Well! Yesterday was my 2nd working day in Linkoping with two other guys. When you come from a place like SL, its bit tough to find your way around. All the names of places sounds same. All houses looks same. There are separate roads to drive, walk and ride. Everything is little too systematic (like buses always come on time) :). We • Read More »
Tags: Google, Google Maps, GPS, Linkoping, Sweden
Well! this topic is well covered here, and probably repeated all over the web. But I am going to write this post any way. Because my WordPress move went quite well. And here is how it was done. Everything Starts with Taking a Backup A move is as simple as a backup and restore. You back up • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Backup & Restore, CPannel, DNS, Domain, Domain Change, How to Move Wordpress, Moving, Moving Wordpress, My SQL, MySQL, PHP, Restore, Tech, WordPress
How to fix E61:00 on youtube. Remember that old TV your parents used to have, which simply refuse to work until you give it few good bangs. Well I thought you don’t have to do that any more with new 21st century electronics. Well! I was wrong. My Cyber-shot started to give me this error called E61:00. Basically • Read More »
Tags: Bang, Cyber-Shot, Cybershot, DSC-H3, E61:00, Personal, Photography, Sony, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H3, Sony Cyber-shot H3, Tech
These days you need billing proof for everything. Good old days of opening a bank account with just your ID and money is long gone. I was lucky enough to have my first bank account and my prepaid phone connection that way. In case you don’t know, billing proof is a piece of paper which has your • Read More »
Tags: Billing Proof, eBill, Electronic Billing Proof, eStatament, eThis & eThat, I am not a Ghost, Proof of Billing, recycled paper, recycling
Ok! first of all I am not a very religious guy. But I do go to temples and worship once in a while. Most of that credit should go to my mother and my wife. And I normally avoid going to temples on poya days as temples tend to be too crowded, and lose their • Read More »
Tags: 26ooth Sambuddha Jayanthi, Buddhist Bathi Gee, Budh Guna Gee, Wesak Festival
For many countries Internet, World Wide Web, social networks, blogs are the strongholds of democracy. In recent events in middle east they have served as the last line of defense for democracy, allowing it to fight back dictatorships and totalitarian societies. But Sri Lankan blogosphere seems a little different. It appears that some people thing that it should be more totalitarian than the Sri Lankan Society • Read More »
Tags: Blog, Blog Security, Blogging, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Hacking, Online Security, Security
Got this link for Cricket World Cup 2011 live stream from a facebook friend. Its on espnstar website. It is relatively ad free. I gave it a try using a Mobitel HSDPA connection and quality was ok in full screen view most of the time. Stream did not break up time to time for buffering. • Read More »
Tags: Channel Eye, Cricket, Cricket World Cup, Cricket World Cup 2011, CWC 2011, ESPN Star, Live Video Stream, Mobitel
In case you haven’t noticed this site was off the web for about a week from 21st January 2011. When I first noticed that it’s not there, I didn’t bother much as it could be a very short outage that happen once in a while with my hosting provider. However I got a bit nervous when I • Read More »
Tags: Backup, CPannel, Datacenter, Indi, Kottu, Kottu.org, Site Outage, Web Hosting
These days there is a bit of a hype about hybrid cars, mainly fueled by slashed tax. Of course they come with an interesting promise. But can we really utilize its full capacity? Main benefits of hybrids are ability to run more on less fuel, or reduced cost per km and reduced carbon footprint. This is achieved in two ways. By • Read More »
Tags: Carbon Footprint, Energy Efficiency, Go Green, Hybrid, Mileage, Sri Lanka
Last day of the year! Felt like writing a post with ups and downs of my year 2010 any my plans for 2011. Here it comes….
Tags: 2010, Happy New Year