Core group members of the Beyond Borders, a project attached to the British Council is organizing a one day workshop on “Exploring ways to tackle assumptions about (the ethnic) Conflict through Forum Theatre” at the British Council on Saturday 4 No…
We are very happy to announce that TV Radio Sri Lanka Group of Blogs and the FILEnetworks blog have formed a partnership in order to bring you the latest news and updates on TV-Radio industry and software related issues.FILEnetworks will be bringing yo…
My thoughts on the keynote that was presented at Tech.Ed Sri Lanka.
To start off with the keynote was way too long and went on for what felt like four hours. I expected the presenters to excite the large gathering of developers about the new innovations that will be comnig in the .NET platform. Instead the damn PeopleReady message was stuffed down our throats. Repeatedly.
What do I care about some marketing initiative bs from Microsoft? Is this the sign of things to come with SteveB taking over the reins? I sure hope not.
The demos by Matty on the other hand were a treat to watch.
Q. IS PRABHAKARAN A MAD MAN?
Please feel free to comment as much as you like, express your point of view on this question and stimulate discussion. I look forward to your comments.
Muse
In any conflict - be it between nations, peoples, organisations, whatever - there is always a level of propaganda and demagoguery involved. I’m sure you have heard at least SOME of these ones..
We’re fighting for our rights, our freedoms
We are…
What a debacle it was and it continues to be ! President Rajapaksa’s government went to Geneva this time to tell they wouldn’t open the A-9 Road for civilian traffic, to and from Jaffna. This present government keeps saying the Jaffna people can…
oh i thought its goin to be hectic trip with head over work, lotsa reporting to be done, where i’d be busy runnin around and be important…. but NO non of the above. well ma friend asked me the other day, how come i get to laze where ever i go? i dont know if its good thing or bad thing. maybe the extent of me being busy with work would be large i guess. i dont know, im doing this process,
oh i thought its goin to be hectic trip with head over work, lotsa reporting to be done, where i’d be busy runnin around and be important…. but NO non of the above. well ma friend asked me the other day, how come i get to laze where ever i go? i dont know if its good thing or bad thing. maybe the extent of me being busy with work would be large i guess. i dont know, im doing this process,
Well, in the past week we’ve had our a first articles. A social commentary by a disgruntled bachelor, and a Trekkie ?!?…
Still we appreciate the efforts of our contributors and hope they will be joined by many more. We currently have over a dozen registered contributors and hope to be hearing from them […]
Are you getting slightly “Bored of the Rings”? Or is Harry Potter and the Poorly Tuned Piano* no different from the previous seventeen installments? Too many vampire slayers? If you’re getting tired of Oz, but still don’t want to come back to Earth, try going into space.
“Space operas” are obviously not for everybody. But if […]
That’s what the world calls them, but all they wanted was, peace, love and freedom (yes it is true that the governments have snatched away most of the beauty the world and life has to offer, but I’m too lazy to figure out my own model of how the wo…
A little excerpt from ‘Life of Pi’- that I thought really puts fear into perspective:I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, …
Its here again: that time of the year when you wish you were anywhere else but damp, sticky, moldy smelling Sri Lanka. Its monsoon time- or to use less exotic terminology “drippy, grey, rainy days are here again”My cats are frozen into catatonic lumps- you see them lurking like watchful gargoyles, on sideboards, in the […]
It’s past 2 a.m her heart is very scratched with teary eyes and a snot filled nose. No he ain’t a bad soul, in fact he is something very precious, but may be it wasn’t God’s will (or just wasn’t his will). May be she was wrong to open her hea…
It’s a lazy Saturday morning. 16 degrees Celsius and a full on thunder and wind storm going on outside. The perfect weather for some eggs don’t you think? Now if only I had someone to make some for me so I don’t have to get out of my nice cozy bed.
Ohh well you can’t have […]
“We lost our loved ones in all parts of the country earlier. When people disappeared in Jaffna in 1982, we all kept quiet. We did not experience it until disappearance happened in 1989 in the South of Sri Lanka. Now Tamil people are disappeared in Jaff…
I was away but now I’m back with a vengeance.
Seems that a lot has happened while was taking a break from blogging. Anyone read the article in the Daily Mail (UK) about a company who had the brilliant idea that the children of today was not being exposed enough raunchy, sexual material and that a […]
With the peace talks to get underway in Geneva, it is heartening to note that the GOSL is starting off the correct foot and a word of congratulations must go out to Government Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella. The minister was quoted in the Daily Mirror this morning as commenting thus:
“We want to give recognition to pluralism and not to a Sinhala-Buddhist
Episode one of the new and improved Stickman!!! Click to enlarge
All I have been doing is waiting for the last one year. I waited six months to close the business, then another six months to shift to the new house, arrrgh….now it’s been three months since I received the appointment letter and the visa, but gotta…
ok, maybe this should have the first post, but mine was this. so thought mayb i’d go a lil deep about me. couple of the readers know me personally but for others they are sure lo$t as im. so here’s a lil something about me…
Name: lo$t $oul(didnt i tell you this before) hehe… well in real world ppl do know my parent given name.
Sex: yes please. (hak hak) Male
Location: which one you talkin
ok, maybe this should have the first post, but mine was this. so thought mayb i’d go a lil deep about me. couple of the readers know me personally but for others they are sure lo$t as im. so here’s a lil something about me…
Name: lo$t $oul(didnt i tell you this before) hehe… well in real world ppl do know my parent given name.
Sex: yes please. (hak hak) Male
Location: which one you talkin
Colombo Critic has its first article. It’s not exactly a review, but relevant enough to Sri Lankan issues that we have decided to publish it.
Please feel free to rate and/or add your comment. Or write your own.
Or: Oi Vei! Don’t Make Me Go Marry a Nice Jewish Girl
Colombo’s great chicks.
Not the hot, skanky, slinky ones that you find yourself taking pictures of cause you’re drunk and your inner Japanese pervert has surfaced (good old Japanese pervert, oh the car shows we’ve gone to…). Not the “sweet,” “so sweet,” or even the […]
A small tribute to my beautiful London - the best city in the world and what dreams are made of. Till I return, this is to suffice.Pics are from personal collection plus a talented photographer at www.capturedsight.co.uk. Please visit his site for mor…
Australia has been a welcome respite from the existential crisis I was suffering in the previous months. It has helped old wounds heal and unnecessary memories to be forgotten. I have been given a new purpose and the ability to forget the ambiguity of …
Muse
My last post “Blood, sex, and suffering” was written on the way to Kekirawa by bus.
Crammed into a tiny little seat, by clothing bag under my seat and the bag with Akane (my laptop, an IBM Thinkpad R50e to be precise) and digicam (a Kodak Z650), o…
muse
As many people know, RaRaMiMu is syndicated on the kottu.org blogroll, as a consequence of this I have had many visitors come to the site. They come to see what I write, and sometimes comment on it. I admit to only posting a few times on the blog …
In basic calculus we learned that the first derivative of a function is the “rate of change” of the value of that function with respect to another variable. In the case of your career, the other variable is time. The basic equation for a developer career looks like this:
C = G + LT
C is Cluefulness. It is defined as an overall measure of your capabilities, expertise, wisdom and knowledge in the field of software development. It is the measure of how valuable you are to an employer. It is the measure of how successful your career is. When you graph your career, C is on the vertical axis.
G is Gifting. It is defined as the amount of natural cluefulness you were given “at the factory”. For each individual, G is a constant, but it definitely varies from person to person.
L is Learning. It is defined as the rate at which you gain (or lose) cluefulness over time.
T is Time. It is on the horizontal axis of your career graph.
As you can see above, your career success is determined by three variables, only one of which you can control:
- You obviously can’t control T. Time marches forward mercilessly at the same rate for everyone.
- You also can’t control G. The truth is that some people are just naturally smarter than you are, and that’s the way it is. But G is not the sole determiner of your success. I have known some truly gifted programmers with lame careers, and I have also known some less-gifted folks who have become extremely successful.
- You can make choices which affect the value of L. In fact, you do make choices which affect the value of L, every day, whether you know it or not.
Need I say more?
not the status next to your nick name in a IM, but thts my real state now. well atleast 99% of the time.. well lets calculate the no of calls i use to handle on a daily basis when i was in col, when atleast use to when i was working on that project. hmmm i have to do a average about 120-130 calls a day to cover ma target.. now its just been 9 calls the highest which has come for a day. well
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