Trishaws and Trains in Colombo
kinda what it feels like inside a trishaw (three-wheeler, tuk-tuk, bajaj)
this is a trishaw at rest
Today I woke up to drop off the Google graphic at the Leisure Times. This day is already odd cause it’s 10 am and I’m awake. Then I go home to hopefully get unconscious again, but Sudesh comes over to work on Amma’s database, so there we go.
We’re trying to create a database that’ll store vocational-ed courses on one side and a job classifieds on the other side. If there’s 30 IT jobs there’ll be a bar 30 px long on the right side. If there are 100 IT courses there’ll be a bar 100px long on the left side, etc. It’s a relational database so if you’re looking at a job it will (theoretically) link you to the courses that can help you get that job, and vice versa. We’re trying to write it in php/mySQL – with the catch that I don’t know php/mySQL, but it’s not that hard to learn. Sudesh learns faster than I do and he writes it, so it’s really not that hard at all. I drink some tea to wake my ass up cause I have another meeting downtown at 3:30. I tuck my shirt in and go.
Someone at the Sunday Times finally freed up money for the IT Magazine I’m trying to launch, so I met with Pragathi to finalize the request for computers and office space and stuff. He showed me the offices available and I’m thinking I don’t want an office at all. We could just buy a bunch of laptops and roam between the 4 or 5 WiFi hotspots in Colombo. Right now we is me, a blogger, and a bunch of free-lancers, so it’s not like anyone would be in an office anyways. I also can’t wake up before noon.
The Mahavamsa (a history of Sri Lanka) is full of conflicts between generals and kings. Usually, the more bloodthirsty and unscrupulous would win. Our current (elected) ruler Mahinda Rajapaksa has had his own general conflicts, namely with one Sarath Fonseka. In the old days Fonseka would have staged a coup, as in literally try to cut of Mahinda’s head, and Mahinda would – if that failed – tie him to four elephants and split his parts asunder. Can’t do that shit anymore. Instead Fonseka ran for office and lost and Mahinda tossed him in jail.
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congrats on moving forward. i enjoyed your photos. can you swim in the ocean? i look at your self-portrait and think that you have changed, but i still (obviously) recognize you.
the trees on the mountain are fiery red, orange.
we are probably moving to NDG.