Let me first put this in to perspective, I am a huge follower of Dr. Abdul Kalam. After reading his books and listening to some of this speeches like millions of others he is a role model for me. He is a big source of inspiration and one of the reasons for me to have respect towards India as a ...

Day before yesterday while I was getting down from the bus at Nawaloka, there was this dude who got down from the bus and hurriedly started to walk across the road and another guy screamed and said "innava innava". For moment I thought they were a couple of thieves and then I turned to see the cops were standing on ...

A few days before I went to pay my last respects to late Mr. Sankarakumaran. I couldn't stop remembering the conversations I was lucky enough to have with him. Mr and Mrs Sankarakumaran are my good luck charm for the exams. There is this striking correlation between my successful exams results and the admission cards signed by him. Usually when ...

In recent days the roads of Colombo is full of metered three wheeler's aka tuk tuk . At least for now it seems a pretty decent service and eliminates the need to bargain with the taxi drivers and most importantly avoids the very uneasy feeling of leading a life wondering whether you had been cheated again!The introduction of metered taxi ...

Today while I was walking back to office after taking my lunch, there was this crow seated on one of the hand rails on the entrance to the railway station and it was crowing loudly. First I stared at it and the crowing got louder. The old instincts got the better out of me and spontaneously I wriggled my face ...

First China banned Google and a few sites and last week the Delhi High court warned that like China, they could also ban a list of sites including Google and Facebook unless they implemented filters so that users cannot post 'offending' material. On the other hand Obama administration was under pressure to enforce online privacy and piracy regulations - although ...

After a few weeks of delay got a beta version of the YIT site out [http://yarlithub.org ]. Thanks to bootstrap after a few hours of work could get a few web pages running. Its responsive design too ;) - Ok with a few bugs :DImplemented JKs concept of banners. The picture selection and the concept all came from him. If ...

From the time I wrote the blog post on responsive web design I had been looking for a neat library which supports responsive web design. Today while I was searching around I found that the next release of bootstrap is being developed to have responsive design support.Quoting from the documentation,What they do: Media queries allow for custom CSS based on ...

When I watched the movie thasavatharam few years back I was not a fan of the butterfly effect. The movie was good, but the theory was not something that impressed me. The theory speaks about seemingly unrelated events being influential on other future events. The exaggeration used in the movie spoke about weird explanation for the cause of tsunami and ...

Apple first started building a device ecosystem. We saw a trend where people were slowly buying more and more products from apple once they had got their first one. In most cases, people who started with an ipod, moved to iphone, then bought the mac followed by the ipad (looks like iTV might be the next). What ever said and ...

More from panorama series - the picture of Pokhara lake, Nepal as seen from Sarankot. A para gliders paradise. In the afternoons the whole of this area is studded with para gliders. One of the things I was not brave enough to try. Now at times feel that should have tried it.Pokhara lake as seen from Sarankot

I love to take panorama pictures. I exploited the panorama picture to the level in which it stopped working. Now current camera has panorama but the stitching done using software. Unfortunately for me I lost the CD with the software and all the panoroma pictures that I took for more than an year was in my camera. Last weekend I ...

On a chill December night travelling while the trained swayed its way through the tunnels of Kadugannawa one could feel the cold wind hitting with such power sending a shrill through the spine. The wind comes in occasional strikes and when the peacefulness sets in momentarily the croaky old fan was doing its part to make it even more colder. ...

Being a Peradeniya University Alumnus reading articles of this sort http://sundaytimes.lk/120108/News/nws_18.html makes me cringe in shame. It has been repeating over and over again and I wonder how many more lives we need to loose before people realize the severity of ragging.I see two major factors for this menace. First factor is that ragging is the way of controlling and ...

Watched Mayakkam enna today. I should say that the second half of the movie left me spell bound. Specially the scenes after "Nan Sonnathum Mallai vanthicha" song were amazing. The acting by Dhanush and Richa in those scenes are extraordinary. It made me feel that Dhanush does deserve the national award. Selvaragavan's touch was brilliant in the climax scenes, specially ...

A lot of bloggers including JK has been posting on the best of 2011. A listing of their own favorites from the year. Taking a cue from them I am listing my own favorite films, book and songs released in 2011.Best Book I read in 2011 - Undoubtedly was "Tuesdays with Morrie" - A classic book which inspired me with ...

There is a need in our schools to have a web based school management system. So that they could efficiently manage the school with the help of technology. Schools wish to have a school management system which fits the model of our schools and is free or affordable to them. In the quest to find an appropriate open source solution ...

A few months back I was talking to a friend of mine and he was complaining that his boss has this weird habit of proclaiming others ideas as his own. So he used a classic metaphor to explain how things happen, story goes like this one day he ate at a certain new restaurant and was impressed with the food ...

There is this 'friend' of mine who has peculiar habit of taking pictures of dead trees ( I called it காஞ்ச மரம் , but I am being told that it should be called as பட்ட மரம் ). The person in question would grab someones camera and run to take the pictures of trees. Out of curiosity today I asked why ...