Straighten up and fly right…This country’s going to the dogs and no one’s doing a thing to stop it. Yes of course the politicians and the army are responsible for a great deal of the chaos but so is everyone else. Even if we’re not willing to g…
Why I’m voting for Ranil.No I haven’t sold my blog to the UNP electioneering machinery, so this is not an Ranil -ass-kiss write up. Read on.Basically the way I see it: the JVP in government wielding their hefty political theories will in fact take …
On a Saturday night (I guess it was this 8th) Thilanka, Yajith and I had a movie fest at Yajith’s place. It was after sometime all three of us got together. So we had a good time of watching a few movies (not very new ones), do some testings as usual a…
How can I protect my wireless network ? Well I found what NOT to use1. Mac Filtering Spoof the mac address in linux by ; /etc/init.d/networking stop ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:01:02:03:04:08
Ocean full of water isn’t enough to cry for you – that probably was what the frog murmured, its divine love for the mouse sitting silent, when they had to part. Probably many thought that way too, when Simon Navagattegama departed (09th Oct.) for g…
He, Kanapathy Rajadurai, Principal of Jaffna Central College, sat with me for one whole hour at the Jaffna “Naaga Viharaya” one Monday morning. He answered all my questions in Sinhala. We discussed the plight of the Jaffna people due to the extende…
During the vacation, I visited the University of Peradeniya. Unlike other visits for `official’ purposes, this was a purposeless visit, just to meep people and see around.I spend the morning at the Faculty of Engineering and met a lot of old friends …
After the FOSS week and 1001 other things, finally I decided to use some of my leave. However, I decided to deviate from the usual practice of using leave for non-work related activities and trips, and just spend some time doing one of the most relaxi…
An excellent article I found while doing research to create Debian packages for Sun’s JDKs for our Taprobane distro.
Following the Asia OSSS Code Fest, we had a miniature version of it on Saturday, partly for everyone to get the hang of it, and partly to close out urgent pending items on Taprobane. UCSC kindly provided logistics, in addition to a lot of encouragemen…
Read something about artistes. Long time ago. Something like “artistes are a different kind of people”. My mem’ry says, Russian laureate Maxim Gorky pronounced themselves, that way. Yes, they are a different kind of people, in a different sense to what…
Okay, so its not colour. I like the texture of the skin here. Click, for more.
Taken in the fading evening light, at 6.30 or so, with canon zoom.
You are currently browsing the Kottu weblog archives for October, 2005.
