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US federal IT investment visualizations: Storyboards for citizens
ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace)Looking a lot like an updated version of Gapminder, the newly launched US Federal IT dashboard reminds us that the visualisation of information in the public domain can be a powerful mechanism to animate voters to hold government accountable and transparent. For the record, this is not something our own ICT Agency or Central Bank will even remotely consider doing. Though the outrageous corruption in government flagged in the two COPE reports would make for some interesting visualisations, both ICTA and the CB, far from being thought-leaders in ICTs are sadly factories for irrelevant policies and practices underpinned by sycophancy and dishonesty. Visualisations like this are like a storyboard for citizens and voters. For example, the animation on ...
Pain
Blindspy's Blog“This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That’s where people go on missing…. This pain is just to make you more alert–because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they don’t become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies,there is a possibility. When your woman leaves you alone–those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she is gone.Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, ...
Women’s Quota -Signature Campaign Kandy, Jul 01
Lanka WomenOur first public signature campaign was launched in Kandy with Shanthini Konegahage , Central provincial councilor and her Swa Shakthi women’s group doing a superb job. The campaign started promptly as planned at 11A at George E De Silva Park. From Central Province, Chithra Manthilke, another councillor as well as the Governor Tikiri Kobbekaduwa dropped by to show their support. Out of town visitors included Padmini Weerasinghe, Chairman Embilipitiya PS, Champika, Member, Niyagama PS and Sampath Perera, member Beruwela UC. Sujata Gamage, Sunethra Siriwardena, and Sanchala Arangalage joined from the campaign’s management team. We collected 2300 signatures, and more importantly, thousands of peopel were made aware of the sad state of women’s f representation with only 1.8% of local goverment members ...
Responses and clarifications on Sri Lanka: Is the war really over?
groundviews[Editors note: This is a detailed response to over 30 comments left on Sri Lanka: Is the war really over? and read over 2,500 times to date.] Though several comments made on my article were not directly related to the topic, I wish to respond to some of the issues that have been raised. The lop-sided comments about the JVP do neither take into account the context nor the causes for their insurrections. Political violence in Sri Lanka cannot be properly understood without recognizing its complex relationship with the socio-political establishment. When social groups vied for access to state power or when they demanded their just rights, the state used repressive and violent force against them. The political ...
අචේ සාම වැඩපිලිවෙළ හදාරන්න බැසිල් ඉන්දුනීසියාවේ
W3Lanka(ජුලි 03, 2009) සාමය ඇති කළ යුතු ආකාරය පිළිබඳ ඉන්දුනීසියාව සමග අත්දැකීම් බෙදාගැනීම සඳහා ජනාධිපති ජ්යේෂ්ඨ උපදේශක බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ බදාදා සිට අචේ දේශයෙහි කරුණු සොයා බැලීමේ දෙදින චාරිකාවක යෙදුණු බව ජකර්තා පෝස්ට් පුවත්පත වාර්තා කරයි. අචේ නිදහස් ව්යාපාරයේ හිටපු සටන්කරුවන්ගේ සමාජ දේශපාලනික ප්රශ්න පිළිබඳ කටයුතු කරන අචේ නැවත එක් කිරීමේ ව්යූහය සමග රාජපක්ෂ සාකච්ඡා පැවැත්වීය. එහි නායක නූර් ජුලි
In 1 hour 30 minutes…we leave for Abay
Kitesurf Sri LankaWe head to paradise! Arugam Bay. Yahoooo. Hope for nice waves in the morning and then windy afternoons. Surfing in the morning, Kitesurfing in the afternoon.Somlak - must try your thai cookingFred - the local brewRichard - perhaps some surf lessons for CurtSaman and Minna - mmm, the pizzaThe crowd from MAS, now dont stay indoors, go out in the sun and get tanned! Ah, Sri Lanka Rocks!
Dras
Aamina NizarDras connects Srinagar to Leh and lies in the Kargil Distict of J & K.It is the Second Coldest Inhabitated Place in the World second only to Siberia. Temperatures can fall below -40 degrees Celsius here.The Indo-Pak Kargil War was fought here in 1999.
Google Labs ඔබවෙත ගෙන එන නවතම සේවා.
බුධාජීවගේ ලියමනGoogle Labs කියන්නේ GMail, Google Friend Connect, Knol වැනි සේවා නිල වශයෙන් Google හරහා ඔබ වෙත පැමිණීමට පෙර අදහස් රැස්කොට, යෙදවුම් හැකියාවන් පරීක්ෂා කොට බලා, නිෂ්පාදනය කොට ඇල්ෆා පරීක්ෂණ කොට, බීටා පරීක්ෂණ සඳහා ප්රජාව වෙත නිදහස් කොට නිෂ්පාදන දියත් කරන ස්ථානයයි. මේ Google Labs වෙතින් ඔබ වෙත ගෙන එන, නමුත් අපේ භාවිතාකරුවන් අතර එතඑම් භාවිතා වෙනවා මා දැක නැති ඉදිරියට බොහෝ දුරට නිල වශයෙන්ම Google වෙතින් නිකුත්විය හැකි Google Labs නිෂ්පාදන කිහිපයක් ගැන ඔබට කියන්නට මම බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා. Google Squared කියන්නේ යම් කිසි ප්රවර්ගයක් (category) සම්බන්ධව යම් සෙවීමක් සිදු කොට, එයට අදාළ “sqare එකක්” ලබාගෙන, එයට ඉන්පසු වැඩිදුර සෙවුම් ...
ලංකාවේ ICT සඳහා හොඳම කාලය
ඩනිෂ්කගේ දින පොත | Danishka's Diaryඇත්තටම මේක දිගට ලියන්න නෙමේ යන්නේ..මීට සුලු මොහොතකට පෙර දසුන් සමීරත් මමත් පොඩි වැඩක යෙදි සිටින විට සිදුවු දෙබසක් දෙයක්... [22:20:16] Dasun:මගේ නෙට් අලම වෙලානේ[22:20:29] Danishka: නැ.. හැමතැනම එහෙමයි[22:20:37] Dasun: එහෙමද[22:20:39] … ඇයි ඒ[22:20:44] Danishka: ලංකාවේ මචං ICT හරියන්නේ පායන කාලෙට[22:20:44] Dasun: මේක දැන් ලොඩ් වෙන්නේම නෑ[22:20:46] … :([22:20:52] … ථෘ[22:20:54] … :D[22:20:58] … (rofl)[22:21:00] Danishka: වහිද්දි වයර් අස්සේ වතුර (rofl)[22:21:14] Dasun: (rofl) පට්ට ආතල්[22:21:29] … හිටු මේකට මලින්තට අලවන්න[22:21:29] … :D[22:21:42] Danishka: නැද්ද මම අහන්නේ ඇත්තටම පායන කාලෙටත් විදුලිය නැ... :(
Night at the Museum- 2
santhoshiTook the kids to watch the movie at liberty. I think the nine year old and I enjoyed it so much and laughed too much. Six year old was a bit blank he really not get the jokes ( he laughed and then looked pretty confused why he was laughing) Watching the historical characters and listening to their dialogues was hilarious and cute. The theatre was a handful of families with kids and quite an amount of couples making out as usual. Six year old was more interested to watch the couples than the movie. Fascinating stuff indeed...I think i liked this as much as i liked the part one......
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07-02
ApramanaChamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07-01: Videos will be the next web revelation. # Now it's time to some Joomla.. http://tinyurl.com/ltuts5 # © Chamara Peiris - visit Apramana for more great content.
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07-02
ApramanaPeople hearing without listening… # Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07-01: Videos will be the next web revelation. # Now it's time to some Joomla.. http://tinyurl.com/ltuts5 # © Chamara Peiris - visit Apramana for more great content.
Download Free Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows
| Piyasatahan | wickasitha's BlogMicrosoft Security Essentials is very easy to use. It doesn’t have too many features to confuse a basic computer user. Virus detection (Signature and Proactive) The virus detection on MSE detect all 19 viruses as a potential threat while RISING Antivirus 2009 (sad to say) only detected 75% of it. Scanning MSE has an average scanning speed as I’ve [...]
Piyasiri Wijenayake – Minister of Murders and Crime
Dare to be differentPiyasiri Wijenayake, MP from the so-called Jathika Nidahas Peramuna, the leftovers of the JVP, has been appointed as a minister along with Nandana Gunatilake, a colleague from the same three wheeler party. As if we do not have enough ministers now! According to the Roman and Dutch law practiced in Sri Lanka, one is innocent until proven [...]
A reminder….
Theunlitfire's Blog“Take Care” you said I remained silent, I looked in your eyes. “Don’t look at me like that” was your response. I don’t know how else to look at you. “We can only be friends… I can’t do this anymore” you have your reasons to be apart and I have mine to be together. You have gone now leaving a vaccum. Don’t ask me to take care Because my life is with you and I am helpless.
ජයග්රහණය තිරසාර සාමයක් බවට පත් කර ගැනීමට නම් ලංකාවේ රජය වහා අධිකරණය ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කළ යුතුයි – ජාත්යන්තර අර්බුද කණ්ඩායම
W3Lanka(2009 ජුලි 02) දෙමළ ඊලාම් විමුක්ති කොටි සංවිධානය පරදවා ලබා ගත් ජයග්රහණය තිරසාර සාමයක් බවට පත් කර ගැනීමට නම් ලංකාවේ රජය වහා අධිකරණය ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කළ යුතු බව ජාත්යන්තර අර්බුද කණ්ඩායම (International Crisis Group) නම් ලොව පිළිගත් බුද්ධිමය සංවිධානය පවසයි. ජනවාර්ගිකත්වය නොසලකා සියලු දෙනාට සාධාරණත්වය ලබා දීමෙහි ලා ලංකාවේ අධිකරණය අසමත් බව එම සංවිධානයේ නවතම ප්රතිපත්ති වාර්තාවක් පෙන්වා දෙයි. කල්
Let them know……
Theunlitfire's BlogI tried to explain – tried my best to make them see They wouldn’t listen – wouldn’t let me be Thinking I am lying…. I wanna let them know now Tell my heart you are not mine anymore Tell my hands that I can’t touch yours anymore Tell my lips that your sweet lips are not there to be kissed anymore Tell my ears that I can’t hear your heartbeat anymore That I can’t keep my head on your chest and watch stars at night Take your hand and drive down coastal belt. Tell my car that you won’t sit next to me with your legs up and chat to me Tell my denim jacket that you will not wear it when you are cold….. I am tired of explaining… ...
Lessons in life – Easy does it
Just Chillin'Personal life-wise, I've had a lot going on than I give credit for in this blog!Sometimes I wonder if anyone in this world could ever fully understand the kaleidoscope of emotions, the myriad of contemplative thoughts that have been working themselves through this head and heart of mine! Sometimes you feel like you really go it alone in this world. Other times you understand that the best person to keep you company on this journey is a self-fulfilled you.I've felt an amazing amount of peace in my life since last Tuesday or so. The wonder of being at peace with oneself, calm and tranquil in the sea of togetherness as a person has really boosted my self esteem. ...
Bangladesh budget retains some barriers to connectivity
LIRNEasiaTalk in the Bangladesh telecom sector has been focused on taxes these days because the government had proposed a 25% tax on handsets and the retention of the controversial TK 800 tax on SIMs. These are counterproductive taxes both in terms of improving government revenues and connecting people electronically; their combined effect is to make it a lot more expensive to get connected. It’s only people who are connected who generate usage-based taxes, they are counter-productive for the government and they absolutely go against plans for a Digital Bangladesh. At the end of all the efforts to change the government’s mind, all that happened is the reduction of the handset tax. Full report in the ...
සර්වදිශාදර්ශනයක් සාදාගන්නා අකාරය
චාමර ගේ අනං මනං තීරුවමේ වැඩෙට ඉතින් මේ විදිහේ පින්තුර ටිකක් ඔනම එක්කෙනේකුට මේ වැඩේ කරන්න පුලුවන් නේඊට අමතරව photoshop CS4 ඔන මේ වැඩෙට ඊට පස්සේ මේ වීඩියෝව බලන්නවීඩියෝව බලන්න මෙතෙන්ට කොටන්ටමම මීට කලින් දාපු සර්වදිශාදර්ශන ටිකක් ඇති බලන්න මේ වැඩෙට ඉස්සර නම් ලොකු කට්ටක් කැව දැන් photoshop තියෙන නිසා ලෙසියි. ඔය කට්ටියත් කරලා බලන්න
Perth Diary is back
Marisa WikramanayakeAfter a month long hiatus of my own making – I got burntout and exhausted – Perth Diary will definitely be back starting either this coming Sunday or the next. I know the paper does not have a means of letting readers give me feedback on the column (unless you angrily fire off letters to [...]
vacation in sri lanka pics-II (April/2009)
A Tyronne W blogit's been a couple of months ever since i got back from my vacation in SL. however, couldn't publish most of the pics which i took during my stay there. mainly due to the disappointment i had where i left my tripod at home, in brisbane. anyways, thought of putting the second set of pics. couldn't go thru all the pics i took as i was bit busy over the last few days .. but thought of putting these on.[Focal Length 35mm, Canon 24-70 F2.8...
How to succeed in the BPO business (or not)
LIRNEasiaIt appears that the India-Sri Lanka joint venture in business process outsourcing is having a hard time because Sri Lankans are difficult to train. The LBO article is worth a read, but here is a key quote. Revenues had fallen as the US recession took its toll on the auto and restaurant businesses which comprised the bulk of its customers but that the number of clients was growing, JKH said. Roy also said it was important for Sri Lanka to expand higher education and technology training institutions to ensure the supply of trained people if the country wants to attract more BPO business. He said Sri Lanka had the highest number of British-qualified accountants outside Britain and should capitalise on its ...
Twittering via the Terminal
Chathura's BlogOk… Quick note people. Warning!! Extremely geeky. Don’t bother reading if you aren’t !!! Thanks to Thameera for this tip. Then after a bit of searching I fount this. Thanks to him too. Ok. This is twittering via the terminal for Linux. First things first. You need curl for this. Install curl with the following [...]
Gemologised!
The Shoat StatementsTo pick up where I left off, I shall start with a recent dream I had.I was standing by the side of a road, waiting to be picked up by The Drifter. I could swear I was near some small hotels in Hikkaduwa, but I couldn't say for certain. So Drifter comes, picks me up and we're off. We're clearly in Sri Lanka, the boards on the roadside shops say 'R.A.De Mel Mawatha', but it's not like any part of Duplication Road I've ever seen. So I ask Drifter where we are, and he promptly replies 'Duplication Road'. I tell him I've never seen this part of Duplication road, and he says that 'it's the other side ...
methinks: on cricket
MeThinksIts a lie if you hear me saying, I hate cricket. Still not perticularlily interested in it. And why am I writing this? because I seriously think that our Cricket team is “the best” in the world and proud of them. Sri Lankan Cricket team does make wonders, though they came near to win [...]
US CIO Vivek Kundra on the new federal IT Dashboard
ConundrumA 30 minute Q&A session covering dashboards, mashups, sharing & building a community as well as auditing what's reported on these dashboards and mashable data feeds. This session pretty much covers what any end user or a CIO would expect from a Dashboard and the best part is? it's a real world example happening right now.
The cordial enemy
CadenceSo about 2 weeks back a subordinate of mine was ill and in hospital with raging pneumonia. He’s one of the best we have and carried out an entire series of activity all by himself very recently. Firing a call was all that I had to do to be in touch and check on progress. [...]
Muthirai – Tamil Movie Now showing at Concord & Samantha
CITY HITS ONLINEMuthirai - Tamil Movie Now showing at Concord - Dehiwala & Samantha - Dematagoda.Muthirai movie has Nitin Sathya and Daniel Balaji in the lead roles with Manjari and Lakshmi Rai respectively as their love interests. Muthirai in Tamil means a mark in its own right.Muthirai movie is being produced by Aneez, the wife of deceased director Jeeva, who passed away while in Russia last year. Muthirai is a joint venture by Anees Jeeva and A.S.A. Productions and the music for this film will be scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja.| ShowTime - Premiere Concord - 10.30 | 3.00 | 7.00 & Samantha - 10.30 | 1.30 | 4.30 | 7.30PM| Contact no ...
If YOU are an UGLY CROW, then THANK GOD for it.
Rehani's BlogYes..... Don't challenge God with cosmetic surgeries, fairness creams, bleaching and all the weird stuff you do to make your (so called) ugly self look a little cuter. If you are dark skinned, you are lucky. CELEBRATE IT girl. Don't be ashamed. You are dark coz God created you dark. Grandma's wisdom says God knows what's best for you. Well...... If you aren't convinced, The British tabloid The Sun claims it has some disturbing details about Michael Jackson's autopsy report. It says: - There was no food in the pop star's stomach, only pills were found.- The pop star was bald and bruised.- There were four ...
*Yawn…* the damn clock is slow
Ramblings of an Insane MindIt sucks to come early to work only to find out that you don’t have any work assigned for the day, which means you get to sit around doing nothing. What to do but surf the net while making a half-hearted attempt to ramp up on various tools. It also sucks that your seated in such a way that everybody else can see your monitors. These are the times I wish I had a workstation tucked nicely into a darkened corner. No, I don’t mean anything NSFW, :P just watching some plain old movies. In any case, after going through all my usual sites, here I am, reading mindless trivia to fill up the hours. Came across some ...
ළගදීම බස් ගාස්තු ඉහළ යන ලකුණු
පෙරඹර · PerambaraBus fairs to go up? බස් ගාස්තු ඉහළ දැමීම පිළිබදව වන තීරණය පෞද්ගලික බස්රථ හිමිකරුවන්ගේ සංගමයේ අධ්යක්ෂක මණ්ඩලය හමුවී ජූලි 3 වැනිදා ගැනීමට නියමිත බවත පෞද්ගලික බස්රථ හිමිකරුවන්ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති ගැමුණු විජේරත්න කීවේය. රජය විසින් ඉන්ධන මිල ඉහළ දැමීමත් සමගින් බස් ගාස්තු ඉහළ දැමීමට සිදුවන බවත් මෙම තීරණය ළගදීමට ගැනීමට නියමිත බවත් ලංකාවේ පෞද්ගලික බස් රථ හිමියන් වැඩි පිරිසකගෙන් සමන්විත සංගමය වන පෞද්ගලික බස් රථ හිමිකරුවන්ගේ සංගමය පවසනනේය. බස් ගාස්තු ඉහළ දැමීම හා ඉහළ දැමිය යුතු බස් ගාස්තු ...
அதிரடிகள் + ஆச்சரியங்கள் + அதிர்ச்சிகள் = Twenty 20 உலகக்கிண்ணம்
LOSHAN - லோஷன்இது எப்போதோ பாதியாக எழுதி முடித்த பதிவாக இருந்தது. 'இருக்கிறம்' இதழுக்காக கொஞ்சம் செதுக்கி அனுப்பி வைத்திருந்தேன்.இன்று ஏதாவது பதிவிடலாம் என்று யோசித்தபோது பூசரம் அறிவிப்பு/அழைப்பு தென்பட்டது.http://poosaram.blogspot.com/ அதற்காக மேலும் சில விஷயம் சேர்த்து முழுமையான பதிவாக....அதிரடிகள் + ஆச்சரியங்கள் + அதிர்ச்சிகள் = Twenty 20 உலகக்கிண்ணம்...
Three Songs You Hate The Most
London, Lanka and drumsI was tagged here by JapSach, who's not actually a Japanese porn mag. The rules are simple; mention three songs you hate the most, give a little reasoning and then tag three (or more) people.Here goes:1. Fucking Hotel fucking California - Oh I hate this song with a passion normally reserved for people who think it's easy to be a drummer. It's so middle of the road that it should have white lines painted all over it, which was a great song incidentally. Talented musicians the Eagles, great songwriters for sure, just not my thing.2. Lady In Red - Come now, I don't think I need to explain this one.3. I ...
Learn TV now on Dialog
Dialog TV ForumSri Lanka's first educational channel is now available on Dialog TV according to reports received by us. The channel was being tested by Dialog TV for a few weeks now. Since Learn TV is already on air, it means that Learn TV may not be part of the 7 exclusive channels that are to be launched on Dialog TV.This leaves us all wondering what is the next channel on Dialog TV. We hope that Learn TV will be able to cater to the educational needs of the children in Sri Lanka. We are not sure to which package this channel will be added but it is most likely that it will be open for all packages ...
Three Songs You Hate The Most
Just About Anything...Alright people. Let the tagging begin. Again.Usually it's positive stuff that's being passed around as tags, but hell with it, this too should be fun. This is simple. Mention three songs that you hate the most, and don't forget to give a little reasoning as well. Then tag three people, or more if you feel like.Here we go.1. Oba Apple Malak WageI don't know why, but I just CANNOT stand this song. There's something about it that so drives me up the wall, in case I happen to be in a room while listening to it. Stupid enough I still have it even in my iPod, but ...
Learn TV Now on Dialog TV
CITY HITS ONLINESri Lanka’s first dedicated local channels for education "Learn TV” now on Dialog TV channel number 67.Learn TV channel will be completely dedicated to consist of education programmes for G.C.E Ordinary Level syllabus.We are unable to confirm wither Learn TV education channel is available for all the Dialog TV subscribers and we’ll keep you update latest on Learn TV.For details you can call 24/7 customer care hotline 0777679679.
Sri Lanka: Steepest drop in mobile prices in 2004-06
LIRNEasiaA recently released World Bank report states that mobile prices in Sri Lanka dropped by 43%, the world’s highest, in 2004-06. Next were Uzbekistan and Chad at -37% and -31% respectively.
How to Surivive a movie date with a girl
Abnormal MindsThis is in response to Niroshinie's blog entry about surviving action movies or more to say X-Men.Now I am sure many of you guys have gone through this dilemma of choosing a movie to go with your girl. You know.. that first movie you want to take the girl too... where you want to pretend to yawn and put your hands around the girl date's shoulders and cuddle up :-)Of course, we men like action. Guns, blood, double agents, blood sucking female vampires, naked chicks running around showing off their 42DDD boobs on 40 foot screen.. la la la la... etc etc, yet the sad point of all is that your "girl date" won't ...
One Last chance
A glimpse of Lady Divine's world...It's one of those 'I've found a perfect song' moments.. Been listening to "One Last chance' by James Morrison over and over and I'm so in love with it.. somehow it speaks to me and I'm so caught up in it... It's just awesome!! there's another song if you like to try out 'Nothing ever hurt like you' which makes me feel it again... Thanks PR (pseudorandom) for helping me find this great talent!! :)Below are lyrics..In my life I don't mean much to anyoneI've lost my way can't go back anymoreOnce I had everything now it's goneDon't tell me again coz I've heard it all beforeSome people ...
bhumi
sevenby3DTCP (Department of town and Country Planning, University of Moratuwa) has launched their new research journal called ‘Bhumi (read: earth, land etc.) at a small ceremony held at the Uni. This was the result of an inattentive undertaken by Dr. Jagath Munasinghe (head of TCP) and Plnr. P. K. Mahanama (Dean, Archi Fac).Further info at TCP Dept.
Brazil vs United States Confederations Cup Final All Goals – Brazil vs United States (3-0) – Confederations Cup
Soccer AsiaAll Goals - Brazil vs USA – Confederations Cup Final Posted in Soccer Tagged: Football, Soccer, Sports, Video
අනේ අපොයි….
වාසලගේ සටහන්......ඔන්න ඔයාලට හැකියාවක් නැතත් Supper Star කෙනෙක් වෙන්න අවස්ථාවක්.... ඉක්මන් කරන්න.... පළමු 200 පමණයි..... ප්රමාදය පසුතැවිල්ලට හේතුවේ.......
In Death, He Is Bigger Than Life
Ramblings of A mindOver the past few days, I have spent a lot of time listening to MJ's songs, watching his videos, reading about him. The last time I must have been this focussed on him was probably when I was 9 or 10. One thing is certain, the more I listen and the more I see, the more of my childhood I remember. And I believe this is the reason that Michael Jackson will be legendary, he is part of our childhood. We feel his loss stronger than other generations as it feels as if this is the death of our childhood. And ...
