Srimal's Blog

CAR FOR SALE

2011-09-07T20:38:00.001-07:00

Model: Maruti Zen

Year of Manufacture: 2006

Run only 19,000 km. - Used primarily as a second family vehicle. First
owner (purchased brand new).

Very economical small car.

Photos: attached

Expected price: Rs 1,300,000 or nearest offer.

Contact: 0777380166 or 0718345108

SIGGRAPH 2010 : Computer Animation Festival Trailer

2011-04-06T19:03:00.000-07:00

Prayer card

2011-01-16T15:22:00.001-08:00

Albert Einstein Quotes on Spirituality

2011-01-06T18:08:00.001-08:00

http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/einstein/

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

2010-10-09T02:52:00.000-07:00

Johanna Blakely: Lessons from fashion's free culture

2010-06-09T17:43:00.000-07:00

Fundamental matrix

2010-04-26T19:42:00.000-07:00

http://danielwedge.com/fmatrix/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_matrix_%28computer_vision%29

PhD Tips

2010-04-07T17:54:00.000-07:00

Some of my favorites from http://www.phdtips.com/

Guidelines

2009-10-28T20:22:00.000-07:00

The guidelines ...

Dinelie's email (1st)

2009-10-03T03:06:00.000-07:00


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Not bad for a 4 month old :)

Pneumatic Organ at Floriade 2009

2009-09-26T05:25:00.000-07:00

This organ is totally mechanical/pneumatic. No electronics.

The organ along with its operator, proudly showing the music sheets...

More of the organ ...

And this is what it looks like from the front ...

Aborigines sing Carols - Australian National Museum

2009-09-26T05:16:00.000-07:00

Our very own Sri Lankan Ubuntu Mirror!

2009-08-03T03:50:00.000-07:00

Though I've never used it, it was a pleasure to know from Supun Rathnayaka that we have a Sri Lankan Ubuntu Mirror.

More details at http://www.schoolnet.lk/index.php?lang=en&for=default&page_id=37#ubuntu

Here is the complete discussion at the lug talk email list.

http://groups.google.com/group/lug-talk/browse_thread/thread/1b581d53cf4efa41

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

2009-06-24T21:01:00.000-07:00

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Its estimated 93% won't forward this.

(I didn't - I blogged it ;-)

Remember that I will always share my spoon with you!

Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.

Dengue Killls!!!

2009-06-22T02:30:00.000-07:00

Huge Sri Lankan bird

2009-04-01T21:29:00.000-07:00

Bird

These are pictures of a huge bird, seen in our my backyard this morning at Kelaniya.

The bird was almost 1.5 feet tall (the distance between the holes of the barbwire post to the right of the bird are roughly around 9 inches - the bird spans about three of these).

Looking forward to some comments and feedback from someone more conversant on Sri Lankan birds - I have no idea what this one is called.

Insipration ++

2009-02-11T03:16:00.000-08:00

Easy Web services with Grails

2008-12-04T03:14:00.000-08:00

It was quite interesting to see Samisa's blog post about the ease of creating web services using Visual Studio.

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/samisa?id=111

True enough doing the same in PHP/JAVA may involve a little bit of more coding.

However, doing the same in Open Source is equally simple with the advent of technologies like GRAILS (www.grails.org)

With the Axis2 Plugin for grails,

a service class can be very simply exposed as a web service by adding

a

    static expose=['axis2']

to the top of the service class code.

Ex:

mport javax.jws.WebParam;class TestService {
    static expose=['axis2']
    String sayHello(String yourName) {
      return "Hello ${yourName}!"
  }

3G (Mobitel) for HUAWEI E220 -- Workaround for kernels < 2.6.20

2008-09-05T04:28:00.000-07:00

http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/pro/huawei-e220/

සිංහල

2008-03-23T21:29:00.000-07:00

මෙහි සිංහල ලිවිය හැක.

Free SMS to Sri Lankan Networks

2008-02-17T19:54:00.001-08:00

These sites are free and require no login or registration.
(for the moment :-)

http://sms.kaputa.com/

Dialog
Mobitel

http://www.cutelanka.com/sms/

Mobitel

Eye Saver

2008-02-10T20:00:00.000-08:00

A simple shell script that would have made my spectacle lenses a lot thinner, had I run into this some years ago.

Eye Saver pops up a message in X Windows, every 30 minutes, reminding you to take a eye break.

Version 0.1 is available for download at:

http://www.lug.lk/~srimal/eyesaver/eyesaver-0.1.sh

The latest version will be maintained at sourceforge.

The CVS of the sourceforge project is at:

eyesaver.cvs.sourceforge.net

Kopi kade at Deyata Kirula 2009

2008-02-09T22:39:00.000-08:00

Yours truly with the Kopi Kade cast at Deyat Kirula ....

Deyata Kirula 2008 - BMICH

2008-02-07T02:14:00.000-08:00

The national exhibition Deyata Kirula 2008 - BMICH is happening from 7-10th February 2008.

The ICTA stall was blazing away with 17" LCD panels show casing localized content and educational resources. The best part IMHO was the use of acceclerated 3D desktops like compiz-fusion blazing away with effects.

Some video clips of the happenings on the night before ...

Muliti Partitioned Bootable Thumbdrive

2008-02-05T03:34:00.000-08:00

This is WIP

The Idea is as follows.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 8 64228+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 9 124 931770 b W95 FAT32

sdb1 = Damn Small Linux
sdb2 = fat32 for data

Procedure.
1. get DSL iso
2. mount dsl iso and copy files over to sdb1
3. setup extlinux

elaborate soon.....