Last week I had been thinking whether to pre-order a Kindle fire or not. I had a lot of points for it, unlike other tablets this is affordable for my purse, I am pretty confident about Amazon's ability to ship it to Sri Lanka, since I am a happy customer of Kindle this looks like a natural progression.I was tempted ...

From time to time I get interesting MySQL questions from people who attended the trainings I conducted. Yesterday I got this message,"We have setup master-slave mysql. Now it seems that the slave is running out of disk space ( yesterday we got 100%), the replication died. And I found that file slave-relay.000xxx, is taking up disk space.Just wondering if I ...

Dalada Maligawa and the mini Island in the middle of the lakeView of queens hotel

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 ...

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 ...

The video above is an illustration of one of the best documented sociology experiments. It teaches us a lot of important lessons. For me it most importantly highlights the fact that what ever product or service should be given to a place where there is a burning need. Secondly it also highlights when things are given free it doesn't have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Implementing measurements in software engineering is a great challenge. Every other manager wants to have clearly defined measurements to make sure there is visibility while the engineering or rather the geeks completely rule out the possibility of the practical application of measurements. At the two extremes both have their points, the pro measurement group quotes that building software is a ...

Kolaiveri craze doesn't seem to cease. Now it has triggered a clash of opinions and 'intellectual' discussion about it. AR Rahman has apparently compared it to Macarena and Jai Ho.Today I bumped in to a Jaffna version of Kolaveri. Its very impressive. I like the lyrics, set up, singing and the video.Just the day before Vimal on his blog posted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newbies to chat usually ask what is ROFL. This is the step by step guide to Rolling on the floor laughing!Step 1 Step 2Step 3

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

Interestingly the above video appeared on my Google+ stream with a comment from a 'friend' which read as - "Perhaps a Steve Jobs in making". The comparison of the legend made me watch it. Interestingly in my current mind set I started to read beneath the surface of the presentation. Let me say this the presentation was purely awesome - ...

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 ...

I had tried to summarize the Near field communication (NFC) type related information in to a table. I will keep on updating this with new information as and when I get confirmed data. Type Memory Android support Future handset support Chipset Write protection Comment 1 yes Innovision Jewel tags yes 2 46 bytes yes expected to be there for foreseeable ...

Out of curiosity I was checking the search trend for technologies. First I tried to search for MySQL and found that over the years the number of people who are searching for MySQL had been declining. Then I tried to compare with the oracle and ms access patterns and they too showed the pattern.To explore more I searched for the ...

Ten years back on the 11th of September 2001 I can remember being called by my mother to come and watch   the breaking news on TV. I was thinking it was some local news item, but to the utter shock the images shown on TV were from US and the images of the planes crashing into the twin towers. ...