Nisadas unstructured. thoughts.

Nisadas

For those of you who have noticed the lack of unstructured Sinhala poems (Nisadas) on this blog;
I used to work at Vesess.
Prabhath (the uber-designer) blogged at Nidahas.
Venushka (the uber-coder) blogged at Adahas.
I wanted to blog as well – lack of talent notwithstanding – and tried to come up with a name for the whole thing. [...]

Dear Dulan

This year you’re sixteen and you’ve only just got on the internet. Some chap from a Bradby playing school (where at some charity walk you will win the voucher to get you internet access) has tagged me to write to you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wimmulder/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
No of course not, that link doesn’t work ‘cos it links [...]

The worm’s eye view – Muhammed Yunus and Grameen Bank

I recently had the opportunity to read Banker to the Poor – the story of the Grameen Bank by Muhammed Yunus. While you can easily find out the story of Grameen at its Wikipedia page, there are some points of interest in the book that don’t make it into Wikipedia.

And this is why I should buy a diesel vehicle

Passing along the highlevel road, I thanked my stars that the tank was full. Although, I might’ve just as well been better off with a diesel vehicle…

The vehicles belonging to these good people were probably the same ones parked along the road right upto Police Park.

Clearly, LIOC was doing better off than these guys…

Steel toed, high heeled, dancing shoes

I’m fairly sure there must be some kind of demand for these things. With a heel of variable height, straps to hold the shoes in place and other features depending on the lady’s taste and enough protection to ensure that those delicate toes are well protected.
It’s either that, or there’s gonna forever be a new [...]

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 [...]

Chilli Parota

Right above that Nalaka wheel alignment/tyre merchants joint in Colombo 02 is another branch of the famous Food Waves restaurant. This one’s called “Thiru Kumaran’s Food Waves” and it’s a vegetarian restaurant that serves South Indian food. Good food for good prices – enough reason to like it.
The reason that I wanted to blog about [...]

Another scam to harvest your email?

Not so long ago I wrote about the scam involving the use of the AirTel name and the promise of an iPhone to harvest email addresses. It seems that any new entrant to the Sri Lankan market can be almost guaranteed that its name will be used for a scam.
Just consider what I found in [...]