This is tagged under #rantables - you have been warned!You know the problem with Foursquare, especially here in Sri Lanka? There are people literally “checking in” to places from passing buses. I’m not kidding!There was this one profile of this ‘Tom’ that I came across - after ‘Tom’ ousted me as Mayor from couple of places - on the same ...
Once in a while, the set of feeds you folow on Google Reader might get the better of you. In those cases, if you really want to read and get done with the best content the feed has got, simply ‘Sort by Magic’.This ‘Magic Rating’ would be dependent on how much other people on Google Reader liked, read and shared ...
“One of the many good things about going through shit is that you know exactly who’ll be there to drag you out of it - hence knowing exactly, who’s worth giving a damn in your life.” - Nadeesha Cabral
via readwriteweb.comHere’s to you Ritchie - the man who created so many things that would go on to define countless beloved inventions of mankind, and things that would form the foundation of many timeless technology initiatives. A piece of your genius will always live on. The world wouldn’t have been the same without you.
via bbc.co.ukDid the scientists at CERN do something that was thought to be impossible at all means and in the process prove Einstein wrong, or did they make a trivial mistake?
While seeing this post on ITPro which said that Sri Lanka’s IT workforce is not enough to make ends meet for the demand experienced by the sector. Yet, there seems to be an awful lot of unemployment surrounding the IT graduates.Why?One word - Employability.Having being in the industry, I’ve lately gotten to know first hand the average quality of a graduate ...
I had unsuccessfully tried to tackle this error for sometime.The full error is: [SSIS.Pipeline] Error: component “Excel Source” (152) failed validation and returned error code 0xC020801C.Analysis: This error is returned when the Excel Source fails validation. Sometimes, this can be an issue of the binding time when you have certain expressions which shou;d be evaluated at runtime. Otherwise, as I’ve experience, ...
A few weeks back on a project involving a Data Visualization dashboard which used chart controls from Silverlight Toolkit 4, I was required to display a dynamic threshold line on Column/Stack Charts. I haven’t found an answer to do this anywhere, so I innovated my own workaround.It’s pretty simple actually.It involves in.,creating a new axis on a chartsetting that axis’s ...
It was an honor, pleasure and a privilege to address the audience of Sri Lankan HR Professionals at the National HR Conference 2011 at Cinnamon Grand for my talk on the changing career marketplace demographics under the influence of conceptual/knowledge workers., as the adjudged winner of the “Young HR Minds” award for the year.My talk basically revolved around the distinction ...
I’ve been an avid fan of personal landing pages and though I have some know-how of designing my own personal home page, I believe that maintainability is an issue when you’re doing something from ground up. Not to mention the time spent on to satisfy a perfectionist’s need for.. well.. Perfection.I’ve been using about.me and flavors.me for a while and ...
So, there’s this service called IFTTT(stands for IF THAT THEN THIS) which lets you do some pretty cool stuff with social channels, web apps and etc. So this is a quickie on how I used IFTTT to save the money spent on SMS News Alerts (I had DailyMirror on) - and still be in the know of everything happening ...
Ok, here’s the thing. I saw a few things today that I really wished I caught on camera, but there were a few things keeping me busy throughout the whole ordeal - meaning, it wasn’t a good day for me personally - tsunami or no tsunami, hence, no pictures… Nada! Not even one. There are some here, if you’re interested. ...
I moved to tumblr. It kind of seemed counter productive to maintain the self-hosted wordpress blog and tweak everything to work just right when tumblr is just… there. So, here I am!
Since I bought my Sony Ericsson Neo V, I’ve been looking for a way to disable the annoying Stock Slider Lock, which - here’s the shocker - can not be disabled by any direct means through any option. Any replacement locker screen (such as Go Locker or a Music Player locker) would just sit under the default locker, which means ...