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Posts from September 2009

Opera Mini Beta and MobilePress

For about a year, my internet access was severely limited. Being far from the WiFi at home, I relied on my mobile phone for access. That sucked.
Using a Nokia 7260 as a GPRS modem wasn’t such a hot idea. Thanks to the Opera Turbo feature (then still in Alpha) helped a little, but it was [...]


Daily Mirror doesn’t get it

So there I was feeling all upset that my crappy photo made it to the front page of Ada Derana without my being credited.
But why stop there? Turns out the people at the Daily Mirror (http://www.dailymirror.lk) aren’t very original either.
Barely a coupla days after my photo turns up on Ada Derana, it turns up on [...]


I’ve been robbed!

…of my intellectual property that is. What really hurts is that it’s not even one of my better works.
UPDATE (2009-09-15): The folks at Derana replied my email and apologised for the unauthorised use. They have taken off the pic from their site. I forgive them, but am keeping the post up, since I still think [...]


Be Cool, man

Melting ice cubes by Stevendepolo
Following up on the maverick Junichrio Koizumi’s 2005 “Cool Biz” campaign it seems that that “the Prime Minister of Bangladesh has ordered public servants to ditch suits and ties for short-sleeved shirts to cut air-conditioning use in the power-starved nation.” (via the Freakonomics blog).
This brings to mind the subject of the [...]