Today I got an opportunity to attend a research symposium organized by Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa as a result of an invitation forwarded to Virtusa who was one of the co-sponsors of the event. It made me remember my good old days at university and also I realized that I see things different now as a person ...
This is linked to my previous post In this blog post, I would also like to share this awesome post I found through internet, I have no idea who the actual writer is but am grateful to him/her for presenting it, exactly what we all need to , but could not better. Have you ever watched them sleep? —————————————————- ...
I love my parents and dedicate this post for them. Not only for them but also to all the parents , who strives hard daily for their children loving them unconditionally. The title of this post is “pure love”, and it is exactly what I wanted to write about: pure love: The love of parents . Parents are like this ...
Considering about one’s career in today’s world, we will have 3 options. 1. Be a big fish in a small pond 2. Be a small fish in a big pond 3. Ride your own car with your own petrol I have been in all 3 above , and I see all 3 have it’s own pros and cons. In 10 ...
Practising mindfulness (which is non-judgmental present moment awareness) helps us cope up with difficult situations. This photo is from a mindfulness workshop that I attended to. In this workshop, participants were given a tiny leaf and asked to focus on it for a few minutes, giving it their full attention and feel what they notice, To acknowledge the fact that, ...
Fix extracted from the discussion at https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207006938-RStudio-freezes-when-saving-or-loading I must have messed around too much with RStudio Version 1.0.x in Ubuntu 15.04 , that all of a sudden it started being frozen whenver I try to load a script, by File-> Open or Ctrl+O. However, I could still open them through the file manager or by double clicking on the file name ...
Today I was frustrated to find that I could not log-in to Windows anymore since it has started to give me a blank black screen only showing me the mouse pointer after prompting me for log-in credentials. One resolution suggested for this issue is to remove any devices connected to the machine while boot up and try restarting. For me ...
The best days of the year for both adults and kids in Sri Lanka fall in 2nd week of April. It is the period we have Sinhala Hindu New year : the traditional celebration of new year. It is the period when all irrespective of the age and wealth come together with the family and cherish the time together all ...
The breeze of a new year,is around the corner. Being in Sri Lanka, last year I was late to feel the breeze. This time, being in Melbourne, Australia we are the 5th, according to the timezone details below. http://www.worldtimezone.com/newyear.html (No, Sri Lanka is NOT a part of India, though it is listed under India, We are neighbors). I was fortunate enough to ...
Sometimes, I hear people claiming, I am specialized in Computer Engineering, but I am not fond of coding. For me it is like saying, ‘I know a lot of recipes, but I don’t like cooking’ or ‘I can compose beautiful music, but I don’t like playing them or singing’. The beauty in programming I find it fascinating to learn a ...
I was not at all a fan of Microsoft Excel . But, when you work with data and data comes in many forms , be it in Excel : YOU DEAL WITH THEM! . The task I was working on included a number of Excel files which contained data in a fixed format. Imagine a set of Excel files on ...
Double Helix, certainly kept me hooked. Tucked among the books on theories on genomes, sequencing and molecule structures, I found this gem at the library, a narrative written by James D. Watson on the discovery of structure of DNA for which he and his partners, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in ...
