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A silhouette of a stranger creeping on my wall

Is it you .. death angel ? is it you .. my death call ?

Hiding under layers, I cover my face

I’m still young, I thought .. I had many more days ?!


What about the mistakes ? what about every bad deed ?

The people I hurt .. The Quraan I want to read ?

The charity I forgot to give .. The prayers un-sincere ?

I peek through the blankets, but the vision unclear


Am I leaving now ? Allah, please ?

I’m sorry I was awful .. This moment I seize

Allah, it’s me .. that slave again

I crossed Your borders .. I did indeed sin

It’s me with the red, it’s me with the black

It’s the same old me, the energy I lack

To stand at Your door ..

To apologize once more ..

My tears for You .. of fear, they pour

My forehead for You .. on the rug, on the floor


You saw the worst there is of me

You saw every scene .. even the one by the sea

You were there during the dark .. You witnessed during the light

How did I miss out on Your Power .. Your Might ?

Unveil Allah the blur in my sight

Purify my soul .. my heart turn white

Guide me Allah .. to The Only Path .. right


Leave me not alone .. in this savage race

I don’t want to be left out when they see Your exalted Face

When they drink of the rivers, the milk and wine

When they meet you every Friday and their faces shine

The ‘Mu’mins’ Allah – I renew a vow Divine

I wanted to check some stuff on IBM Workplace implementations (WSE/ WCS/ whatever) but haven't found any suitable link. IBM do have a large case study database, but the one from Lotus site does not include any category for IBM Workplace. The main Workplace page does not have any links for Case Studies. Or is it that they don't have any yet? But its seems so long we have been hearing IBM Workplace story.

Yes I did find this link @ IBM which shows some cases studies but they are for Content Management (LWCMS) and from years when IBM Workplace was used to be called Lotus Workplace. No stories on WSE or WCS here.

M$ has never understood Collaboration or Workflow. For years it has been trying to build these capabilities in its various flagship products. In past we had heard about Exchange enabled Workflow, but this was a mess. Then came Sharepoint but they are not nothing more than IBM QuickPlace-like document sharing.

Today we had an M$ Consultant who was every eager to show a POC of Sharepoint-based Workflow (we are in midst of migration (: And being gung-ho, he asked for the most complex one. I gave him a 4-sheet printout of our Lotus Workflow based process which has some 60+ activities. I would be exagarating if I say "He fainted" but thats best I can describe his state then.

Though he admitted this cannot be done in Sharepoint, but still describing it as the best collaborative platform, with check-in/check-out and document routing. (wow, now dats definitely collaboration...LOL)

Now it looks like M$ is beefing up BizTalk's "Human Workflow Services" which remindes me of Lotus "Super Human Software" campaign for R5. The planned release of BizTalk is code named V-Next, i guess a pun on RNext, the beta for Lotus Notes Release 6.

And the words are out that the same BizTalk team is building Windows Workflow Services, and you bet it would definitely provide Check-in/Check-out collaboration.

Its Wedding bliss for my best friend Zaheed Dokadia, and here I am miles away from home. Though I will be reaching Bombay just 2 weeks later.

ZD, as he is often called, has been a buddy for years now and we share the same profession (Lotus Notes Guyz ofcourse :).

Congrats ZD and have a nice time. See you in Bombay soon.

One more Worm on Windows platform.

Looks like theres help around for those affected.

CNET: Microsoft offers Zotob removal tool

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