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Ever since I started using a computer about 20 years ago, I've carefully collected all the files I thought I might need in the future. Quite frankly, I absolutely needed none of the files I created before 10 years ago. Back then, I hoped that job interviewers might ask me to show the work I had done...

I've been driving for over a decade, having obtained my driver's license in 2006. Now in my early thirties, I've always prided myself on being a cautious driver.On May 1st, 2017 (Labour Day), I found myself with a rare day off. After sleeping in, I called my girlfriend only to discover she was unwel...

As election results pour in, I find myself at home, halfheartedly searching for rental properties. Lately, I've been feeling under the weather - lacking motivation, constantly tired, and uncharacteristically lazy. It's been a while since I've updated my blog or hit the gym. This morning, while ponde...

I had no siblings till the age of 9. There were no many people in my village. At least about 200 meters distance to the next nearest house from mine. Most of them in my village were farmers. There were no political parties or much influence from politics.  People didn't have much social interactions...

Last Wednesday morning, I had grand plans. I wanted to arrive at work early, complete my tasks efficiently, and return home with time to organize our new rented house. The recent move had left everything in disarray, and I felt compelled to restore order to my slightly altered life. Lately, I'd been...

I usually prefer to not write anything on leadership, management, motivation and the other similar topics as I wanted to keep myself as a person who absolutely has nothing to do with these things, however, the time has come to tell you:) what I think about these overrated L-word and the other coope...

One of my favourite things to do when I'm free is open a code file from one of the best known open source projects and look at the code. Some of them programmers are truly amazing in writing codes applying the best coding practices and use OOP concepts. There are many good ways to architect and d...

From what I talk to my friends, I understand that the concern in the Sri Lankan IT industry is that often its workers, despite long and hard work, the need for continually leaning to keep-up with the rapidly changing technologies, do not earn enough to enjoy a decent standard of living. The post war...

I was ambitious, having failed my A levels and didn't have any qualifications. I felt as if it would be my last and only chance to switch my life upside down. I knew very well, I can't afford to get anything wrong at the point of time where I was applying to go to UK, April-May time of 2008. Those ...

I ran out of Internet bandwidth for this month. SLT package I have at home gives my family the luxury of 25 GByte worth the Internet serf a month. Should we want to use after the bandwidth limit, we will have an Internet at a 64 KByte per second speed. So, got frustrated try to access my documents o...

This is a million dollar question for most of the programmers. Programmers often live in virtual language specific world including myself and when we asked to go to another world, we get annoyed. When we spend years discovering a world and hear about a better one, it’s not a good feeling. When I ta...

The first software package I ever learned is Microsoft Excel in 1997 at my school, Jaffna Hindu College. Some of our old school union people thought that the young pupil in our school should learn computer. I’m grateful to my school and I should write about my schools in another post. Computer was a...

Today, now, as any other weekend evenings; I’m ly-ing partially arching my back on the warm sand in the beach comfortably. My mind feels clean, must be this gentle breeze coming from sea towards the beach and the moon light. It’s around 7.30 PM now. No sun, but moon is on night shift. Beach side lig...

Finding the real me is an enlightening experience. I believe knowing ourselves are very important in order to know what we can do with ourselves. I become self-sufficient and do things for myself, for once. I'm no longer needy and become utterly grateful for all the things people have done for m...

This is going to be my last post on blog.activj.net and I'll be blogging on one of the blogging CMSs or on blogger.com as no longer Google will support my blog integration. That means, No longer I can synch my blog.activj.net with Google's blogger server. I have been doing this for a long time for l...

Allo all & Allo 2010. 'Allo' is tamil version of Hallo. 2009 was good; actually It was great. Let me list my 2009 achievements. Jeyaram. BSc (Hon) [ Not a normal person anymore ] Found a Job as soon as I graduated. Met trillions of new people. France VISA - [ Never wanna talk about ] Labell...

Now it's almost four months from my last post. Time passes so fast and I don't know how I get busy without doing anything. Organizing my time and finishing things as I plan is simply a pain, and In many occasions it doesn't work. I schedule things then something very important comes in and I resched...

This is one of the subjects I think all the time. When I travel in the bus, when I cook my food, when I walk, when I’m in the toilet and even when I was in the Lecture hall. This is just not a word, this is a theory, this is a concept, this is very broad subject applicable to many day-to-day things...

Words cannot express the happiness and joy I feel right now. I knew I was gonna make it finally, but there were just things that made it rather difficult to be happy about. I mean, how could I not graduate? Last semester, my final project and other courseworks made me worry about graduating this yea...

இன்று புதுசு. நாளை பழசு. பழசை கொன்று புதுசை கொண்டாடுறம். பழசுகள் செய்த பாழாய் போனவை புதுசு வரிஷங்கள் வந்தன. மாசங்கள் போயின. வாழ்கையின் வருத்தங்களும் வசந்தங்களும்.. வாரங்கள் வந்தன. நாட்கள் நீண்டன. வந்த மாற்றங்களும் சமாதானமும். வந்தவை வரமாக.! வாழ்கையில் இருள் நீங்க..! மதி கொண்டு மனிதன் கருனை நித...

OMG! Guys, I'm thrilled! The musical god, A.R.Rahman is going to graduate with me:P! I can't wait to see him. This is the best news for me this year.... wooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww.....!!A R Rahman is on the receiving end. After the honorary doctorate offered ...

Things get a bit crazy. I have been given an individual project to finish within a month and I have three more coursework and a test to be done. My life's getting crazy. For my individual project, I need to interview people with speech impairments. I'm trying to find someone to interview and to fini...

Dear friends. A thousand apologies, I couldn't post anything useful last 5 months. Now, I'm doing computer science in middlesex university and I'm quite busy with doing coursework, studying, cooking on my own and with my works. New place, new people, multicultural environment, new rules, new regulat...

Last night, I was suffering from fever and stomach ache and I was thinking about our lives. It does not make any sense for me. We are bornWe growWe drinkWe growWe eatWe growWe smileWe growWe cryWe growWe laughWe growWe standWe growWe listenWe growWe speakWe growWe thinkWe growWe readWe growWe writeW...

Friends! This is a very useful and interesting post as we all use cell phone very frequently in our day-to-day life. Actually, My immediate boss at my previous work place, mailed me these mobile secrets. I just post the mail here with his permission. Please read fully and experiment/try/check the...