Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs is a fascinating book to read. The author has exposed the real life of the computer and consumer electronics giant Apple’s cofounder. Jobs is lucky not to read the book as he died few days before the book was published. I can’t imagine how Jobs would have coped up with the book if he had an ...
Lolita Book Cover While I was rummaging through a heap of books in a secondhand bookshop in Maradana, I came across Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, a book that I was longing for reading for a long time. I had watched the movie Lolita, both the black and white version and the color one and that had increased my curiosity to read ...
Old Books I used to buy books from bookshops and roadside old book sellers as I thought they would be useful to me and my son someday but with everything going digital, I hardly think that my son will use the printed versions and whether it is worth preserving the old books for him. I still prefer the printed books ...
Nandasiri Wanninayaka:Reblogging from Nalaka Gunawardene’s Blog as this is a very important piece of writing. Originally posted on Open Minds! (formerly: Moving Images blog): In this week’s Ravaya column (in Sinhala language), I probe why sections of Lankan society are habouring growing fears of social media, especially Facebook. A few have called for a blanket ban of Facebook, which the ...
Pride & Prejudice Poster I am in love with Keira Knightley ever since I saw her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice directed by Joe Wright. This new version of the Pride & Prejudice film was released in 2005 as a British romance film based on Jane Austen‘s 1813 novel of the same name. The film shows us ...
I have been using Microsoft OS’s since 1999. First I worked with Microsoft Windows 95. Later I found a laptop with Microsoft Windows 3.1 and kind of enjoyed it. Next was Windows 98 which I used for quite some time even after the advent of Microsoft Millennium Edition. Then came the XP I revere most even today. My relationship with ...
After visiting the planetarium in the morning I took Abhi to the National Museum of Natural History. This museum is situated in the same premises of Colombo National Museum. I thought of taking Abhi here as I did not think the main National Museum would excite Abhi much as he is just 5 years old. There are interesting things for ...
Mr. Gunawardhana, the proprietor of Silverine Bookshop in K-Zone, Kapuwaththa, Ja Ela This is Mr. Gunawardhana, the proprietor of Silverine Bookshop in K-Zone, Kapuwaththa, Ja Ela. This is the Silverine Bookshop that was in Realty Plaza, Ja Ela. The bookshop was shifted to the new location ( K-Zone, Kapuwaththa, Ja Ela) this year due to lack of sales in Realty ...
Dreams From My Father I had the pleasure of listening to the American President Barack Obama’s deep voice while listening to his audio book, Dreams From My Father. He reads the book he authored in perfect style with the necessary stresses, increasing and decreasing voice, keeping in par with punctuations and lively dramatizing of conversations in the book. It is ...
The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama President Barack Obama is a rare politician who can write well. More than just writing, he achieves a perfection of authenticity that others will even never think of dreaming. After listening to Barack Obama’s first book, Dreams From My Father, I immediately listened to his second audio book, The Audacity of Hope. It ...
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Most of the government institutions today have their own websites and mail servers. They have heavily invested on this with ICTA funds. But most of the government servants I know use Yahoo email IDs for their official communications. This puzzles me. It would have been more respectable if they had email IDs with their domain names. Yahoo has a global ...
Khan Academy Logo The Khan Academy was founded by Salman Khan (not the popular Bollywood actor fellow) in 2006. Khan is a Bangladeshi American, a graduate of Massachusetts Institution of Technology MIT and Harvard Business School. His mission is “providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.” The website www.khanacademy.org supplies a free online collection of more than 3,200 micro ...
Macbeth Macbeth is the first Shakespearean drama I studied. I first learnt it under Mr. Aloysius a lecturer at University of Rajarata and then under late Mr. Nimal Gunawardhana, a veteran English teacher. Macbeth is a story woven around a man’s ambition and the repercussions of it. A brave and respected general, Macbeth wins a war against Norwegian and Irish ...
There is a lot of talk about the present situation of Ravaya newspaper and its continuation with the financial difficulties it faces. There are stories saying that the paper would be bought by Milinda Moragoda in the same way the Sunday Leader was acquired by Asanga Seneviratne last year. Few weeks ago, Ravaya’s founding editor published an article explaining ...
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