Image Source: Films.lk I used today to go through the collections of movies I had downloaded and kept without deleting after watching them the first time. It does not go near some of the collections I know of, but it has some decent movies. And yes, of course all of them are pirated copies, what do you expect? Watching them ...
Seeing this a lot lately Anonymity in content publishing has been thoroughly questioned from time to time, mostly for the reasons of credibility and for the usual blunt nature of anonymous content. However it has always been the norm and the right of users to be anonymous, not for any reason but the Freedom of Expression alone. Give up ...
What’s wrong with Google? Nothing. It’s a good search engine with one of the best search algorithms. But then one can start to question some of its privacy related practices, especially personalized advertisements and stuff like SPYW. In the Internet the best solution is as good as the next best alternative around, meaning if you have a good enough alternative ...
Reading a random blog link I came across in the morning this was the first thing to pop in to my head. Have few people talk about you and make sure those few people count, in contrast to having millions of ordinary laymen to praise and follow you like a god. I’m talking about Dennis Ritchie and Steve Jobs. Dennis ...
The following mostly applies to the contemporary Sinhala Blogosphere, but if your blogging community is something like this, watch out. The Emo Bloggers are coming. Write some seemingly controversial post about sex, sex in the bus, or some shit that will create a small disturbance in the crowd. For Females If you’re a female, bash men and their sex-addicted ...
The time has never been better to elaborate on this topic. Why? It’s 10.30 pm and I’m still at the workplace, trying to get this piece of code working. Yup. Life can definitely improve. Software Engineering, as all of partakers agree, is a stressful profession to take up. Like the 300 Spartans who fought against an impossible enemy, like the ...
I’ll save you some time. This is going to be a short rant about careless cheering on and around January 1st. The start of this year has been somewhat dull at best. It was 2011 on Saturday and all of a sudden Sunday was on 2012. And BAM!! “Happy New Year!!!”s keep flowing in. People seemed somewhat over-cheery about 2012 ...
Darkness. It is two in the morning and I finally settle down my mind to sleep. Switching off the light invites darkness to my premises. I rarely get to see this level of pitch black of darkness. No hint of light is there. Not even from the stars. Just one big continuum of black. ∧ “The Darkness” was the title ...
“Just shut the fuck up.” This is what has been coming to my mind recently everytime I read the thoughts of a certain group of people published online. This group is vastly different from us, lived in a totally different time, believed in a totally different set of values and to be frank knew less about the world than the ...