Unique blog designs is a company who has designed blogs for many renowned blogs and now they are releasing there newest Wordpress theme , Citrus ,and  they look very neat and elegant. The thing that will appeal to many users will be that you can change your themes colors , layout and etc without modifying […]

Google has release their open source browser and I gave it a try yesterday. It’s based on the Mozilla framework.

It took only a couple of minutes to download and install the browser. I came across a couple of awesome features while clicking around the browser.

There’s a real-time search integrated to the navigation bar, which also […]

Now that I have got a relatively fast internet connection at home I think I’m ready to measure the progress of my blog. Since I started this blog last year it has grown steadily but I never had any targets set so I really didn’t have any goal to achieve. Well that is about to […]

Just added a new theme to my blog; how does it look? I also upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.6.1.

We had the final examination paper today – Public Administration. It was kind of OK, better than I expected . We were supposed to have local selections for the ACM ICPC team, but the competition […]

I haven’t been able to blog for a while, since I’ve been kind of busy during the last two months; also, I didn’t have anything much to write about ;). Anyway here’s what I’ve been doing during the last few months.

Work in the Google Summer of Code project (XPath support to Axis2/C) went on […]

Its not everyday you get 100$ in your account ( well at least not me ) so I was pretty pleased when I saw 3 payments in my PayPal account. All were paid reviews and one of them was from ReviewMe when I mentioned about there blog last month. I have totally forgotten about it […]

I was tagged by Behrad of BioTeck.net , tagging is a good way to build friends and those all important back links that big G loves. So here we go.
Four Jobs I’ve Had

Shop Assistant
Wood Carpenter
Private Tutor
Software Engineer

Four movies I can watch over and over

Lord of the Rings
Shrek
Gladiator
Top Gun

Four Places I’ve lived

Only Sri Lanka up to […]

According to Google 21 Sri Lankans have advanced to Codejam Round 1. And our neighboring country India has the most number of advancers (even higher than China!).

Here are the statistics, sorted by the number of advancers.

Total

6773

Countries

Advanced

India

1018

United States

950

China

857

Russia

373

Brazil

329

Poland

196

Japan

184

Canada

179

South Korea

172

Ukraine

162

Australia

133

Germany

116

Colombia

106

United Kingdom

104

Thailand

95

Spain

94

Argentina

92

Romania

84

France

83

Taiwan

82

Hungary

79

Mexico

69

Israel

62

Egypt

61

South Africa

52

Bulgaria

50

Pakistan

49

Italy

47

Czech Republic

47

Belarus

47

Singapore

45

Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

40

Hong Kong

38

Netherlands

38

Venezuela

37

Bangladesh

37

Indonesia

36

Sweden

34

New Zealand

32

Portugal

31

Peru

25

Switzerland

25

Sri Lanka

21

Austria

20

Serbia and Montenegro

19

Philippines

17

Croatia

17

Turkey

16

Vietnam

15

Denmark

14

Lithuania

14

Latvia

13

Jordan

12

Greece

11

Georgia

11

Morocco

10

Ireland

10

Norway

10

Belgium

10

Estonia

10

Moldova

10

Chile

9

Malaysia

8

Lebanon

8

United Arab Emirates

7

Kazakhstan

7

Uruguay

7

Macedonia

6

Cyprus

6

Finland

5

Algeria

5

Saudi Arabia

4

Paraguay

4

Palestinian Territory

3

Afghanistan

3

Bolivia

3

Azerbaijan

3

Costa Rica

2

Dominican Republic

2

Uzbekistan

2

Albania

2

Bosnia […]

Want a licensed copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3 , Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade or VMWare workstation for Windows for free ? If the answer is yes then keep reading if the answer is no you must be crazy . Nothing in the internet is free right ? so what do I really have […]

Without a doubt the most overused contest prize of them all is Entrecards and with lots of crazy contests out there with prizes worth thousands of dollars people are less likely to enter a contest where the main prizes are Entrecard credits , but with the first prize being 10000 EC credits and and lots […]

Yesterday got a mail from Entrecard team saying that they are cleaning out splogs and quick drop pages.I think this move was initiated because of the comments in the firestrom forum because there many of the splogs were exposed and brought forward. This is a good move by Graham and the team because the original […]

One big advantage of being a pro blogger is you always gets bags of goodies to give away to your readers and that’s exactly what root of all evil John Chow is doing at the moment. You can win a bag full of blogging essentials from Market Leverage just by commenting in the post Win […]

Day before yesterday, I was watching the IPL twenty-twenty cricket match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. Thanvir, from Rajasthan Royals, has the best balling records in the tournament and he’s got a unique balling action. He’s got his own style. Perhaps, if he had been into training with a traditional coach since he was […]

Great Britain has made their UFO files available to the public in their national archive. You can find them here. But, I think they haven’t released some classified information.
USA might also follow UK’s path and make their UFO files available to the public in the future; Scully and Mulder will have to change their job […]

CARELESS MISTAKES!

Today I received a postal mail from the university. It was about an event – a career fair. This is one of the biggest events in the university and the organizers have done a great job running it. The letter I received had the list of sessions in this event (each session on a […]

I had everything completed and there was a power failure just before I saved my work

I have more exams than lectures (so I didn’t have time, for this)

I completely forgot about you

Someone has changed my code while I was away for lunch

I just came from the hospital

I thought 12/4/2008 was December 4th

There was a power […]

This site wasn’t working properly last week due to some changes I made in the theme , and I didn’t notice it till a friend pointed me. Now, it’s back to the default theme.

I started using twitter last week (quite late ). It is much easier than blogging when you don’t have anything […]

This site wasn’t working properly last week due to some changes I made in the theme , and I didn’t notice it till a friend pointed me. Now, it’s back to the default theme.

I started using twitter last week (quite late ). It is much easier than blogging when you don’t have anything […]

Yuppy! our end semester exams finished yesterday with the last paper being relatively easy (all other papers were hard :P). Now, we will have around 40 days of vacation (time to enjoy).

The legend says that Ravana possessed some kind of flying machine which he used to travel around. Today, while I was browsing I dropped […]

Last week was a very stressful week, with university exams starting on March 31st and GSoC application preparation.

I applied to The Apache Software Foundation for the two Axis2/C projects: XPath (my application) and Expat (my application). I had to spend more time than I expected researching on these areas but it was very interesting. I […]

Lyrics of song You get what you give from Surf’s up
Wake up kids
We’ve got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen
They got you down on your knees
So polite
We’re busy still saying please
Frienemies
Who when you’re down ain’t your friend
Every night
We smash their mercedes benz
First we run
And then we laugh ’till we cry
But when the night is falling
And you cannot […]

Or even less?
Watch this.

The Sri Lankan Olympiad in Informatics Screening test which was supposed to be held on 8th March has been postponed to 15th of March. All participants eligible for the test will be notified.

Link: http://www.ioi.lk

IE8 Beta 1 is now released and it has a couple of cool features, like Activities, AJAX Navigation, Web Slices and Favorites Bar. And it also gives more support for developers. ( let’s hope this time web designers won’t have to change everything to work on IE).

On the other hand Firefox 3 Beta is […]

How to determine whether your Windows XP is 32-bit or 64-bit? You need to know when you want to install certain software.

Problem is that in 32-bit systems they don’t show it explicitly; that is if you have a 32 bit system you won’t see 64 anywhere . However, with Vista they display whether you’re […]

How to determine whether your Windows XP is 32-bit or 64-bit? You need to know when you want to install certain software.

Problem is that in 32-bit systems they don’t show it explicitly; that is if you have a 32 bit system you won’t see 64 anywhere . However, with Vista they display whether you’re […]

How to determine whether your Windows XP is 32-bit or 64-bit? You need to know when you want to install certain software.

Problem is that in 32-bit systems they don’t show it explicitly; that is if you have a 32 bit system you won’t see 64 anywhere . However, with Vista they display whether you’re […]

Google is working on a project to develop renewable energy which is cheaper than coal. They have named this project as RE<C (Renewable Energy < Coal): a cool way to name a project.

Although there are many similar projects on finding new sources of energy, Google believes that those projects don’t get enough funding and some […]

Now there’s an invisible mode in Google chat. Now in the web chat there’s an option to be invisible so that others won’t see you as online but you’ll see them (not if they are also invisible ).

I can see them

But they can’t see me

Oops, they still have it only in the web […]

Today, I since I had some free time in the morning I thought of organizing my emails into folders and deleting off old emails. I did this by searching through emails and moving them to folders.

And when I searched for ioi list (emails from ioi mailing list), I got only two results whereas there were […]

Sri Lankan Informatics Olympiad 2008 preliminary selections have started. You should register at the new web site (http://www.ioi.lk), and submit the solutions to the set of problems posted - you’ll get access to the problems once you have registered. Then there will be another screening test for those who do well.
The programming language availability has […]