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 ...
For once we have a weekday which is a leave in many countries! So to 'celebrate' that we would do a online requirements modeling session. We would start at 3PM Indian standard time and will go on till we are tired and down, being old limbs I am guessing that it would go on till about 7PM. The objective is ...
Sayy's 365 was started with the intention of making a blog post on a daily basis for the next 365 days. Today when I am on the 354th post and 11 away from the self set target mark, I decide to quit and accept defeat.Its been a whole pile of rubbish that I had been putting up here and whether ...
Simply I am stepping in to the most important year of my life up to now. In my memory after the years of O/L and A/L, haven't had any year which has dawned with such importance. 2012 is definitively different and even the minute of the dawn is going to be tensed both professionally and personally .I am not a ...
Just out of curiosity I was applying the mysql soundex function on some Tamilish terms, it was a bit of surprise to see it give good results for Tamil searches. Look below for a small sample,mysql> select name, soundex(name) as encoded_value from song;+-----------------+---------------+| name | encoded_value |+-----------------+---------------+| thamila thamila | T54354 || chotta chotta | C323 || ennenna seidhom | ...
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 ...
The apprentice was a series that I loved to watch. It was probably the most intellectually simulating tv program for a management enthusiast. The twists and turns the reality show takes would keep me enthralled. The tension keeps you engaged and then you are at the edge of the seat when you start feeling that the dreaded word "you are ...
I have a friend who is a brilliant photographer, on any given day gazing at his album would lighten up my day and I am sure it's lightening up the days of many other people too. Usually his pictures generate comments in hundreds, one day one of the comments read- "I wish I had a camera like yours to take ...
After an 18 year old wait, Trinity had managed to win the President's trophy. It has been a remarkable year for Trinity rugby. Although they lost to the minnows Science College and then lost the 1st leg of the Bradby but then managed to make one of the best comebacks in the history of Bradby to win it comprehensively. Now ...
The voting for Yarl IT Hub logo ended at midnight yesterday and after a very close competition among more than 20 excellent logo's. Kajan Madrasmail's creation got the most number of 'LIKES' from the community to be declared as Yarl IT Hub's logo.The winning design by Kajan Madrasmail - Declared YIT's logoAmong the logo's which were in the competition the ...
Few days back I got a link from a customer on responsive web design. It was a way of designing sites so that the same site works in both laptops and mobile devices. Although I had been out of touch on web development for a considerable time now, this got more curious again to do some searching on this. Ironically ...
If I do not write a tribute to this, I would rot in hell. Its one of the most important things of my life. At university it was almost a synonym with my name or rather the object that symbolized me. Was part of my daily attire till I started to work at which I was reluctantly compelled to learn ...
Some time back I was representing my company on a certain bid and a few hours after I made the presentation, I got a message from a competitor's HR department on linkedin which read as,"We have a opening for a Professional. The job role will be to understand and respond to various RFI, RFQ and RFP.Regularly Interact with customers".blaa blaaFirst ...
In local exams for failures the grade given is"F". For some weird unknown reason "F" is usually called as"light post" in local dialect, on second thoughts probably due to the resemblanceof the shape of the light post to the letterF. When I am not studying properly for exams, I had been asked countless timesby my mother on how many light ...
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 ...
Initially when we defined the values of Yarl IT Hub (click here to read the earlier post). We defined the following as our values,* Not for profit initiative* Transparent* Apolitical* Technology and corporate independentWhen this was published "The MBA" at home was critical of the listing. The criticism was that, all the values listed are negative. The listing is what ...
In recent times when I do sessions to groups of people. I am experimenting by throwing random surprise questions. I expect answers from what comes on top of their mind. Interestingly these questions seems to unearth some interesting facts which are at the level of sub conscious mind. For example, when I asked the question tell me what was the ...
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 ...
Recently I got the time to watch the movie '7 am arivu'. I was pretty impressed with the starting sequence set in the 5th century. For this part the direction, cinematography and acting standards were all much above the usual standards set by similar Tamil films. But unfortunately for me the film couldn't keep up such momentum through out the ...
