As I am packing my bags to Jaffna for the YIT inaugural meet up I feel a bit strange and tensed. I feel ashamed that I hadn't spoken on a stage in Tamil for the last 12 years and this is going to be my first talk in Tamil which will be accompanied by power point/projector.Its strange, although we speak ...

With the announcement of the inaugural meet up of YIT meet up. There has been a few blog posts appearing about it. I am listing the links to some of the stuff I had come across.One of the posts was from one Sri Lanka's best known blogger Indi's post on the meet up click here to read. It had some ...

The heading sounds like the prefix of my mother's name, but the post is not about her. Its about Amirtha the vegetarian restaurant in Galle road, Bambalapitya. For me its conveniently placed and had turned in to my daily dinner place. Although I had written about A1 a few times for whatever reason never came to my mind that I ...

Bridge is one of the card games which I like and admire most. I am no expert at ir and it was at university that I got a chance to learn the game. When I got the opportunity to choose between card games, given its one of those days I had a lot of time to kill ( which was ...

The following will be the agenda for YIT's meet up on 3rd of March 2012 at IIS Campus Auditorium in Jaffna.2.30 pm - 2.45 pm : Student presentation 01 (Student from UoJ)2.45 pm - 3.00 pm : Student presentation 02 (Student from IIS)3.00 pm - 3.30 pm : Introduction to Yarl IT Hub vision3.30 pm - 3.35 pm : Address ...

The inaugural meet up of Yarl IT Hub will be held on next Saturday at the IIS City Campus auditorium in Jaffna. The event is expected to have an expert panel discussion on cloud computing featuring prominent academics, Software Architects, Doctoral Students, etc. Along with that there will be sessions done by students from Jaffna, Yarl IT Hub introductory session ...

Governments hate her, insurgents hate, terrorists hate her, at every other place she has been a thorn in the flesh to them, but she seems to have been the only source of light for people caught in the cross fire and now the world has lost that light. She seems to be one of those rare souls who always thought ...

The world is a strange place, just under an year ago in Indian media the Indian cricket team was considered as saints and Sachin was the god. When non Indian cricket fans thought that the world cup final will be the grand swan song for the legend, indians were talking about him playing another world cup and quitting with another ...

In a strange coincidence the last two books that I read has had vegetarians in the main role. One was Steve Jobs the vegan and then the other one Sudhir Venkatesh the vegetarian. Both are written in autobiography style and when they mention about certain feelings which are shared by vegetarians, it makes me feel good. To know that there ...

When I was reading Steve Job's biography there was this mention that ipad was so intuitive that even an illiterate 5 year old could use it. I was all taken up by this comment and wanted to experience myself. So when I tried to use it, I couldn't really feel that it was so intuitive. While using it, I just ...

When you read certain books or watch certain movies while being in certain situations you feel so good about them. You feel as if its an all time great book or an epic movie. Getting immersed in a movie or a book and enjoying it to the max is very much subjective. I just realized it. I read this book ...

Usually I have a liking to watch Cheran's movies, specially the once directed by him. Last time when some of my friends persuaded to watch Yutham sei a movie where he plays the main role, turned out to be an anti climax. So when I started to watch muran I didn't know what to expect.It turned out to be one ...

Last few days I had been spending quiet a bit of time at hospital. Seated in a corner, I had been silently observing how medical professionals work and function.I couldn't resist the temptation in making comparison's with IT professionals.The consultant doctors were more like the trouble shooting people. Just like the guys who go on site and try to trouble ...

While I was reading freaknomics the chapter 3 on, "Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?"", was the most intriguing to me . It referred to a research work done by Sudhir Ventaketesh on crack dealers. This name drew even more curiosity since his name sounded like a Tamil name. Then when I read that he has documented ...

I very often bump in to videos on facebook of talented kids. The clips from super singer program very often leaves me speechless. Sometimes it makes me wonder, how come India gets to have such gifted children, who can do such wonders. There are two videos which I like to share, which are samples of the great talents of these ...

Today I just heard the mini viral Tamil video teaser for the movie "Neethaane en pon vasantham". It had some sort of magic and stickiness. Going by the reason trend seems like its a good trick to make a non-professional sing it, so that people like me who doesn't have any knowledge of music all of a sudden feel that ...

Last few days oil crisis has been biting all of us really hard. Monday when I stepped out to go to work I couldn't find a bus so had to find a three wheeler to get to office. Then the next day, when I gave 20 Rs for my journey from Bambalapitiya to Galle face the conductor said that's the ...

I was seated next to a graphics designer and watch him work on a power point presentation. Watching him weave magic I realized that one of the greatest tricks to create slides which stand out, was to break out of Microsoft's set layouts.Select blank layout and start working on it. All of a sudden you would realize that you are ...

After missing to add up my air miles for lot of my past travels some time back on the advice of some of my colleagues I started to collect up air miles. So when I made my last travel I became a Skywards Silver of Emirates Air lines loyalty program.All my friends kept on insisting that I should ask for ...

In almost all the market's Airtel entered in to, its strategy was to engage in a price war. It has been a global phenomenon and I see that it has been repeated in all the countries it has stepped in to. I was surprised to here that in Kenya all though all the operators slashed prices in anticipation of Airtel's ...