Fight Back

Most of Sri Lankans are aware about the blast we had this noon inside Sri Lanka Army Head Quarters. If that is the situation for the Army Commander of the country, what is the guarantee for the security of rest of the civilians? If our patriot president still continues to keep silent and trying to kiss the a** of LTTE asking to come for negotiations, he is one another dumb bullshit.

After a Long Break

I’m back to my blog after a long break. First I got a full week’s holiday for the New Year and affected myself with exam fever once again. Then I turned back to a hardcore crammer. I got my MSDN pack on 13th evening just before the New Year and yesterday I upgraded my PC a bit (Once again with the great helping hand of Wela’s. Thanks for sponsoring me!), so that I can use the MSDN resources without any hesitate.

I met with an Accident

Last evening I faced the first ever road traffic accident in my life. I was on my way to home with my fiancé by my bike around 1900 hours. We just left Kribathgoda Food City and was passing Mahara area and there was a huge and continues traffic jam all along the Kandy Road. I was on the wrong side of the road (Usually thats how bikers pass lengthy traffics) but there was nothing coming from the opposite side. I rode very calmly and I saw a person crossing the road about three vehicles ahead, and he is a person that I knew. So I stopped the bike very closer to the line of vehicles towards Mahara junc and let that guy to cross the road. A Nissan caravan came on the opposite direction and there were more and enough space (even for another vehicle) for him to go. The bugger suddenly turned the van to my side and knocked me. I was clueless abt what happened. Two of us were stuck in between the van and a Pajero which was on my left side. People ran in to us and took both of us out. The driver of the van was drunk. It was totally due to his fault but I also was on the wrong side.

What I wonder is about the consequences. No hard injuries for us. My left wrist and the right knee of my fiancé got thumped heavily. No single scratch to the bike except a footrest broke down and rear wheel slightly distorted. My footrest has taken the revenge by screwing in to a front tyre of the van. And there were scrape marks on the body as well.

A good experience for me, but there are hundreds of restrictions for me now.

Bloody Indians are better than dumb Sri Lankans

I have heard that many people use the term ‘Bloody Indians’. But sometimes bloody Indians are far better than bloody Sri Lankans.

MSDN center has shipped my welcome pack on 10th March. It landed on Delhi by an address error. When I inquired with DHL Sri Lanka, they said they cant involve and asked me to contact DHL India.

Just after sending one single email to DHL India, they directed the shipment to Colombo and personally called me to inform the status.

Then DHL Sri Lanka was keep asking me to pay taxes to get the things cleared from customs. The value of the package is USD 7000 +, I cant think of the amount of tax they asked me to pay. Wela and I explained them more than 10 times that it was originally shipped under a condition called DDP which means all the taxes are paid by the shipper. But those dumb people failed to trace things back, only thing they wanted was me to pay.

Wela tried to solve this with MSDN center, but it takes some time to get a feedback from them. Last Friday I contacted DHL India once again and described my issue. Within one hour of my mail, they contacted me and sorted everything. Same people who told me that they cant release the package without payments said that “you will get the package on Monday sir”.

Bloody Indians are far better than dumb Sri Lankans. But the guy @ DHL India wanted me to send him the contact number of DHL Sri Lanka. (He might not wanted to waste further time)

During half times

I had a little desire to play with web services since few months. I am not much familiar with this subject. Anyway they are much easier to use than i thought, I sorted the things out yesterday with Google web APIs, then had a look about Yahoo stuff. Yahoo doesn’t provide their own SDKs for .Net developers. But some third party SDK wraps written by Martin G. Brown are available for the purpose. Now I am looking for more and more free web APIs to dig in…

When you dive deeper, SKY is the limit!

Wela has uploaded the wmv file of wonderful presentation did by Dr.Nitin last Friday at smart client deep dive session. Not only for .Net crowd, neither for any programmer, its a great resource for anyone who works with computers. Take little time and download the video, its damn cool.

http://www.dotnetforum.lk/_downloads/dr_nitin_office_deepdive.wmv (43MB)

Scully is gonna show off

You might have seen number of bogus nude pics of X Files' special agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). People have tried a lot to get her clothes off using tools like photoshop. No need of fake images anymore, she is going to bare her breasts in the upcoming film 'Straightheads.'

The film is said to be dark and twisted in its exploration of violence and revenge after a couple are unexpectedly attacked. "There are two sex scenes," revealed a source. "One more graphic than the other. There's quite a bit of sick violence thrown in as well."

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I was a Philatelist!

After about one decade I spent few bucks and gave a little boost to my good old hobby – philately. Following an advertisement on the paper, I rushed in to public library auditorium yester day, there was a stamp sale. I got back to my huge stamp collection in the night and that reminded me again….. how my Dad influenced me, supported me for my everything…. everything....

My Friday and My Weekend

Smart client deep dive event held last Friday was a great experience. Our diversified mastermind Prasanna demonstrated the brilliance of .net 2.0 smart client data-binding and Wela, my own Guru refreshed the mind on visual studio clickones application developments.

The final session conducted by Dr. Natin Paranjape is the best session I have ever attended to. Dr.Paranjape is the very first speaker sent from INETA (International .net Association) to Sri Lanka. I wondered about the fact that he is a medical doctor, was a Gynecologist at first. Then he turned to an IT professional. Not just a professional, he is a top speaker in Microsoft Office productivity.

After attending his session I was very much admired on what he did. All .net geeks on the audience must have thought that they were providential to be there.

Though it was a technical session, there were no much lines of coding or any jargons. Simply showed us how powerful the MS Office is, most people were dumb behind his simple questions.

Thanks for the .net user group and Microsoft Sri Lanka.

The snap was taken after the event. Thanks Jinath for the image. Alan from MS, Casper, Me, MVP Dinesh, Howard Lo, MVP Jinath, Meril, MVP Prasanna and Dr. Paranjape. Wela is seated. I’m reading Howard’s blog, this was the first time I got to see him real.

After the event Casper and I walked off to Razor’s place and dig in to NFS underground for a while and then drove to Colpetty and tasted Indian cuisines. The whole Saturday was dedicated to say good-bye to Asanka, the second friend met in my life who is leaving to Japan this Wednesday night.