Vacation

This is my summer vacation.. haha well I coudn't think about a better way of starting the post. Is there a good old way to start a Blog post.? like we use "Once upon a time..." in story telling.? hmm then there should be a way of ending like "they all lived happily and ever after." ;) never mind.

So as I said before this is my summer vacation and I'm spending my time here in Kandy, my home sweet home. Things are bit different now.. I couldn't find any of my good old school buddies. Seems like they all got their own jobs. ;) Anyway that how it should be.

Vacation period is the most busiest, but staying home could keep everything in an ordered fashion. At least I get enough food here. haha

I watch lots of movies as usual and got back to reading books. Yeah sounds bit crazy but that's what I always wanted; reading books; which I'm not good at. :P

I love coding.. so I don't hesitate to call it my passion. lol. Apart from sinking in research papers, wondering of getting in to Hogwards or flying away like Peter in Heroes, I was doing some ajax stuff, hosted a new project called "qtwitt", played a lot with Google App Engine, had to do lot of work for IIT Gadget Challenge, planned a Firefox launch (beach) party ;) , did some XUL stuff, started working on a research paper :P, switched to "Blogger-Draft" and started working on a Facebook App.

Ah, I kicked the hope of getting an internship @ Google away ( may be Google don't want me to be there :P ) , stopped regretting about Google Summer of Code and lost my web hosting service ( due to financial crisis lol ).

--------------- "And they all lived happily and ever after". ;)

The Children of Hurin

amazon delivered it to my door steps. :) Thanks Google.. (for the gift voucher)

It looks awesome.! I'm still reading the 'Introduction' ;)
hope I'll finish it soon.. :P

Extraterrestrial

After completing "90 orbits around the sun", Sir Arthur C. Clarke passed away, today (19th March 2008) at his Colombo residence.

He was a science fiction autho... ... ... .. ~~!!

No, It's useless to write anything about himself/his biography here, because I'm not good enough to do so. If you have no idea about Sir Arthur ... oh great!, please comment here because you are from another planet.

I just wanted to publish this YouTube video, and if you have time(just 9mins and 3secs) please watch it. It's a video recorded on his 90th Birthday at his Colombo residence and here is some interesting excerpt.

"As I complete 90 orbits, I have no regrets and no personal ambitions. But if I may be allowed just three wishes, they will be these..,

Firstly, I would like to see some evidence of extraterrestrial life. I always believe that we are not alone in the universe. ... .... ... ...."

"Secondly, I would like to see is kick our current addiction to oil and adopt clean energy sources. ... ... .... ...."

"I will dearly wish to see last seen peace established in Sri Lanka as soon as possible. ... .... ... .... This is Arthur Clarke saying thank you and good bye from Colombo."

FF3 TContest

This is my entry for FF3 TContest :) What do you think?

They changed it..!

Some of the greatest young guys who made the internet colorful...

1. Blake Ross



co-founder: Firefox

When he was ~19 years old, in 2003.

Website/Blog: Blake Ross








2. Larry Page and Sergey Brin











Founders: Google
When they were ~22 years old, in 1996.



3. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen












Founders: Youtube
When Chad was ~28 years old and Steve was ~27 years old, in mid-Feb 2005.


4. Matt Mullenweg


co-founder: Wordpress

When he was ~19 years old, in 2003.

'''According to Google he is the #1 most important Matt in the world''' ;)

Wesite/Blog: Photo Matt








5. Kevin Rose






co-founder: Digg

When Kevin was just 27 years old, in 2004.













6. Mark Zuckerberg




Founder: Facebook

When he was just 19 years old, in 2004.










7. Jerry Yang and David Filo


Founders: Yahoo

When they were in their twenties.. in 1995.










See..., young people can rock the world.... ;)


[ All Images are form the Wikimedia Commons. ]

Writers' Strike Over..., Now What..?

Crap Warning ! ;) Read if you really don't have anything else to do.. ;)

Finally the Writers Guild of America Strike came to an end. Now what about our favorite shows.. ;) ?

Heroes :
No chance of seeing a new episodes till Fall (Oct 2008). too bad ah? :( Checkout Heroes episodes list on Wikipedia.

Prison Break :
Oh! What a Season .. ;) The Season 3 finale (hopefully) "The Art of the Deal" screwed up all the fans... and they must begin a new Season because there are lot of things to be fixed.. Specially Sara! ;)

According to Wikipedia there may be some future episodes of Season 3 ... but at the moment this Wiki page can't be trusted.. Because.., several days ago someone had updated the prioson break episodes list page on Wikipedia by adding the following information about a new episode of Season 3...

	"The Messenger"	Karyn Usher	Greg Yaitanes	April 2008	58
	Michael learns more about Jason Lief and is contacted by a mysterious woman claiming to have pertinent information; Sucre is forced to make an uneasy alliance; Gretchen reveals a shocking secret, while Mahone has a revelation of his own.

Then the page was modified and above details had been removed. Today [24th Feb] the page was modified again and the episode is there.. (It may have been removed again at the time you are reading this if so check the page history.. ;) funny hehe).

Finally they MUST bring Sara back...

Well after watching the S 3 E 13 Sara's fans can still have a hope to see her back in the show. :)














If you want to do something to save her then here you go..
Save Sara Tancredi
Save the good Dr

Supernatural :
Supernatural fans have to wait until this April... see this Wiki page. till then I suggest you to watch "Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles" :P

That's all and thanks for reading my crap! hehe :P

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RMS @ SRI LANKA | SLIIT

I should have been writing this post long time ago but unfortunately I got hacked by an biological virus and was on bed for couple of days. ;)

Well, RMS, Father of Free Software! paid his visit to Sri Lanka. kinda old news so you might already know more about it. Though it made me to stop writing the same thing again and again, the good news is I also could be able to attend the event + have some photos to share (a very few)... :)

It was a great chance to know about Freedom + GNU from his own words, and I must say the speech was simply awesome.

Checkout my photos @Picasa.

And the blog post by bud will cover almost everything about the visit.. :)

Finnaly A BIG Thank for ICTA - SLIIT and every single figure who supported to bring this greatest person to the land..!

Cheers!

Thumb Calendar

It's a handy calender which suits your pocket very well. ;)

Check it out!

Thumb Calendar

Happy New Year!

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Academy Awards : Nominees announced

Check this out.... Nominations list for 79th Academy Awards. :)

- Lala.

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