IIHE's team of ICT students: Club ICT have made arrangements to celebrate The Software Freedom Day, on Saturday the 17th, at the university premises. According to the organizers, the event will comprise of four major lecture sessions. The lectures are to cover the following areas:Why Free and Open Source software and Why people should care about itInstall ...
Emmanuel Kelly auditioningat X Factor Pic Courtesy:Channel 7 SuppliedTGIF! Yeah.. and I'm more than happy that I didn't worry myself too much, even I was told to come home via the most hectic bus routes. Simply, I managed to catch the bus :) and that "Langama" bus was awesome which made me to tweet couple of times, with the hashtag #langamarox. As soon ...
The Common room, or "Students' area" in my uni (as branded by the students themselves, lecturers and even the minor staff), accommodates all the half-broken computer chairs, tables, the legendary Table Tennis gear and some tennis balls with bats. Also, this got a wooden floor for those dance geeks who are willing to move themselves into the tunes of Salsa, Jive, ChaCha or whatever they ...
Sri Lanka Cricket’s Interim Committee members appeared before the media today (20). Sujeewa Rajapakse, Treasurer to the SLC, Nishantha Ranathunga, Secretary to the SLC, Eshana De Silva, Acting Chairman of the SLC and Ajith Jayasekara, the Chief Executive Officer of SLC were present at the head table.In today’s media briefing, Secretary to the SLC (Sri Lanka Cricket), Mr. Nishantha Ranathunga ...
Hashan Tillakaratne, who was acclaimed as a defensive batsman in the then Sri Lankan batting line-up, is keeping onto his ‘signature batting style’ though he had retired from one-day cricket in 2003!The cricketer turned politician of the opposition, Tillakaratne claimed that match-fixing had been rampant in Sri Lanka since 1992. He also said that he was determined to reveal the ...
Sri Lanka's Number one sports website: ThePapare.com is at the verge of throwing out a campaign, in recruiting new reporters, writers, photographers, videographers, producers, production co-ordinators and aspiring marketers. The campaign titled, "The Hunt is on for 'Paparites'" will go online, in the coming weekend and may be around next week. The main obje
'Tesco', has already planned to build up an advisory board, made up of school children, aged between nine years to 12 years, in helping with the supermarket chain's 'Tesco for Schools & Clubs programme'. The said advisory board will include six 'young entrepreneurs', as they prove they have a talent in making decisions, and sensory vision ...
With much intensified hopes and expectations, a 109 strong Sri Lankan delegation flew to Guangzhou to take part in the 16th Asian Games on the 11th of November. The same number returned to the island with shattered hopes and neither a single medal nor record breaking performances, in their respective events. The Sri Lankan delegation which took part in the ...
If you are a regular online enthusiast, you may come across various characters, stuff and many interesting topics to discuss and share upon. Now I'm gonna share one of those 'believable' set of information, I received via email, just two hours ago. It is recommended to share this amongst your loved ones and spread the message whenever ...
The year 2010 started off by giving the incumbent president HE Mahinda Rajapakse a landslide victory over his former Army commander Gen. (Rtd.) Sarath Fonseka. At the aftermath of this Presidential Election came the General Election for which almost half of the registered voters, were boozed out and had almost forgotten to cast their votes! Then came the price hikes ...
Almost after two months, I was thinking of writing a post on the 'much anticipated' Bradby Train & the Second Leg of the Bradby. However, thanks to the load of presentations, mid terms and assignments I not only missed the golden opportunity to get into the Bradby Train which was railed after 20+ years, but ...
A ride in a “Langama” bus is always a thrilling, unmatched fun. I have reasons to count on the above statement as the 55 year old uncle who is living by my house recalls his memories as a school boy where they were given an old, red TATA bus as their school bus. However, a ...
I hardly go through my Reading list which appears at the bottom of my dashboard. As the number of blogs I follow falls less than the number of fingers in both hands, without much effort I could track certain stuff posted in those blogs.Interestingly
We Sri Lankans celebrated yet another New Year! For Sri Lankans, the traditional new year dawns, as 'the sun' makes the move from Meena rasi to mesha rasi, giving fresh thoughts, ideas full of prosperity, to the well being of the society.Thi
Developing a sensitive analysis for multiple production companies is initially difficult. But, if the person involved in the development process is co
War does not achieve any good, even with whatever good reasons to start one. (examples: religion, ideas) In other words, there are no good reasons to wage a war. But there are certain parties who remain with broken hearts, as others finish off, these types of "beggars' wounds". They feel like getting the utmost revenge out of them who had ...
The posters do spread a message! Well, that's the whole idea behind pasting those papers and covering every possible inch of others' walls. Before the 26th of last month
Planning and implementing is two different fields that has to be molded separately. But there are living things who do these with great sense of achievement . Founded in 1835, The Royal College has been an educational institut
