Launch or Perish in Flight

 

Launch or Perish in Flight

A lot of guys in my age do not know how to use a new cellphone, especially if that is given by a kid who had bought a new one and dished out the old one to daddy or mummy.

To teach them the difference between a launcher and a browser is not possible.

They expect by the touch of a button, that they can accomplish anything (with a touch-sensitive phone).

A cellphone is a cute gadget with powerful and fanciful actions.

It is a mini-computer much powerful than the computer on board the Apollo 1.

I have just written a powerful and resentful piece about the Firefox browser and the Microsoft launcher.

They are both bulky and unmanageable in a cellphone and slow to respond unlike a computer with 8 GB-RAM.

I used to suggest that Amazon with its Kindle should have a silky and lightweight browser. I ultimately bought a Lenovo (Android 8) instead of the Kindle in Singapore.

Let me dish out the browser which is a heavy utility to access the Internet with many file formats including png and video files. A lot of add-ons are necessary as with improvement in hardware capabilities.

Whereas the cellphone launcher is not a browser (it might it do in the future with ultra smart phones) but an access point to many and basic applications in a phone which may vary from model to model but broadly do the same functions.

Of course, SIM also has a greater share responsibility of transferring digital information which also varies depending on their infrastructure.

I want the launcher to be light but if possible able to detect vulnerabilities of viral attacks.

A browser may be a vehicle for transmitting attacks due to its bulky add ons.

I have tested a few and come to realise that the phone’s dedicated launcher is the best which knows the product’s hardware capability better and integrate better.

In fact, I got into a muddle with a third party launcher and could not launch all nearly 200 applications that I have installed.

I use only 5 applications, regularly apart from my 6 emails.

The rest are my tech craze including learning French.

So the bottom line is, do not have more applications than necessary in your phone.

Check the utilities before buying and get the salesman to install any additional stuff before buying.

Of course, I got a better part of three launchers integrated in less than 24 hours.

Let me give my rating

1. Number one is the phone’s dedicated launcher.
2. The second is the smart browser
3. The third is the XO launcher
4. The fourth is the simple application launcher
5. The fifth is the Microsoft launcher which is bulky and pretty bad.
6. Sixth is the Ragdu.

Why Old People run away from the Internet?

There are many reasons.

I will list only what I have gone through.

The list can go up to 30 but I will restrict it to 20.

 

I am a tech geek for the past 20 years and not a amateur guy fiddling with a cellphone or a tablets and can identify a technical problem within 24 hours. 

My Internet schedule was 24/7 until recently and due to Coronavirus epidemic, I went into a laid back attitude. Our Internet was down for a month and I did not even bother to give a call to Mobitel which is painfully slow to react to customer needs.

I have fully switched to Dialog which is doing a credible support job and is even cheaper to my pocket and use Dialog TV but switched it off during the election campaign. 

So fiddling with my assortment of cheap cellphones and tablets which run on Kitkat, Android 6, 8 and 10.

Now bouquets  to Android developers for having an array of typefaces for my one finger typing skills. 

Thanks to SPIKE, SPARK, various little notes in various colours, black and white, for note keeping and the light weight Facebook Messenger utility.

I am gradually switching off from the computers (dismantled three for good) to cellphones to save energy.

The preamble above is to show that I am not a grumbling old guy with handicaps. 

I am showings signs of old age but my attitude to life is simple and friendly.

 

All these are constructive remarks for struggling tech companies to keep their head above water and survive the economic downturn.

1. None of the applications is user friendly.

 

2. None of the applications is user friendly for people with visual handicap.

 

3. The sign in procedures with emails are very painful due to email password being very difficult to handle and remember even for a teenager.

 

4.The two stage authentication is very painful procedure. if the battery of your cellphone is dead and you do not have a spare telephone with a different carrier SIM.

 

5. All tech companies are paranoid.They are more worried about subscrition drive and not quality in service.

 

6. I use a Linux Box and its version is Deabian 9 and has and an old Firefox version without updates for a very long time but running smoothly. It is OK for my work but some video utilities cannot run on it.

 

7. I cannot use the cellphone to run bulky videos, I get from my old friends especially one with Microsoft exe files.

8. i have enormous number of films downloaded and accidentally erased them in a mater of minutes (all my external Hard Drives and Flash Drives are belly full).

I have one free SD card and one 4 GB spare flash drive. I do not want to buy new spare parts.

 

9. Cloud should save my data and signing them to Google Drive is painful with a new cellphone.

 

10. I used Microsoft's One Drive and stopped it in a month due to its snooping on my accounts.

 

11. I erased its launcher and its utilities except for few wallpapers.

 

12. So Firefox is a pain. Chrome is a pain and even Brave browser is a pain.

 

13. Microsoft's launcher is a pain.

 

14. All email providers are pain except one.

 

15. i have activated two of my old emails coming from America to take the pain out of my mind, in spite of integrating them with SPIKE and SPARK.

 

16. I am going to transfer myself to one email out of six.

 

17. I am warning my friends by December they will not be able to forward emails to me by gut reaction. They have to use my dedicated email.

 

18. Then I am going to restrict my email contacts to 20 and that's it.

 

19. I will use only Duckduckgo, a Linux utility. 

Mind you Moxilla of Firefox was a Linux utility.

 

20. These tech companies who have made money from Linux utilities are trying to make money during  an economic crisis asking for subscription for cheap products for upgrades.

That is not good and the young tech guys also want to make a flashy and clumsy products.

In business sustainability is the name of the game and making a fast buck is going to kill them in the long run, especially if they are based on top of a free subscription product.

I am long gone by then, when they the next stock market crash occurs.

 

It is round the corner I believe.

 

We all people have done our part in our time and you are not going to here any more critical and time based analysis from me.

 

I  will enjoy my retirement and no interest  in  politics like the old guys in our parliament.

 

I am going to buy a new cellphone as a spare in case I drop the present one and break it, and no more laptops but a good tablet is out of my purse.

J.V.P's Contribution to our Economy

Out of the 130 C.E.B transformers, 2 were in my locality.

I managed to replace three of the transformers (many more elsewhere) with the help of a lady engineer friend (she said this is the last one I have) and saved the third one until the chaos subsided with risks to my own life.

I think as a mark of remembrance JVP MPs should not be given a laptop free but charge at five time the costs of a laptopn from their salaries. 

 

J.V.P's Contribution to our Economy

Referring to the contribution made by the JVP to the national economy, the state minister read out a list of damages and destruction attributed to the Marxist party during its second insurrection in the period of terror from 1989-90. “They destroyed 684 post offices, 13 telecommunications centers, 550 buses, 75 tea factories, 40 estate bungalows, 130 CEB transformers, 12 trains and six railway stations. The total loss by those actions has been estimated at Rs. 55 billion rupees.”

House Sparrows and Local Birds

House Sparrows and Local Birds

It is more than 3 years of my casual observation of extinction of house sparrows in Ceylon and visit to Singapore bird’s Park to investigate it.

It is our local farmers and importers of poison in the name of fertilizers that poison the birds and majestic elephants. 

The poisons get deposited in the ovaries and cause permanent damage.

 

That is not the point, I am driving at. 

 

With the recent convincing, majority win, the culture vultures are back in the game displacing our parrots from Gampola Umboluwawa to Thumpane forest reserve. 

In Gampola it is a former PM’s son (who mortally injured opposing supporters in the backdrop of Siripada forest reserve on the Balangoda side, when I was working in Ratnapura) who is supervising the forest destruction.

The damage these guys done in Ratnapura in the name of gem pits is enormous. 

 

At Thumpane side I do not know who it is, but I certainly will do not think, the descendants of Chandrasiri but those who did damage to Muslim properties recently, who are active again.

It was a pleasant surprise to see a pair of house sparrows trying to make use of a nest made by bull bul under the roof of our veranda. 

My observation is that helping them to domesticate warrants more danger to their next of kins.

The cats are domestic pests but more successful are the snakes who will spare no bones or eggs.

It is more surprising a pair of Kingfisher is building a nest in the neighborhood on the wall of a slipped earth (mini) mountain.

So my insidious attempts to encourage the bird friendly environment is working at slow pace but not to the level when woodpeckers bored nests on jack trees in the 80s, when I was working in UK.

Under the Ma Ha Ra Ja Regime 8 jack trees were felled in 10 days of my observation and protest in 2005.

Only one, a daughter tree survives.

It is strange coincidence that Ma Ha Ra Ja’s Gola Balayas have to plant jack seeds and wait for them to bear fruits.

I have a few Bonzai Jack plants and one is the sweet Waraka type in our roof top garden with mini fruits pending not in my life time. 

 

Unfortunately, their grandchildren won’t enjoy them since their dream inside the womb is to go to Korea.

 

My Android Dream

My Android Dream

My first phone was a Java Bean.

Then I had GreenTel phone with Android 6 which has very good Camera.

Latter edition of GreenTel is not upto the mark.

But my Nokia with Android 8 under Rs.15,000/= is a solid built and I can SPLIT the screen.

Floating notes and coloured notes are nicely displayed.

SamSung phone under Rs.15,000/= slightly inferior in quality with Android 8 and no hardware support for SPLIT screen.

 

My first entry to Android 4.4, was the Chinese KitKat tablet, which is still functioning but due to poor RAM downloading even 10 MB is a pain.

I have that patience having used MobiTel in Ceylon, which is the slowest in my experience (I have gone to Dialog).

My tablet of Android 8 is manageable for me to bid and play Bridge, when I am bored.

I want to buy a new cellphone in case I drop the Nokia on the floor and break it.

 

All cellphones available in MobiTel are Android 8s and all of them cost over Rs. 65,000/= and over 50% this price tag is the government TAX. 

 

So if you have a friend going to Singapore ask him to buy a good phone and come back with Coronavirus SCARE (nobody will bother to see you on your return, what a luxury!).

 

So my advice is, if you have a good working phone look after it and do not buy a new one because your friend's girl friend has a new one.

Hardware is the same but software one can upgrade once a year.

So thank you guys and girls developing Android Software and FREE or Fdroid will (free software initiative) will never hit the shop floor.

Even a geriatric can now use a cellphone and it is not the foray of ONLY young ones.

Think of the old guys with vision impairment and help them with voice instructions.

I am allergic to voice instructions and deactivate it by default.

 

Yes you can do that.

Go to hardware SETUP and go to silence mode.

The strap of the Chinese built, Smart Watch (with piece of circuit inside) is broken and I cannot wear it. I do not know its operating system and I believe if not Java it is Linux and it won't get the applications it displays installed wirelessly.

Beware and do not order smart watch by mail even it is cheap.

 

Nothing is cheap nowadays with superimposed TAXES.

 

I use it as a bluetooth device now.

 

Android version 4.4: KitKat (Please note that this is a reproduction with Grammerly edited)

 

Late-2013's KitKat release marked the end of Android's dark era, as the blacks of Gingerbread and the blues of Honeycomb finally made their way out of the operating system. 

Lighter backgrounds and more neutral highlights took their places, with a transparent status bar and white icons giving the OS a more contemporary appearance.

Android 4.4 also saw the first version of "OK, Google" support — but in KitKat, the hands-free activation prompt worked only when your screen was already on and you were either at your home screen or inside the Google applications.

The release was Google's first foray into claiming a full panel of the home screen for its services, too — at least, for users of its Nexus phones and those who chose to download its first standalone launcher.

Why I wish not to be born again in Ceylon?

Why I wish not to be born again in Ceylon?

I am writing this with over 70 years of experience in my files or folds.

First we have a parliament which has over 125 elected representative who are IRCs (I.R.C. means Island Registered Criminals not Internet Relay Chat) or either Sinhala (D.J.V.P and J.V.P) Tamil (L.T.T.E and many more) or Muslim (? now Thaw-shit Jamal) terrorists or their sympathizers.

I think we introduced all types of terrorists to this world in 1956 when Ceylon was changed to Sri-Lanka by ill gotten politicians of all faiths.

Then, closer to my heart all my foreign cheques or transactions were stolen in the Colombo Post Office by the criminal syndicates who are good at delivering illegal drugs within 24 hours to any corner of the country but the letters and money orders takes more than 24 hours for delivery or lost in the mail, for ever where no legal mechanism to catch or punish them.

Then comes the crunch point this country is pawned for over 100 years by our politicians over the past 15 years and we are selling our prime land to China and India and multinationals from all over the Globe. 

So how can I be proud of Ceylon or wish to be born again here? 

This piece is to highlight the contribution of the British and the  American Postal Officers to Global communication link long before the new I.R.C. or Internet Relay Chats were established.

Vital part of this development is rail roads and highways built by the British to make delivery is possible to any part in this country within 24 hours. 

Now we have given that civil responsibility which we were able to manage by Civil Servants of High Quality in the past, including our Grama Niladharis or Grama Sevakas to the three armed forces (to an individual family who has taken over the forces under their fold) who were good at killing host of civilians with the putative terrorists. 

Before coming to the digital closing remarks, I want to highlight that I am waiting to get my third ID card which I applied for, ages ago but not yet received and a guy at Dialog refused to issue a telephone number with 077 prefix to me. 

This is what happens to a simple retiree in his or her 70s.

Wish I am dead sooner than later but politicians over 70s are running this country or ruining this country and the youth are eloping and none will wish to return as NOT intended by their own parents as they leave. 

This tendency, I believe is ingrained in the womb by ultrasound noise they hear while incubating inside.

Now let me thank the British and the American civilian administrators who have made me a digital entity and their entries (even if my ID card is not delivered before my demise) will last for 70 years or more after my death (70 year is which my legal premise will end abruptly and posthumously).

When I reached UK, I only had a passport and 50 pounds and I lived on borrowed money for 4 months (living was cheap then and with five pounds a day on a tube-train in daytime and a derelict hostel at night with 50 pence coin for gas heating, was more than enough for survival).

I got an instant (not digital) photo in a tube train in London (which tube train I forget, may be King's Cross) and a weekly Travel Card with a photo ID for traveling up and down never coming out unless, I wanted to go to a bookshop at Charring Cross (Foyles Book Shop, the largest in England, then).

Reading on the go, I learned in UK, which I carry to this day!

No cellphones or laptops, personal computer came into existence in primitive form and I bought a 128 Compaq (coming from US and UK did not have computers except perhaps Sinclare) as my last purchase, before leaving UK.

Within a month of my first employment in the National Health Services (N.H.S.) I got my first digital identity by filling a form and posting it to the head quarters of National Insurance as a legal immigrant from Ceylon.

My degree certificate was M.B.B.S (Ceylon) and O and A level certificates with English translations were never requested (by now all printed in Sinhala only) for authentication since, The University of Ceylon was a recognized (unlike today) Entity in UK.

Then, I got my first digital license in 1980s in Ceylon and A.A.International driving license.

Now everything is digital including postal numbers which originated in America.

I hope the American Postal Service will survive the crisis including the postal voting.

I am against digital voting which European Union wants to establish.

Voting is a private affair and it should be recorded as such and only the Postal Service can do that effectively, no other organization or N.G.O of European origin can think of coming close to that of the experience of the Postal Service.

Even though, my cheques were stolen by workers with bad taste, I always support (poor man's option) the postal services and it had done service even during the Second World War with only civilian administration.

By the way, my first ID for O Level examination was from the postal service and the same photo was pasted in my record book of the University.

I worked for a Faculty Academic Identity Card to avoid security officers with no credentials checking your entry, in all institutions today.

The Marshal Office was a recognized entity, then.

This country going for military control aided by stupid monks in saffron cloths, the only civilian link going to be the letter delivered or the tinkle one make with the old handset (trunk call we call it).

Now the cellphone can do wonders.

We paralyzed the administration of Sirima with Felix Dias as a dictator.

We can do it again, if the need arises BUT digitally.

Do not be reticent or withdrawing from responsibility, when the need arises.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

E.R.P another buzz word 

Why Don't you say Linux Software Management or L.S.M.

They take Free Software and do not acknowledge the most important developers.

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) refers to a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and compliance and supply chain operations.

 

Customer Relation in ZoHO Management

I hate catch S.M.S types of terms in business management and life in general.

C.R.M IS one such S.M.S.

I find this company doing a good job.

It took some time to get my old email activated by my phone.

There was a similar lag phase of logging in (not automated like other emails) by computer with Firefox.

I am bit reluctant with big and bulky Chrome.

In my old age, I like the SLOW phase unlike the fast phase of new cellphones, where I can check my spellings and also my thought processes which are faster than an average computer but not in any sense in quantum range.

Reproduction of CRM

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The Rajavasala Box of Tricks for Disaster

 

Reproduction

The Rajavasala Box of Tricks for Disaster

Published

September 5, 2020

 

Will end up in Yama-Palanaya! 

Thinking Out of the Box is the catchline of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He gave this advice to the banking sector in May this year, and to the members of parliament in his opening address last month.

The need for new ways of thinking to overcome local and global challenges and revive the economy – out of the box thinking – is the declared stuff of his reasoning. The new ministerial structure was also with such thinking.

What is advocated with such emphasis for economic growth, has been wholly ignored for the progress and growth of democracy. It looks like economic growth has nothing to do with the advance of democracy. The rulers of the past, in many countries of the world, had their economic and wealth gains, with nothing to do with democracy or the sovereignty of the people. These were known as dictatorships, the power of colonialism, and Soveit and Communist power too.  

Are we rapidly making a retreat to the proper Rajavasala Buddhiya – the Thinking of the Ruler Reign, a rush back to the Box of Dictatorship?

The 20th Amendment to the Constitution now made public shows a complete retreat to a non-democratic situation, and thinking that is entirely within the Executive Presidential Box.

The 19th Amendment will be no more under this Rajapaksa Regime. It has the two-thirds power for that. Two items of the 19A will be kept – the reduced five-year term of the presidency and the two term limit for a President. Two items that don’t matter for Mahinda Rajapaksa anymore.  Everything else that matters, that came from out of the box thinking by Yahpalanaya in April 2015 will be no more.

The rush to the 20A is a mockery of the voters who, thanks to a divided and crooked UNP, enabled a two-thirds power to the Rajapaksas. It has nothing to do with the need to meet the economic and  social needs and demands of the people, in the post Covid 19 crisis. The 20A is the re-empowering of an Executive Presidency, even more than what JR Jayewardene forced on the people in 1978.

The ‘out of the box’ thinking of the Rajapaksas is very much ‘in the box’ of ensuring family power without even a semblance of democracy. The service of Independent Commissions in key areas such as the Judiciary, Elections. Human Rights, Police, Public Service, Bribery and Corruption, Finance, and many others are no more. The Constitutional Council is disbanded to empower a Parliamentary Council that  can only advise the president,  The Auditor General’s independence is forgotten. Appointments to key positions of the Judiciary are in the hands of the President (and politicians!) 

In a situation where the average age of MPs is reportedly in the late 60s, the 35 year age limit brought by 19A to a candidate for the presidency, has been reduced to 30 years. It is clear that the ageing Rajapaksas – from the late 60s to near 80 – have thought of their younger generation for the continuance of the Rajavasala domain.

What the 19A did was to give more power to Parliament and the Prime Minister, as elected representatives of the people, against the Executive President that was the singularly dominant power in the country. 20A will ensure the end of such recognition of the sovereignty of the people. The Prime Minister, even being an elder brother of the President, is wholly under him, who will chair the Cabinet, can hold any number of Cabinet portfolios, and can appoint any member to the Cabinet, without the approval of the PM. Sections of the media report that the PM is in a political trap, but let’s not forget that such traps are a necessity for wider family dominance over the demands of democracy.

Then comes the dual citizenry; what is seen by many as the key need of the 20A. It was the 19A that banned dual citizens from contesting elections to parliament and holding the country’s presidency. JRJ’s dictatorship had not banned this. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, after being a US citizen for nearly three decades, gave it up, to contest for the presidency. But there is another Rajapaksa dual citizen who will not give it up. The 20A is the decorative path for Basil Rajapaksa to move to Parliament, Cabinet, even Prime Minister, and who knows even the President, come the proper time!

Let’s not bother to talk of the conflicting situation that prevails when a person who has pledged to serve the US as a citizen, fight for it, be armed against countries and forces that oppose it, or strongly disagree with it, can be a representative of the sovereignty of the Sri Lankan people, and or the independent policies of this country. We are moving to the dual Citizenship Box and not thinking out of it. It is the Box of the MCC deal which the Rajapaksas and Pohottuva were loudly against … but not so much today. This is a move to the Pathfinder Box that will see its leader as the High Commissioner to India, with a Cabinet ranking. Just think a little more of the other Pathfinders in key positions of government today. What a Box of American strategy to be caught in!

We are in the midst of a duality of thinking. The duality of those talk loud about protection of Sri Lankan citizenship, and also hugely support the benefits and advantages of the US Citizenship. Are we moving to a situation when a 21st Amendment will give dual – US and Sri Lanka citizenship – to all Sri Lankan, whether Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and Aadivaasi too?

Thinking out of the box shows us the huge dangers of the 20A. In a country that thinks a lot about rebirth, this looks very much like a move towards the rebirth of JRJ. The rebirth of the dictatorial dominance that all parties in the opposition from the SLFP to the JVP – and the older LSSP and CP and breakaways – called for removal, by abolishing the 1978 JRJ Constitution.

Such thinking, once strongly supported in the Mahinda Chinthana in several elections, is now no more. We are taken back to the Jayewardene Box of political strategy, creeping into the new Rajapaksa Box of politics and governance. The rise of the Jayewardene – Rajapaksa Presidency. The Box of Disaster for Democracy, out of which no thinking is done by the Rajavasala Kattayas of today!

 

Contentment

Contentment

If one looks at our hill mynah, it has inborn cheerfulness even on a rainy day.

 

What it means is we have feel good factors or hormones including dopamine and serotonin built into our nervous system which we have turned off habitually by

1. Prejudice
2. Presumption
3. and by inborn errors made by parents in primitive years of childhood development by placing unrealistic expectations from their kith and kin.

This has morphed into the Coronsvirus paranoia currently, and people have gone into a deep core of discontentment.

 

Unfortunately, our Buddhist monks exacerbate this tendency by highlighting the fourth of the four Agati, the BAYA into the forefront.

 

This is just to get the vehicle the temple needs in addition to the sumptuous Dhana, which are antithesis to Buddha's teaching and expectation and not aspiration (which is the disease of politicians).

 

I now say our monks go to Nirvana in a Pajero very very slowly due to the Pajero's built in inertia.

 

One of my friends who enjoys a good daily drink made me to be aware of basically three types who need hi5s.

1. Drug Addicts
    
2. Alcoholic
    
3. Meditator with Jhana craze
    
   All three of these types are habitually trying to upgrade dopamine and serotine status.
   The evolution has a safety valve called melatonin status which controls the diurnal rhythm and downgrade these highs, so the meditator has to meditate daily, drinker has his tot and the addict goes for a deep inhale ever so often.
   Now I know the bee the busybody has more hormones in its nectar and the bee honey is non addictive but soothing.
   The honey bird spends all his day sucking honey and the flower flows the honey in spurts.
    
   This enticement and engagement trick of nature keep the evolutionary wheels turning round.
    
   There is a honey bird for every flower.
   The beauty of nature.
   I think chocolates coming from a bean has more feel good factors than anything else and the gift or dowry of Aztecs. It is better than a tedious meditation course, now selling very badly in America with Coronavirus paranoia and election politics.

Priorities in Life and Death

Priorities in Life and Death

 

When you got to go, you got to go, this is coming from Jurassic Park movie.

In our country, people hold onto power for ages not looking back and reflecting on crimes they have committed and deaths toll that mounted from 1970 to 2000.

All those in power except Dudley Senanayake has committed crimes in the name of National Security.

 

There was no exception, for the greed for power. 

 

That includes leaders of Singapore, Malaysia and now Ceylon.

In this country, children and babies are traded and organ transplanted in India to drug kingpins and a coterie of doctors run this organ Mafia.

So impending death of a moribund is traded with kidneys of babies and children traded live and even their bones are not spared.

 

This happens in America, too.

 

Those who live on parts of others should be ashamed unless the parts are donated by a twin sibling or a near relative.

I will never donate my organs or live on another's parts except for cornea for blindness.

 

This is incompatible in a country where believing in another life is the cornerstone.

 

So when you have to go “let go”, the most Rev. Ajahn Brahma Wanso’s meditation technique.

 

World population is growing fast and without (for me a top priority), a global population policy, “let go” is the survival strand for this planet.

 

If this is not addressed, natural control by Coronavirus will take precedence.

That is the reality with a mass movement, air travel, refugees of war-torn countries and now the economic downturn.

 

Few of my priorities are

1. Improvement in cheap Telecoms connectivity with more satellites in Space.
2. Cut down on Space Travel (less or more gravity is incompatible with our physiology), Space Exploration and Rocket Science.
3. More satellites on space for formal education.
4. Population control with only two children per family (any additional child the parents should bear, the costs and no religious favours)
5. No religious teaching or conversion of children until they are 25 years. The terrorists and suicide killers are recruited between the age of 15 and 25.
6. I believe religions cause more harm than good and moral code or ethics should be applied only to politicians and their putative parties. The laymen should be free to create his/her own religion after 35 (when the brain cells start dying at a faster rate) and should own it as copyright and should not allow anybody else to copy even after death.
7. I believe that will settle most of our problems who declare that religion is a must, even though it leads to a blind ally.

Discovery of Grammerly and Firefox Integration

Discovery of Grammerly and Firefox Integration

Coronavirus lock down and incarceration have made me to discover the potential of writing without a keyboard.

I was trying to have a virtual grammerly keybord in my Linux box.

I failed but discovered that I can use grammerly as an add on on Firefox for my blogging.

Unlike Google it does warn me of grammatical mistakes and typos.

In my age mistakes are plenty and I wanted to give up blogging on account of recurrent mistakes.

I can upload files from my computer.

Now I will not give up but continue.

It has a subscription protocol for serious writers.

Thank YOU and I wish you success.

 

My First Note in Spike

 My First Note in Spike

I was ambiguous of my first note, simply because I have lost interest in many fields including medical matters.

1. I lost interest in politics after 50 years of its observation globally.
2. Then I lost interest in religion, that dated back to my childhood but hiding behind the masses who follow one or other form of it. Then after my retirement from active work, this resurfaced in vigour, questioning their contribution to humanity.
3. Then I lost interest in helping (not empathy) the beggars. My idea of creating (including political, I prefer a different word sounding similar but would be nice here) a beggar in any form is counterproductive.
4. Then, to keep me occupied I stared feeding all the dogs, where ever I meet then.
5. Finally, I developed a keen interest in birds after noting disappearance of sparrows, that made me to visit Bird’s Park in Singapore. Then I developed the idea of making bird friendly environment.The cats (snakes,too) are their biggest enemies but the biggest impact is from unregulated agricultural poisons dished out that get deposited in the ovaries and eggs.
6. Finally Coronavirus came in and it made me to wake up from slumber, as it was.
7. By the way, this piece is medical.
8. We were taught to be very careful when dispensing steroids due to many (some exaggerated) of its side effects. After the loss of two children who were under my care (due to D.J.V.P insurrection in 1989) who could not reach me (cell phones were not available then) physically, I totally revised my policy globally, in Ceylon and abroad dishing out steroids, (especially Dexamethasone) liberally. A reserve course (dose depending on the individual) of steroids was given to each deserving family, with an instruction to take the first dose and see any available (Typed Note was dispensed, no computers then) medical person (do not go on looking for me). The reason is, their is delay in action of steroids for 8 hours or more. This saved many an agony to many of my patients. Now for Coronavirus, there is no treatment.
9. At least to avoid respiratory complications that result from various kinds of interleukins, a fast and furious (this new terminology of mine, furious to mean large and aggressive dose of steroids) dose of dexamethasone should be given, (not chloroquine) with the onset of respiratory symptoms, and if any need arises a course of antibiotics.
10. This will SAVE lot of lives.

Incubation Period

Incubation Period of Viral Diseases I call it, ICP for short. It is very important to estimate the incubation period of diseases, not only for epidemiological reasons and isolation but also for recognition of the virus. Icubation period is the time in between the time of exposure to the time of onset of symptoms and signs of the disease. Good old days for hepatitis we had only two hepatitis viruses, A and B but extensive studies fifty years ago revealed much more up to 20 or more and we lost interest and would focus only on B and D. This is true for Coronavirus, especially because it is coming out of animal kingdom of Chinese wet markets. I think Chinese wanted to hide facts for its own economic reasons and survival in the global market place. I give credit to President Trump at least even lately for quedtioning, the Chinese secrecy, if not their wisdom. All the others kept numb and did not question them. The WHO was an adversary on this regard. The Chinese are known for their wisdom but not the current bunch of Communist carders. The incubation periods are specific for viruses like small pox, chicken pox and measles, unlike bacterial infections of short duration. Even typhoid has 10 -14 day incubation petiod. Hepatitis B has up to 6 months incubation period and can spread by both inoculation and by faeco-oral route. We do not know the exact ICP of the 10 to 20 or more types of Coronaviruses. Each type has its own roughly exact ICP. Known the type by ICP may help the epidemiologists to plan ahead before catastrophe strikes. Immune antigen typinng takes a lot of painstaking studies and inevitable delay. I am against the 2 weeks blanket time period of isolation. With schools reopening and if there is a quick and rapid spread of the virus, if we are to gain headway, we need to isolate putative exposed contacts to, at least for a period of ICP plus a few more days of STRICT isolation. My bone of contention here is, if the incubation period is more than six weeks, this is most likely an enterovirus with more surreptitious spread spreading over years and not one summer or one winter (of discontent) of the current expectation of the doctors and politicians. There is anothet caveat here patients with various other diseases have to suffer patiently until WHO gets its act together before more blame will fall on them for inaction as opposed to timely action. For Ceylon the political euphoria will disappear into thin air, if they get their protocol incorrect. Judicious caution against the unintended paranoia that is required by those who are on the top management posts. Could we trust them since the election is over and done with it? What is happening in Australia and New Zealand is an eye opener. If it is a long incubation period enterovirus the streams will be contaminated with this virus including gardia lamblia, dinoflagellates and protista. Be vigilant. This virus has surprises in its fold.

Testing Anyline Typeface

Is is pretty good but needs some help and learning.
It is actually a scanner application.
Brainy workload in Digital World.
I am trying all typefaces including French so I delay my opinion, for the time being.

Nevertheless, I going to use it for some time.

Power Cuts

I is in my vivid memory that in 1989, then DJVP blasted three of the transformers near our house, the lady engineer told me this is the last I have in Kandy, any more blasts you have to buy a generator and generate electricity.
Sure, I did and I was the first to install a generator in our office and later in my home.
I was working for a foreign organization.
They were here to launch a satellite which India's RAW did not want.
India is the one who instigated DJVP and LTTE.
They lost two of their leaders as a result and we Kaditagamsnathan.
Coming to power cuts, I can remember then politicians telling, never more power cuts.
We have gone the full cycle and it is strange that very dame India is going to help us with coal power.
That will be the end of our forest and  hydroelectricity.
We never learn lessons from the past, India never was our friend.
The Muslim by descent
Azurudeen, the Indian captain was the only one who helped us when West Indians refused to travel here.
I was pretty happy for the descent of West Indians cricket who played politics instead of cricket.
The sad state of cricket today is the result of politics and not cricket of that day, people do not want to forget.

Tree is her home.

Tree is her home not water.

My yearly visitor

My yearly visitor
This one wants to share my chair.
I put her into the fish tank but she decided to climb the tree.
She is a tree dweller and once year come to lay eggs but usually late at night.
She decided to give me a photo opportunity, this time round in early afternoon.