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Memorial to silenced blogs 23 Jul 2013 | 08:41 am
I’m not a nostalgic type. There are no “good old days”. Just figments of our deluded sense of linear time mixed with fuzzy granules of pleasant memories. Some of these are the posts put out by blogger...
Audio books saved my reading life 18 Jun 2013 | 04:27 pm
I owe the survival of my reading life to audio books, magazine audio editions and text to speech technology. Without them, my reading would be limited to tweets, skimming over web sites or pawing thro...
Twitteroff : Social media fasting 27 May 2013 | 08:31 am
Social media fasting, is basically some form of abstinence from social media. For me it means avoiding interacting on twitter – which I’ve done for the past few days. The tweeple I follow are too info...
Sri Lanka stories blog : brief survival guide and realisations about writing 22 Apr 2013 | 09:03 am
The Sri Lanka stories blog is turning out to be a dangerously compulsive online project. The premise is simple. Write a 55-word story based on a word announced via a twitter account. I find this to be...
400000+ stares later 12 Apr 2013 | 02:32 am
According to my stats, the number of views on this blog past the 400000 mark a few days/weeks/sometime back. This number is not the result of larger visitor numbers but a very odd leap in the views pe...
People’s Republic of Dehiwala flag – Wikipedia entry draft 30 Mar 2013 | 05:30 am
The following is a draft for a Wikipedia entry on the flag. Please use the comment box in this post for corrections/additions. Image created by the chair of the PRD’s. Central cultural committee. The ...
Halal controversy shuts down iconic Sri Lankan club 19 Mar 2013 | 08:40 am
Sri Lanka’s Halal controversy has claimed another victim. This time it’s the permanent closure of a club that was a part of the country’s early anti colonial era resistance. How this came about is a c...
Drive a Lamborghini in Colombo 19 Feb 2013 | 08:35 am
Do you want to drive a variety of Lamborghini sports models in Colombo and get paid for it? Then this post is for you. Privacy focused, Colombo based, global high net worth individual seeks skilled ch...
6th year blogger 6 Feb 2013 | 11:13 am
Its been VI years since I posted this. Too much has faded into the rear view mirror of memory. If there’s a positive sign, its that I can bear to read my own writing. Or should I say the stuff that I ...
Sri Lanka’s deadly geo political game that everyone wants to deny 29 Jan 2013 | 09:23 am
Political tremors over a controversial colonel from the last Sri Lankan war (see earlier post) is masking tectonic shifts in the island’s political future. Those who notice the details cannot ignore t...
