Recent Comments
The Rajapaksification Of Rugby (2)
Mili: The eldest was actually good at it. It started diminishing down the order..
Roshan: namal is a very good player and i would have no problem him representing the country. but yoshitha is not as good and not nearly good enough to become of the captain of the team, overlooking so many better skilled players who have...
Sarath Fonseka And The Mahavamsa (9)
Jack Point: More correct to have said the Wijewardene, Ratwatte, Obeysekere families.
Why Does India Suck At The Olympics? (20)
sach: why do we care about india? lets think about why we suck at sports and administration. After all indians are better than our lot in administration.
Jack Point: To add to the above, the Pakhtuns, hailing from the wilderness beyond the Khyber Pass are as tough as they some. Some, like Imran Khan make it into sports and excel at it.
Jack Point: Blacker and Rohan have most of the reasons. Training, nutrition and other resources play a good part but genetics do so as well. The ‘easyR 17; climate of South Asia meant that its inhabitants did not need to be particularly...
WiFi Router Viruses (3)
the way of the dodo: I probably go to your comp through the internet and then hacked to root to transmit to other macs iOS devices in the network. Mac are not safe, they haven’t been safe for years. Now with enough macs out there, hackers...
Kani: Ubuntu is a good sane choice and you won’t miss Win 7 unless you want to play games. You can have them dual boot if you still want to use W7.
Giules: Out of curiosity, what OS are you using now? After a few years of slogging it on a laptop I’m finally moving back to a desktop, built to good specs, with the intention of having the OS on a SSD drive – leaning on Win 7, but...
New New Kottu (8)
D: ahh got it. I was trying for the wordpress standard of /feed been the last term thanks.
|
|
Recent Posts
The Rajapaksification Of Rugby:  Above is the President’s sons featured in a commercial by a state-owned telco which I saw on state-owned television. Which is, I dunno, but the two youngest sons seem to be playing in the Carlton Super 7s, which I think is broadcast on CSN, which is run by Yoshitha Rajapaksa’s girlfriend. Anyways. He was also recently made captain of the Sri Lanka rugby team, to some chagrin. I’ve heard that the boys are actually quite good at rugby, but still. It looks a bit… untoward.
|
WiFi Router Viruses:  This is weird, but it happened to me. Lately I noticed that Google links weren’t working and my Google search page had a ‘Google Kindle’ link at the bottom, which they don’t sell. This wasn’t just on my PC, it affected my iPad and everything on the WiFi network. So I figured the virus/malware was on the WiFi router, which it was. Which is a trip. Anyways, here’s the symptoms and a cure.
|
Getting A Chinese Visa In Sri Lanka (Or Trying):  I want to visit my friend in China before he comes back. Free place to crash and all. So, I applied for a visa to China, from Colombo. I’m not sure I’ll get it, but this is process to at least apply. For official but incomplete info, check out the Chinese Embassy website.
|
Sarath Fonseka And The Mahavamsa:  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.
|
Why Does India Suck At The Olympics?:  Today on the morning show we talked about the Olympics, namely China’s emerging dominance. For me the bigger question is India. Why does India suck so much? In 2008 the US won 110 medals, China won 100 and India won… 3. India has over a billion people, some economic clout and is by all counts an emerging superpower, but they suck at the Olympics. Why?
|
|
|
