Today Is Leap Year. What’s Going On?
Today is February 29th, which only happens once ever four years, except for every century, unless the century is divisible by 400. Phew. That’s all the permutations to make our orbit around the sun (the year) match the earth’s rate of spin (the day), despite the fact that these two phenomena have nothing to do with each other. So it actually doesn’t work, and our year is always a little bit off.
The video above explains this in more detail. It’s quite interesting, and also enlightening. It shows how everything we take for solid and granted is actually constantly changing if you look at it close enough. Including time.
Happy Leap Year, and if it’s your birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday.
Not to quote Ice Cube, but the Sri Lankan police are hardly beloved. A 
I just gave a talk at the University Of Sri Jayawardenapura along with Reeza Zarook of Anything.lk and Rohan Jayaweera of Google. These are my notes: Devin Jayasundara asked me for a subject for this talk and I told him Internet property. But I talked to my fiancé Shru and she had a better idea. Startups aren’t about creating property at all, not really. They’re about creating territory, about creating land.
I haven’t been blogging much, I know. It’s partly because we’ve been doing a lot of work on YAMU, especially shipping 1.0.1 of the Android app today. It’s on the 
I met an old-timer who said they used to drop acid and sleep atop Sigiriya, but the place has taken on a more commercial and quasi-spiritual role now. It was built by a king as a sort of retreat and used as a monastery. Now it’s a prime tourist and cultural destination. Hence it’s a bit odd to see a Japanese beer commercial shot up there. There’s a bunch of people eating, um, deep fried cream filled coconuts and then drinking some bracing beer. I hear the whole thing cost Rs. 25,000 (I’m presuming they used stock images).
just wondering, since the our earth spins on its axis a tad bit faster than the man made 24 hour clock, how can it not the daily minor discrepancy add on to something bigger and more visible over a period of time? As in when its afternoon and the sun is at its zenith the clock would say its only 10am.
yes, the 24 hour clock is also off