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Some of the best writing on the recent arson attack on MBC / MTV studios comes from two renown voices in the Sri Lankan blogosphere.
Indi’s article The Media War is a very good counterpoint to the analysis of given by Dayan Jayatilleka in my interview with him yesterday when I asked him about the egregious decline in media freedom in the country. It is also a post that has generated a lot of interesting commentary, with points suggested by A Voice in Colombo for example that cannot be easily dismissed.
In MTV/MBC - Looking back, Dinidu takes a impartial look at the arson attack noting that,
Sirasa was different in their reportage. When all the ...
Eyeliner and I
When I die
And the angels come for me,
In glory ridden gold flecks
halos and arms outstretched
They will grasp and lead me
to clouds and conversation.
Or perhaps as the light goes out
The energy I posses will too.
Leave quicksilver and possess
The womb of a kind woman
And begin cycles again.
Who wants to know what I believe?
Beyond Frame
බලන්න එපායැ හම්බන්තොට පාරවල්. අනේ ඇස්වහක් කටවහක් වදින්න හොඳ නැහැ කිරි ටිකට තියෙනව.
මේ නිකම් කිචේට කියන කතාවකි. ඒවාට සම්මාදම් වීමට අප ලෑස්ති නැත. හම්බන්තොටට හොඳ පාරවල් ලබා දුන්නාට අප අමනාප ද නැත. හෙල්පින් හම්බන්තොට ගැන නව අවනඩුවක් සමග අලූතින් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට යන්නට වුවමනාවක් ද අපට නැත.
හම්බන්තොටට කාලයක් කාගේවත් පිළිසරණක් නැතිව කුඩම්මාගේ සැළකිලි ලැබෙමින් තිබුනු පළාතක් නිසා අද එහි දක්නට ලැබෙන සංවර්ධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපි දු සතුටු වෙමු.
මේ නිසා අපට ඇති වූ අදහස නම් ජනාධිපති පදවිය පළාතෙන් පළාතට මාරුවිය යුතු බව ය. එවිට හැම පළාතක්ම මෙසේ දියුණු කිරීමේ ඉඩකඩ ලැබෙන බැවිනි. මේ සඳහා ව්යවස්ථා ප්රතිපාදන වුව ද ඇති කළ හැකි ය.
වාර්ගික අර්බුදය විසඳීමට ද ඒ මගින් හැකි වනවා ඇත.
පළාත් සභා දෙකක චන්ද පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත බැවින් මේ දිනවල ආර්ථික අහේනියෙන් පෙළෙන ආණ්ඩුව ...
A sort of beautiful, not quite insane Mind
First video I've posted -Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Nandana Mihindukulasooriya's Blog
Brusten Philip & Van der Velpen Jan have published a nice list of frequently used SSL commands here.
A sort of beautiful, not quite insane Mind
Am I the only one who hasn't see that Airtel ad? :(*Checks utoob.Whee. Music is apparently by A.R. Rahman. Coo... If I buy one I get a conference call with SRK.AS you might have noticed, yesterday was a completely unproductive day. I got more work done while fiddling with my phone trying to get it out from under me, having fallen asleep on top of it, this AM.Must go find someplace to go register a new SIM. A place which doesn't have a queue that stretches all the way to the moon. They let you apply with five numbers, it seems. So I can try stuff like 0757-7JERRY, 0757JESTER, GERALD, WETCAT and ...
Rantings in Colombo... :I
Office is having a free Hepatitis check in 5 minutes. Thought I might as well get my lil' ol' liver tested, just in case. But...but...it's 25ml of blood.Blood.Needle.Raaaarrrgh! gibber gibber! I hate needles! I hate the prick and the slow withdrawal of my life sustainance. arrrgh! The redness....I'm scareeeedddd...........You cant make meeee...n oooo nooooooooo....
my world my ways my ideas
mm well this post is meant to the guys and girls who have done or hope to do A/L Arts in Kadda(or as many people know, languages)people who hope to do languages pls read the admission hand book issued by the University Grants commision before selecting the subjectsand for pple who have got good results, think before you apply for the university. for the languages pple, mainly there are 4 unis. Pera, kalaniya, Colombo and Sabaragamuwa. let me tell you about each of these as far as i know.Peradeniya Vs Kalaniya- you have got loads of subjects ...
indi.ca
I’m reluctant to post this. Kottu has always sorta been self-supporting. The server bills have gone up in the past year, but not dramatically. The code is a mess, but it works. As Notorious B.I.G. said, ‘mo money mo problems’ and Kottu has avoided that. However, the community has sorta stabilized at a certain size. Bigger is not necessarily better, but I think it might be better for Sri Lanka and us if blogging began to enter (and hopefully divert) the mainstream. I also see a lot of village bloggers appear and drop off and I know that they need more support. To that end I drafted a small business plan and applied for a grant from the ...
P E R C E P T I O N S
One of my subsidiary goals for 2009 is to increase the volume of fresh leaves I can grow and deliver to my customers, as well as giving them a choice of about 20 varieties from which to choose. If I have a dedicated vehicle just to deliver the leaves and have the order forms filled with customers leaving the money for their order in their homes, I can actually have this service more organized so I can deliver to multiple locations as many times a week as the demand and supply fit.Before I get in over my head with the ambitions to grow more varieties of leaf ...
Dare to be different
In what was described as an audacious commando style operation a terror squad numbering 12 - 15 masked men in civils launched a crippling attack on the premises of MTV/MBC Radio Television transmission station and media studio.
The group carrying assault rifles, shotguns, grenades and pistols had arrived in two white coloured vans and a land [...]
Conundrum
Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA is Dead; Long Live ServicesSOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”.The above is an interesting observation by Anne Thomas Manes. Actually, SOA isn't really dead, it just reached the "trough of disillusionment" in the Gartner Hype Cycle. The hype is gone, along with all the unrealistic expectations, which means that things can only move up from here towards enlightened adoption.Enterprise mashups will pick up from this point, with other service dependent architectures. Finally, real adoption instead of hype ...
TamilNet
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 January 2009, 02:05 GMT]In a totally Heinous act that can only be described as repeat of the Tamilstinian Holocaust of 1983, the 100% non-Terror supporting TV station Sirasa Tv owned by Non-Communalist Tamils was attacked by a group of 20 Armed Sinhala men with automatic weapons and Genocidal Intent™ on their minds. The station was attacked in the wee hours of the morning and the Sinhala Genociders entered via the main gate taking the staff hostage while they proceeded to trash the valuable equipment and setting fire to the main control room. A grenade was detonated in ...
my world my ways my ideas
well good morning guys and girls..well thought of continuing the X Y stroy after getting some comments. untill then, i got a strange map to share with younote that Sri Lanka is listed in the middle area, just above China..
London, Lanka and drums
Like everyone in the Sri Lankan blogosphere I am aware of and have been reading the latest trolling type blog that appears before our eyes as the Maharajah of Bad.Now, calling Mr Maharajah a troll is something I do with a large dose of hesitation. Why? Well because to me a troll is someone who goes around slagging people off, generally causing trouble and angering innocent folks while doing little else. It's as obvious as a baggage porter at BIA that the Maharajah has caused some trouble and pissed off a few bloggers, but I think there's much more to the fellow than just that.I'm a bit Oscar Wilde in this too. While I'm of ...
Dinidu de Alwis
I was woken up at 3:00am yesterday to break the news onto the site. And then I did the story, which is today’s lead. Read it here.
At the onset, I’m not a fan of MTV. Neither do I hate them. I don’t have time to watch over a TV channel to develop either a love, or hate relationship with either. But I’m made to understand that most do.
Sirasa was different in their reportage. When all the channels were giving “Ranaviruwo” kind of biased romanticized reporting, Sirasa was either following a removed stance, or a pro-UNP agenda. To say otherwise, or to argue that they (or any other media in this country, for that matter) is unbalanced, is naivety at ...
Life in Taprobane
Israel invades Palestine and the whole world watches. 75% of the country plunges in to darkness – there is no electricity, no running water and there is no medicine. Tanks roll in, screams of agony fill the air, silencing the Israeli air attacks. Blood splatters paint the landscape while the tears of women and children soak the land. No one sees and no one hears the cries for help. No one seems to hear the screams of pain. There are hundreds of innocent Palestine civilians killed everyday, but no one cares. The World is quiet. The World is gone deaf and it’s gone blind. Deep within, it knows the bitter truth, but no-one utters a single word against Israel and ...
jagath dheerasekara
Thirlmere Lakes National Part is a part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. This park's five reed-fringed freshwater lakes, abundant with waterbirds and surrounded by quiet patches of forest, are among the last undisturbed lake systems near Sydney and have enormous scientific value. The massive Greater Blue Mountains regiona was declared a World Heritage in December 2000. It covers one million hectares – around twice the size of Brunei. Half of it is wilderness. Eight conservation reserves make up the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area: Blue Mountains National Park, Wollemi National Park, Kanangra-Boyd National Park, Yengo National Park, Gardens of Stone National Park, Nattai National Park, Thirlmere Lakes National Park, Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve. The Blue ...
Mahasen does blogging
My previous job was at a small software firm. They had no software development process at all. There was couple of people who mainly interacted with the customer to get the requirements. They spend few days with the customer discussing; and then sit with the developer for half an hour and ask him to write it! No documentation; no diagrams; no nothing. Write this. Once in a while they’d check what’s going on; show the customer what’s going on and change few things here and there and that’s it!...Needless to say; we never made correct estimates; we never delivered what we initially thought the system was and very little number of customers came back. The applications were not ...
සුදාරකගේ අන්තර්ජාල සටහන
අද අලුයම සිරස මාධ්ය ආයතනයට එල්ලවූ ප්රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් යෙදූ සටහන හා එයට ලැබුනු ප්රතිචාර සලකා බලා. එම සටහන යොදා ඇත්තේ මාගේ නොදැනුවත් කම නිසා බැවින්, ඔබේ ප්රතිචාර හරහා සත්යය තේරුම්ගත් බැවින්, එම සටහන ඉවත් කරනු ලබන අතර, මා නිවැරදි කිරීම සඳහා ඔබ විසින් ලබාදුන් ප්රතිචාර ස්තූති පූර්වකව පිළිගනිමි. එම සටහන නිවැරදි කරමින්, සිරස මාධ්යයට එල්ලවූ ප්රහාරය තරයේ හෙළා දකින අතර. මෙවන් ප්රහාර මින් ඉදිරියට කිසිදු මාධ්ය ආයතනයකට එල්ල නොවේවා යන්න මාගේ ප්රාර්ථනයයි. ප්රතිචාර දක්වාලමින් මා නිවැරදි කරන ලද ඔබට ස්තූතිවන්ත වන අතර සිදුවී ඇති දෝෂය හේතුවෙන් ඇතිවූ අපහසුතාවයන්ට සිරස නාලිකාව හා සටහන කියැවූ ඔබ සැමගෙන් මම සමාව ඉල්ලා සිටිමි. මෙවන් නොදැනුවත්කමකින් යුතුව මින් ඉදිරියට සටහන් නොකිරීමට වගබලාගන්නා බවද මෙයින් දන්වා සිටිමි. බ්ලොග් අඩවිය සමඟ රැඳී සිටියාට ස්තූතියි
තවත් ලිපි
April ...
Indran Amirthanayagam
INAUGURATIONI have no wordsto competewith rainor sunlight,or the brushof your hairon my brow.I am humbledbefore beautyand this chanceto lead a nationout of delusionwith self and others;but I remain unelected,acknowledged onlyby a few readersof psychosis,the notion that word becomes flesh,we accept by rote,at Mass,a divine mystery,but ignore the manon a soapboxwho reads his ya yahs out at the BoweryPoetry Caféon Sunday morningat 9 am duringa marathon readingto welcome the year,to say, World,you’ve still got poetsto kick around. ...
Dream into Reality
One of my blog readers asked me if I had a New Year resolution either personally or for my business. In my case personal and business is the same as it is the lifestyle I have chosen that intertwines both inextricably. That’s in a way easy to say but difficult to achieve. Actually since I returned to Sri Lanka at the end of November 2004, my resolution has broadly been unchanged and I am still on course albeit exceedingly behind schedule.I want to build a small agro based enterprise, where I directly supply my own and neighbors’ products direct to consumers. Anyone interested can be my paying guest visiting and staying at my establishments, enjoying the fruits of ...
groundviews
“There will be times when organised violence has to be exercised as a last resort. People will resist with violence. States will use violence against various foes. But there is a right way and a wrong way to use violence.”
Watch Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka’s first video interview, conducted over Skype, after presenting his credentials as Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland on 6th June 2007.
Topics discussed in our interview ranged from future scenarios arising from the capture of Killinochchi last week and media freedom to international relations and the timbre of democratic ...
Navigating on balance
Story about a man who is convicted of murdering a police officer, sentenced to death and subsequently after the man dies after the sentence was carried out facts are unearthed which reflects the innocence of the man already dead. The 120 second video speaks so much about how sensitive a tool the death penalty is and how many people can be sentenced to death even when no blood is in their hands.
Unprotected Thoughts
Kalu-Suddha is a common term in Sri Lanka which has the same meaning of Twinkie or Banana in Chinese culture, yellow outside and white inside, or Oreo in the hood, black outside and white inside. And it has the contrary meaning to "Marmite Sandwich" in urban language - White outside and black inside. Direct translation of Kalu-Suddha would be "black-Caucasian". An insult to any none-Caucasian fan of Caucasian society or Caucasian ideology. And Anagarika Dharmapala used that word a lot.
Anagarika Dharmapala is a great hero; I learned when I was kid. Or rather they forced me to learn that just like everything else. He was born in a time Sri Lanka was one of the richest countries in Asia ...
Cerebral Ramblings
Just finished watching Changeling and it was brilliant!It touches on my favourite subjects: the human psyche, the common revolution-oriented concept that humans in organized society often find themselves victims in prisons of their own making, and... conspiracy theories! Yay.The movie, directed and produced by Clint Eastwood (woot!), and starring the Oscar-winning Angelina Jolie, is based on a true story. The story, based on life in LA in the 1920s, is simple and mind-boggling in its simplicity: Christine Collins (Jolie) is your average 1920 working woman, and one day, her son goes missing. The LAPD claims to have found her son after 5 months of searching. ...
I am the Wings
ඉස්සර දවසක, මල් පිපුණු රන්වන් උදයකමට මුණගැහුන ආදරණීය සමනළයෝ ...පියාඹා යන්න මට නොපෙනෙන රටකටසුමුදු සුකෝමල නුඹේ ඔය අත්තටුබර වැඩියි මේ මගේ තනි හදවතට ...දිවිමගේ දූවිල්ලෙන් විඩාවක් දැනුණු විටනුඹව මතක් කර සිනා නගන්නම්,පුලුවන් වෙලාවක රෑට හීනෙන් ඇවිත්මගෙ කඳුළක් අරන් යන්න.
Lanka Libertarian
while corrupt hypocritical bloggers like indi.ca (same as padashow.wordpress) talk about media freedom while not publishing comments (as he has a right to do) that point out verifiable errors in his latest deranged post called "media war" (don't worry disgusting sleazebags like him will continue to be exposed elsewhere), here is some good news for all those who "dick around" with their computers and queue up to "buy the latest shiny thing" from steve jobs. :-)video 2.37 min...
apelogic
I do not give a fuck about Sirasa, and I say "well done"Sirasa never represented me, for me it was just another anti Sri Lankan media source. So, if it was not there for me and stand against me at the A9 issue and you know the rest, why should I play the kind hearted "gay" and give my ass to Sirasa when they blow it up?This was just what I was waiting for.
REBELZZART
THE BIRDS OF PRAYROAM IN THE SKIES.THE PAINFUL STAYREST FOREVER IN OUR LIVES.OUR MOTHER LYING COLDWITH SCARS ON HER SKINTHE BLEEDING SOULLEGACY OF OUR KINDTHE NOISE OF THE SHELLSMADE OUR EARS DEAFTHE MEDIA WHICH SELLSBLINDED OUR EYESBODIES LIE CRUMBLEDRESULT OF MASS MURDERPEOPLE HIGHLY GULLIBLEMAKE THE REALITY MORE SEVERE.MINDMINE ON MY HEADMINDMINE ON MY HEAD.
Lanka Rising
Since 1505, the western colonial invaders strategically demolished our traditional education system that was based on our core values and strengths. They established Catholic missionary education system in order to produce ...
indi.ca
Same shit, different day
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one that doesn’t support the war. It used to be a reasonable position but now, with all this land. I don’t know. On a pretty fundamental level, I think war is bad. Killing people is bad, no matter what they’ve done. I mean, as a Buddhist that’s pretty much the first precept. I guess you can’t always do that, but I think we might at least feel bad about it. What I don’t get is not the actions, but how desensitized everyone is. Like, I think it’s bad that they check your ID to see if you’re Tamil. I think it’s bad that hundreds of thousands are ...
apelogic
සිරස ට එල්ල වූ ප්රහාරය ගැන මොකද කියන්නෙ? කවුරු හරි මගෙන් ඇහුවා, මගෙ හිතට එකඟව මම කියන්නෙ, හොඳයි. ටිකක් පරක්කු වෙච්ච එක තමයි අප්සෙට් එක.මම කියන්නෙ සිරස ගැන විතරයි.සිරසට එල්ල වූ ප්රහාරය මාධ්ය නිදහස ට එල්ල වූ ප්රහාරයක් ලෙස මට නොපෙනේ. ඒ ඇයි?සිරස ප්රවෘත්ති සැපයීමේදි පක්ෂ වාදි විය, ත්රස්තවාදය සාධාරණය කලේය. එසේ නම්? දැන් සිරසට හෙණ ගහපු වෙලාවේ මම දුක් වෙන්නෙ ඇයි? බොරුවට සර්ව සාධාරණ ප්රකාශ ඉදිරිපත් කරලා බ්ලොග් පුරවන්නෙ? හිතේ එකක් තියාගෙන වෙන වෙන දේවල් ලියන්නෙ මොකට ද.මට සතුටුයි. සිරස කවදාවත් මා වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී හිටි බවක් මට මතක නැහැ. සිරස පෙනී හිටියේ මට විරුද්ධව. මම දැන් සිරසට වුන විපතට සතුටු වෙනව.A9 මාර්ගය නැවත විවෘත කරවන්න සිරස දැඟලුව මට මතකයි. A9 විවෘත කලා නම් අද ...
LIRNEasia
A new service where patients can consult doctors over webcams is starting up in Hawai’i. The full article discusses weaknesses and strengths.
Patients use the service by logging on to participating health plans’ Web sites. Doctors hold 10-minute appointments, which can be extended for a fee, and can file prescriptions and view patients’ medical histories through the system. American Well is working with HealthVault, Microsoft’s electronic medical records service, and ActiveHealth Management, a subsidiary of Aetna, which scans patients’ medical history for gaps in their previous care and alerts doctors during their American Well appointment.
The Hawaiian ...
සුදාරකගේ අන්තර්ජාල සටහන
මං කියන්න ඕනේ නෑ නෙව. ආරන්චි ඇති නේ. ඔන්න ජනතාවගේ නාලිකාවට මැර ප්රහාරයක් එල්ලවෙලා. දැන් පැය 24ම Breaking News. හරි ෂෝක්! මං හරි ෂෝක් කිව්වේ මේ නාලිකාවට ලැබිලා තියෙන දඬුවම ගැන. කිලිනොච්චිය මුදාගැනීම ගැන විශේෂ ප්රවෘත්තියක් දාන්න බැරි මේ ජනතාවගේ නාලිකාව, දැන් පැය 24ම Breaking news දානවා. මරු වැඩේ. ඇත්තටම කාටහරි කරදරයක් වුනාම හිනාවෙන්න හොඳ නෑ තමයි (කට වහගෙන සිනාසෙමින්…) මොනවා වුනත් ඉතින් මේක මාධ්ය නාලිකාවක් නෙව. මට මේ වෙලාවේ මතක් වෙනවා හොඳ විද්යාව පාඩමක්.
නිව්ටන්ගේ තෙවන නියමය - යම්කිසි ක්රියාවකට සමාන වූද, ප්රතිවිරුද්ධ වූද ක්රියාවක් ඇත.
මාධ්ය ආයතනයක් වුනාම, තොරතුරු සන්නිවේදනයේදී යම් කිසි ක්රියාමාර්ගයක් අනුගමනය කරන්න අවශ්යයි. විශේෂයෙන්ම මේ වගේ කාලයක මහ ජනතාව කුපිත වෙන විදිහට තොරතුරු සන්නිවේදනය කරන එක යෝග්ය නෑ කියලයි මම හිතන්නේ. ඒ වගේම, තමන්ගේ යටි අරමුණු මුදුන්පත් ...
Dilly-dallying
i can't seem to sufficiently express my sentiments at the state of affairs around me lately. so i'm borrowing these lyrics by NOFX, who i think have put it better than i ever could at this point in time."it's not the right time to be sobernow the idiots have taken overspreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?Mensa membership concedingtell me why and how are all the stupid people breedingWatson, it's really elementarythe industrial revolutionhas flipped the bitch on evolutionthe benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummerthe world keeps getting dumberinsensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reasondarwin's rollin over ...
A Perfectly Perplexing Conundrum
My mum has gotten it into her head that food cooked in 'Matti pots' (Clay Pots) are much yummier! Therefore, she brought some all the way to Saudi from Sri Lanka. They were all intact (Surprise!) when we came here and now she has 'seasoned' it and has cooked today.When I walked into the kitched, I burst out laughing and had to run and get my camera and snap a picture... A Matti Pots on a burner. If that isn't a sign of changing times (and my mum's crazy tendencies), I don't know what is! =)Edit: How the hell is a girl supposed ...
Shaakunthala's Geekbook
It looks like our troops have missed some LTTE base... LOL... :DOkey, big big thanks for reading!Here are my other blogs that are pretty good to read.ශාකුන්තලගේ සටහන් පොතShaakunthala's Blog at UCSC LODGE
Shaakunthala's Geekbook
Ohh my head! The examination season has arrived!! PHP, XML, AJAX, Multimedia, Software Engineering, Business Statistics, bla bla bla... ohh... what a pain..!!!Looks like I'll have to resign from this blogging and Internet fun stuff for some time :( . I have done nothing for this semester... hey palz... බැචාලා... help me... please...! Business Statistics and Operational Research... what's that?? I don't know even a single word of that subject. Kuppies kuppies... please help,... F1 F1 F1 !!!PHP, XML, AJAX and all that web development stuff are pretty cool.. then Flash, Premire, and Photoshop.. ohh Kuppies please F1! Software Engineering is somewhat OK, and oh shit.. I did nothin for Marketing subject.. It just came into ...
