Wish everyone a happy & prosperous year!!! and hope this will be a great year for Web Standards

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Cleaning out last years clutter I came across my hi5 account and it seems most people have left to Facebook or something. So I cancelled my account. 1 less password to store. Anyone still on hi5 and loving it?

Another year started with full of hopes and plans. I just went through the checklist of plans I had for year 2007 and found, wow, I have achieved almost all plans.

Now it is time to list out plans for the new year, 2008. I am thinking of launching a new thing; it has already been started and is being accelerated, which is one of my major plans. Hope future has stored good things for me.

Again, just like the last year, my wish is peace for the country. Still the war is going on and on, at least, let's hope that war will be ended by this year. Wish you all my friends to very happy new year and May all hearts fill with love, peace and happiness!

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2007 started great with a new job and new expectations. But I should have known better. As long as you work for someone your at their mercy. The only way to get what you want is to work for yourself.

Don’t get me wrong this job is the best I had so far. I just have to wake up a bit early but beyond that I can work from home or office, no one looking over my shoulder as long as my tasks are done.

I hoped I could do some open source contributions in 2007. Sadly I couldn’t do much than posting some links here. Maybe 2008 will be different. Lets see.

Christmas kind of sucked this year. Cake helped a bit and so did this Blaupunkt THb 210A.

Now I have the thump of a 3 wheeler in a neat package with boot space to spare. Thanks to Chathuranga for the idea.

I’m not a concrete new year resolutions kind of guy but I’m hoping I’ll have to kick it up a notch next year. Oh shit that’s tomorrow! Ok ok what ever happens you will hear it first here.

Be kind enough to leave kind comments on my many social profile pages. See you on the other side of 2008, go open source!!!

This seems to be a bummer. Color coding and intellisense for VBScript code in Classic ASP pages have been deprecated in VS 2008.

There is a workaround for making it work for files with the .vbs extension but no solution for .asp pages. Hopefully someone would come up with a hack to get it working again.

Until then Microsoft's answer is for us to use VS 2005 or Visual Web Developer 2005. But don't install VWD if you already have VS 2008 installed since VWD will take over all file associations leaving 2008 broken.

You can let Microsoft know how much this sucks by ranting here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=290845

So today it see the end of another wonderful year in our lives. It’s hard to believe how fast time travels, it was like yesterday I remember the dawn of year 2007. However, this constantly reminds us how short is our lives and how limited the time we got in our lives [...]

Did you know you can get SMS reminders from Google Calendar in Sri Lanka? Well you can if your on Dialog or Tigo. Here’s how.

1. Once in Google Calendar go to Settings (top right)
2. Then go to Mobile Setup
3. Select “Sri Lanka” for the “Country” and enter your mobile number like +94777xxxxxx
4. Click Send Verification Code
5. Enter the verification code you get on your mobile and click Finish Setup

Now when you add an event add a SMS reminder and you are set.

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