MAHOtrain recently posted two posts on their views on farmers problems and solutions that they propose. This post is an attempt to continue and expand on the discussion they started. But with a slightly different view. Should the farmers problems be governments problem?. Well as far as the politics and votes are concern, yes it should be. [...]
World is running out of its energy sources. Most recent breakthroughs were simply efficiency improvements. Most renewable energy approaches such as solar, wind… are not capable of supplying for mainstream demand. Also most of them consume wast amounts of land and don’t even produce energy all day long. Nuclear fission is risky and ever decreasing in popularity. One [...] ...
These days you need billing proof for everything. Good old days of opening a bank account with just your ID and money is long gone. I was lucky enough to have my first bank account and my prepaid phone connection that way. In case you don’t know, billing proof is a piece of paper which has your name and address on it. ...
Yes! parking cost is high in Colombo. Specially if you don’t want to park your vehicle under boiling hot sun and leave one of your biggest assets at the mercy of robbers. It’s high not because some people trying to rip off vehicle owners, but because the gap between supply and demand has driven up prices. Sunday Observer recently ran ...
You may have noticed how websites like Facebook and Gmail load/update pages on browser without actually reloading the entire thing. It can come handy in your own websites specially when you need to change a small potion of the content that is already shown in the screen. Or you need to change the data shown in the page without having to reload ...
Ok! first of all I am not a very religious guy. But I do go to temples and worship once in a while. Most of that credit should go to my mother and my wife. And I normally avoid going to temples on poya days as temples tend to be too crowded, and lose their relaxing and peaceful environment which one ...
When you run a website or a blog, it is partly your responsibility to keep it safe. There are many ways that a web site can be attacked. Some attacks focus on infrastructure such as network and servers, and some focus on the web application itself. When it comes to attacks on infrastructure it’s service providers job to keep the attackers at ...
132nd installment of Royal Thomian Big Match is happening this week. But there is less hype about it this time around as 2011 cricket world cup has overshadowed it on most of the media. I too was not planing to write about it, but I noticed some increase of visitors to some of my old posts, which I wrote for Battle of ...
For many countries Internet, World Wide Web, social networks, blogs are the strongholds of democracy. In recent events in middle east they have served as the last line of defense for democracy, allowing it to fight back dictatorships and totalitarian societies. But Sri Lankan blogosphere seems a little different. It appears that some people thing that it should be more totalitarian than the Sri Lankan Society itself. Of course Sri Lanka ...
Got this link for Cricket World Cup 2011 live stream from a facebook friend. Its on espnstar website. It is relatively ad free. I gave it a try using a Mobitel HSDPA connection and quality was ok in full screen view most of the time. Stream did not break up time to time for buffering. Only problem was that the ...
This is not a post to defend Lahiru Perera, his music or anything. This just what I see from all the drama happening over his world cup cheer song ‘Enna’. If you have listened to any of Lahiru Pereras songs, you must have realised that he is not Amaradewa, Suni Edirisingha, or not even Sunil Perera or Iraj when it comes to music ...
If you have subscribed for Ada-Derana news updates, you must have received a message saying “Banners, parsals, musical instruments, glass bottles, crackers, laser lights, sharp instruments are not allowed in World Cup venues in SL”. And some time later you must have got the message “Following appeals by public IGP has allowed spectators to take posters & banners promoting cricket ...
In case you haven’t noticed this site was off the web for about a week from 21st January 2011. When I first noticed that it’s not there, I didn’t bother much as it could be a very short outage that happen once in a while with my hosting provider. However I got a bit nervous when I realized that this is not ...
First of all let me give a big thank to 46 unique viewers for watching the crappy online broadcast of our wedding. That was in fact a several times larger audience than we expected
If you have read my last few posts you should have seen this coming. However this is a big if. We are not sure if we will be able to do this until the last moment. In a wedding online broadcasting has lower than the lowest priority. Lot of thing has to come to place. We are planning to do this using a ...
Imagine you are having an event / gathering which you would like to stream over the web! Ustream might be service that you are looking for. It is a free service that let you stream and record an audio/video feed online. It basically download a small flash app in to your client computer and let you stream from any video feed (most ...
These days there is a bit of a hype about hybrid cars, mainly fueled by slashed tax. Of course they come with an interesting promise. But can we really utilize its full capacity? Main benefits of hybrids are ability to run more on less fuel, or reduced cost per km and reduced carbon footprint. This is achieved in two ways. By having an alternative energy source ...
Last day of the year! Felt like writing a post with ups and downs of my year 2010 any my plans for 2011. Here it comes…. Wedding Planning/Organizing, Big day on 2011. MSc, Dropped out of MSc, May be I’ll finish this in 2011. Royal College 175th Anniversary. Started Blogging, Moved to own hosting, Hope to write more regularly in 2011. Got three of my ...
