amma's puttuIf you are connected to Jaffna in someway and if you are not addicted to puttu, I am sorry, but I have to tell you that something is wrong with you! For most of the people from there, technically puttu is the staple food. When questioned most people tell me that staple food is rice, but when people from ...
The following is the presentation done by yours truly at Nudpam conference held in Jaffna. What I have here is the English version of it. On stage what I did was a Tamilish version of the same.Each one of us would definitely have had experiences where we get in to a certain type of work and loose sense of whats ...
In recent times I had been experimenting on how to start a presentation. I decided that the traditional way of starting a presentation or session by saying that 'thank you very much for the opportunity' and ' I am glad to be here' was too mainstream and a waste of the precious 'honeymoon' period with the audience.By reading through some ...
During the January 2013 Yarl IT Hub's community meet up we had a session on augmented reality. The highlight of the session was a demonstration of an implementation of an augmented reality application by Sujewan.The above application from a technical sense worked really great and Sujewan has done a great job taking in to consideration that its an individual undergraduate ...
I have a friend who is a brilliant photographer, on any given day gazing at his album would lighten up my day and I am sure it's lightening up the days of many other people too. Usually his pictures generate comments in hundreds, one day one of the comments read- "I wish I had a camera like yours to take ...
Today when we were travelling we had an interesting discussion about the present halal controversy. Ranjan explained the controversy by saying it appears that the main issue that's being sold to people is that non Muslims are being unfairly made to pay for the cost of halal certification.My opinion was pretty simple. I said when you want to feed a ...
I've always had a great fondness for train related pictures. A simple search for the keyword 'train' on this blog will reveal more than 5 posts on the same topic. So today I adding one more in black and white.The picture captures the tablet being passed to the train driver.I am made to understand that its a fool proof system. ...
The results of the global mobile awards for 2013 was announced by GSMA at the mobile world congress yesterday and the "Chok Chok Chok" application picked up the awards for the best advertisement and the best application.Its an application which has been in the news for the last couple of weeks after its stunning success in Hong Kong. It has ...
During the last two weeks I had got accustomed to the habit of listening to audio books during my train and bus journeys. I had always had this weakness of not being a good listener. When given a choice between reading and listening I would always choose reading. But for a change I wanted to utilze my walking time and ...
Few weeks back when I was taking a stroll around Kandy town, I noticed a colorfully decorated three wheeler ( aka tuk tuk) with 3 foreign passengers coming to an abrupt halt in the middle of the road. I was thinking "Poor souls, welcome to Sri Lanka". I expected them to panic but what unfolded in front of me was ...
During the youthful days of our generation the list of sporting legends of our times included the likes of Marion Jones, Lance Armstrong, Andre Agassi, etc. Media portrayed an image that what happened to our earlier generation in the form of East German doping scheme would never repeat and with the amount of testing involved sports were clean now. Only ...
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Yarl IT Hub banner with the YIT logo created by Kajan placed in the middleIts been an year since Yarl IT Hub commenced work. During the last month of 2010 we had the logo competition within the community and right at the stroke of the dawn of 2012 we came in to existence with a logo created and selected by ...
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Round: RequirementsPlace : Kokuvil Hindu College, JaffnaDate: 26th of October 2012Sponsored by : Virtusa, WSO2 and hSenidOn the 13th of October 2012, 14 teams turned up for initial workshop at Sarvodya center in Jaffna. Weather gods decided to do a tensile test on the location and we started with a rain interrupted session. To be honest it was bit of ...
Before you start reading the rest of the post please do remember the following unwritten rules about Yarl Geek Challenge.1. Think out of the box2. Playing it safe will give you an average score, having average scores will not make you win!3. So remember there is nothing to loose and everything to gain, its a competition for you to take ...
Seated around a table at queens cafe peering over a mind map some of Yarl IT Hub's Geek challenge organizing team members turned themselves in to a team and tried to apply a fictitious concept of "Mobile based early warning system" through the rounds of Yarl Geek Challenge. As the prospectus explained (https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-PqEkLVNu-EUndzMHhSZUw4c28) its a 5 round competition.So what the ...
They are turning out to be good models now! At the same time slowly managing to get on my mother's nerves with their mischief. But then mischief is quiet obvious with those blue eyes!
Just a few weeks old but they are quiet good at posing!
The German story Rewind ten years back Europe was a growing Economy and Germany was referred as the “Sick man of Europe”. In 2002 Germany’s economy grew by a mere 0.2% and it was the slowest rate in the whole of Euro zone. The unemployment rate was soaring and the chances of a recovery looked very slim.Fast forward to today, ...
After a fairly long sabbatical from blogging yours truly makes a return. So I am back again to blogging daily. Not that I am good at it or its worth for someone else, I kind of felt a vacuum during the sabbatical. On most days I penned down something and left it in the drafts. Currently left with about 12 ...
