Thank you for being a great month to me.April was horrible to me, with exams and assignments effectively ending my social life. Gahness galore. But we finished off uni, got two months of vacation time and the past two weeks have been insanely awesome and very very productive.Stuff I've been involved with:Reach OutThe fact that a woman can't travel in ...

Platonic love is underrated. This is what I told a friend of mine who had just broken up, to comfort her. Don't we always struggle with that special person whom we really really love, but don't know if we're meant to be friends or lovers? What is it with being lovers that is so attractive anyway?It's rarely ever the physical ...

Why do lecturers insist on doing this to us? Giving us assignments that fall so out of our scope of knowledge that we're left with no option but to steal shamelessly. Maybe this is about shame. Maybe this is to condition us, to make us understand the grim reality that we'll probably never write an original block of code in ...

So, good old SLIIT is going through exam season these days. The common rooms are crowded, and the staircases are full of last minute crammers with books and papers lying all around. :) My exams so far have had mixed results, PS was a miss and SPD was a definite hit.So, remember me saying we might have World Cup coverage ...

The sheer volume of stuff we have to memorise for this final is astounding. From obscure statistical formulae to the intricacies of various routing protocols to the exact code needed to write certain Java applets (which even the lecturer admits is an outdated technology) to godforsaken Bash scripts.It's all too much. And I'm more concerned right now about how good ...

This (Facebook note) was inspired by the Tumblr post Date A Girl Who Reads (by Rosemarie Urquico) which GG had posted on Facebook. :) Disclaimer: I'm NOT an Emacs user. ;)Date a girl who codes. Date a girl who spends her time on Stack Overflow and not TMZ. Her computer's fucked because she messed with the kernel too much, not ...

This post is not really about cricket. But for the record I'll just state that I enjoyed the match and as one of my friends said, "It was a game befitting of a final, unlike 2007". How very true.But I have to instead talk about a duller and murkier topic than run rates, field placements and Poonam Pandey's knickers. There ...

Let Dilly make balls evade the stumps, as easily as he did todayLet Upul flirt with the ball, batting as gracefully as a Left-hander ever couldLet Sanga be the rock of the innings, while everything around him burnsLet Mahela continue to make me wish I batted Right-handed ;)Let Thilan miss no more sitters!Tell Angie to lay off the lasses, for ...

I was reading an article about introducing your better half to Linux. It's something every geek goes through: having to pick between their girlfriend and their favourite operating system (good thing most of us are hopelessly single! :P ). But in all seriousness, weaning off Windows isn't that hard.My Desktop at the momentThere are obvious categories of people that this ...

I've been a bit busy in the past few days. And things will only get more so, with exams approaching. I'm kinda excited about the things we're learning these days, bar the antics of a certain Statistics teacher who has wild mood swings. We're learning regular expressions next week! Things I've heard about for such a long time, and we're ...

WallpapersCan you find one wallpaper for Linux that doesn't have a penguin or a gnu in it?You don't have to use the command line in Windows, ever(...because it's underpowered)Anything runs on WindowsEven scripts off some random site that some script kid in Russia copy pasted together to steal your personal data. M$ loves 'em script kids!Windows never asks for the ...

...are probably the nicest, most graceful, intelligent, beautiful, forgiving, mature, loving person I've ever met. And I'm lucky to have even met you.There are three things that I suck at very badly. Saying 'Thank You', saying 'Sorry', and saying what I feel like, for real. Every single time I put up a stupid update about some programming thing, or some ...

Remember my little obsession?So, I got to uni a liiiittle early today, and even though the sky was cloudy, I was greeted to this outside the windows:Look just below the clouds and just above the towers...After a bit of messing with levelsAll photos courtesy of my friend Heshan, who saved these images for posterity with his camera phone. Thanks mate! :D

Those of you who subscribe to the Sunday morning rag sheet would've have seen the good name of my Alma Mater being dragged through the mud. With it, the shadowy world of prefects and the ragging that they receive as the initiation ritual have come to light.No right to hurt your brotherI am lucky enough to attend one of the ...

So, more tales from the second year. :D A bit earlier than I expected, but stuff happen, you know? ;)When Stephen Bourne created the Bourne shell (sh) in 1977, it introduced radical features like the much celebrated shell scripting. But it had some severe limitations, including the lack of expression grammar (try incrementing a variable in a sh script, or ...

So, hello there after a long long time! :D It's been almost two and a half months since I last posted, so I'd like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year first!So, yours truly and his friends have now been elevated to the rank of second year students, tasked with keeping the peace and giving the first years a ...

The main intention I had when setting up this blog was to share coding related stuff and other content that would be deemed boring and too tech-y for my other blog. The following post is about an accomplishment of mine that I'm very happy about, and this seems like the perfect place to share it.Software Technology was my favourite subject ...

ඉස්ඉස්සෙල්ලාම ලැබුවාවූ 2010 නව වසර කිරියෙන් පැණියෙන් (දෙජාතියේම පැණි හොඳේ! හික්ස්!) පිරුණු සෞභාග්‍යමත් වසරක් වේවායැයි පතනවා! :Dමට අනාදිමත් කාලෙක ඉඳල සිංහලෙන් බ්ලොග් එකක් ලියන්න ලොකු ආසාවක් තිබුන, ඒත් කරුමෙට වගෙ මට විජේසේකර යතුරු පුවරුව අල්ලගන්න පොඩ්ඩක් අමාරු වෙලා තමයි හිටියෙ... මගේ හොඳ මිත්‍ර චතුර සහොදරයා ඕකට හොඳ විසඳුමකුත් දුන්න, ඒත් ඉතින් මම කම්මලියානෙ! වැඩේ වුනේ නෑ කොහොම හරි... හික්ස්! ;)කොහොම ...

I thought that I'd be good to have an own-name blog, to share any work related stuff that may crop up in the future... I'm going to keep this inactive for now, but let's see how it goes... :)Got nothing much to share at the moment, so bye for now!