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 ...
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 ...
It’s been just a day since Kichibichiya was released. Here are some thoughts on the new app. For those who heard the name for the first time, Kichibichiya is a Twitter client for Android written by the Sri Lankan developer Pahan. Kichi-bichi is Sinhala for the chirping of birds; hence the name. It has extracted all the goodness of the ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
So I joined app.net today. An year’s subscription costs $36 and there’s a monthly option for $5. I chose the latter for a start. The global feed, similar to Twitter’s public timeline It’s pretty much a Twitter-like service with a slightly different vocabulary. You create posts with a maximum length of 256 characters, as opposed to Twitter’s 140 limit on ...
Remember your nursery days? How we were made to sing One little, two little, three little Indians and were taught how to count? And how some amused us with little horror stories, like, Hickory dickory dock, three mice ran up the clock, the clock struck one and the others got away with minor injuries? And those that taught us ...
Here is a summary of the earphones I’ve purchased recently from eBay. All of them are relatively cheap in price ($10 to $20) and have good sound quality. 1. Sony MDR-ED12LP Good sound quality. Superb bass. Price: about $10. 2. Creative EP-830
I’m writing this with tears in my eyes. Just witnessed the damage the NDT has done to the University of Moratuwa premises yesternight. The rooms we used to stay in have been ruined. The doors axed and the windows shattered. They have raided the girls’ hostel as well. Several students from the Engineering Faculty are now being treated, and it’s ...
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 ...
Increasing number of incidents has been reported in the Telangana region in India of farmers committing suicide due to bad harvests. Huge debts lead these farmers into bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is one of the best moments you’re presented with the option of committing suicide. You have no more money to survive, you’re better as dead. However for the families of those ...
Four thousand hungry children leave us per hour from starvation While billions are spent on bombs creating death showers The lines are from the song ‘Boom‘ by System of a Down. They were the lyrics that came to my mind when I heard today about the multi-million dollar nuke submarine that was being imported to India from Russia and ...
I’m angry today. Very. And I will be writing about must-have Chrome extensions. Keyword: must-have. If you think they aren’t must-have, fucking leave already! Sorry, I won’t use swear words again. 1. AdBlock It’s the first must-have. Why not? How the hell is one supposed to browse the web with all the colorful ads? You have to concentrate on the ...
I usually don’t wish others on their birthdays in Facebook. Normally a birthday wish is meant to show that you’ve remembered his/her birthday because him/her is special to you. But in Facebook you get a notification on who have the birthdays each day. Which renders such a wish useless. If you really want your wish to stand out, be the ...
Finally the Galaxy Note got its long awaited Ice Cream Sandwich update. Long awaited because Samsung first announced that ICS for Note will start rolling out on Q1 of 2012, but it didn’t until May. According to several Galaxy Note forums the update first appeared in several Eurpoean countries. And now it’s here in Sri Lanka. The update came on ...
So there was this boy (let’s call him Saman) who was once a rep (representative) of a certain group in the uni. His English was not quite polished though, as this was only his first year at the uni. Only a small number of undergraduates boast of a good command of English during the first days of the uni. As ...
A few days back I watched the famous documentary ‘Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine‘. The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Kasparov at chess, a feat nobody thought was possible back then. Garry Kasparov was the ‘Classical’ World Chess Champion at the time (the FIDE champion was Anatoly Karpov). The documentary is based on the epic 1997 rematch between Kasparov ...
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 ...
The Note started as a controversy, but in the end, it was a resounding success. Contrary to many initial reactions, people actually liked the big screen. More than 10 million were sold. I’ve been using the Note for over 8 months and was constantly asking myself, is it even possible to come up with a better phone? Turns out, it ...
