IIHE's team of ICT students: Club ICT have made arrangements to celebrate The Software Freedom Day, on Saturday the 17th, at the university premises. According to the organizers, the event will comprise of four major lecture sessions. The lectures are to cover the following areas:Why Free and Open Source software and Why people should care about itInstall ...
The Common room, or "Students' area" in my uni (as branded by the students themselves, lecturers and even the minor staff), accommodates all the half-broken computer chairs, tables, the legendary Table Tennis gear and some tennis balls with bats. Also, this got a wooden floor for those dance geeks who are willing to move themselves into the tunes of Salsa, Jive, ChaCha or whatever they ...
Arvind Gupta, head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT division / IT Cell, a key figure in installing the former Gujarat Chief Minister Narenda Modi as India's 15th (Current) Prime Minister, has been hired by the Sri Lankan Government, in steering & strengthening President Mahinda Rajapakse's social media strategy. The nerve centre: Arvind Gupta inspecting his team in BJP's digital ...
The year 2010 started off by giving the incumbent president HE Mahinda Rajapakse a landslide victory over his former Army commander Gen. (Rtd.) Sarath Fonseka. At the aftermath of this Presidential Election came the General Election for which almost half of the registered voters, were boozed out and had almost forgotten to cast their votes! Then came the price hikes ...
L - Bhathiya Jayakody - R - Santhush WeeramanNot definitely with a quest to build an entire 'Entertainment Empire', these two youngsters embarked on a journey, something catchy but dubbed with actions that attracted a lot of criticism from many corners in the society. They were singing/communicating to them Sri Lankans who were 'sandwiched' in the society, between those elite ...
Emmanuel Kelly auditioningat X Factor Pic Courtesy:Channel 7 SuppliedTGIF! Yeah.. and I'm more than happy that I didn't worry myself too much, even I was told to come home via the most hectic bus routes. Simply, I managed to catch the bus :) and that "Langama" bus was awesome which made me to tweet couple of times, with the hashtag #langamarox. As soon ...
FB is facing growing Govt scrutiny in Europe, America, India, when allegations came out last week (2018), by a whistleblower remarked that 'Cambridge Analytica' - a British consultancy, had improperly accessed user data, to build profiles on American voters, which were later used to help elect Donald Trump in 2016. Since last week's allegations, FB has lost close to $ ...
Following an interview with PM Ranil Wickremasinghe, India's NDTV had tweeted (mis)quoting the PM "In principle, we have agreed to full autonomy to Tamil areas, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe tells NDTV". Interestingly such statement has neither been recorded in the video clip nor mentioned in the article published in their website. Amidst the continuous requests on NDTV to ...
War does not achieve any good, even with whatever good reasons to start one. (examples: religion, ideas) In other words, there are no good reasons to wage a war. But there are certain parties who remain with broken hearts, as others finish off, these types of "beggars' wounds". They feel like getting the utmost revenge out of them who had ...
Why would Emirates send their crew to a football field - to do a demo in front of 65K Benfica fans? It's one of those usual stunts (by sponsors) you could see in a football game, but this time it's awesome, simply coz the activation blends in with Football - in this case, with S.L. Benfica of course, its enthusiastic ...
A ride in a “Langama” bus is always a thrilling, unmatched fun. I have reasons to count on the above statement as the 55 year old uncle who is living by my house recalls his memories as a school boy where they were given an old, red TATA bus as their school bus. However, a ...
Planning and implementing is two different fields that has to be molded separately. But there are living things who do these with great sense of achievement . Founded in 1835, The Royal College has been an educational institut
It has been tragic and even awful to hear these kind of stories. Besides anyone can question what is wrong with our people. Some weeks ago all the porn sites that could be viewed by the Sri Lankan internet users were banned or bl
For the food, especially for Burger lovers, this has been the most amazing news besides all the somewhat great dining deals that are offered by Pubs, star-graded establishments, restaurants, tea lounges to coffee shops and other fast food joints, during this Christmas season. Burger King; which was teasing the Sri Lankans' taste buds for a pretty long time with their ...
Almost after two months, I was thinking of writing a post on the 'much anticipated' Bradby Train & the Second Leg of the Bradby. However, thanks to the load of presentations, mid terms and assignments I not only missed the golden opportunity to get into the Bradby Train which was railed after 20+ years, but ...
I hardly go through my Reading list which appears at the bottom of my dashboard. As the number of blogs I follow falls less than the number of fingers in both hands, without much effort I could track certain stuff posted in those blogs.Interestingly
We Sri Lankans celebrated yet another New Year! For Sri Lankans, the traditional new year dawns, as 'the sun' makes the move from Meena rasi to mesha rasi, giving fresh thoughts, ideas full of prosperity, to the well being of the society.Thi
According to O'Leary; Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity. Charging for toilets continues to be the number one story that resurfaces in the press and it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Although this radical CEO + Marketing Director claims that they’d never done it, he claims it keeps coming up on social networks ...
