Last night I journeyed to Rivendale, to relax; after long, hard toiling to create Mango OS. We (Suchetha, Ruwan & I) set off from The Linux Center, at around 3.00 p.m. After picking up some edibles we reached Rivendale at 4.00 p.m.As soon as we rea…
Last night I journeyed to Rivendale, to relax; after long, hard toiling to create Mango OS. We (Suchetha, Ruwan & I) set off from The Linux Center, at around 3.00 p.m. After picking up some edibles we reached Rivendale at 4.00 p.m.As soon as we reached…
This is end of the year. Thirty first of December. Accepted way is to wish every one a peaceful and a prosperous “NEW YEAR”. But what for ? Why wish? We’ve been wishing a better year every year-end and every year the people decides and designs to…
Imagine there’s no heavenIt’s easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for todayImagine there’s no countries,It isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceY…
Tsunami Photos Tsunami027_jpg Originally uploaded byTsunami Photo/News Archive link to over 20,000 pho. ^ These girls were caught in the giant Tsunami waves when they had come to Galle bus stand to go for their Tution classes. Some survived the ordeal…
Some last minute tips by Channa Kasun briefing us about the rocky ride ahead…White waters… here we come again…Refreshingly cold white water of the Kelani RiverConquring the White Waters…facing the challenges with a smile…theres nothing to hol…
After a long silence in the blogosphere, I am back again… :-)I happened to be in Kandy on the 23rd to attend the annual alms giving in rememberence of my grandma. My eye met, somewhat accidently, a notice about a `Kohomba Kankariya’ is to be performe…
This is in response to the lankanewspaper.com article titled ‘Jeyaraj attacks church hierarchy’ where the current Minister of transportation and so many other things apparently blamed the Catholic Church for it’s apparent support of Ranil.
First of all despite what jeyaraj has to say, majority of the Christian vote did not go for Mahinda, this is quite clear when looking at electorates where there is a Christian majority in the population. Even in his own electorate in Katana, usually a robust clean win for a SLFP backed alliance saw a great narrowing down of the gap between the UNP and the SLFP candidate.
It must be said, that statements near elections are in fact quite a common procedure for the church, where they usually preach about choosing a candidate who can bring peace. This has been the sermon of the church near election times for the past few elections, and if someone actually bothered to read the statement they would notice that even this time around the statement have not deviated from this basic message.
What is true however, is the fact that anyone reading a statement such as that, anything which calls for ‘peace’ over an election period would immediately get the perception that whoever wrote the statement is in support of the UNP. it’s also true that some Christian priests did ask very openly from the public to vote for Ranil, basing their arguments on mahinda’s JHU affiliations among others.
The truth be told, it’s highly unlikely that Christians would face great ‘atrocities’ in the hands of mahinda; after all his wife is a Christian, he sent his kids to a Christian school, and as far as I know, up until now had a pretty healthy relationship with the church.
I, as a Christian and a catholic would personally prefer if the church stayed out of the political process as much as possible, especially in instances where Christians as an entity is not under any sort of great ‘danger’. I strongly believe that religion is a personal thing, and the state and its politics should be separated as much as possible from religion.
However, if a criticism is leveled against the church for influencing the political thinking of its followers then the criticism should also be leveled against all the religious organizations and figures using religion as leverage for political gain, but unfortunately neither Jeyaraj, or anyone else for that matter have the balls enough to say anything against these other, mainly Buddhist religious organizations and figures influencing and participating in mainstream politics.
Cheers
Deane.
p.s – this was supposed to be one of my replies to the actual news story in lankanewspapers, but figured it would be better to just blog it.
What can I say, I just love the babies. 
A whole new set of elephant photographs, from a yala trip in ‘03. some in black and white, some in colour. quite a few of this baby and mother!
After long postponement, we got around to moving the final bits-and-pieces ( several tables and racks) out of our previous location.When I got there, I found that the expected lorry hadn’t arrived, so we had to run around the city to find one to transp…
After long postponement, we got around to moving the final bits-and-pieces ( several tables and racks) out of our previous location.When I got there, I found that the expected lorry hadn’t arrived, so we had to run around the city to find one to transp…
The previous night I decided to stay over at ‘The Linux Center’. After having a bad experience with Anuradha.D’s laptop and ‘Mango OS’ (where I accidentally erased his MBR, manually… , and had to recover it using Test-Disk…); I left for home at 7.0…
The previous night I decided to stay over at The Linux Center. After having a bad experience with Anuradha.D’s laptop and Mango OS (where I accidentally erased his MBR, manually… , and had to recover it using Test-Disk…); I left for home at 7.00 a….
Interviewing DevelopersI came across a really interesting post from Joel, while doing some background work for an industrial day. I’m in a panel to hire new interns who might be potential employees.I loved the part that says,”Smart is hard to define, b…
Is Wikipedia a threat or a menace? Is Wikipedia a threat or a menace? by ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn — Just like the GPL, Wikipedia carries with it responsibilities along with rights.
Getting actively involved with the Sri Lankan Blogsphere and if I may call it, the entire Websphere has been truly an eye-opener.
The pure and filthy Racism is not only hurtful but just horribly disgusting to even read. It seems the racists have sprung up everywhere most notably in comments on blogs, mailing lists, and news sites. A prime example is comments posted at Lankanewspapers.com a site which offers regular news updates from Sri Lanka. The comments for each of these news articles almost always end up in a war of words between Sinhalese extremists and Tamil extremists.
It’s interesting to analyze where exactly this blatant racism is coming from, usually the majority of Sri Lankans (please excuse Mr.Wimal Weerawansa) are rather laid-back creatures. Perhaps the apparent anonymity of the web gives them a sense of security to voice out what they really feel without worrying about the possible consequences. Either way the situation is very depressing, not only because there seems to be so much of racists but more so for the fact that there seems to be almost no response from the middle minded moderates of this country.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
(Edmund Burke)
So I think it’s time we the silent majority take some action, perhaps maintain a racist list in a separate Blog dedicated to Anti-Racism in Sri Lanka or maybe something as simple as a ‘I hate Racists’ button on blogs with a zero tolerance for Racism. Any ideas are welcome.
Cheers,
Deane J AKA ~CC~
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