I arrived in Sri Lanka in the early hours of today and hardly pulled my self out of a quick nap to go to office in the morning. For the last few days I had been deprived of my sleep and in total for the 4 days, I would have slept barely 10 hours. So when I walked in to ...

Have you noticed people who are confident and quiet sure of their own personality, the type of people who would not be scared to do what he believes is right instead of thinking what the others around would think. These are the type of people whom I call as people with intrinsic value. They might not hold titles that would ...

As soon as I step out of the airport in Jakarta I meet this very pleasant and extremely chatty lady at the cab reception desk. After she gets the taxi arranged, she asks me where I am from? Even this question she can barely put across, but after some stumbling I understand her question and reply, Sri Lanka, she replies ...

Usually when it comes to taking sunset pictures at the time of sunset we are supposed to turn the camera towards the sun. In rare cases turning the camera in the opposite direction gives a better feel. Before this I had this weird experience at Sarankot where we had to look in the opposite direction of the sun set. This ...

After hours of walking we reach the peak of Hantana and we see this cat living happily at the peak. I soon as he saw us this is what he did,suicide attempt 1Another suicide attempt. This time it was the tail first.Then he decides to live and take a career in modellingok, now I Know to strike a pose!

I should be ashamed to say that I had not hiked to Hantana after being so long in Kandy. Anyway no longer anyone could laugh at me for this! Today we did a hike and the weather gods for some reason decided to be kind to us. We went around following the arrows all along the way. Made a wrong ...

Recently I bumped in to this book with the weird name, Yes! - Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive. I didn't know what to expect, but it was a different kind of book. Written based on psychological experimentation.I would rather think for a person in Sales its a good to read. It will help to analyse the customers ...

Today I am in no mood to blog. But from morning I had been reminded about 15 times of the movie Aiyirathil oruvan and its climax scene. When I watched it few years back I was puzzled, but now things are more clear and I know what others had known long time back.With time I had come to admire the ...

When at school I had too many questions to ask and one of my teachers told me to go and find out the answers in the library. First I tried the dictionary, but it gave only the meaning but not the detail. While I was walking around trying to find a book, which would explain the term, our friendly librarian ...

Paradise is known to be a place which has intelligent politicians. Today we had been advised to stop using all American based products including gmail and google. I think this is one of the best advices even by our standards.For starters let me try to help you with the full list of technologies we need to boycott from today, facebook, ...

First it was Kolaveri which went viral online. Now its Kony, the similarity is that both talk about "Kolaveri" when translated reads as killer rage!The video has started a big debate on "Why after so many years?", is it to make it look like "US forces on ground in Africa to be a peoples choice" and another lot says that ...

YIT has now uploaded the videos recorded during the event to the Yarl IT Hub video channel on youtube. We were not planning to make a full recording but JK insisted us to make a recording. So did a recording with one of the camera's supporting video recording. Its not complete and its not the best of quality, but atleast ...

The only time I remember a results for the big match was during the Murali and Kalpage era, when I was in Junior school, we lost the match before lunch on the second day. Rest of the matches were all draws. During my school days I had come to the conclusion that big match having outright wins were a thing ...

Rahul Dravid's name is dominating the cricinfo and other Indian news sites today. For unknown reasons, its hard for me to still believe that Rahul Dravid was a modern day cricketer. For me he is more like a stereotypical nerdy Chess grandmaster. In a team which is full of macho men Dravid was the humble human being who went about ...

The kind of people who call themselves as bloggers are the ones you should be very careful with. When a blogger is around you should remember the following,1. On days in which they do not have anything to write about, you could be their victim2. In their stories, if they do not have a villan, your name could end up ...

Last Sunday night when I was returning from Jaffna although I booked for a non-AC bus, it turned out to be a bus with AC system and the guys opted to switch it on and off whenever they felt they needed some AC.Unfortunately for me the AC tank above my seat was leaking and water was dripping from it. So ...

After all the entertainment the last segment of the meet up was an erudite panel discussing about cloud computing. Vimal set up the stage for the cloud computing discussion by explaining cloud computing in laymen terms. He took the case of the system crash during cricket world cup finals ticket sales. Then explained why they should have taken the cloud ...

For me this program was the highlight of the whole meet up. Three mind teasers were thrown to the audience. For example one of the questions were,You’ve got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. You must pay the worker for their work at the end of every day. If you are only ...

So as promised the yitmeetup was streamed live from Jaffna. We could get about 70% of the program streamed and rest lost due to technical hitch. You could view the recorded streaming at http://www.livestream.com/yarlithubThe program started with Apple's think different video.Followed by two presentations by Lukshica of University of Jaffna and Saenthan a student of IIS City Campus. Both described ...

Its one of those days where you go to sleep feeling so happy. The inaugural event of Yarl IT Hub was a grand success. Felt so good and happy to have been here.A big thank you to Dr. Charles the Head of department of Computer Science at the University of Jaffna, Mr. Vignesh the Chairman and Founder of IIS City ...