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Occasion: On the way to a health camp after 2004 TsunamiLocation: Ferry, Verugal aruDate: 2004 Dec 27 Ferry at Verugal Aru (marked) Google Map

News Article on Daily Mirror web siteTopix linking to article published by Daily MirrorIt seems the Sirasa/ MTV had got an award for “Best World Report”!!! Is it really?This was posted as a News Article in online edition of Daily Mirror as a breaking news on 3rd July 2008. Just two sentences for such an [...]

Firefox 3 Download Day certificate to Firefox from Microsoft IE with love Al Billings of Mozilla Corporation The cake the Microsoft IE team sent on the Firefox 2 launch Ahh got my own Firefox 3 download certificate for helping to set the World Record. It’s way past the expected 5million by [...]

Arthur C. Clarke, the sci-fi author had passed away today at Colombo after a brief illness.

A new web site was launched yesterday for the Ridi Viharaya, Kurunegala.It has a Sinhala Unicode version thought not fully implemented.

It’s Google’s 9th Birthday today. Happy Birthday Google!I was very much moved by a comment left by a visitor to my blog postHappy Birthday Google!, exactly one year ago..prakashraju said… [...]

Originally uploaded by zahidul islam I was amazed to find that Google search box can be used to see the latest Cricket Scores in Twenty20 world championship matches being played.You can just type Cricket for results of the latest match or Cricket Sri Lanka for your favorite team or Cricket [...]

Well not exactly…I was browsing among the Government Web sites, when I came across our Ministry of Education web site (see the image on right). I was shocked to see that it had been Hacked by some hackers. I quickly checked the Google cache for the snapshot they had created (see the image on left [...]

Earth tremors have been felt in some areas of Sri Lanka, including Colombo & Kandy. The images here are from USGS Earthquake Hazards Program.According to USGS,Magnitude: 5.2Time: at 04:27:28 (UTC)at 10:27:28 am local time at epicenterat 09:57:28 am Colombo, Sri LankaLocation: 6.548°N, 84.455°E (In bay of Bengal)Distance: 510 km (315 miles) E [...]

Typo is an abbreviation used to denote a typographical error or an error in a typeset. But now it’s commonly used to define all spelling mistakes. For bloggers like us, it’s a common thing, though we try hard not to do such mistakes. Photo: AP Photo by John Raoux Photo: Ken Thornsley, NASA Look [...]

There were only two days remaining, when I got hold of the news about Talents 2007. I had to make some arrangements in a haste so I can attend the occasion.During our University life, Talents was a major event where we looked forward to with much enthusiasm. During the period we got prepared for the [...]

Once in a Blue MoonOriginally uploaded by Kalamakia Well it seems my postings have become so rare lately, that I post ‘Once In a Blue Moon’. Well today is a such day, that we are going to have a Blue Moon.Blue Moon, has nothing to do with it’s colour. It only [...]

We are proud of our cricket team even though they couldn’t beat the Australians. Still they are our champions. You did your best guys. What could we ask for more?The Sri Lankan team returned home from Caribbeans today. Amidst torrential rains many gathered by the sides of the roads just to greet them.I’m very much [...]

I was in Colombo during the weekend. We went over there for the delivery of our sister-in-laws baby. It’s a beautiful baby girl. All family members were happy to see that both mother & baby were doing well.When I arrived at home today, I found that I have lost a long standing friend. Rover was [...]

The first two things I do after returning form a busy days work are, check my email, then check site statistics of visitors to this blog. After doing these two today, I loaded up my blog in another tab just to check whether all is well after the changes I’ve made to layout during past [...]

Well it was sometime back that I upgraded to new blogger. But I was stuck with my classic 3-column-template (provide free by Thur’s tempates), because I thought it’s a waste of browser space to have only one sidebar rather than having two of them.After migrating to new blogger, I started working on the new template. [...]

These are a couple of Red backed Woodpeckers or Black-Rumped Flamebacks (Dinopium benghalense) I saw in my backyard. I got their attention because of the characteristic hammering sound they generate while searching for insects in tree barks.When I did a web search, I found some amazing evolutionary adaptations they have for their niche.They hammer 10 [...]

Are you over weight?Are you putting up more fat?Is your new year’s resolution is to loose some weight?Wondering how much weight you should loose?For this purpose, Body Mass Index (BMI) is used. It checks whether an individual has appropriate weight for height.The formula is; BMI = Weight in kg/ Height in meteres2I have done the [...]

Today I had the shock of my life when I tried to log into Blogger to put up a new post. When I typed in my user name & password to blogger login page, the blogger dashboard looked bit weird. To my shock there was only one blog (rather than the 3, of which 2 [...]

The things are getting out of control.If you haven’t seen the earlier post Blogger busted, please read it first.Today I got an email from the owner of the blog that I talked about in the previous post. It seems he had got stuck in my blogger dashboard. Please see the comments in that post or [...]

I was busy carrying out my usual duties, when suddenly it seemed that all the noise had died out, except for the cardiac monitor, which beeped with every beat of my patients heart. Then I suddenly noticed that all the staff members in the operating theater were standing still. I looked at my watch & [...]

Today morning I saw these bees busy at work. Got some really beautiful photos of them.I just thought of reading more on them & found some very interesting facts…Busy at workBee Facts:Belong to genus Apis Have been producing honey for at least 100 million years.Have 4 wings, 5 eyes & fly at an average [...]

When I went to Google home page to do some searching to find some facts for my next blog post, I was surprised to see the Google logo. It’s Google’s Birthday!!! Then I did some searches & got these old Google Birthday logos. Google derives from Googol which means 1.0 × 10100. It’s [...]

I was searching for Robert Knox’s ‘An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon’ when I stumbled upon this two great free resources. I was amazed to see how much free content they had & we are so ignorant as not to use them.Project GutenbergThis was started by Michael Hart in 1971 & named the project [...]

These are Kandyan Dancer Orchids from our garden. This belongs to the genus Onicidium, which has more than 300 orchid species.I could not find the exact species name of this orchid though.These have been named after it’s resemblance to Kandyan Dancers, a traditional form of upcountry dancing in Sri Lanka, where the dancers wear highly [...]

These are cut ends of two banana stems. As you can see, the middle part has grown a little bit. When I saw this, I remembered an ingenious method used by ancient Sri Lankans to calculate a new borns birth time (as most of the people did not have watches or clocks).When a baby is [...]