Beginning on 01 September 2008 Gregorian or 11 Shahrivar 1387 Jalali

Ramadan is a time for spiritual purification achieved through fasting, self-sacrifice and prayers.

Celebrated during the ninth month of the Hijiri Islamic calendar, the fast is observed each day from sunrise to sunset. Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five Pillars of Islam. The Islamic belief that requires that Muslims perform five central duties in order to strengthen their faith. While Islam has two major sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, all Muslims aim to realize these five pillars in their lifetime.

Ramadan concludes with a 3-day festival known as "Eid" or "Eid ul-Fitr," which literally means "the feast of the breaking/to break the fast." The holiday marks the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and is a culmination of the month-long struggle towards a higher spiritual state.

And Coca Cola is celebrating Ramadan this year by decorating cans with a crescent moon and star – a widely recognized Islamic symbol.

The moon and star can be found on at least 11 flags of Muslim countries, and now it will be featured on packaging in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Morocco, Tunisia and other Islamic countries during the holiday.

Automatic e-mail reply messages
    

deciphering the meaning behind the replies you receive.  

Depending on the business you either 

get no responce or too many messages.

1.I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood.

2.I'm not really out of the office. I'm just ignoring you.

3.You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all.

4.Sorry to have missed you but I am at the doctors having my brain removed so that I may be promoted to management.

5.I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation on 4/18. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.

6.Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.

7.The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again.

8.I am on holiday. Your e-mail has been deleted.

9.Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queueing system. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

10.Please reply to this e-mail so I will know that you got 

this message.

11.Hi. I'm thinking about what you've just sent me.

 Please wait by your PC for  my response.


12.Hi! I'm busy negotiating the salary for my new job. 

Don't bother to leave me  any messages.


13.I've run away to join a different circus.

My brother dropped off his wife at the hairstylist and she was supposed to call him when she was ready to be picked up. She must have dialed a wrong number, she reported later.

She called, and a man said, "Hello," to which she cheerfully said, "Come and get me!"

The man replied, "Are you sure?

She replied, "Of course, come and get me."

The man questioned again, "Are you sure?"

She replied harsley, "Of course, come and get me. And Get Me NOW!"

The man replied, "Are you sure? This is Mitchell's funeral home."

Tech Speak

I wanted to buy a CD player, but was completely perplexed by one model's promotional sign. So I called the salesclerk over and asked, "What does 'hybrid pulse D/A converter' mean?"

He said,"That means that this machine will read the digital information that is encoded on CDs and convert it into an audio signal."

"In other words," I said, "this CD player plays CDs."

"Exactly."

Fairy Tales And Technology

If you think technology has changed the work world, just take a look at what's happening in never-never land. A recent update reports that today:

Little Bo Peep never loses sheep because of their embedded silicon identity chips.

Cinderella searches for her prince on Match.com - and leases her pumpkin-colored SUV at Avis.com.

Hansel and Gretel use the GPS rather than breadcrumbs but have reported problems stuffing the wicked witch into her microwave oven.

To avoid travel stress, Alice now plans her Wonderland vacation with velocity.com.

A reformed Ebenezer Scrooge sends Bob Cratchett to update his certification for Excel and Quiken.

Jack's making a fortune on his beanstalk bioengineering breakthrough.

Old McDonald uses voice recognition to make ordering easy at his agricultural auction site EIEIO.COM

Romeo and Juliet avoid tragic problems by keeping in touch through their cell phones.

With her early Web capabilities, Charlotte is now a motivational speaker at tech conferences around the world.

The Pied Piper switched career fields after his tunes were bootlegged on Napster.

King Arthur has replaced that expensive round table with satellite videoconferencing.

Gulliver is on sabbatical using up all his frequent flyer miles.

Jack and Jill order their Evian on peapod.com

red neck Jedi
You might be a Redneck Jedi if... 

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* You ever heard the phrase, "May the force be with y'all." 



* Your Jedi robe is camouflage. 



* You have ever used your light saber to open a bottle of 

Bud Light. 



* At least one wing of your X-Wings is primer colored. 



* You can easily describe the taste of an Ewok. 



* You have ever had a land-speeder up on blocks in your

 yard. 



* The worst part of spending time on Dagobah is the 

dadgum skeeters. 



* Wookiees are offended by your B.O. 



* You have ever used the force to get yourself another

 beer so you didn't have to wait for a commercial. 



* You have ever used the force in conjunction with fishing 

or bowling. 



* Your father has ever said to you, "Shoot, son come on 

over to the dark side...it'll be a hoot." 



* You have ever had your R-2 unit use its self-defense 

electro-shock thingy to get the barbecue grill to light up. 



* You have a confederate flag painted on the hood of your

 land-speeder. 



* You ever fantasized about Princess Leah wearing Daisy 

Duke shorts. 



* You have the doors of your X-wing welded shut and you

 have to get in through the window. 



* Although you had to kill him, you kinda thought that 

Jabba the Hutt had a pretty good handle on how to 

treat his women. 



* You have a cousin who bears a strong resemblance

 to Chewbacca. 



* You suggested that they outfit the Millennium Falcon 

with redwood deck. 



* You were the only person drinking Jack Daniels 

during the cantina scene. 



* If you hear .  . "Luke, I am your father... 

and your uncle..."

Will be in the mountains for a week seeing family.

Watch out for Hecks Angels

Let evil doers beware the wrath of:

Nintendo Boy!

Might be more fun if the xbox was plugged in to something.

LIPSTICK

According to a news report, a certain private school in Victoria,
BC recently was faced with a unique problem.

A number of grade 12 girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back.

Finally the principal decided that something had to be done.
She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.

He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it.

Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

< >Brokeback Mountain - Deputy Edition

A few overworked deputy sheriffs deserved a vaction, together they decided to go on a mountain retreat. Since police officers are so underpaid, they decided to sleap two per room so they could afford the trip.

Now, nobody wanted to sleep in the same room with Daryl - he's got a well known reputation for snoring and since it wasn't fair to make one of them stay with him the whole time - so they voted to take turns.

The first deputy tobunk with Daryl and comes to breakfast the next morning with his hair a mess and his eyes all bloodshot, looking like he didnt get any sleep. They said, "Man, what happened to you?" He said, "Daryl snored so loudly, I just sat up and watched him all night, couldn't get any sleep."

Thefollowing night it was a different deputy's turn. In the morning, same thing - hair allmessed up, eyes blood-shot, etc. They said, "Man, what happened to you? You look awful!" He said, "Man, that Daryl! Shakes the roof he's so loud. I watched him all night."

The third night was Frank's turn. Now Frank was a big burly ex-football player; a man's man. Said he wasn't gonna put up with any snoring… "We'll see!" said the other debuties. The next morning he came to breakfast bright eyed and bushy tailed. "Good morning, wonderful day outside isn't it?" he said.

They couldn't believe it! They said, "Man, what happened?" He said, "Well, we got ready for bed. I went over and tucked Daryl into bed,then kissed him good night. He sat up all night just watching me. Didn't snore a bit, hehe."

My kids love going to the Web, and they keep track of their passwords by writing them on Post-it notes.

I noticed their Disney password was "MickeyMinnieGoofyPluto," and asked why it was so long.

"Because,"; my son explained, "they say it has to have at least four characters.

Is windows a virus?

No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

1.They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.

2.Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.

3.Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.

4.Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. - Sigh.. Windows does that, too.

5.Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. - Yup, Windows does that, too.

Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences: Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.

So Windows is not a virus.