The government has streamlined the application process for personal social media access. Key points of the new requirements are the centralisation of the place to submit documents, reduction in the number of supporting documents and a single simple application form. Even those convicted of association with banned organisations such the LTTE, SLFP, CPA, Groundviews, and [...]
Avoid going insane. Everything else is detail. Naturally there are challenges and such things create rules. It helps to pay attention to them. For most, the first hundred years is an orgy. It is downhill from there. By your first millennium you better get used to the fact that civilisations rise and fall faster than [...]
We all have artefacts that have weird effects on out inner selves. Pictured in this post is a personal artefact that has become a mental equivalent of a ball and chain. It’s a detail of a heavily hand edited printout of a story. Too long to be “short”, too brief to be called anything else. [...]
The only evidence of my clandestine visit to Geoffrey Bawa’s Colombo house at No 11, 33rd lane is the panorama pictured below. Its made up of photos I quickly shot from the upper level of the roof top terrace – “The Tower” as its called. An interactive version is on my profile at dermandar.com – [...]
The only evidence of my clandestine visit to Geofry Bawa’s Colombo house at No 11, 33rd lane is the panorama embedded below. Its made up of photos I quickly shot from the upper level of the roof top terrace – “The Tower” as its called. An interactive version is on my profile at dermandar.com – [...]
Feels like its been a while since I logged in to clean out the spam. Then it hit me that I haven’t spat out a post for almost a month. Though I prefer not to look at the records, it feels like an obscenely long time. The Rhythmic one’s Are You Still Blogging post also [...]
Change/mutation/evolution is the only constant. Quite often it is hard to notice. Particularly in Sri Lanka where nothing seems to change until we suddenly realise that it has. 5 years (1827 days) after my first blog post even a blogger as thick and dim like Cerno can notice the mutations in his blogging. The most [...]
Lanka Transport Technology Emporium: ltte.lk t56.lk terranvista.lk (groundviews.lk forwards to rentacar.lk) xxx.lk and obviously, sex.lk Foundation for Analytical Research and Teaching (just use the first letters of the main words and add .lk. They keep a low profile after a brawl but still provide funding under the Foundation for Analytical Research and Teaching Scholars program.) [...]
Geo blogging humanises geography. It does by plugging in tools like geo tagged photography, Google Earth or Google Maps with blogging to share personal/human context/meaning of places that are otherwise just impersonal symbols on a map. It adds (hopefully) a human/cultural layer into maps. Something that’s been impossible at a pre internet/social media scale. I’ve [...]
Organisers of a book burning protesting the Galle Literary Festival have highlighted environmental credentials to gain demonstration permits. The spokesperson for the book burning denied their environmentalism is a tactic to get media attention. In a media release the organisers said : “We genuinely care about the ecological impact of free speech, democracy and politics. [...]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog based on its whimy stats. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 47,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 17 [...]
Reorganising the living room bookshelf gave me a panoramic wide angle view of my relationship with books and reading. At one level, I regretted my love of books. Alcoholics among you know will know the sensation of hitting rock bottom intimately. It also felt like meeting long lost friends. The pleasant surprises leading newer, better [...]
Writing requires time for a quiet mind. Another essential luxury is the patience to string sentences together into something coherent. Having sentences slithering through the brain is just noise. Editing paragraphs of them in the head while in the shower is a waste of time and water. When you do get the odd moment to [...]
Just over 3.5 years ago I wrote a post about Illegal street racing in Colombo (punch those words into Google, click the “I’m feeling lucky” button and see what you get). The post did have a few “issues” which are hammered out in the interesting stream of comments it generated. Now street racing has become [...]
Found two interesting videos that talk about building your own radar system using cheap/discarded hardware. Naturally it does require quite a bit of brain power. However the videos themselves are easy to follow (relative to the topic at hand). For an overview of what exactly I’m talking about read my conceptual overview on how to [...]
Sri Lanka’s easternmost point, Sangamankanda (also referred to a Sangaman Kanda), sits on a wide, isolated beach with an abandoned light house. Good for an opening shot of an arty independent film. Inevitably about some sort of inner turmoil. I’ve never “heard” of this place and only came across it by a very round about [...]
Mrs C is out for lunch with the girls leaving Cerno in the hovel. Its a odd pause from usual the frenzy of life. Moments of calm like this are very rare (hence the 2 posts a month pace). When her lunch “break” came up my head was filled with an avalanche of back burning [...]
A 5 minute video has fundamentally changed Sri Lanka’s post war political landscape. It shows a successful nuclear test in the southern indian ocean by the Peoples’ Republic of Dehilwala Navy (PRDN). Independent satellite data confirmed the blast within hours of the video’s release. However it is the statement at the end of the video [...]
It makes social media feel like excrement. The brain is too tired for the horrors of television. Haven’t touched flickr in ages and I can’t the thought of a tweet. When did I last use a paint brush ? Or dared to see if the acrylics haven’t dried in their tubes. I don’t know and [...]
Lady Divine’s blog has passed the 5 year mark which is a longer time in blog years. I was going to fire a quick “congrats” comment with exclamation marks or something to that effect. But I thought she deserved something longer. Without realising it I have become a long time reader of her blog. Its [...]