Posts Tagged ‘Life’
RMS in Sri Lanka
The week ended was a great week for Sri Lankan FOSS community, as the father of Free Software Movement, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) paid a visit to the country. Yesterday, I got the opportunity not only to listen to a live speech of the legend, but also to grab a picture with him. It was […]
19th January 2008
FOSS, Life, Sri Lanka, University
Comments (14)
It was all due to a fat finger !
After that bizarre story of Microsoft’s support team calling a client back after 10 years, similar thing happend to me yesterday, from Dreamhost (my hosting provider). They have sent me a payment overdue notice as of February 1st, 2009. Initially, I was wondering whether these tech companies are doing time travelling ? However later revealed […]
What’s your next move after A/L ?
Results of the G.C.E.Advanced Level (A/L) examination for year 2007 was released yesterday and as usual we got to see lot of drama with mixed emotions over the results. I don’t know whether there is any other more competitive exams in the world than A/L’s in Sri Lanka. This is due to A/L is the […]
- 3rd January 2008
- Life, Sri Lanka, studies, University
- Comments (5)
It’s Christmas time !
It’s last month of the year and for me it’s the best time of the year. From my childhood I’m feel nostalgic for this time of the year. I love that sweet morning chills and it smells this is the Christmas time !
Dear God, please give us a peaceful mind to celebrate Christmas this year […]
- 1st December 2007
- Life
- One Comment
Walkthrough of the Redesign
When I first launched my blog the main intention was to make my mark online. Without sticking into blogspot (Anyway, I had a blog on there for a short stint) or wordpress.com, I decided to go one step ahead and host the blog in my own domain with a customized template. That was a […]
The Renaissance
It’s been more than two months since the last post in this blog, you would have thought this also as another blog getting into deadpool. If so your wrong ! Since I started this blog 1 1/2 years ago it’s been the one which gave me the platform to air my thoughts and it brought […]
Sweet Summer of Code, Thank you Google…
GSOC 2007 finally came to an end on last 20th, providing loads of experience and lots of other good things to take with us. It helps to create passion for Open Source software among students, by providing an opportunity to work with more than 100 OSS projects in their summer holidays. Even it implies as […]
- 25th August 2007
- Code, FOSS, google, hacker, Life, Silverstripe, Summer, University
- One Comment
Love Puzzles ? Try these…
Warning : These may be quite addictive and would require you to consume lot of brainpower :)
Da Vinci’s Other Code - http://www.coudal.com/davinci.php
School of Government - http://www.coudal.com/theotherfish.php
Einstein’s Fish Puzzle - http://www.coudal.com/thefish.php
AND
Which Porn Star Ate the Most Hot Dogs? - http://www.coudal.com/hotdog.php
(via Coudal Partners)
Let’s bid farewell for Prof.V.K.Samaranayake
Today would be a day of mourning for Sri Lankan IT industry, with the demise of Sri Lanka’s “Father of IT”, Prof.V.K.Samaranayake. Many will unanimously agree today Sri Lanka’s IT industries successes are mainly due to visionaries of Prof.Samaranayake.
Beginning with CINTEC and later through ICTA, the work he has done for the development of IT […]
- 8th June 2007
- government, industry, Internet, Life, Sri Lanka, University
- One Comment
Confusing Web 2.0 Domains
How do you define a web 2.0 application ? Normal distinguishable features includes AJAX, rounded corners, large input fields, badges and etc. But did you notice a another feature which is common to most of the apps of web 2.0 culture ? Most of them have confusing and difficult to spell domain adresess or URLs.
It’s […]
