World is running out of its energy sources. Most recent breakthroughs were simply efficiency improvements. Most renewable energy approaches such as solar, wind… are not capable of supplying for mainstream demand. Also most of them consume wast amounts of land and don’t even produce energy all day long. Nuclear fission is risky and ever decreasing in popularity. One • Read More »
Tags: Fission, Fusion, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion, Star in a Jar
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
Yes! parking cost is high in Colombo. Specially if you don’t want to park your vehicle under boiling hot sun and leave one of your biggest assets at the mercy of robbers. It’s high not because some people trying to rip off vehicle owners, but because the gap between supply and demand has driven up • Read More »
Tags: Colombo, Kandy, Parking, Parking Fees, Private Sector Car Parks, Sri Lanka, Sunday Observer
You may have noticed how websites like Facebook and Gmail load/update pages on browser without actually reloading the entire thing. It can come handy in your own websites specially when you need to change a small potion of the content that is already shown in the screen. Or you need to change the data shown • Read More »
Tags: Facebook, HTML, IFrame, JavaScript, Web2
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
When you run a website or a blog, it is partly your responsibility to keep it safe. There are many ways that a web site can be attacked. Some attacks focus on infrastructure such as network and servers, and some focus on the web application itself. When it comes to attacks on infrastructure it’s service providers job • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Blog Security, Password Security, Security, Web Site Security
132nd installment of Royal Thomian Big Match is happening this week. But there is less hype about it this time around as 2011 cricket world cup has overshadowed it on most of the media. I too was not planing to write about it, but I noticed some increase of visitors to some of my old posts, which • Read More »
Tags: 132nd Battle of the Blues, Battle of the Blues, Big Match, Live Streaming, Online Broadcast, Papare.com, Royal College, Royal-Thomian, RoyTho 2011, St. Thomas' College, UStream
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
This is not a post to defend Lahiru Perera, his music or anything. This just what I see from all the drama happening over his world cup cheer song ‘Enna’. If you have listened to any of Lahiru Pereras songs, you must have realised that he is not Amaradewa, Suni Edirisingha, or not even Sunil Perera or Iraj • Read More »
Tags: Cricket, Cricket World Cup, Cricket World Cup 2011, Cricket World Cup 2011 Official Song, CWC, CWC 2011, dailymirror.lk, Enna, islandcricket.lk, Lahiru Perera, Music, Sri Lanka