Steve Jobs was my friend Oh the evenings we spent And the stories and secrets we shared And all the trips we went And all the trips we went The joys and the fun we had Now all are memories of the past You’ve gone making all of us sad You’ve ...
Matara. It’s the most beautiful city in Sri Lanka. If you disagree with me you haven’t been to Matara lately or haven’t travelled around the city much. If you still disagree I will put my hands in my ears and cry OH LA LA so that I won’t here you. The southern railway is under renovation these days and will ...
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 ...
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder. - Homer Simpson Theists are stupid. There’s no doubt about that. It would be okay if a 5-year-old child believed that there’s a superman up in the skies watching our every move and listening to our prayers. But if a grown up ...
Since its 7th version, Vim has tabs functionality. You can open multiple files in tabs and do lots of wonderful things with them. To open multiple files from the console, just type: vim -p filename1 filename2 … Or if you’re already inside Vim, give the command, :tabnew filename to open a file in a new [...]
Google Reader will be dead by the 1st of July. Everyone has moved or at least is considering moving to new feed aggregators. There is a heap of options out there (out of which I recommend that you try out Newsblur). But none of them has been able to boast of a good public API as our good old Google ...
Ever started watching a movie only to realize after 30 minutes that you’ve actually watched that one before? Django Unchained Official Poster There was this guy in our uni who kept a poster of each movie he watched, so that he wouldn’t watch the same movie again, ever. When you look at a movie’s poster you immediately get a flashback ...
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. ...
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 ...
There was this certain extension whose popup was too high for my screen. To fix the issue I needed to download the CRX file of the extension. But with the new Chrome Web Store layout there isn’t a way to do that as you did earlier. But then Pahan came up with a solution. The trick was to make use ...
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 ...
Yes, yes, suicide is bad. It’s the most horrible thing on earth after Hitler. You know what’s not horrible? I don’t know either. What’s good about this life? What’s not horrible about it? Oh, this routine, pretentious world. You folks never get enough of it, do you? All the injustice, wickedness, and stupidity in this [...]
It’s been 5 days since Ubuntu 12.10 (aka Quental Quetzal) was released and I downloaded the ISO on 19th, but got the time to install only today. Finished the install just 30 minutes back from the time I started writing this. By the way, the following ain’t gonna be a review, just some stuff I did after installing and the ...
Last week I got an early access invite to the private beta of Action.io. Coincidentally, I wanted to learn some Django. Hence Next Poya When? was born and it only took a few hours to start coding from scratch to deploying successfully in the Google App Engine. Action.io is a place to start your projects without worrying about all the ...
This blog just moved from wordpress.com to its own host and domain. The new URL is http://blog.thameera.com. The new RSS feed URL is http://blog.thameera.com/feed. But why? I dunno. Having my own URL is nice, maybe. But mostly, I was getting tired of the unpredictable wordpress.com admin panel. It just won’t load and stuff won’t work, and things have gotten worse ...
Just wanted to test Twitter’s new tweet embedding feature, y’know. It’s National Pastry Day: a time to remember the millions of brave Danish who gave their lives so I might get a little fatter. — Homer J. Simpson (@HomerJSimpson) December 10, 2011 Hmm. Not as good as I imagined. :/
"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 ...
Don’t you just hate wishing people on their birthdays? Especially when it’s not in real life? In real life, you can just ‘adoh happy birthday mchan, when’s the party?‘ and all. It’s simpler in Facebook: just a ‘happy birthday mchan!‘. But not so on Twitter. I try to ignore birthdays as much as I can. Nobody will tell you it’s ...
Louie is a good show. It’s the kind of show I’ve always wanted to watch. Not many shows interest me. TBBT was good for its humor, Two and a Half Men was equally good and Spartacus is good with all its blood. For the record, I’m not watching Spartacus for its sex. Of course you don’t believe. I wasn’t aware ...
So I thought of writing about Rebecca Black. Not a fan of hers, but I had nothing to write and Rebecca came to my mind and I thought why not? So here I am. Like most of us, I got to know about Rebecca Black just after she released ...
