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Posts from August 2005

Tears and Fears

Knowledge is Power. A little knowledge is dangerous thing.

So it goes without saying that people with a lot of knowledge on a subject are powerful, whereas those with a little knowledge on a subject are walking time bombs.

Guess which category I belong to?


Posted
23 August 2005 @ 8pm

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Small is Beautiful

CVO. Chief Virus Officer. That’s what my pals at Vesess call me. Hmph. I read so much about the havoc caused by viruses on Microsoft’s operating system that paranoia stalks me all the time. Especially when you consider…


Posted
18 August 2005 @ 9pm

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Obscurity

The internet is a great way for obscure information to come into the spotlight – like the musings of an eclectic guy in Sri Lanka, for example.

So it’s something of a minor triumph that I should…


Multum in parvo

It means “Much in Little”. Effectively, that there is something great about being small…


Murder

When I woke at around 2am to the noise of choppers overhead, I thought I was delirious. That particular noise had become something of a rarity since the the LTTE had called a “ceasefire” in 2002 and taken instead to offing their opponents in a less overt manner, taking full advantage of the restraint commanded by the Sri Lanka Armed forces.

Confident that I was delirious, I went back to sleep again only to awake to the terrible news…


Politics

Seeing as how the political situation in Sri Lanka is going, I just had to write something about it.


Posted
3 August 2005 @ 4pm

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Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

After messing around with Dial-Up, paying the nice people at Linuxant for a modem driver that works with my Conexant Winmodem on that lovely version of Vector SOHO Linux , I’ve been given the good news.