I got chalan of 200/- in place of chalan of 500/- or mobile detention.
why these people make rules and before they inform us, they start to implment them...
and there is no rule or check on expenditure of our VIPs, why all the rules are for us; the working class.
Monday, June 06, 2005
Who should manage Software Projects
I am with Software Industry of Pakistan for more than 5 years now. I have worked in 250 employee company which was firt ISO certified software company of Pakistan. I have worked with project managers who have more than 10 years of project management experience in different disciplines, I have learned one thing, we dont take software project as engineering project and rather as some work that needs to be done (I dont know what to say).
In my oponion software is an engineering descipline and software projects should be managed like we do it in engineering descipline, and successfull enginering project requires that the manager should know the technicalities of software, complexities and related stuff, not necessarily he/she has to be a computer science graduate but he should understand software and not just rely on his technical staff for technicalities, one of the major drawback of non technical PM is he/she does not listen to their technical staff and always think that these people are trying to be smart and he should use his head, but how come a non-technical person use his/her head in technical terms, not possible. As a conclusion there is a continuos rift between PM and the technical staff both trying to prove their abilities thinking other is trying to be smart, due to this most projects does not finish on time, go in lost, does not meet requirement and the list go on.
In my oponion software is an engineering descipline and software projects should be managed like we do it in engineering descipline, and successfull enginering project requires that the manager should know the technicalities of software, complexities and related stuff, not necessarily he/she has to be a computer science graduate but he should understand software and not just rely on his technical staff for technicalities, one of the major drawback of non technical PM is he/she does not listen to their technical staff and always think that these people are trying to be smart and he should use his head, but how come a non-technical person use his/her head in technical terms, not possible. As a conclusion there is a continuos rift between PM and the technical staff both trying to prove their abilities thinking other is trying to be smart, due to this most projects does not finish on time, go in lost, does not meet requirement and the list go on.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
situations
I was on my way back to home around 8 pm on 30th may, a friend of mine called and told me
about the bomb blast, who did it and why these are the questions we should ask ourselves, they are not done by the names governemt is taking there is something else behind it.
Try to accumulate all the years spent like this...
Its time to think...out of the box and do something about it..
its time to make people use their brains and not to be driven by what these bloody government officials say and what these assholes do, they simply dont care about us. They buy cars, spent money on their ayashis, and they spent our money even the all renound banker whose personal bank accounts are more then pakistan assets use governments money to perform his hajj what an shame on our faces and we didnt do a thing...think people think whats happenig around you
dont be an Ostrich be human, I am not asking you to be patriot just be a human and think whatever is happening is it right? and if you get the answer as yes they you better be dead then living like this... and if you really want to do something... then you have to start from your home, change the way you think, your children think and your relatives....
Revolution aisey nahin ajaya kertey bari mehnat kerni perti hai ...
about the bomb blast, who did it and why these are the questions we should ask ourselves, they are not done by the names governemt is taking there is something else behind it.
Try to accumulate all the years spent like this...
Its time to think...out of the box and do something about it..
its time to make people use their brains and not to be driven by what these bloody government officials say and what these assholes do, they simply dont care about us. They buy cars, spent money on their ayashis, and they spent our money even the all renound banker whose personal bank accounts are more then pakistan assets use governments money to perform his hajj what an shame on our faces and we didnt do a thing...think people think whats happenig around you
dont be an Ostrich be human, I am not asking you to be patriot just be a human and think whatever is happening is it right? and if you get the answer as yes they you better be dead then living like this... and if you really want to do something... then you have to start from your home, change the way you think, your children think and your relatives....
Revolution aisey nahin ajaya kertey bari mehnat kerni perti hai ...
Thursday, May 26, 2005
VIPs
Who is VIP; Very important person.
One of the many things that we should remove from our culture is VIPism, we cant afford it and it is against Isalm too... In Islam thre is no VIP other then Allah and only He can decide who is VIP and gives him accordingly the VIPism that we practice in our country no other country can replicate that, we spend millions on one person's visit and all the money comes from working class, why not our maulvis stand against that why dont they call for strike against that, because they are part of it. They like it as much as our government officials like it, they want it the same way.Anyways there is so much to write but the point is we should find out basic problems and needs and fight for them rather then fighting for American lobbyism, Iraqi war and other, there is no use of fighting for something that bring no good to you, fight for something that can really bring some good to you and your fellows.
One of the many things that we should remove from our culture is VIPism, we cant afford it and it is against Isalm too... In Islam thre is no VIP other then Allah and only He can decide who is VIP and gives him accordingly the VIPism that we practice in our country no other country can replicate that, we spend millions on one person's visit and all the money comes from working class, why not our maulvis stand against that why dont they call for strike against that, because they are part of it. They like it as much as our government officials like it, they want it the same way.Anyways there is so much to write but the point is we should find out basic problems and needs and fight for them rather then fighting for American lobbyism, Iraqi war and other, there is no use of fighting for something that bring no good to you, fight for something that can really bring some good to you and your fellows.
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
Outsourcing and Unintended Consequences
Outsourcing and Unintended ConsequencesPosted 12:44 PM
My post of a week ago brought a number of comments, in the feedback and via e-mail, both on outsourcing and on the relationship between outsourcing and the lack of young people interested in technology careers. I mentioned that the Wall Street Journal reported on the curious anecdote that the children of many successful and prominent technologists are shunning education and career in technology. One of the reasons given was that they were perhaps more cognizant than most young people of the phenomenon of outsourcing. In one case, the parent was a venture capitalist who advocated that start-up companies establish their development teams in India to reduce engineering costs.
The responses I received provide some clarity on both the intended and unintended consequences of outsourcing. We have pursued outsourcing to some extent in order to achieve economic benefits; that is, to save money on developer salaries. By and large we have achieved that, although there have been exceptions noted in the press in cases where for various reasons the outsourced developers haven't resulted in the desired savings.
Perhaps another intended, or at least unavoidable, consequence is a more macro one—reduced levels of employment for technical professionals in the United States, as well as some level of salary depression for the group as a whole. From an economic sense, this is a desired outcome for those engaging in outsourcing, though undesirable for the individual developers.
So at first glance the impacts from outsourcing seem to be primarily economic. I've heard arguments that outsourcing of basic functions saves a corporation money that can be used to initiate new and innovating projects employing local developers, but that remains an economic argument (and an unproven one).
But as the Wall Street Journal article implied, there are consequences that are not economic, and that few if any of us thought about prior to initiating outsourcing. One is that young people seem to be less inclined to pursue these careers, making such skills less available domestically. This was a trend that was evident prior to large-scale outsourcing, because technical training tended to follow the growth and dips of the technology industries. After about 2000, technology jobs dried up, and the desire for training for those jobs went down.
We are currently seeing cautious growth in technology industries, but is it having an effect on career choice? I spoke to Richard Heckel, Technical Director of Engineering Trends (www.engtrends.com), a research firm specializing in engineering education trends. "There is," said Dr. Heckel, "a direct correlation between a student's expectations of a monetary reward as an engineer and enrollment in that field. This is a clear trend since 1945. We are currently seeing an increase in the number of engineering graduates in general, and will probably reach the largest number ever next year.
"Except," he continued, "for computer science and computer engineering graduates. Those numbers tanked in 2002, and continue to remain poor. I believe that the reason is outsourcing."
I offer no personal opinion on the subject of outsourcing and its effect on career choices. The issue has not impacted me, and I lack a basis on which to have personal feelings on the subject. But it does seem to me that utilizing talent irrespective of physical location is both inevitable and, individual pain aside, desirable. In time it should even result in greater levels of employment for all.
But it's pretty clear that one unintended consequence of outsourcing is its effect on future career choices in technology. Dr. Heckel concluded our discussion by saying, "You might think of engineering as the new form of liberal arts education." Technology and its applications have become so central in our everyday lives that to understand it thoroughly might be as important as reading and understanding the classics were in an earlier era
Article From:
http://www.ftponline.com/weblogger/forum.aspxID=11&DATE=04/09/2005&blog=#360
My post of a week ago brought a number of comments, in the feedback and via e-mail, both on outsourcing and on the relationship between outsourcing and the lack of young people interested in technology careers. I mentioned that the Wall Street Journal reported on the curious anecdote that the children of many successful and prominent technologists are shunning education and career in technology. One of the reasons given was that they were perhaps more cognizant than most young people of the phenomenon of outsourcing. In one case, the parent was a venture capitalist who advocated that start-up companies establish their development teams in India to reduce engineering costs.
The responses I received provide some clarity on both the intended and unintended consequences of outsourcing. We have pursued outsourcing to some extent in order to achieve economic benefits; that is, to save money on developer salaries. By and large we have achieved that, although there have been exceptions noted in the press in cases where for various reasons the outsourced developers haven't resulted in the desired savings.
Perhaps another intended, or at least unavoidable, consequence is a more macro one—reduced levels of employment for technical professionals in the United States, as well as some level of salary depression for the group as a whole. From an economic sense, this is a desired outcome for those engaging in outsourcing, though undesirable for the individual developers.
So at first glance the impacts from outsourcing seem to be primarily economic. I've heard arguments that outsourcing of basic functions saves a corporation money that can be used to initiate new and innovating projects employing local developers, but that remains an economic argument (and an unproven one).
But as the Wall Street Journal article implied, there are consequences that are not economic, and that few if any of us thought about prior to initiating outsourcing. One is that young people seem to be less inclined to pursue these careers, making such skills less available domestically. This was a trend that was evident prior to large-scale outsourcing, because technical training tended to follow the growth and dips of the technology industries. After about 2000, technology jobs dried up, and the desire for training for those jobs went down.
We are currently seeing cautious growth in technology industries, but is it having an effect on career choice? I spoke to Richard Heckel, Technical Director of Engineering Trends (www.engtrends.com), a research firm specializing in engineering education trends. "There is," said Dr. Heckel, "a direct correlation between a student's expectations of a monetary reward as an engineer and enrollment in that field. This is a clear trend since 1945. We are currently seeing an increase in the number of engineering graduates in general, and will probably reach the largest number ever next year.
"Except," he continued, "for computer science and computer engineering graduates. Those numbers tanked in 2002, and continue to remain poor. I believe that the reason is outsourcing."
I offer no personal opinion on the subject of outsourcing and its effect on career choices. The issue has not impacted me, and I lack a basis on which to have personal feelings on the subject. But it does seem to me that utilizing talent irrespective of physical location is both inevitable and, individual pain aside, desirable. In time it should even result in greater levels of employment for all.
But it's pretty clear that one unintended consequence of outsourcing is its effect on future career choices in technology. Dr. Heckel concluded our discussion by saying, "You might think of engineering as the new form of liberal arts education." Technology and its applications have become so central in our everyday lives that to understand it thoroughly might be as important as reading and understanding the classics were in an earlier era
Article From:
http://www.ftponline.com/weblogger/forum.aspxID=11&DATE=04/09/2005&blog=#360
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
BioInformatics
As the technology enhancing people are working in new discipline. One of the emerging businesses of new world is BioInformatics. It is a very hot business abroad, but the question is where are we to get into that. Are we ready?, if not they what should be done to be ready?
What is BioInformatics:
BioInformatics is a field that combines efforts of biology, statistics and information technology together to work on new research on human cell, protein structure, and DNA strucuture, and analysis of acquired data to perform certain experiments that will enhance research in drug findings and disgnosis of diseases.
Scope of business:
These days major business investment is going into this domain. over billion dollar is investment is done and more is coming. For us as a developing nation there should be something we need to find out what we can get out of this investment, for now it can only be data management, but as time passes we can extend it to other things related to BioInformatics.
How we can achieve it?
We need to prepare ourself for that and jump into it. but the question is how can we prepare ourselves. Its a nice questions to ask and a difficult one to answer but its not impossible. As a first resort we plan a strategy, select related people, make business people realize it is a domain to invest in, educate people in domain. For that new courses can be introduced at graduation and masters level in selected universities, not now but in a year or two we will be able to have some workforce to work on that. Though it is difficult and requires patience but we need to do, and it is the time to start, its better early then late.
One more thing that comes in my mind, is our culture is crowd oriented, where the crowd is going whole country start running in that direction (worst example we have is operation badar), we need to stop it, we should only train enough people for this and start increasing as business increase. It will not be a good to create a hype of it.
It is good that our government is taking initiatives in this sector and start planning but they need to go fast pace rather then doing it their normal pace, which generally makes them early starters but last one to end.
Hope things will change and people, specially the businessmen of our country give a serious thought to it, and for once they stop just thinking for their short term profit and think of long term profit to country and themselves.
What is BioInformatics:
BioInformatics is a field that combines efforts of biology, statistics and information technology together to work on new research on human cell, protein structure, and DNA strucuture, and analysis of acquired data to perform certain experiments that will enhance research in drug findings and disgnosis of diseases.
Scope of business:
These days major business investment is going into this domain. over billion dollar is investment is done and more is coming. For us as a developing nation there should be something we need to find out what we can get out of this investment, for now it can only be data management, but as time passes we can extend it to other things related to BioInformatics.
How we can achieve it?
We need to prepare ourself for that and jump into it. but the question is how can we prepare ourselves. Its a nice questions to ask and a difficult one to answer but its not impossible. As a first resort we plan a strategy, select related people, make business people realize it is a domain to invest in, educate people in domain. For that new courses can be introduced at graduation and masters level in selected universities, not now but in a year or two we will be able to have some workforce to work on that. Though it is difficult and requires patience but we need to do, and it is the time to start, its better early then late.
One more thing that comes in my mind, is our culture is crowd oriented, where the crowd is going whole country start running in that direction (worst example we have is operation badar), we need to stop it, we should only train enough people for this and start increasing as business increase. It will not be a good to create a hype of it.
It is good that our government is taking initiatives in this sector and start planning but they need to go fast pace rather then doing it their normal pace, which generally makes them early starters but last one to end.
Hope things will change and people, specially the businessmen of our country give a serious thought to it, and for once they stop just thinking for their short term profit and think of long term profit to country and themselves.
As the technology enhancing people are working in new discipline. One of the emerging businesses of new world is BioInformatics. It is a very hot business abroad, but the question is where are we to get into that. Are we ready?, if not they what should be done to be ready?
What is BioInformatics:
BioInformatics is a field that combines efforts of biology, statistics and information technology together to work on new research on human cell, protein structure, and DNA strucuture, and analysis of acquired data to perform certain experiments that will enhance research in drug findings and disgnosis of diseases.
Scope of business:
These days major business investment is going into this domain. over billion dollar is investment is done and more is coming. For us as a developing nation there should be something we need to find out what we can get out of this investment, for now it can only be data management, but as time passes we can extend it to other things related to BioInformatics.
How we can achieve it?
We need to prepare ourself for that and jump into it. but the question is how can we prepare ourselves. Its a nice questions to ask and a difficult one to answer but its not impossible. As a first resort we plan a strategy, select related people, make business people realize it is a domain to invest in, educate people in domain. For that new courses can be introduced at graduation and masters level in selected universities, not now but in a year or two we will be able to have some workforce to work on that. Though it is difficult and requires patience but we need to do, and it is the time to start, its better early then late.
One more thing that comes in my mind, is our culture is crowd oriented, where the crowd is going whole country start running in that direction (worst example we have is operation badar), we need to stop it, we should only train enough people for this and start increasing as business increase. It will not be a good to create a hype of it.
It is good that our government is taking initiatives in this sector and start planning but they need to go fast pace rather then doing it their normal pace, which generally makes them early starters but last one to end.
Hope things will change and people, specially the businessmen of our country give a serious thought to it, and for once they stop just thinking for their short term profit and think of long term profit to country and themselves.
What is BioInformatics:
BioInformatics is a field that combines efforts of biology, statistics and information technology together to work on new research on human cell, protein structure, and DNA strucuture, and analysis of acquired data to perform certain experiments that will enhance research in drug findings and disgnosis of diseases.
Scope of business:
These days major business investment is going into this domain. over billion dollar is investment is done and more is coming. For us as a developing nation there should be something we need to find out what we can get out of this investment, for now it can only be data management, but as time passes we can extend it to other things related to BioInformatics.
How we can achieve it?
We need to prepare ourself for that and jump into it. but the question is how can we prepare ourselves. Its a nice questions to ask and a difficult one to answer but its not impossible. As a first resort we plan a strategy, select related people, make business people realize it is a domain to invest in, educate people in domain. For that new courses can be introduced at graduation and masters level in selected universities, not now but in a year or two we will be able to have some workforce to work on that. Though it is difficult and requires patience but we need to do, and it is the time to start, its better early then late.
One more thing that comes in my mind, is our culture is crowd oriented, where the crowd is going whole country start running in that direction (worst example we have is operation badar), we need to stop it, we should only train enough people for this and start increasing as business increase. It will not be a good to create a hype of it.
It is good that our government is taking initiatives in this sector and start planning but they need to go fast pace rather then doing it their normal pace, which generally makes them early starters but last one to end.
Hope things will change and people, specially the businessmen of our country give a serious thought to it, and for once they stop just thinking for their short term profit and think of long term profit to country and themselves.
Friday, February 04, 2005
Career Counseling
I have been working in this industry for almost 5 years, I have met many people and almost all of them don't actually know what they wana be. Where will they stand after say 2 years. They are not even sure are they moving in the right direction, first and the only preference is money they get. Yes, money is something we cant live without, but is that the only thing we should care about. This is because of the reason that a child is taught from childhood that he has to study to get better job, earn more money live a life, have kids and the cycle goes on and on.
Here I feel need of career counseling or guidance to youth, we the experienced people should go into institutions spent a day or two with the graduating class, see what their interests are and guide them accordingly. An initiative has been taken by Ponder Alliance in karachi, but there is a need to take this thing from universities to more elementary level when the student actually decides where he/she should go for professional studies.
I hope the day will come when there will be people thinking about community same as they think themselves, and understand the need to guide new generations in the right direction.
People are working but they are very few.
Here I feel need of career counseling or guidance to youth, we the experienced people should go into institutions spent a day or two with the graduating class, see what their interests are and guide them accordingly. An initiative has been taken by Ponder Alliance in karachi, but there is a need to take this thing from universities to more elementary level when the student actually decides where he/she should go for professional studies.
I hope the day will come when there will be people thinking about community same as they think themselves, and understand the need to guide new generations in the right direction.
People are working but they are very few.
Friday, December 31, 2004
late comers
We used to be punished when we enter in the class at the school, we learn from school that coming late is not a good thing, but as we grow we forget that lesson (including many) if you see around, my office starts at 9 am but at time no one is in office :) Why?
We dont care about time or is it something else?
We dont care about time or is it something else?
Friday, December 17, 2004
mobile theft
Today I had a very strange experience. Mobile theft and stealing is very commong, but the thing become interested becuasesomeone steal my mobile out of my jeans pocket. and I found out when I look for mobile in my pocket.I salute the expertise of the person but still I LOST MY MOBILE :(
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