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Solution of Miserable Life

November 28, 2014 6:13 pm / Leave a comment

Miserable Life

Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl.
He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”
“Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which are you,” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean? “
Moral:
” In life, things happen around us and things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is what happens within us.”

Muhammad Ismail
(Green IT Consultant), twitter@mimGITpk

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Green IT in Pakistan

October 17, 2014 5:06 pm / Leave a comment

“Going to green, call of the day“

Green IT is the study and practice to reduce negative impact of Information Technology on environment. It is not just about environment. But you will be amazed at what Green IT can do for bottom line in your organization and how it can save your business resources and operating cost.

Background of Green Movement

Green House Gases (GHG) naturally blanket of the earth and responsible for its more or less stable temperature. An increasing in the emission of the main greenhouse gases (Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous and Fluorocarbons) to be responsible for global warming. It could be lead to severe floods, droughts, raising the sea levels and other environmental effects and directly effecting on our life and world economy.

After 1997 Kyoto Protocol for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the world has finally taken the first step in reducing Green House Gases (GHG) emissions. which are a major contributing factor to global warming. Governments, Private organizations, NGOs and civil society at large now have an important agenda to tackling environmental issues and adopting environment friendly practices. and trying to use Green Technologies in every field of life . Such as Green Energy for electricity generation (solar power or wind power), Green Buildings for construction field, Green Buses for transportation field and Green IT / Sustainable IT for information technology field.

What is Green IT

Green IT refers to environmentally sustainable computing. It is the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, recycling & disposing of computers and associated subsystem, efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on environment. Its also struggle to achieve economic viability and improvement in system performance and use of system while abiding by our social and ethical responsibilities. In other words

“Green IT is the study and practice of using IT resources in efficiently, effectively, economically and Eco-friendly manners”

Green IT in Pakistan

In current scenario of Pakistan both private and public sector organizations now facing energy crisis, economical crisis and security threats. These issues directly or indirectly impact on their businesses. for that reason to minimize the impact of above mention issues smart companies adopting new and advance technologies and techniques for better usage of available resources and Green IT is one of that. But unfortunately in Pakistan majority of IT professional unaware with this state of art environmental IT practice and lack of skills. and expertise to implementation of Green IT in their organizations. As a result they are unable to get the social and economical benefits for their organization from this sustainable IT strategy. So government and private organization must be realize this situations and try to provide high quality training on Green IT skills to their IT professionals or hire qualified Green IT professionals They help them to get maximum ROI from information technology resources and raising the respect of their organizations with adopting this green technology.

Road map to Green IT

Modern IT systems rely upon a complicated mix of people , networks and hardware therefore to comprehensively and effectively address this environmental impacts of IT. you must focus on these areas and activities in IT field

Develop a Green IT awareness program
Audit to calculate organization’s carbon footprint for environment.
Identify the best energy conservation practices
Reduce paper consumption.
Examine IT procurement and follow Eco-labeling procurement guidelines
Identifying E-waste disposal or recycling procedures
Implementing virtualization & telecommuting techniques
Data center management

Above mention environmental IT road map help you to implementing Green IT in your organizations.

Muhammad Ismail ( twitter@mimGITpk )

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Win The World With Laziness

October 9, 2014 6:13 pm / Leave a comment

More than 23 years in professional life, I achieved so many things with uphill struggles and commitments. But sometimes my friends or colleagues told me lazy or slow doer, So their remarks terribly hurt me and I feel ashamed myself for my laziness. But after reading Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba.com and Richest person of China) speech (“Edison Tricked the World.”) on laziness change my perception about lazy people and their laziness. So now I feel proud on my laziness which help me to achieve so many things in my professional and personal life. For that reason I share this with you, to changing your perception about lazy people and their laziness.

Jack Ma speech “Edison Tricked the World.”

Today is the first time I am meeting with our new Yahoo! friends in person. I want to thank you for coming. I also want to share with you some reasons for success, even though most of you will probably not benefit from them. Since you are all hardworking and intelligent, you will probably reject my comments out of hand. A few of you may be lazy enough to get something out of them, however.

Let’s get to the point. There are many extremely clever people in the world. And there are lots of well-educated people who seem unable to succeed. This is because they’ve been wrongly taught from an early age. They have developed the habit of being overly diligent and hardworking. Many of these people remember Edison’s famous phrase,” the one about genius being 99 percent sweat and the rest inspiration”. They have been led around by the nose by this saying for their entire lives. I’m telling you now it’s wrong. If you plod forward with diligence, in the end you’ll be left with nothing. Edison was in fact too lazy to consider the real reasons for his success—that is why he came out with that phrase and tricked the whole world. It’s time for us to rethink the facts. Some of you may think I am talking nonsense.

Let me give you one hundred examples that prove you are wrong. Facts, after all, trump any argument.

The richest man on earth, Bill Gates, was a programmer who was too lazy to study at school, so he dropped out. He was also too lazy to remember all those complex DOS commands, so he built that graphic interface . . . what was it called? I’ve forgotten. I’m too lazy to remember these things. The result was that the entire world now uses that “face,” that “window,” and he has become the world’s richest man.

Then there is the most valuable brand on earth, Coca-Cola. The boss of Coca-Cola was even more lazy. China’s tea culture has a long and venerable history, Brazil’s coffee is delicious, but this guy was too lazy to go looking for them. He put a little sugar together with some water, packaged it in a bottle and sold it, and called it Coca-Cola. The rest is history. The entire world is drinking this liquid that looks a little like blood.

Then soccer. The best soccer player in the world is [Ronaldo], who is fundamentally too lazy to move around much on the field. He just stands before the goal of the other side. He waits for the ball to come near him, then gives it a kick. As one of the highest-paid athletes in the world, people puff him up and say he runs with the ball faster than anyone. It’s not true. Other people run for ninety minutes; he runs for fifteen seconds. Naturally he is considered faster.

Fast food. The most successful fast-food company in the world is McDonald’s. Its boss was lazy in the extreme: too lazy to study the refinements of French cooking or the complex skill of Chinese cuisine. He just stuck a piece of beef in between two chunks of bread and as a result the world has this M sign all over it.

The pizza How Can You Catch a Tiger . . boss is the same. We Chinese have lao bing [a kind of stuffed flat bread], with all the things inside. This man was too lazy to stick anything inside; he puts it right on top and sells it as pizza. It’s the same materials but his pizza costs ten times as much as lao bing.

Then there are other, more clever lazy people.

They were too lazy to climb stairs, so they invented elevators.

They were too lazy to walk, so they invented cars, trains, airplanes.

They were too lazy to kill people one by one, so they invented nuclear bombs.

They were too lazy to work out every calculation, so they invented mathematical formulas.

Too many examples. I’m too lazy to give any more.Oh yes, and then there is that other bit of nonsense I want to mention, about how you have to be in frantic motion in order to stay healthy.

How many athletes do you see growing old? Not so many. The longest-lived people on earth are those monks who sit around and are too lazy to eat meat! What would our lives be like right now without all these lazy people? I’m too lazy to think about it.

People are like this, but animals too.

The tortoise, said to be the longest-living animal on earth—well, tortoises hardly move at all. They just crouch there and as a result live to be a thousand. But compared to rabbits, who are diligent, and who run around all the time . . . who wins?

Cows are the most diligent, and as a result people give them nothing but grass to eat and then add the insult of squeezing them for milk.

Pandas, in contrast, are lazy things that do nothing at all. They just sit there gnawing on a piece of bamboo all day. What do people do with them? They protect them and call them “national treasures”!

To return to our work: You see people running around here in the company. Are they the ones who are most highly paid? Absolutely not. Those most highly paid sit around looking carefree They probably have a lot of stock options as well. The examples I give are just to clarify an issue, which is that, in fact, this world relies on lazy people to carry it forward. The world is marvelous, thanks to them. Now you should all be aware of the reason for your lack of success!

Laziness is not, of course, stupid-lazy. If you want to be able to work less, you have to think of ways to do it, clever ways to be allowed to be lazy. You have to have a lazy style, a lazy state of mind. Like me. I’ve been lazy since I was a child. Look how short I am—I was even too lazy to grow. That’s the state of mind you need to cultivate.

Thank you all again!

Muhammad Ismail twitter@mimgitpk

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