I really wonder, just how they put up with me and why? If I was a close friend, would they be able to tolerate the same attitude, or would they walk away like many others did?.
I remember as a child when I heard my father mention to close friends about his fear of losing me. […]
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“මගේ සටහන” මේ ලියන්න සූදානම් වෙන්නෙ විසි පස් වන සටහන. සුපුරුදු ඉරිදා හැන්දෑවේ වැඩේ පටන් ගත්තෙ කරදර ගොඩක් මැද්දෙ. මුලින්ම මගේ පරිගණකය වැඩ කරන්නෙ නැතිව ගියා. ඒ මදිවට බෝඩිමේ ඉවසන්න බැරි රස්නෙ. හොඳ වෙලාවට මිත්රයෙක් ගෙ පරිගණකය තිබුන නිසා වැඩේ කරගන යන්න පුලුවනි. ඒක හින්දා අපහසුතාවයෙන් තමයි සටහන ලියන එක කරගෙන යන්න වෙන්නෙ. ගිය […]
தலைப்பைக் கண்டு உஷாராகிவிட்டீர்கள் போலும். ‘முதலாவது காதலி’ என்றால் அப்போ, உதய தாரகை உங்களுக்கு இரண்டாவது மூன்றாவது என்று பல காதலிகள் உண்டா என்றல்லவா நீங்கள் கேட்கத்துடிக்கிறீர்கள். எப்படிங்க உங்களால மட்டும் இப்படியெல்லாம் வயலண்டா யோசிக்க முடியுது…? (இருக்கோட்டும்.. இருக்கோட்டும்…)
என்ன உதய தாரகை! ஒரே காதலி பேச்சாக்கிடக்குது.. என்ன விசயம் என்றுதானே கேட்கிறீங்க…? எல்லாவற்றையும் தெளிவாக உங்களுடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளப் போகிறேன். இப்போது உங்களுடன்… இன்னொரு பிரபஞ்சம் என்ற தொடரின் மூலம் ‘யாரும் பார்க்காத உதய தாரகையின் […]
i’ve been working on this dish for ever. at least four years. the classic way of doing it gives a sharp, strong flavor that lots of sri lankans like — (that’s garlic, chilli pieces, olive oil and butter) — but i’ve been trying to improve on that.
in this variation, i marinated the shrimp in a puree of shrimp (2 to a cup of dry vermouth) boiled down with anchovies (4 small ones to the cup). after letting it sit in the marinade, i added the chilli, butter and for the olive oil, i used what was in the anchovy can.
it was good, but i am not sure its right. (:
I have a terrible sleeping disorder sometimes…. The last few weeks were fine.. but it happened again last night… sigh.. It even tends to make my day miserable… I can’t take pills coz I got addicted once…What happens is, I have this disorder for…
If you’ve been reading my blog lately,you must’ve read this post I wrote about Metal,suicide,My Chemical Romance and EMO.Well I have some good new for you folks,we are not going to hear any of that My Chemical Romance bull crap for a year,yeah one whole year.
Read this for more,if you want to have a laugh.Because […]
I know this is a sick joke.. but couldn’t help my self posting this.. as I hope I’m not the only one out there who appreciates twisted humour. Specially since the blogsphere was already educated of matter the in concern.
(Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT; 5/10/2008; 1/160 at f/4; ISO 100; white balance: Manual; focal length: 40 mm)(Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT; 5/10/2008; 1/160 at f/4; ISO 100; white balance: Manual; focal length: 29 mm)Location: Studio Two75, Moorpark, Califo…
PAFFREL interim report for the Eastern Provincial Council Election Sunday, 11 May 2008 07:06 The election for the Eastern Provincial Council took place with serious incidents being rep…
[TamilNet, Sunday, 11 May 2008, 05:40 GMT] Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ruling UPFA alliance wins the Eastern Provincial Council (EPC) election with 18 seats and 2 bonus seats in the election held on Saturday with widespread rigging. The o…
Traffic/road conditions on the route from Colombo to Sri Lanka’s ancient sites at Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Sigiriya or Dambulla can stretch travel time to take up the whole day. Most of the congestion occurs along the A1 and A6 routes between Colombo and the transit hub of Kurunegala. This post describes a less congested alternative route […]
ඔබ මොනවද සිතන්නෙ අන්තර්ජාලය භාවිතා නොකර TLD, ISO, IOC, FIPS, Dialing කේත, රටේ දිගු නාමය, ISO Numbers, GMT Deviation, වේලාව, කොඩිය, අතිරේඛ තොරතුරු සඳහා දිගු සහ තවත් තොරතුරු තියෙන රටවල් 250 කට වඩා තියෙන දත්ත සමුදායක් ඇති මෘදුකාංගයක් හමුවුවහොත් ? මේ ගැන දැනගන්න නම් ඔබට සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම මෙය කියවන්නම වෙනව.
What are you thinking if u has […]
වෙලාවක් තියෙනව නම් ඔයාලත් කියවලා බලන්න.
http://www.quangduc.com/English/basic/68whatbuddhataught.html
භරිම අගෙයි.
මේ දවස් ටිකේම ඇවිදින එකමයි වැඩේ. මට වැඩිය ඇවිදින්න ව්යායාම් කරන්න ලැබෙන්නෙ නැති නිසා දැන් නම් හොඳ ගණන්. ඊයේ කුරුණෑගල ගිහින් ආවා. දැන් මුළු ඇඟපතම රිදෙනවා ඊට කලින් දවසේ ක්ලාස් එකට ගිහින් ආයේ ටවුමට ආවෙත් පයින්මයි. (ඒ නම් ජොලියට) ඊටත් කලින් දවසේ මල්ලිව ක්ලාස් එකෙන් එක්ක එන්න කියලා ගිහින් අන්තිමට එහෙටත් පයින්ම යන්න […]
(Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT; 5/10/2008; 1/160 at f/4; ISO 100; white balance: Manual; focal length: 40 mm)Location: Studio Two75, Moorpark, California
You’re likely to be aware that I had ended up as the the slightly reluctant but mostly nervous host of a sleepover at my place for K, my eleven year old, and A2, her friend. I’ll call her A2 so that you don’t confuse her with A, my fourteen year old. A…
Soon we will be using robots for experiments instead of the innocent animals .I’m sure this will thrill animal rights organizations and everyone of us.
Now let me make this straight. I’m definitely “against” the use of animals for experiments, animal testing of chemicals and even cloning. For your information more than 3.1 million experiments are done in the U.K. alone every year!
But my question is how long would it really take for an activist group against the use of robots for experiments to be formed? How long will it take for an organization to help robots fight for “their” rights?
In the future will countries have to consider the Rights of a robot more or less the same way they consider human rights ?
South Korea has already written a set of ethical codes to protect robots from being abused by humans.Robotics in US and Europe are also influencing their governments for some form of robot rights.
So may be one day,countries will be obliged to provide social benefits and even health care plans to robots.
How hillarious it would be to see a robot with responsibilities such as voting,family,work,tax,ect!
Or is it necessary that we have a set of ethical codes when it comes to machines?Are we to consider them as digital citizens of our planet….
http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/LegalRightsOfRobots.htm
Utopian dream or rise of the machines
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Dear Thack, I hope you’re doing well. Its weird how we all start a written message or a mail with that statement… Since I know you well, I know that to everyone’s eye you must be “doing well”… Then again I know your fluctuating moods. I think …
In case you haven’t seen the first ever robot movie star.
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Ma’ Roof’s on fire! Farveez takes Shane Warne apart in an over which yielded 27 runs. Maharoof’s first six was a one handed cut shot which sailed over long off for six..Don’t believe me? Watch the video!
20 gigabytes.
And I deleted it all. Why? oh I don’t know. Selfishness maybe. Life is hard without the Metal. And I am ready to rip apart the slut that has stolen my Mushroomhead CD. If you think you have it, please return it.
Same goes for the missing Nirvana CD and the IOWA. And the Blink […]
Click for a different definition of a ‘mind blower’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMM3PY_SjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srlDizwaxOw
I don’t think I can quite make up my mind. SlipKnot or Mushroomhead? shucks, I’d rather kill someone.
Lyrics. Check.
Music. Check.
Video. Check.
Plain awesomeness. I don’t (usually) do this kind of thing. Bugger! But I did.
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දවස තිස්සෙම අන්තර්ජාලයේ සැරිසරන ගමන්, ඇස ගැටෙන දේවල් ගැන සවිස්තරව කියවන්න මට තියෙන්නේ පිස්සුවක් කිව්වොත් හරි. google reader එකට රටේම තියන තොරතුරු අඩවි රිංගවගෙන දවසම උනත් කියවන්න මම හරිම ආසයි.
පහුගිය සතියේ අපේ Chairman ගාව තියෙන දුර්ලභ පොතක් මගේ අතට පත්වුනේ, ඒකේ තිබුන පිංතූර වගයක් scan කරගන්න ඕනෙ කියලා කියපු නිසයි. අපේ Chairman ඇත්තටම පුදුම විදිහට […]
Have you ever paid attention to the background sounds and noises in a natural environment - as opposed to a city environment? If you have really got into it, you may have found that it is an excellent meditation – one way of stopping that incessant voice in your head that keeps on its chatter, […]
The long march of democracy in Eastern province started with the liberation of Mavillaru sluice gate from LTTE and restoring the supply of water for the innocent farmers in the area. It was a time when LTTE artillery were even targeting Tricomalee town and strategic Navy camp as a result of shameful CFA signed by UNP leader Ranil Wickramasingha and Prabakaran. The monks of JHU timely influenced the government to take speedy action at a time when new UPFA government seemed to be trapped with the CFA signed by previous UNP leadership. The success of Mavillaru operation not only prevented another attempt of LTTE to chase away Sinhala and Muslim farming community from Eastern province, but also mark the beginning or new democratic era in Eastern province. The next military involment was when LTTE invaded Muttur area displacing thousands of innocent Muslims.
Demilitarization
It was clear military and political leadership that resulted in those limited military operations to continue until whole Eastern province is liberated and LTTE terrorists are chased away. The breakaway Karuna fraction of LTTE played a substantial role in defeating LTTE in key urban areas including Vakarae in Batticaloa District. The Karuna fraction went into extend that they even operated suicide attacks against Wanni LTTE carders.
Development
The government correctly identified that peace without progress can sink people’s hopes fast. The province was in urgent need of improving the infrastructure facilities and supportive services, which are prerequisites for accelerated development. Recognizing this imperative, the GOSL set up a comprehensive three year development plan as part of the Eastern Revival, a programmed to improve the infrastructure facilities and uplift the living conditions of the people in the East. It is again evident that various ‘rights’ organizations backed by INGO’s are no longer interested in developing the Eastern province and it is GOSL and its ministries that are playing a key role in development activities of the East.
Democratization
By conducting the provincial council elections, the government has completed its endvour of liberating Eastern province. Democratization started with conducting elections for local government bodies in Batticaloa district. While JHU initiated the military offensive against LTTE in Eastern province, JVP played leading role in establishing logistical ground for separate Eastern province.
The liberation of Eastern province got the political flavor when UNP leader Ranil Wickramasingha stated that liberation of Thoppigala is mere capturing a forest. UNP’s attitude towards the military operation against LTTE was further evident when UNP media spokesman Laksman Kiriella, in their weekly media briefing, mentioned that “Any bull can wage a war”. It was clearly an insult to brave soldiers who have risk their own lives to preserve independence of motherland and liberation of people from LTTE fascist terrorists.
When the government called for the elections in the Eastern province, UNP was more interested in finding reasons to evade the election than genuine interest in contesting. UNP’s stand was pretty much in line with the stand of LTTE that strongly opposed in establishing separate provincial council for Eastern province. However, UNP could not find a genuine reason to stay away from the election and therefore UNP formed a coalition with Hakeem fraction of SLMC. Ironically, it is only Ranil Wicramasingha and Rauf Hakkem that has signed accords with LTTE leader Prabakaran and both of them are still in the same political trail even after LTTE is defeated and chased away from the Eastern province. When Tamil political parties like TMVP openly canvassed for separate Eastern identity, UNP is still advocating merger of North and Eastern provinces (basis of Ealam).
UNP’s main political theme in the election campaign was demilitarizing of Pilliyan fraction that has been playing strategic role in defeating LTTE in the eastern province and defending the area from infiltration of LTTE carders from Wanni jungle. This has greatly eased burden from the government security forces in the East thereby focusing in operations in the Wanni jungle in the North. As usual UNP became the voice of Wanni tigers and played the role of political psyloc demanding full disarmament of anti LTTE Pilliyan fraction in their transition period when government is still engaged in full scaled war against LTTE terrorists. Although LTTE’s proxy party TNA indirectly campaigned for UNP, the result clearly shows that LTTE’s political stand is no longer imperative among Tamils in the Eastern province.
The challenge of new East
The people of Eastern province have sealed the military victory against separatist terrorism by winning the UPFA in the election. The UPFA list consisted right mix of candidates from Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim communities and the people of the Eastern province has exhibited that they have high hope in democracy. Now it is the responsibility for the elected representatives in the Eastern provincial council to take up most of the political responsibilities in developing their home land and live in peace and harmony.
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The expression of every member of the audience changed as the presenter went on to state that global warming had not made it to the top of the priority list of the most serious problems that the world is currently facing.
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A cyclone hits Burma (Myanmar). People need help. The murderous self appointed, incompetent, Generals cannot handle the situation. They don’t ask for help, they drag their feet. Monks start to take steps to clean up and help the people.
Some countries offer to help - but not without strings.
The first few hours are critical. The Generals […]
The news Raids against 'software pirates' in Colombo caught me by surprise this morning while I was going through the news papers. I'm not sure whether similar raids have been carried out in the past but it was unexpected. I'm really glad that such action has been taken to protect the Intellectual Property Rights for software. But where does it lead to? The next target will be the general users of pirated software. But have we educated people about pirate software? Do they know the consequences of using pirated software?
As far as I can see it, 90% of the general public are unaware of the fact that they are doing something illegal. If they go to one of these outlets that sell pirated software they can buy a CD for Rs.80 ($0.75) or a DVD for Rs.150 ($1.3) quite easily. They actually think that they are paying the price for buying the software, which is not correct. The software is actually worth hundred times than that. Even if you buy a genuine copy of one of the proprietary software for its price you cannot make illegal copies of it. Because the licence clearly states that you cannot do that. Most of the tech-savvy users understand what is pirated software. But there is a non-tech crowd in other industries that use pirated software for their day to day needs without realising the fact that they are doing something illegal.
So whats the solution? Are you ready to pay over Rs.10,000 ($100) to get a genuine copy of the software? Or will you look for an alternative software which will give you the freedom to use and share among the others? The latter will be my choice. That is why I use Free and Open Source Software. I think for a country like ours using FOSS is the ideal choice for people involved in any industry. By choosing Free and Open Source Software you have
As you can see you have the full freedom over the software unlike the software tying you down. Its important to make the public aware that for almost every proprietary software there is one or more alternative Free and Open Source Software available. I made my move to GNU/Linux as my primary operating system sometime back and never looked back since then. As I said I had more than one alternative in this case as there are hundreds of distributions for GNU/Linux. I did try Redhat Linux 9, Fedora 3, Slackware and finally settled with Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) at that time. This doesn't mean that the other distributions I tried are bad. It means that I had choices to make before settling down with what I was comfortable with. Currently I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on all my computers. I use FOSS for all my day to day needs. I use Mozilla Firefox for Web browsing and Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client. I use Pidgin for Instant Messaging which supports Yahoo, MSN (yes, I have friends there too ![D[BigGrin]](http://www.nazly.net/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif){kind=icon}
) and Google Talk. I use OpenOffice for handling all types of Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Presentations. And the list goes on.
Find FOSS alternative for your proprietary software at www.osalt.com
What I wanted to emphasize is that there are FOSS alternatives. By using it you won't be considered a criminal. You won't be caught by the police for copying a FOSS software in a CD and selling it to someone by charging the cost for the CD. You are free to do so. More than that you can modify the source of that software. In a proprietary software the source itself is not available. Lets not consider that part for now.
It was the Lanka Linux User Group and FOSS Sri Lanka that were behind my move towards FOSS. They conduct workshops, trainings, conferences all around Sri Lanka in order to promote Free and Open Source Software here in Sri Lanka. Specially in Schools amongst the younger generation. So when ever you are in need of any help of FOSS you know where to look for. So make the move now. Don't wait till its too late.
This blogger is worried that the number of Sinhala blogs is not sufficient. Read http://dasunsameera.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_21.html Anyone would be willing to read something in his/her mother tongue. Can anyone tell me why Sinhalese people are …
Stupid Old Men
I don’t want to end up being a stupid old man
Just look at what they have done to our world in vain
What’s the big deal in going to the moon
As he yet settles score by inflicting pain
War on terror, crusade or witch hunts
Stupid old men run scared to ruin
Peace on earth has little […]
It is valuable gift of the market in pitakumbura villages. they are very Lucky. becours farmers are living this aria, and they could sell their havest large price. their income is expanding at an astonishing rate.this aria people attention to cultivate vegetables fruits.
but this fair place facilities are very poor.farmers sell their goods in side of bibla_ […]
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is:
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments
that differentiate me from a doormat”
- Rebecca West
The post is the consequence of two separate situations that mirrored one issue. The first one being a post I read I few […]
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the evil that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check it out.
So he called on a female angel and sent her to Earth for a time. When she […]
My parents brought up me according to my race, but they never under estimated any other religion or never did they tell me not to make friends with children of another race. I was free to make my own Friends,. I have written about my best friends in …
ශ්රි ලංකාවෙන් ලොවට දායාද කළ අනගි නිදහස් මෘදුකාංගයක් වන “සහන Sahana” දැන් සිංහලින්. මෙහි විශේෂත්වය ව…
Dialog TV have issued a revised interruption schedule for maintenance purposes. The original schedule indicated an interruption on the 10th & 12th but the revision indicates a 12th & 14th interruption. According to the message conveyed via the mailing system on the decoder, the interruption will occur from midnight on the 12th till 6am on the 13th & also from midnight on the 14th till 5am on the 15th. The maintenance is said to be for a transmission upgrade so hopefully all pixelation problems are sorted out thereafter. Please keep us updated on the latest regarding Dialog TV as the days progress.
“This is a totally distorted mandate that they got. This is obtained by fraud” said Rauf Hakeem leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress ,which ran in coalition with the UNP.
“There are many many violations taking place “said Kingsley Rodrigo head of the independent People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections. He said the TMVP […]
Competitive elections are usually seen to require freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and some degree of rule of law. Civilian control of the military is often seen as necessary to prevent military dictatorship and interference with political affairs. In some countries, democracy is based on the philosophical principle of equal rights.
An election is a decision-making process by which a
The Asian Human Rights Commission congratulates the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) for taking up a pluralistic approach in incorporating members to engage in election monitoring thereby standing above the partition political approach that has been the curse of Sri Lankan politics. Election monitoring must be done on the basis of norms and […]
If you kiss her, you are not a gentleman
If you don’t, you are not a man
If you praise her, she thinks you are lying
If you don’t, you are good for nothing
If you agree to all her likes, you are a wimp
If you don’t, you are not understanding
If you visit her often, she thinks it is […]
Lanka Libertarian or Sittingnut, dubbed Mahinda Rajapakse ‘Mahinda Buffalo’ during the Presidential election campaign of 2005, something that I found very amusing. After reading his posts over the last couple of years and particularly his most recent o…
Oh sod it! It’s going to be one of those days…
Here I am, 11am trying to…work… having been struck with an idea that is pure pristine GENIUS I collect my thoughts and begin to type… only to have them scrambled, dispersed and popped into oblivion as my room shudders and rattles to “Humpty Dumpty sat […]
PANADURA, Sri Lanka — Those of you who have not read Dimi’s blog, Dragons of Eden, should do so now. And we mean now. Go!
We suggest you start with Wide Bodied Woes. The conversation between Dimi and the Chief is simply hilarious. Well, yeah it was rather one-sided, but hey. At any rate, the Chief appears to be a massive clown. And judging by the rest of the material on that blog, so is Dimi.
We’ll leave you to explore and find all the naughty stuff. Heh heh.
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