Well that is the cost of pissing off the Air Force, with their so called "daring" Attack. Rest in Pieces!
At 6.00am today, Friday 2nd November 2007, Head of teh LTTE Political Division, S P Tamilselvan (no more false smiles) was killed by the Sri Lankan Air Force aerial bombing. With him the self appointed jackasses "Lt Col" Anpumani (Alex), "Major" Mihuthan, "Capt" Nethagy, "Lt" Adchgivel, and "Lt " Vahaikumaran were also killed.
Friday 2 November 2007
Thursday 1 November 2007
Boom of "Village Bloggers"
Been visiting some blogs of village kids lately, and each day I search for these kids I find more and more popping of from all corners of the country. While the kids in Colombo and the big cities play WarCraft living in the world of avatars or browsing porn, the kids in the village seem to be making better use of technology for a much more productive purpose.
It is amazing how confidently they express their views and that too in their second language. May be not in perfect English, but then again who says there is perfect English, you speak to an English kid and he will make a mistake or two in five the sentences he speaks, so what the heck it's his first language and only our second language. It really does not matter whether it is "an apple" or "a apple", all that matters is the communication and getting your ideas through. We used to call people from remote parts "Bayya" or "Godaya" (now now don't deny you said it at least once) but there is no such thing today, there in no place called remote, technology has broken the barriers of distance and remoteness, now everybody is a neighbor on the Internet.
Each time I visit a blog of one of these kids I try to leave an encouraging comment, since blogging is no easy task if others don't read and comment on your blog. Blogging needs motivation (specially for the new comers and the kids), it's not simple as "dear diary" where you did not want anyone to read, but now you want someone to read and also comment. I don't try to comment on their language or some mistakes they make, but I give them time to get their confidence. May be after several months of posting I might just give them some "constructive" criticism for them to improve both their communication skills and language.
So people if you find some free time do visit the blogs of these kids and take a minute to leave a comment. They may seem to be uninteresting with titles like; "my mother", "my village", "my school", "my teacher", "Sigirya", "king Dutugamunu" etc. etc., but think of it as you playing your part in helping the next generation to beat the world.
Remember "A Smile and a kind words goes a long way".
PEACE!
It is amazing how confidently they express their views and that too in their second language. May be not in perfect English, but then again who says there is perfect English, you speak to an English kid and he will make a mistake or two in five the sentences he speaks, so what the heck it's his first language and only our second language. It really does not matter whether it is "an apple" or "a apple", all that matters is the communication and getting your ideas through. We used to call people from remote parts "Bayya" or "Godaya" (now now don't deny you said it at least once) but there is no such thing today, there in no place called remote, technology has broken the barriers of distance and remoteness, now everybody is a neighbor on the Internet.
Each time I visit a blog of one of these kids I try to leave an encouraging comment, since blogging is no easy task if others don't read and comment on your blog. Blogging needs motivation (specially for the new comers and the kids), it's not simple as "dear diary" where you did not want anyone to read, but now you want someone to read and also comment. I don't try to comment on their language or some mistakes they make, but I give them time to get their confidence. May be after several months of posting I might just give them some "constructive" criticism for them to improve both their communication skills and language.
So people if you find some free time do visit the blogs of these kids and take a minute to leave a comment. They may seem to be uninteresting with titles like; "my mother", "my village", "my school", "my teacher", "Sigirya", "king Dutugamunu" etc. etc., but think of it as you playing your part in helping the next generation to beat the world.
Remember "A Smile and a kind words goes a long way".
PEACE!
The new Apple MacBooks and Pros are out?
I want to buy an apple MacBook and have been keeping an eye on things. I just heard this rumor that apple would be releasing the new MacBook and a MacBook Pro with the Santa Rosa architecture with a bus speed of 800MHz, and tomorrow is Friday (if apple keeps to the tradition of launching stuff on Friday) the new Macs should be out tomorrow. I noticed on the Apple websites too that 1st they had the new spec, but now they have taken away the whole Product Bar so that visitors cannot see the new Mac specs. Still if you search hard enough, you can find a link they forgot to take off, so here are the new spec,
The MacBook
The MacBook Pro
So I might wait another day or two to get my new MacBook. If you bought it recently, me deepest sympathies :-(
The MacBook
- 2.0GHz or 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
- 4MB shared L2 cache running at full processor speed
- 800MHz frontside bus
- 1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
The MacBook Pro
- 15-inch MacBook Pro
- 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
- 17-inch MacBook Pro
- 2.4GHz or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
- 2GB (two SO-DIMMs) of PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
- 800MHz frontside bus
So I might wait another day or two to get my new MacBook. If you bought it recently, me deepest sympathies :-(
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