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THE CYBORG SPY
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!You may know that I am a robotic enthusiast, hobbyist and a great lover of intelligent machines.Thats my field,I can't help it. But I'm not insanely obsessed with robots! [Or am I? Just kidding.]But my question is how long would it really take for an activist group against the use of robots for experiments to ...
A small portion of my life....
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 I know you well enough to say that you're bugged with something... Of coz unlike most other people I know, instead of your face and your words, your published work has always been the reflection of your inner self. and even that is not straight forward!! You always hide your emotions in a cyclone of (almost) irrelevant words within your work. I should say that ...
THE CYBORG SPY
In case you haven't seen the first ever robot movie star.Keep Blogging
Where the Lions fans gather..
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!
Clown Syndrome
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 182. What ? what did you say? oh you stupid fuck, I can listen to any fucking thing I want you know. (Just so you know)
One small thing, If you think you have any of my audio CDs, please return them. There is no such thing as ‘I can’t live without music’. But I sorely miss that overwhelming feeling.
Fucking hell! and my Rammstein is ...
Clown Syndrome
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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කල්පනා (Port of Thoughts)
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 [...]
Ephemeral Ruminations
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, bringing up all manner of stuff that causes shifts in moods that are often counter-productive to equanimity. The night-sounds are particularly loud and go on virtually ceaselessly through the night, as the crickets, cicadas, frogs, night birds and other nocturnal critters get their cycles going. And if you’re like Java or me, you will find a kind of rhythm and music in the sounds ...
Lanka Rising
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 ...
සඳැස් නිසඳැස්
හැම තැන අවුල් වියවුල් රට විෂම වෙලාපැවතුන මිතුරැ ඳම හොඳ හිත ඉවත් වෙලාලස්සන රටක් ඇයි මෙතරම් කුරිරු වෙලාපිලියම් යොඳමු ඳෑ හැඟුමින් එකතු වෙලාඳෑ අභිමාන හැඟුමින් හද මඩල පිරීඑක මුතු හරට එක්ව්න්නට මොකද බැරීපිරිසිදු අවං කම සිතිවිලි වලින් පිරීමිනිසුන් ලෙසින් අපි යමු මාවතට හැරී
Beyond Borders Sri Lanka
From the Lakbimanews Magazine “Unreeling views and Ideas of Youth”:
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.
As the clip came to an [...]
Agni
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 and the lawmakers in other countries seem to not have given first preference to the suffering masses, but to other thoughts. The Generals: to remain in power. The politicians of some countries: how can we use this situation to spread our version of “democracy”.
...
Nazly's BLOG
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 ...
දෙඤ්ඤං බැටේ | Dennam Betey
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 not willing to write in Sinhala in computer environment?
groundviews
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 chance to shine
I wonder whether it’s the testosterone drain
that give men the jitters when age is on the gain
I need to wise up and control this mind game
Or else I will end up a stupid old man
Dig not my heals in the old men’s club
When science of Descartes takes the quantum leap
Calling it mumbo ...
Prasanga's Weblog
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_ ampara road.sell rooms is not this fair and water, sanitation facilities are not.two accident were happened in this place.
local government authority did not attention this fair develop. most of people discussed with chairmen of local government authority (bibila pradeshiya sabha) this problem. this local government is poor. because pitakumbura fair is not develop by this authority
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among my swan
“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 days ago, which I found very unsettling and offending. The second situation was a surge of hate views I came across on the web towards a young actress/celebrity, who posted pictures on her Myspace wearing short shorts, bathers etc.
Before I start: This is not an attack on those whose beliefs differentiate from my own. This takes that ‘belief’ system, and allows ...
Wasaa's Weblog
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the evil that was going on. He decided to send an ...
A sHe MiNd!!!
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 an earlier post. And what i forgot to tell there (because it never occurred to me that much until now) is that we 4 are from 3 different races. But it was never a big deal to me. sometimes it was kind of hard when it came to dress codes and parties because i have some restrictions there, but my friends understood that and ...
ඩනිෂ්කගේ දිනපොත
ශ්රි ලංකාවෙන් ලොවට දායාද කළ අනගි නිදහස් මෘදුකාංගයක් වන "සහන Sahana" දැන් සිංහලින්. මෙහි විශේෂත්වය වන්නේ ආපාදා කළමණාකරනය සඳහා කැපවීමයි. 2004 වසරේ සුනාමියේදි පටන් මෙවන විට ලොවපුරා ආපදා අවස්ථාවන්හිදි අදාල සහන සේවාකටයුතු කළමණාකතනයට මෙහි වටිනාකම අද වන විටම මුලු ලොවම හදුනාගෙන ඇත. එපමණක් නොව අද ශ්රි ලාංකික නොවන මෘදුකාංග සංවර්ධකයින්ද සහනට සවිය දෙන්නේ එහි නොමිලේ ලැබෙන සේවය නිසාවෙනි.කියවලම බලන්න විකිපිඩියාවෙහි තියෙන තොරතුරුඇගයුමට ලක්වු අවස්ථා... * Free Software Foundation Award for Social Benefit - March 2007 * BBC TV Documentary the "Code Breakers" * Sourceforge Project of the Month ...
Dialog TV Forum
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.
Chitrangi's Weblog
“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 threatened and intimidated voters.
“At almost every station stuffing is taking place” said Sunanda Deshapriya an official with the independent Center for Monitoring Election Violence. The group called for a revote at least in the worst - affected areas.
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thinkfree
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
Chitrangi's Weblog
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 standards of free and fair elections and on that basis alone. As elections involve all citizens it is not possible or advisable to separate one section of voters from others when it comes to the issue of monitoring. It must be said to the credit of the Sri Lankan voter that by and large, the voters know how to distinguish in voting for ...
Wasaa's Weblog
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 boring
If you don’t, she accuses you of double-crossing
If you are well dressed, she says you are a playboy
If you don’t, you are a dull boy
If you are jealous, she says it’s bad
If you don’t, she thinks you do not love her
If you attempt a romance, she says you didn’t respect ...
Court Jester
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 ones, I was not quite certain what to make of them. Finally light dawned when I was reminded of an old nursery rhyme, the first verse of which goes like this:Home on the RangeOh, give me a homeWhere the buffalo roam,Where the deer and the antelope play;Where seldom is heardA discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all dayChorus:Home, home on the rangeWhere the deer and the antelope ...
Messiah of madness
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 on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…“!!!!
Apparently, a neighboring house is having some kiddie birthday party…
It’s an established fact that I don’t like kids and I’m pretty sure the feeling is mutual. It’s that age… around 5-6… they are just snotty, evil imps!
Recently at a funeral… a 5 year old boy made me wish it was I who was being buried 6 ...
The Circus
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.
Court Jester
The election for the Eastern Provincial Council has been concluded. I have long taken a dim view of these Provincial Councils: all they do is add another layer of unnecessary bureaucracy to an already inefficient administrative system. If anyone know what value the provincial councils add to the public let me know. As far as I can see they are little more than vehicles for the lining of the pockets of corrupt politicians. In my opinion we should abolish the damned provincial councils, simplify the administrative work and distribute the remaining administrative powers between the centre and the municipalities of the towns and villages concerned, with resultant savings in administrative costs and the cost of running elections. ...
Wasaa's Weblog
>Sardar: I haven’t slept all nite in the train.
>Friend: Why?
>Sardar: Got upper berth.
>Friend: Why didn’t u exchange?
>Sardar: Oye! There was nobody
to exchnge in the lower berth.
come to his
college.
>You know why?
>Because he wanted to check
where the question paper is leaking.
>Santa! Your daughter has died!
>Depressed, Sardar jumps from
100th floor.
>At 50th floor he remembers I
don’t have a daughter!
>At 25th floor he remembers I’m
unmarried!
>At 10th floor he remembers I’m
Banta not Santa!
him:
>”Darling ! On our engagement
will you give me a ring?”
>He said:
>”Sure ! What’s your phone number?”
question ever.
>What will come first, chicken or
egg?
>O Yaar, what ever u ...
දෙඤ්ඤං බැටේ | Dennam Betey
Yet another 'crucial' (to whom it is crucial is questionable) election is over and as usual winners take it all while losers cry foul. This is part and partial of Sri Lankan elections and when these 'losers' come into power they totally forget what they have been through and easily forget to set up powerful independent bodies to hold elections. They speak against malpractices only when they are at the receiving end. We can remember the days of UNP and CBK where hundreds and thousands of votes were rigged and laws were grossly ignored. Why cry only when you are in the opposition? The present regime too will cry foul if and when they are in the opposition. Till that ...
Wasaa's Weblog
“The unthankful heart discovers no
mercies; but let the thankful heart
sweep through the day and, as the
magnet finds the iron, so it will find,
in every hour, some heavenly
blessings!”
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, Author
metalcracker.com
Before I go into anything,my deepest sympathies go out to 13 year old Hannah’s family.Hannah committed suicide and blame is being put on My Chemical Romance.Rest in Peace Hannah.Read this article for more.
To keep it simple,I am not at all sorry for My Chemical Romance,the articles say their lyrics promote self harm and suicide.Honestly I can’t be bothered to research on their lyrics and their “subliminal messages”, ’cause they are MCR and they are not metal.EMO is not metal!But as you can already some newspapers,web sites and even some rock magazines making this controversy that’s been there for a long,long time into a money making machine.You remember my line-controversy creates cash (That’s actually Eric Bishoff’s line).What I am trying to ...
Wasaa's Weblog
1. Guys don’t actually look after good-looking girls. They prefer neat
and presentable girls.
2. Guys hate flirts.
3. A guy can like you for a minute, and then forget you afterwards.
4. When a guy says he doesn’t understand you, it simply means you’re
not thinking the way he is.
5. “Are you doing something?” or “Have you eaten already?” are the
first usual questions a guy asks on the phone just to get out from
stammering.
6. Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep,
they always think about the ...
Dinidu de Alwis
Godaya commutes. Almost two hours each way, every day. When one lives around 60 km away from work, one has to do that. The office bus (which for some weird Italian-influenced reason is called City of Verona) is one awesome place.
When you spend almost four hours with a bunch of people, they kind of grow on you, and become second family. Which has happened with the “citizens” of City of Verona. Last Christmas, we had a Christmas party. We celebrate birthdays with high spirits. We have a wedding coming up. We have become second family.
To use a cliché, we’re so tight, we make spandex look slack. And to (mis)quote from the movie Bruce Almighty, the bus is like one big ...
ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace)
Some data and programmes used in and from CMEV’s election monitoring platform.
Email updates sent during the course of the day - 15,500 via local SMTP server
Data sent (via ADSL) - approx. 750Mb
Data sent (via SLT 3G HSPA) - approx. 150Mb
Data received (via ADSL) - approx. 1Gb
Data received (via 3G HSPA) - approx. 200Mb
Websites and services used - WordPress, Google Maps, Twitter, Internet Archive, Technorati, Reinvigorate, Facebook
Programmes used - Quicktime 8 Pro (podcast recording), Garageband (podcast production), Safari 3.1, Firefox 3 Beta 5 (running on projector in operations room with key information), Skype, Call Recorder for Skype, Twhirl, Maxbulk Mailer
Programmes that failed - CC Publisher (hugely unreliable ...
Deane's Dimension
It seems the Pillayan group(TMVP) a break away (still-armed) group of the Karuna faction a break away faction of the LTTE, who contested under the government's election symbol and patronage seems to have won the elections in the Eastern province after reports of ballot stuffing, voter impersonation and overall violence. In short, surprise, surprise, the government and it's armed buddies have rigged the election.Surely, someone has to call it right? No? See, it's often mistakenly thought there's a war against terror in Sri Lanka. Nonsense. Most Sri Lankans, the ruling party and particularly the president is fine with terrorrism as long as the terrorists are on 'their' side.Official ...
Wasaa's Weblog
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1 . Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2 . Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
3 . Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
4 . ! ...
first evillage in Ruhuna
D.A.Rajapaksha Sports Complex at the Beliatt has been renewed upto the Internetional level.Now Athletes from rural area can experiance the modern facility and use this ground for their practises. This year National Athletic meet has been sheduled to hold in this ground. A swimming pool also has been constructed just closer to the Beliatta Technical Collage.
ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace)
The problem with cloud computing is two fold.
One, the assumption based on the marketing spiel and hype that surrounds it that nothing will ever go wrong with data stored on and accessed via the Internet and web. Two, when something awry does occur, the almost complete inability for cloud services and products to continue functioning with even reduced functionality. Google Gears and Adobe’s AIR may offer some relief, but the WordPress outage for over 2 hours this morning (SL time) was a sobering reminder than reliance on hosted / cloud solution comes at a price - when things go wrong, one is at the complete mercy of the service providers.
CMEV’s blog went down with the WordPress outage. ...
Random thoughts on tech and other matters
Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday"Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites."Cool. Can't wait to get my hands on this one.
Maheshsandaruwan
no woter no life. we need woter to dirin bath and wash.plants connot grow without water.Then animals can have no food, no leaves no grass. and we will not have fruit,vegetables or meat. we need water for everything. without water we will die
Indrajith
The farmer in the village do not know English therefore they are not able to find solutions of diseases in cultivation. We hope to do give the knowledge in English to them and providing Internet facilities
The Circus
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, United Kingdom -- Today we bring you a conversation between Darth Teddy and Kahuna from several months ago when the anaconda keeper was being a public nuisance in the greater Watford area. Darth Teddy is an ardent Manchester United fan and—like others of similar disposition—considers Old Trafford to be the Holy Land. The allegedly cuddly one spends significant time engaged in religious observances, including but not limited to drooling over wonder boy, Cristiano Ronaldo. Woe be unto those who interrupt Sunday football or badmouth the Red Devils. Naturally, this zealous faith leads to the frequent irritation of Kahuna, and this instance was no exception:Darth Teddy (DT): Now what's bitten you?Kahuna (K): ...
Ishara14's Weblog
Coral reefs In the southern
part of our island,especially aroundthe coastal towo of hikkaduwa coral reefs are a common sight. these coral reefs which are made up of the skeletons of millions of tiny sea creatures are also a sight of beauty and interest. A big weight of coral is broken off every
yearby those who live around fir the pupose of making lime and cement.
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