It is with deepest sadness that I inform you that me getting married. (Hope my fiance don’t read this). Well getting married is probably ok. It’s the wedding which will suck the life out of you. I knew that wedding is a massive project. I have done number of projects before and I did them • Read More »
Archives: Me, Myself & I
Royal Parade 2010 & Street Party – Photos & Afterthoughts
July 5, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Photography, Royal College, Sri Lanka.Royal Parade 2010 and Street Party was held on 3rd July 2010 as a part of 175th anniversary celebrations of Royal College. It was a grand event by any definition. Probably the festive atmosphere was even bigger than IIFA. And I am glad that I did not miss it. It was very interesting to see other schools participating • Read More »
Tags: 175th Anniversary, Royal, Royal College, Royal Parade, Royal Parade 2010, Street Party
Three of My Posts are on Sunday Leader Web!
June 25, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Me, Myself & I.After moving my blog to its new home I spent some time to figure out a way to improve search engine ranking of the new URL over the old URL. In the process I did some searches for term ‘rakasunivers’ on Google, hoping to find out places that are referring to my blog. And I found a pleasant surprise. Three • Read More »
Tags: Blogging, Sunday Leader, thesundayleader.lk
Moving from WordPress.com to Own Hosting – Getting It Up and Running
June 25, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 5 Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Tech.I just moved this blog to RaKasUniverse.info domain from a free blog at WordPress.com. When I moved the domain I also moved to own hosting. Reasons for this is not 100% clear even for me. I was a bit frustrated about not being able to install my own plug-ins, not being able to write java • Read More »
Tags: cPanel, Fantastico, Hosting, Import/Export, Install Wordpress, Move, Moving, Own Hosting, WordPress, WordPress.com
Worshiping Sun God at Galle Face Green
June 21, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Environment, Me, Myself & I, Photography, Sri Lanka, Travel.I captured this image with my mobile phone sometimes back (18-April-2010) when I was at Galle Face Green. I was just trying to capture the evening sky. I could not do a good job on it as the lighting was little low for my phone to handle and I was pointing the cam directly at • Read More »
Tags: Coulds, Galle Face, Galle Face Green, Photography, Sun, Sunset, Worshiping the Sun God
New Domain, New Host, New WordPress…!
June 20, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 3 Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I.Well, couple of days ago I felt like moving my blog off the free WordPress.com hosting. I did not have a real need of it, but I just felt bit restricted by all the restrictions there. Not that I could not live with those restrictions, but my mind just hit some kind of a critical point at which it made • Read More »
Tags: Blog, Domain, Hosting, WordPress, Wordpress 3.0
Me, My Self and Java
June 11, 2010 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Java Stuff, Me, Myself & I, Tech.Programming is my main hobby. I wrote my first computer program when I was 11 years old. Then I was using GW BBASIC. Since then I have learned QBASIC, Pascal, Visual Basic, Perl, Java, PLSQL, C++, PHP, C#, bit of Python and many other things over time. I screwed up my A/L for it but • Read More »
Tags: ASP, BASIC, C++, Computer Programming, Evil, GW BASIC, java, Multiple Inheritance, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL SQL, PLSQL, Pointer Arithmatics, Programming, Python Pointers, QBASIC, RegEx, Regular Expressions, Visual Basic
Should We Privatize Higher Education? – Is That Even the Real Question?
May 9, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 4 Comments | Filed in: Education, Me, Myself & I, Sri Lanka.This is a response to post “???? ????????? ???????????? ?? ??????” in ‘Middle Path’ blog. I was originally going to post a comment to the same post but my comment turned out bit too long. Also I am no good at Sinhala written language (not proud of it by the way). Therefore I ended up • Read More »
Tags: A/L Results, Free Education, Higher Education, Jobs vs Education, Private Higher Education, Privatization, Sri Lanka
"The Man From Earth" – One of the Best Science Fiction Movies I Ever Watched
May 8, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 6 Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Movies.What comes to your mind when you think of science fiction movies? Is it million dollar computer graphics, special effects, space ships, high-tech stuff, gibberish about Universe and Astrophysics, Aliens, Action, …..?. If that is what you expect from a science fiction, this movie is not for you. This one has non of that. From start to end, there • Read More »
Tags: Jerome Bixby, Man From Earth, Man From Earth (2007), Movie, Movies, Science Fiction, The Man from Earth, The Man From Earth (2007)