This blog lives. For the past few weeks I’ve been just wandering lonely as a cloud without purpose. Have never had a purpose in life, but it’s struck me like never before lately. Suicide is but a distant option. No, you just can’t walk away from life. There are things in life you don’t have a say on and you ...

Bookhub.lk was launched two days back, and Sri Lanka has finally got a proper ebook store. Proper I say because the project is backed by two giants: Etisalat from the mobile world and M.D.Gunasena from the book industry. There have been previous attempts like pothpath.lk (which isn’t a store after all), but Bookhub is fortunate enough to have the ...

Movies. Something I’ve never been able to get into. Perhaps the last time I watched one from start to finish was about six months back. It’s just that I can’t sit watching one for one and half hours without getting bored. It isn’t like reading books. In fact, I haven’t watched more than 10 movies in a theatre in ...

The bubble around the asteroid marks its gravitational field The eagerly awaited Angry Birds Space, the fourth Angry Birds game from Rovio, finally landed today on Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows. It had been announced since a few months ago, but I was a skeptical about how they would create a new experience that’s markedly different from the previous versions. ...

Arogya parama labha, thakshanang paramang dhanang. – Lord Buddha? Going to the doctor’s every time something happens to you isn’t always convenient. But then, most of us in the younger generation have no idea how to react to a particular health situation, especially emergencies, without asking for a doctor’s help. Countries like US have popular medical / health care hotlines ...

Food review blogs are popping up like mushrooms these days. For example, my friend Savindri (or @PhuckYou_ as some of you may know her) started this Tuk-Tuk Thosai thing. She’s got some really good stuff there, you should certainly pay it a visit. But the problem with the food she reviews is that almost all of them cost a hell ...

Always wanted to automate the internet for you? If This Then That, a service that would remind you of Yahoo Pipes, might be what you’re looking for. IfThisThenThat lets all your online stuff work together to do way more interesting stuff. Put simply, ifttt does the following: Waits for an event to trigger (e.g: a new post is published in ...

People continue to share idiotic photos and stories on facebook. We of course need bio-diversity, so let the poor fellows be. Sri Lanka almost won the first final in the CB series against Australia. Fingers crossed for the next two matches. Started reading The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke. An Arthur C. Clarke after years. And this one ...

So I was going through some of the old unread feeds in my Google Reader and came across this post by Mayooresan on Dialog’s MyTV service. Had heard of MyTV, but didn’t have a time to try this out earlier. I started off by sending an SMS saying ‘MYTV’ (w/o quotes) to 678. It replied me back with a link ...

Most people don’t seem to be aware of this, but the oil price hike isn’t the biggest problem we’re facing these days. It’s the Facebook crisis. I randomly logged into Facebook today and swept through the timeline. Here are some stuff I came across. A link someone shared discussing who should take the blame on the fisherman’s death. A week-old ...

A perfect phone may not have been invented yet, but the Galaxy Note has triumphed in becoming the closest to that extreme. – Oscar Wilde The Galaxy Note Why would one need a 5.3″ phone? Let me ask you first, why would one need a phone? If all you need is to make calls and text, even an iPhone would ...

"You don't have a Galaxy Note!???" - a common reaction Believe it or not, there are people who don’t even own a Galaxy Note. And sadly, I happen to be one of them. For those who have been living in a well all their lives, a Samsung Galaxy Note is a 5.3″ smartphone with a size between a usual smartphone ...

The first time I noticed an express train stop at the Kelaniya station was on a poya day. Then I imagined that this was normal coz of the increased traffic to the Kelaniya temple on such days. But I was wrong. Our beloved Dr Mervin Silva has ordered the express trains to stop in Kelaniya. Most of them now actually ...

By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me. I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet. The nights snapped out of sight like a lizard’s eyelid: A world of bald white days in a shadeless socket. A vulturous boredom pinned me in this tree. If he were I, he would do what I did. ...

As you can see from the above image, the power and ground pins of a USB connector are situated on its either side and the two data pins are placed in between. Also notice that the data pins are situated a bit inward compared to the power pins. As a result of this, when you plug in a USB, ...

By the river Nilwala I sat down And wept. The young lovers were Holding each others’ hands and laughing and singing their songs Like there’s tomorrow. And I, The old, tattered soul, Heavy with all the melancholy and sorrow, Let the tears mix with The incessant stream, grieving Over the songs I couldn’t sing. The Nilwala flowed, it didn’t know ...

Some people don’t seem to understand the concept of life expanding photos. For example, when I posted a life expanding photo yesternight, Madhawa replied by posting a link to a porn site saying that it would expand the life more. Stop. Looking at naked girls isn’t what really extends your life. I think it’s high time I explained the reasons behind ...

Beyond the door there’s peace I’m sure And I know there’ll be no more tears in heaven - Tears in heaven by Eric Clapton Mayans could have ended their calendar with 2011. Now that they didn’t, we have another year to live in. Another load of sorrows to be engulfed in. Another year where haters gonna hate and creepers gonna ...

Few years back I used to be a kid-hater. They are the most annoying species in this world, right? But not anymore. It seems I’m becoming attracted to kids by the day. Not in a sexual way of course. But they are adorable and chubby little things! Awww, how sweet do they look! And the feeling you get when you ...

I’m a pickpocket. That’s my sole livelihood. Now don’t call me a criminal; picking pockets ain’t that bad. For one, I believe that nothing in this world happens by chance. No good deed goes unrewarded. Likewise, no bad deed goes unpunished. That’s just the way things are. If your pocket was picked that means that you have done something that ...