There’s pro blogging. Then there’s typing stuff the voices in your head comes up with and putting it on the web. This blog is in the second category. Of course there’s a middle ground between the two. It’s harder to navigate. Resulting in middling half baked words. Unless you are incredibly disciplined in using your…
Politics Purges of those suspected of links to UPFA defectors (assuming they weren’t plants in the first place) Mithreepala is sentenced to hard labour in solitary confinement or appointed prime minister for his loyalty (if you are into conspiracy theory) Government’s legal position is always backed up by the Supreme Court Ministry or department for…
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 [...]
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 [...]
This post is the result of suddenly deciding to take the photo below. Its cover of of the only book by Philip K Dick I own which sums up the genre of alternative history fiction. Its a genre whose subject matter fascinates me and whose writing frequently disappoints. The disappointment stems from work that leave […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I suppose you’ve got the whiff of news about the recent discoveries of natural gas and oil. IF the deposits are the sort of gushers that bring big fast cash, I hope the results will be something to be optimistic about. Yet such optimism is hard. Oil and gas and tropics are not a good [...]
According to my calculations Sri Lankan Blog aggregator kottu.org is 10 years old today! The domain name was first registered on March 17, 2005 though that’s not an indication of a “launch date”. Kottu.org has certainly come a long way it lurched onto the scene. Some of us oldies certainly have fond memories of it. Head wear…
If reading is a form of travel, Ryszard Kapuściński’s “Travels with Herodotus” is a multifaceted journey. A fund read. An insightful non academic introduction to a literary classic – the “Histories” by the Herodotus. A travel book through the painful days of post colonial Africa. A meditation on the nature of journalism via an ancient…
Sinhala language display capability on OS X has improved. It actually readable since I last whined about it 3 years ago. All that’s require is installing Nick Shank’s Mac version of Malithi Web (there are other fonts for those with the time to Google further). Its easy on the eyes on my Macbook pro running [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Invariably its the head light of the oncoming train. The tunnel is safer when its dark and eternal. When all you got is your own dying flickering candle. Is this pessimistic or just metaphorical judo with a dash of Murphy’s ? I’m too dim (this is a tunnel after all) and hurried to peer further [...]
A new theme in less than a month. Not a very good trend. Last time there was a 5 year gap between such changes. The problem with being a minimalist is that small things end up mattering. Specially when there isn’t clutter. I loved the typography of the previous Syntax theme. What got me were […]
Lipton Circus in Colombo is a frequent staging area for the theatrics of political demonstrations. Perhaps one of the few things we Sri Lankans are consistently good at. Colombo has very few public spaces such as Times or Tiananmen square. As you can see from the google earth screen shot in this post, the circus [...]
Kalusudda, an active, positive presence in the Sri Lankan blogosphere (2008-2009) has died in what appears to be a terrible mishap at sea. His wife has posted the sad news on his blog. He died saving the life of his brother. Unaware that he was a father to be. I read his wife’s post with […]
Video of the possible situation in the Führer bunker under template trees. Hilarious piece of satire. Some of the captions are quite long. Pausing to read them is worth while. Possible the best version of the Hitler rant meme I’ve seen in a long time. I usually don’t post youTube stuff people send to me…
I’m sure you have heard a version of it at some point in your life. No? Lucky you. Growing up I used to hear its variations of this sentiment about as frequently as bomb blast during the war years. Not very often. Just enough to stay in the mind. Thankfully voiced by non immediate family […]
I was meaning to write a long piece of how this is a metaphor for life in a 21st century feudal society. But why bother when the photo already has the 1000 words. Express yourself in the comment box below. Safe driving over the 31st night period and arrive sober to a happy new year.