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Disclaimer: I have no idea about bike world. BUT, I have access to people who know hell of a lot about bikes. They own them, breath them, and live with them day in day out. So me being myself subcontracted the whole bike buying affair to one such friend of mine. My requirement, was simple to him, I want a good bike. Finally both of us decided on Honda Hornet 250 (2005 Model, 130 series).

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I know. I know. I have had lot of WTFs for not posting and posting some nonsense over past several months. Work, studies, and obviously the other commitments(:-)) has kept me away from my blog. I am thinking of coming back to blogging. First let me know tell you, that my Mac experience has been truly amazing. Not just the OS itself, but the breed of applications available for Mac share a class

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Once I get my MacBook I promised myself I will start blogging. So here I go. I have been sucked into Dr. House drama series. I think whoever writing that fine piece of script, is producing an art form rather than just letters on a paper. Here are few quotes from the drama I picked up from official site at Fox, which i enjoyed the most. "No, if you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to

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A fine piece of writeup about the fastest aircraft ever built(Link)

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Best moment of today was watching Steve Jobs Key Note and at about 9 mins and 32 sec, he played the song "All we are saying is give peace a chance" and said, "that's when NBC calls" meaning, that would be his ring tone when NBC calls. It was just funny and with audience I started laughing. Call me crazy but I was up and watching at 3:30 AM in the morning. Background: http://

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Let me break my online silence. It's been almost 5 months since I made my last post. Today I went for a workshop at Moratuwa Uni, "Think on your feet". All in all it was good and I am sure the undergrads would have found it very useful. About the Gavel Club, Moratuwa Uni I was impressed with the students who spoke on behalf of the Gavel Club, at various occasions, for welcome address,

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This was an interesting read for me. How to identify people who are passionate about their jobs. Don't ask employees to be passionate about the company! I think the last 4 points are very important, and probably you can use in your interviews to filter people who are not passionate about their jobs. The simple 4-question test to see if someone has a passion for their work: * When was the

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Is it true that companies always strive to look at their interests primarily when it comes to devising policies, just to safeguard their interests? And incidentally the policies appear to be in favor of employees? I think it might be true for all the other industries, however for software industry, when your main asset itself is the human skill, wouldn’t it become the company’s primary

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Section 3: There are three reasons for friendship, just as there are three reasons for liking something: usefulness, pleasure, or goodness. In friendship based on usefulness or pleasure, the person is not liked in himself but because of the good or pleasure he can provide. Such friendships are easily dissolved. Section 4: Perfect friendship exists between good men who are alike in their

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Sony GPS-CS1 GPS, seems to be very cool gadget to have if you want the GPS locations for the pictures you take. Not sure whether it would work on a Nikon though.

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Power cuts at night have happened two nights in a row where I live. Today was worse since I think it started at mid night and went on till now, and that’s 3:30 AM, and during that time the mosquitoes go crazy and I hate that “neeeeeeeeee” sound in my ear and lost sleep.Thanks to the USB ADSL modem, I was able to get connected to the net (without power), but came across no one online to keep

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They have some cool stuff online. http://www.noblecollection.com Superman Returns™ Money Clip The DaVinci Code™ Invisible Writer - I think you have to buy two or more of this so that you can communicate with someone else. The DaVinci Code™ Cryptex Keychain

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Check out, leave comments and help me improve my photography skills :-)

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We went on a trip to Disneyland, LA. It was rather disapointing, since there were not many adventure items as I would have hoped, but it turned out to be good location to try out few things with my new Camera. [Link to Picasa Album] Go ahead and add your comments to the pics.

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At last, I have got my D80 and Nikon 18-55mm Lens. I have waited for so long to get one of these (because I couldn't afford one when I wanted it), and finally I have it now, 18-55 is not the lens I wanted though, but something I can start shooting with. Now that makes me really happy person. However there are costs involved :-) This time around my savings are not so great. But then again I can't

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I was reading Vital Friends and probably it was the right time that I read that book. One of the section talks about how different friends bring different strengths to our life. It has a great story about how a married woman had a trust worthy, funny, caring husband but still she felt they are heading for a divorce.The reason being, she relied on her best friend and parents for push her and

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I got myself a Super.fi 3 in-ear phone (review). I have not used any high end ear phones before, so I can't compare this against anything else high end. However I already own a Sony in-ear phone and the ear phones which comes with Apple iPod. Compared to those two Suprt.fi 3 is definite winner. It sounds great. I can listen to some ranges I have not exprerienced before. Music is clear and it

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Me and my colleagues here went to Sanfransisco this evening. Buddika had a Canon DSLR, with the telephoto lens. These are all pictures he captured, except for the one where I can shot him. This a US submarine that was used in World War II, commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1945. This is my first try with a DSLR (my friend's camera though) to take a shallow depth of field picture,

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First week in the USA ended up as a endurance test for my Thinkpad. One of my college dropped and screen got busted. However I am very pleased with IBM Support. Just one call to them, they picked up the laptop, fixed it and returned in few days. Now I am backon line. I think while I am here I should also upgrade the memory to 2GB, so that I could run VMWare without being majorly slow. Since

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Asus WL-700gE Router – Dream comes true? Asus WL-700gE Router looks like a dream come true for me. It has a bit torrent client, ftp server, a web server too?, and 1 160 GB hard disk. Wow is all what I can say. All this is for about 250 USD, which is a very good price point in my opinion. Why secret Salaries are Bad idea I have worked previously at companies which had this policy. However

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My cousin brother and sister are here in Sri Lanka for a holiday from abroad. They are 5 and 8 years old respectively. Given, the kids, unlimited source of energy and hunger for hamburgers, we took them out for some playtime and ended up at McDonalds for dinner. One of the employees at the outlet was doing his routine mopping of the floor close to our table, just trying to keep the area clean. At

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Smack Book Pro As you know, Mac laptops now come with a motion sensor to detect a fall and park the hard disk. ThinkPads too have this motion sensor for some time now. However the API for accessing the motion sensor in a Mac is Open so people are writing all kind of motion aware application for Mac. Below is a link to a clip where a Multiple Desktop Manager has been linked to the motion sensor

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I am getting more and more web addicted. I read quite a few sites, not just ones but visit repeatedly to see if there are any updates. Now I know about RSS, Atom and I have a FeedReader installed which pulls feeds from 100 different blogs and sites. However whenever I have couple of minutes in hand, I pop a URL out of my head and type it in the browser to see if there are any updates. Recently I

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