Archive for July, 2008

Street Art

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

This guy draws some nice pictures of women using mostly charcoal and pastel colours. He sells them as cards or posters at quite reasonable prices. Im going to get myself a poster. Artists like him need it.You can find him on the Bambalapitiya Junction …

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ගම්මැද්ද episode 01 - ගමේ ගොඩේ උදවිය එක්ක ලෙන්ගතු කථාබහක්!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

බැද්දෙගම වෙද මහත්තයගෙ මතක සටහනක්. සත ගණනක බස් ගාස්තු ගෙවා, කොළඹට පැමිණි ගමනක්….

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A Vehicle Runs with Water for the First Time In Sri Lanka

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

                    Thushara Priyamal was the eldest of Edirisinghe family in Athurugiriya who had an interest for researching scientific substances since…

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ENTICE The Zetter some where between Five stars & Heaven

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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A vehicle runs with water!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Thushara Priyamal was the eldest of Edirisinghe family in Athurugiriya who had an interest for researching scientific substances since school age. He was a much recognized past pupil from Kristhu College Pannipitiya. Starting from 9th grade he wanted…

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බ්ලොග් එකට අලුත් මුහුනුවරක්……….

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

ඔන්න ඉතින් මම මගේ බ්ලොග් එකේ පොඩි ඇදුම් මාරුවක් කලා, මගෙ පරණ එක හා මේක අතර ඔබ දකින නොද නරක කියන මෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.

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Kitesurfing in Sri Lanka

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

As you head to Hikka this weekend, you’d realize that Mads is not there - he’s actually enjoying Kitesurfing in Europe! Anyway this is his story when asked when kitesurfing began in Sri Lanka;“I can tell u exactly when kitesurfing first started in Sr…

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දවසේ කවිය: 2008-07-29

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

කම්මැලිකොල්ලනේ
පොල් කටුව ගෙනඅතිනේ
පලයව්හිඟමනේ
තොපට නැත කිසි වැඩක් මෙතැනේ

උපුටා …

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Hitch Hiker xD

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Well here’s the monthly update for July.I’m halfway through my first semester at ANC, it’s actually not too bad… easy as hell
As for Orbit, I’m working on chapter three right now…Should get to finishing that off soon.
Nothing much happened this month, I couldn’t go for either of the gigs on Sunday aaaaaaaaaaand…
ohI [...]

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දවසේ කවිය: 2008-07-28

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

මේ වදන් කවි පොතේ 33 වැනි කවිය යි.

වේවැල් කෝටු නාරං සියඹලාඅතු
කිතුල් පොල් ඉරටු වැල් ක…

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Happy b’day to meee..!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Happy birthday to meee, just one down from twenty threee! La la la… Not one to complain about aging heh, am actually loving the fact that i’m constantly learning about life. I LOVE IT. I love myself and just thinkin of what i can do to make d world a better place leaves me tingling. We are all capable of making change big or small. We are all special to be born with 10 fingers and 10 toes.

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Why I don’t hate Metal Core

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I’ve been away from the better part of the blogosphere for some time.Reason:I flew from Colombo to Minnesota and it took a decent amount of time preparing to leave,leaving (meaning flying)and some more time to getting settled.So anyways,I am back and I am ready to blog.
Most of the time-here on metal cracker-I write stuff that is [...]

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It’s the biggest factor which will determine your blog’s success or failure!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

What? Simply said, it’s experimentation. Everyone knows the methodology of experimentation right? So why do most of us fail in the process of building a successful blog?
Do you experiment with your blog? Of course! Everyone does. But in this vas…

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අලුත් මීඩියා ෆෝමැට් එකක් හඳුන්වාදෙයි

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

කොරියාවේ ඉලෙක්ට්‍රෝනික් සහ විදුලි සංදේශ ආයතනය මගින් මේ ළඟදී හඳුන්වාදුන් MT9 නැමැති ඕඩියෝ ‍ෆයිල් ෆෝමැට් එක ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් තරඟ වදින්නේ MP3 නැමැති අති ජනප්‍රිය ෆයිල් ෆෝමැට් එක සමඟයි. මෙය මියුසික් ටූ (Music 2.0) පරම්පරාවේ ෆයිල් ෆෝමැට් එකකි. එනම් මෙය මල්ටි ට්‍රැක් වර්ගයේ ෆයිල් ෆෝමැට් එකකි. මෙහිදී හඬ නාලිකා (Channel) 06 ක් [...]

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Why can’t we ship Apache Rampart as a standalone module all in one ?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

This questions pops up time to time in the mailing lits, so thought of digging to the question and see why really it is not possible. I totally agree that it would really handy if we can ship Rampart and all it’s dependencies in a single mar file so de…

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Information visualisation through Microsoft Photosynth: Potential for human rights documentation?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The video below really says it all. Sadly, Photosynth does not yet run natively on a Mac, but the concept behind this information visualisation is astounding. 

I’ve been following Photosynth’s development for a while (this TED video is a very early version - the programme now has more models and more features) and the potential this [...]

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Assessing the General: How did the Pakistan telecom sector do in 2002-2008?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

A few days ago, we learned that Major General Shahzada Alam Malik (Retd.) had stepped down from the leadership of the Pakistan Telecom Authority. We believe that his seven-year tenure at the helm of the PTA merits an assessment. It begins thus:

Pakistan’s recent telecom developments constitute a South Asian success story. From two million in 2002, the number of active mobile SIMs increased to 79 million by end 2007. This is a compound annual growth rate of 115 per cent a year, one of the highest in the world, and the highest in South Asia for that period.

The full document is Pakistan\’s telecom transformation, 2002-07

We fully realize that readers, especially from Pakistan, may have varying views on whether or not Pakistan’s telecom sector was transformed, whether the…

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Never Again

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Never again will I be foolish enough to trust anybody else to make plans on my behalf. After a good 3 to 4 days of personal mayhem, I thought the instructions ‘I can share a room with J and ONLY J’ was clear. I also thought that repeated requests to ma…

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Role of Wireless Technologies in ICT4D

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

When we try to apply Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the complex development process, one main challenge we face is the development of the necessary ICT infrastructure, especially in remote areas. Most of the ICT for Development (ICT4…

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Is this the “Rajapakse way” of winning the war?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

These are the cases which have published in the “Sri Lanka Truth”. These are the clear evidence which have proved the nakedness of Rajapakse war.
Case-1-Kanapathipillay Sureskar was a carpenter from Klinochchi. He had to move with his wife Kamalawathy to Vannerikulam in 1996, when the army moved into Kilinochchi. They all moved to Vavuniya. They were kept [...]

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LTTE suicide bomber training camp from Google Earth

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

According to the Ministry of Defence, a LTTE suicide bomber training camp is/was located in the area (Thirivaiaru) shown in the image below.

It was attacked by the Sri Lanka airforce on the 30th of July 2008. The Ministry of Defence web-site has a post with video of the attack and an all important map. For [...]

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Ferrari

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Applications used: Adobe Illustrator CS2

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The Big Question…(NSFW)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

http://www.newsfilter.org/video/23128/Buttfucking_goes_Broadway/
I just love the soft gentle music which sets the mood…

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The Light

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

At the end of the tunnel is starting to shine.With regards to this - he asked me to be his sponsor. Initially, I had no clue what he was on about - but he’s been to two GA meetings so far (2/2 weeks is good!). Apparently - he needs a sponsor. And the r…

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A week of remembrance - Compelling articles and videos commemorating Black July 1983

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

 
From 23rd to 30th July 2008, Groundviews published at least one article or video a day commemorating the anti-Tamil riots of July 1983. Well over 9,000 visitors read and engaged with this content over the past week alone.
Contributions, nearly all written exclusively for Groundviews, came from award winning poets and novelists, senior Government Ministers, Members of Parliament, renown scholars, human rights [...]

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The cost of sharing

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Adding to the long list of articles covering the Global Voices Bloggers summit recently was one on The Economist that ended by noting,
“…Global Voices’ annual summit in Budapest this week, where hundreds of bloggers, academics, do-gooders and journalists from places like China, Belarus, Venezuela and Kenya were due to swap tips on how to outwit [...]

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The Drummer Orgy

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Atleast I’m sure that I’ve gotten RD’s attention if not a few searches that might end up looking for “Drums” + “Orgy” + “Sri Lankan”.
Well this post has been stuck in my heads Draft bin for some time, and like all things in life it’s running out of space, so I thought what [...]

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Exception: Unable to load DLL ‘vjsnativ’:

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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8 LTTE cadres killed in fighting : Palamoddai

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

At least 7 LTTE fighters were killed in fighting that ensued between the Sri Lanka army and the LTTE yesterday, in Palamoddai region. 8 bunkers built by the LTTE in the are have been overrun by the troops. 58 division infantry units moved into LTTE hel…

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Beware the White Van

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I have always been disturbed by the way this country is run. I have been at a loss for words to describe what I feel. Because I always felt it should be described in specific socio political neoclassical modernistic and God knows what jargon. Explained…

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Batticaloa Lagoon-image by trueteller

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Batticaloa lagoon image by Trueteller,master photoshop guru (trueteller [at] gmail.com). pix was taken in Feb 2008 ,following a day trip to Batti by Trueteller..await his up coming photo-blog.

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How to kill a racist

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I mis wrote my line “Sinhalese of this day and age are true Sinhalese people”I am not saying that this is today’s situation, it is NOT. For SURE.And it won’t be until, we let them believe that.If you wanted a child to stop doing wrong, you don’t tell t…

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Sinhalese burnt Tamils like Christians burnt witches

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I think talking about 83, is like telling Christians about the catholic church burning people in the middle ages. I think the key is to isolate today’s people from those who lived then. The sinhalese who live today are true Sinhalese, and not racists w…

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2008 අගෝස්තු 01 දින සිදුවන අර්ධ සූර්යක් ග්‍රහණය

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

හෙට සවස ඉර බැස යන්නට මත්තෙන් සවස 5.00 – 6.00 අතර සිදුවීමට නියම්ත සූර්ය ග්‍රහණය දැක බලා ගැනීමට ඔබටද අවස…

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Download this book, absolutely free!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.

IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These “tethered appliances” have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all times, and digital video recorders have been ordered to self-destruct thanks to a lawsuit against the manufacturer…

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Hiking in Hantana

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

For most university students, what ever university or faculty they may be studying in a trip to Hantana is seen as their inauguration in to local varsity culture. As tradition has it at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, a hike in Hantana is always the f…

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සුවසැරිය episode 15 - රහස් රෝග…

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

image courtesy orangeacid
“රහස් රෝග” ගැන ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ කතා කරමු. ලිංගාශ්‍රිත රෝග වලක්වා ගැනීම කළ හැක්කේ කෙසේද? ඒ වායේ ප්‍රධාන ලක්ෂණ, ප්‍රතිකාර මොනවාද?…
(Podcasters: Dr ශාන්ත හෙට්ටිආරච්චි, ජානක සුනෙත් බණ්ඩාර)

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පුරවැසි මාධ්‍යවේදියකුගේ සටහන්

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

සුනන්ද ෙද්ශප්‍රිය
මල්වතු නාහිමි වාරණය කිරීම
මල්වතු නාහිමි හමුවී ජනමාධ්‍ය මර්ධනය පිළිබඳව ජනමාධ්‍ය සංවිධාන පහ නියෝජනය කරමින් මාධ්‍යවේදීන් පිරිසක් සාකච්ජා කලේ පසු ගිය සඳුදා ය. එම සාකච්ජාව පිලිබඳ පුවත ආණ්ඩුවේ දිනමිණ පුවත් පත පළ කලේ මල්වතු නාහිමි වාරණය කරමිනි.
ජනමාධ්‍යවේදින්ට එල්ලවන තර්ජන ගර්ජන නිසා සිදුවිය හැකි විපත් ගැන එහිමියන් වදාළ කරුනු ආණ්ඩුවේ දිනමිණ සහමුලින්ම වාගේ [...]

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Spider Man 3 Logo

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Get the PSD version of Spider Man 3 logo.

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කලා කෙත episode 05 - සිත් ගත් හඩ

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

“විවාහයෙන් පසු මුහුණ දුන් අභියෝග, දරුවන්ට නම් තැබූ හැටි” ප්‍රවීන මාධ්‍යවේදිනී සුමනා නෙල්ලම්පිටිය මහත්මිය කරන අතීත ආවර්ජනය….

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Anarkalli’s sister!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

You never knew she had one?

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News Letter 2

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Applications used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

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News Letter 1

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Applications used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

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Keep both of your Twitter and Plurk accounts functional with Ping.fm

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

When Plurk came out, I found it as a fun, innovative way of keeping in touch with friends - so, I just had to try it out. But it was impossible really hard to make sure the functioning of my Twitter account as well as the Plurk.
Why?
But first, why w…

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Mellencamp

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Santa Monica, CA USA 2007

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