There is this facebook group where my relatives interact and share things. If you take the average age of the active users in that group, I am sure it will be touching 35 or even a bit more than that. But strangely you would see puzzles like,Replace the question marks! 3 9 1 2 8 39 ? ? 2 1 ...
Its been raining for a while here in Jaffna and most of the places are looking lush green. At times if not for the imposing Palmyra trees I would have easily mistaken it for Kandy. The colours are so nice so that I had a field day chasing this squirrel whom ran through the vivid colours in the back ground to pose for me. ;)
Today apparently its another full moon day and I was told that there is a lunar eclipse happening right now. While a periodic planet motion is happening, some astrologers had given 'advise' on how to behave during that time. Some Indian media had picked the advise and had gone to town with the story asking people to avoid eating, travelling, ...
There is this old dude probably in his 50's got in to the bus and sat next to me. Suddenly the lady seated in front turned and asked him "where is the computer?" He panicked, searched for it and then got down and tried to chase the three wheeler. After 10 mins totally tired and frustrated. He was blaming his ...
To live up to the spirit of a community initiative, Yarl ITHub is running a logo design competition among the online community. The winning design will be chosen and 'crowned' as the Yarl IT Hub’s logo. The logos designed by the community will be puton display on facebook and the design which gets the most number of "likes" willbe made ...
For months now my phone has been "playing up" very often than not. It decides to take sabbatical leaves at random and then all of a sudden after a few days of repercussion starts working again. Its now a ticking time bomb and I am pretty sure that on one important day it will just go dead. I had been ...
In the last few months No SQL has been in the news for the "right" and the "wrong" reasons. The Mongo DB rumor was doing the rounds and was giving coverage to No SQL for the wrong reasons. While this was happening, on the sidelines few interesting things were also happening.Venture capitalists were stepping up investments on No SQL solutions. ...
There are certain pictures, which I thought were nice, but never liked by others. This picture is one of those. I posted it on facebook got about 1 or 2 likes and didn't get much attention on flickr too.If I cannot predict how its going to be accepted by others for a simple picture. Imagine how the people who bet ...
Its been ten days since I first blogged about Kolaveri Song. It has continued to attract attention and now gone more international with many variants of it coming out of different places. Even an unofficial female version of it has by itself got nearly 2.4 million hits on youtube! It has got a lot of international media coverage including getting ...
After a very long time from last week I had been spending time on doing some HTML and CSS work. Incidentally I was playing around with JQuery UI parts - Was pretty impressed on how easier this has become. Years back when Ajax became a fashion, when we wanted to build nice looking sleek modernist sites we used Dojo and ...
The other day I was scrolling the daily mirror site and found a heading which read that "Chandimal fined", I didn't bother to click the item and read it. I was under the prejudice that the youngster would have obviously done something nasty and has been deservingly punished. This same ME, few years back, used to jump and read such ...
We falsely live under the notion of being busy to be an attribute of being important. The easiest excuse we tell people is that "I am busy". Its one of the easiest ways to exit from things. But its far from the truth. First we use this as a tool to fool others and later we fall pray to our ...
A key ingredient of consistently successful organizations or individuals is the value system. Taking a cue from it, at the initiation of the Yarl IT Hub itself, we decided to have the following as are core values. So for those who wish to join can compare these with their own values and decide whether the initiative is consistent with their ...
When I posted this picture on facebook after a visit to Jaffna my aunt commented and referred the song posted below.The only error is that its a sun here and the song is about the moon. But still whenever I see this picture I now remember the song.The song is of course an Ilayaraja's master piece! The legend! Then in ...
For centuries knowledge and education had been the crown jewels of the people of Yarlpanam. From the days of being the patrons of Tamil literature, during the times of Arumuga navalar during which, him and the American missionaries competed to foster education and even during the height of the war studying on kuppi vilakku they had always shown the unconditional ...
We had grown up, studied and used stuff produced by the entrepreneurs þfrom the Silicon Valley. In the history of Information technology silicon valley is the mecca of innovation and IT entreapreneurs. It has produced men who had transformed lives and left a dent on the world! Interestingly what's happening there is not an overnight phenomenon or an accident, its ...
The power of internet is unprecedented - starting from the Egyptian revolution to the silly home made youtube videos - internet and its users has had the power to make them global phenomenons. The latest addition to something going Viral is the Why this Koleveri Song, First when I watched I did find it interesting and listened it a few ...
