Programming, Online Community, Web 2.0 and Sri Lanka
Just got back after trying to get into Colombo in 3 routes. It was a mess. Nothing was moving beyond Nawinna, Rajagiriya or Nawala. Then on the way back I saw a check point in Maharagama checking each person on each bus.
On the verge of a good evening where we are taking on challenge of becoming the world champions in cricket again this is what we our people at home have to go through just to get to work.
Sadly I'm back in Windows for office work. One of the annoying things I noticed on Windows XP was the Language Bar in the Taskbar. Even if you right click the Taskbar; go to Toolbars and disable the Language Bar it comes back when you log back in.
You would think in the multitudes of updates someone would fix this, but no. I found a lot of resources detailing how to fix this. Here is my take.
For some reason job queries seem to find me. I swear I don't lurk in forums or job boards and keep calling people to see if they are hiring.
I used to when I was freelancing. I had all sorts of searches like PHP coming in as RSS feeds. I actually got a few positive responses but didn't get any work.
If you are doing the same I suggest you have an updated online portfolio or a blog, that helps a lot.
Anyway there are still no decent job boards here. I guess I'll have to do something about that.
There jobs are at Stax Inc. From what I heard they need a PHP person right now.
If you know me personally mail me your CV and I'll forward to them with a recommendation. Because I get 500USD if you get hired. Not really, I wish 
But wouldn't it be great if it was so? Everyone would do a lot more to convince their friends to move.
Thunderbird 2.0 is out with true 2.0 style with tagging.
Most of my work servers run CentOS and version 5 is out this month.
I've been using Ubuntu since Breezy and looking forward to upgrading to 7.04.
WordPress 2.2 just might miss April again tagging being the new key feature. They have switched to jQuery which is a excellent JavaScript library which I have also recently started using.
I'm seeing a kind of yellow fade technique happening on our roads. I see eager souls standing beside what used to be a yellow pedestrian crossing. The problem is I don't see it until I'm too close to stop.
I don't mind honoring a few faded crossings on my normal route, but I can't remember all of them. I'm sorry, if I can't see them; they don't exist.
I just saw the end of a show called "The World Today" on channel news asia, and the host signed off with this;
This is the end of the world today.
Maybe there was no 'of' but I'm pretty sure that's what she said. I don't know if quotes are going to be a regular thing here, but I just couldn't resist not mentioning this one.
There seems to be a few focused job boards popping up. I guess the big boards are getting too big to wade through.
37signals Job Board and Gig Board
Authentic Jobs ~ Full-time and freelance job opportunities for designers and developers
CrunchBoard by the Crunch Network.
With Cake CakePHP developers looking to hire or be hired. A site by Jonathon Snook.
There have been Chinese take out shops in my town for as long as I can remember. But none of them deliver. Few of the bigger joints like Chinese Dragon and Flower drum deliver but since they are a bit out of town it takes longer to deliver and they have some minimal amounts they will send.
So why don't the little shops deliver? All it takes is a guy on a motorbike or 3 wheeler. If you can't keep your own delivery guy just talk to a few guys in the local 3 wheeler stand and get it going.
In this age of copy paste business models you have to stay ahead of the other guy. Besides I really don't want to drive up to the take out place today.
Update: Jade Maharagama delivers! 2839839
Scientists develop blood type conversion.
OScar - Reinvent Mobility the open source car.
The new del.icio.us extension for Firefox is cool.
Looks like a clean and simple approach to website statistics.
Check out the demo account. I've been using Google Analytics for a while and its complicated and boring.
I think small apps like Pmetrics and Mint are the future of webapps. Other companies have shown that these kind of simple small focused webapps just work.
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