Thesaurus

Thesaurus

This is a reproduction which I penned down, soon after medical hooligans (this is in one occasion I was ashamed of my M.B.B.S (Ceylon) certificate) when they came in numbers and assaulted the Dental Students in the middle of the night, gate crashing a function held in the Dental Faculty.
None of the culprits were given proper sentences and some are now practicing physicians.
By strange coincidence I was invited to a wedding where a Medical graduate was married to a Dental graduate. I did not see any Medicos invited except perhaps few seniors in academic sphere.
I must thank my mother in law who passed away 3 days prior to this function and on her account I excused myself from any celebratory functions till three months Dhana was over.
Suffice is to say that I have not attended any student function from that day to now and  I will keep that vow till retire.


I am getting some devilish ideas and some quotes from Peter Mark Roget M.D., F.R.S would be appropriate before giving the reasons for my devilish inclinations.
First of all Mark's (I am entitled to address him by his second name simply because I am in my geriatric age and he is a medical colleague without any honours from the Royal Family) birthday falls on the 18th of January and he would have been 233 years old.
He recorded his outrage for Napoleon and his petty Officers (His father was a French Pastor),
The Tygers of Africa less to be dreaded, are less ferocious than these.....
Demons are milder.......be treated than they......
My devilish ideas originated from hearing a tuition teacher killing one of his colleagues and seeing that there is a devilish trend to advertise their illegal trade on billboards around the country.
I get a quiet satisfaction when I see the polling masters pasting their posters over the tuition masters and this battle is raged in the night and my dog does not sleep accordingly.
Even though my dog sleeps well in the daytime and I have to come to work and I cannot catch my lost or broken sleep is my problem.
The real reason for my devilish inclination is this frequently interrupted sleep.
I have noticed my dog now sleeps under my bed (not unless he is angry or frightened).
Poor fellow I believe is frightened.
Coming back to Roget why he was not honoured by the Royal Family intrigued me, perhaps he was Swiss and had French Connection.
When I think of the the French and how much they contributed to English Language is a common knowledge, he is now remembered not for his Medical Achievements but for his contribution to English Language as a whole.
I sometime think that English is versatile today because of its foreign connections.
Few quotes are in order but I would not say from where I got them, simply because these local pseudo-English teachers should do some soul searching before teaching English as a second language.
They should do some digging themselves instead of copying what I pen down here for leisure.
Every workman in the exercise of his art should be provided with proper implements.
Actor with wardrobe of costumes.........
Painter  ..............every hue and tints.
An amount of labour very much greater than anticipated.......
A few words for my own consumption are in order.
The term "pulmonary consumption" for tuberculosis from which disease his father probably died when he was five.
The consumption coagulopathy, I teach are the by products of this man's ingenious but hard work.
The complier of the Thesaurus started his work after retirement in 1840 when he was 61 years of age. In 12 years he (he probably started this in 1805 as a hobby to complement his academic talents) managed to produce the first edition.
28  editions were published during the remaining 17 years of his life.
His son John Lewis Roget revised the last edition he was working at the age of 90.
His grandson Samuel Romelly Roger revised and publish an edition in 1925.
The paperback edition came in 1953.
He was a chess master and his slide ruler and the knight's movement over the chessboard without returning to the same square twice were the showpieces and mastery of his mathematical talents.
What have the University and the Education Department done to uplift their spiritual talents except thuggery.
When I see this I am less inclined to blame the politicians in spite of my devilish dreams.

16th of January, 2009

Arboreal and the abuse of that freedom of lack of it.

Arboreal and the abuse of that freedom of lack of it.

Arboreal animals spend most of their time in trees.

Some live in the canopy, among the leaves. Some live on tree branches, on the bark, or at the base of the tree; some even burrow within the tree or live in a tree cavity.

Some tree-dwellers eat the tree's leaves or bark, others eat animals that live on or near the trees.

There are many arboreal animal which include birds.

We humans who are descendant of arboreal apes have very well developed hands with adaptation to use tools.

We first used stones but now we use guns to kill all animals including our fellow beings.

The thing I despise most is the destruction of the forest that support many forms of life.

Even the forest has become a game and sports for humans.

Any animal who destroys its own dwelling cannot be described as an evolved and adapted animal to reside on the Planet Earth.

Man will destroy this planet by all his means and might.

It is a curse he left the arboreal life for a bipedal life.

It is not for evolution but destruction he became bipedal.

I do not believe god created this animal, in case if he did he ought to have weighed and balanced  the pros and cons for his existence in this evolutionary niche.

Failure of his judgment is a travesty of justice.

The worst of it was we in Sri-Lanka elect 225 + 1  of them as political animals and they kill each other in the so called Putrid Assembly (it used to be august Assembly).

Worst of it crimes is to throw a bottle of water in a country where many people do not have safe drinking water.

People who selected them are probably absolutely mad and over 60% are in my judgment come under that category and speak only one language.

I thank god for creating the other 40% who do not understand the language the other 60% who use disdain vulgarity in the putrid assembly.

I think we should not learn all three languages since even the language itself is being abused now.

Is this the rapid development of mankind in the 21 century?

I doubt it.

It is decadence.

Water, Water Sports and Water Supply in Kandy City

Water, Water Sports and Water Supply in Kandy City

I can write volumes about water but instead of making it boring for the reader I will jot down some of the salient points related to me and the City of Kandy and its surrounds.

This is just a reflection for the people who want to come to Kandy and reside within the Municipal Limits.

1. Not so long ago Kandy did not have pipe borne water.

Yes it had a beautiful lake but did not have pipe borne water. The credit of getting pipe borne water running in Kandy probably goes to our late P.M. Mrs. Sirimawo Bandaranaike (I stand to correction here and in no way underestimate the efforts made by Civil Servants and Engineers who had overseen the Kandy Water Project).

In my part I had in my later years of Civil Service as it were, with many Engineer friends would extend this project beyond Municipality Limits and President D.B.Wijetunge was the only President who made water accessible to people outside city limits. Suffice is to say late Mr. Premadasa used water as a political carrot and the Civil Servants under him were impotent to say the least.

Still later having left government service and working with foreign collaborators and Mahaweli Engineers, I was able to make the political drive to get water beyond Digana Village and to surrounding villages when J.V.P activity had crippled (1988 to 1992) the entire country.
I did not run away from the country when people needed my services.
I went abroad again only after the problems were sorted out except L.T.T.E activity in the North.

Most of my engineer friends have now long been retired and many had gone abroad never to return and I thank them profusely for what they did expecting nothing in return (unlike the present  day engineers who take huge bribes in every possible way) from the rude politicians.

I was their to spread the Social Vision "Water is Health and more water one uses more healthy one is " was my jargon riddled Motto to convince them the need for drinking water for every being including animals.

2. There was high incidence of water born diseases in Kandy then.

3. Yes, British did not do anything to alleviate this problem.

4. The present Kandy Lake was a paddy field which extended to Nuwara Wela and Deiyanne Wela and the Old Lake that provided water to the paddy fields was located somewhere up and above and occupying the present Bogambara Stadium Complex.

The old lake road that runs parallel with the Wembly Theater is the only vestige left of the old lake.

4. But long before British the Nana Thota (Bathing Place) for the queens was on the left side of the Palace (Maligava).

5. The king's harem was little above this Nana Thota. 

This was turned into an armory during second world war.

6. Water was diverted from Bogambara Lake to this site by natural and built canals.

Built canals protected the Palace from invaders.

7. Present prison complex which is an eyesore to an ancient city (this prison now should be located elsewhere) probably belonged to the Nilames  (including Pilimithalawe) who resided there.
All the old houses were demolished by the British.
They were ruthless and Kandyan Kingdom was toothless then in spite of the Tooth Relic.

Even now it is like that and the Mahanayaks are toothless and are overtaken by the political bigwigs.

8. I do not know how the Governor had a bath when he came to Kandy for his sojourns.

9. Kandy had ample amount of rain and underground water was available if one digs a little down to the earth.

10. Buddhist priests had a bathing place (it is still there, hardly used now) in front of the Malawatta Temple.

That supports my above statement.

11. My maternal grant parents moved to Kandy during British and settled on the outer periphery of Kandy beyond the Ampitiya Seminary (which is where even now the clergy to be are trained).
My English education started there from that seminary (that story is for another day).

12. The land they bought extended to the periphery of the Seminary at its top.
The boundary was determined by waste water that runs during the rainy season.
His land had the best well in the neighborhood and in actual fact there were no neighbors when he settled down.
His brother of course ventured into tea plantation but come our time the tea  plantation was whole heartedly neglected.

14. The next biggest well was in the middle of the paddy field far away from my grandparent's and that also belonged to a distant relation.

15. When I was very little I was in Kandy and my bathing place was Raja Pihilla (King's Waterfall not a fountain) and that was where the king probably had his bath.

Strangely there were no water fountains in Kandy except one near the Maligawa.
Who wants water fountains when rain came every 7 to 10 day in Kandy?

I detest the use of water of the lake (from the Island in the middle) for spraying the city.
The water has all the nasties including pathological amoebae.

16. Beyond the point where the well was located inside a cubicle house  water was really scarce even  then.
It has become worse (well water) now.

17. After a major family dispute (basically due to eternal land disputes which my father hated) we moved away.
That was one of the best decisions my father made and I as a little brat (not even going to primary school) was very much involved in one of those disputes.

Relating that story was not relevant but I lost contact with all our dearly loved cousins thereafter.

18. From that point onwards the water supply and bathing was a big problem (I  of course preferred not bathing since water was very chilly unlike nowadays).

19. The said well housed inside a cubicle and was permanently locked and we had to take the key and fetch water and bathing was allowed only during weekends.

20. The weekends were the water sports days.
All the boys (related) will do the fetching of water and all the washing ups.
It was our swimming pool too (when closed from inside) and I learned to float on water upright and horizontal in this huge well.
Then we empty the entire well and that was supposed to feed the paddy fields.
In any case that was our justification (never the water sports we played  inside) and hit two birds with one stone.

21. There was a common bathing place for the entire village and we were lucky we never went there unless we were in a mood for water sports and nobody else was bathing there at the time of our visit.
When we come in a gang of course others give way but we knowing very well it is bad, never had any mishaps for the entire period we were there.

22. As we grew up we hated taking a bath inside (it was basically meant for ladies) a cubicle and we were basically outdoor people and went out in all directions looking for streams and bathing places.

23. There were quite a number then.
The streams were clean and learning swimming  in open space was another practice we indulged.

24. We left this place in early sixties never to return.
My father gets 4 yearly regimented transfers and only in his last 8 years I was able to move into Kandy City again.

Recently I visited one of those streams and there  is no more stream left but a waste water canal and  it was putrid and no fish life at all.

25. Little over thirty years all of them have become Kunu Elas (rubbish streams like the Mada Ela-I call it the Condom Ela since one can see condoms floating in the water) or run dry in Kandy.

26. From Raja Phihilla to Kunu Ela is the development we have had seen and witnessed in Kandy after the independence.

27. Kandy Lake is the most polluted water body and there is no question about it.
Once a national champion swimmer got drowned there.
That water is not even conducive to fish and tortoises.

28. The point I am driving at is there is no clean underground water to drink in Municipality Limits and we have to purify the water before drinking.
If for some reason pipe borne water is interrupted which is a regular occurence nowadays there is no alternative source of water i.e., well water.

The open or surface water bodies are constantly being contaminated like in Pollonnaruwa.
 It is becoming worse by the day.

29. A strange thing that happens nowadays is when the political bigwigs come to Kandy, water from Nillambe is diverted to supply Kandy, rudely interrupting the supply to where I live and sometimes over 24 hours.
This is specially so during Perehara time.

30. In this discussion in a list form, I have avoided talking about Mahaweli which runs round the city periphery.

Reason I should tell now.

Mahaweli was very dangerous in our time.

One of my cousins, one of my teacher's brother, lot of undergraduates and  many more lives were lost in our times as opposed to only one life I mentioned above in the Kandy Lake.
After my cousin's death we were banned but I still used to go with my uncles, dogs and servants.

There was always company and life saver standing by.

After the Polgolla dam everything in Kandy changed and the the bomb at the Maligawa put a final nail to this city of adventure for many including Kings and the British.

It is where now only the business monkeys come to venture out.

I cannot walk my dog in a quiet evening round the lake which I used to do as a medical student.
The dog was my physical instructor then, not a highly paid foreigner/s (used by the Cricket Board going bankrupt).
I was a sportsman good enough to represent the university but not the national teams.

Sadly there is no place to play snooker or billiards except few hotels.
The other day we were at Digana and my daughter only remembered me playing snooker with the British guys which went on till early hours.
They were given ample space to play and a good restaurant to eat anything they want including fish and chips, they loved it.
The sports complex is no more and tennis court was like the university tennis court  in late 1980s  (1988-1989) with grass grwoing to the height of 6 feet and above in 2011-2012.
But tennis court at Digana was in trim condition then in spite of the hive of J.V.P activity.
I was able to play either indoors or outdoors and we had a squash court too.
Mind you we had a private bar too.

My current dog has no place to wander except inside the house.

This developing world has changed for worse and they are still continuing to develop more and more roads but no place for the poor pedestrians to rest or walk for leisure and exercise.

This has become a Miracle City only for Buddhists.

With development there is pollution especially Air we breath and Water we drink.

I thank the god in this Thanksgiving Weekend that I no longer reside within the municipality now.
I will not move in now, even for leisure.

Dream 14 and its Interpretation

The Dream

It is long time since I had a dream to  post to Maha Brahma and true to my nature when I am on holiday mood but not going for any holiday due to cash trapped problems or cash-strapped eventuality, I dream a lot.

I have already spend my November salary and I did not go out on Saturday even to the bookshops due to the same reason. I finished all my house chores which included feeding the fish and attending to water plants and the Internet browsing and went to sleep like a log.

I cannot remember what time but I could not see any (did not bother seeing them anyway) digital editions of Sunday papers.

Linux downloads were painfully slow.

It got to be before midnight.

I could remember having a big tea and loads of cookies, bananas and chocolates, since my intention was to, not to get up with shivering (winter cold is hitting us now) in early morning with hunger pains.

Long nap was due in shape and nothing interesting to do on Sunday morning except sleeping to my heart content.

I did not expect to dream, though.

But there was lot of it.

Dreams and dreams.

I was invited to a Water Summit.

It was not a Earth Summit and even in my dreams they do not invite me for Earth / or Environment Summit. They are scared that I come out with bare facts of mother nature not some bizarre concocted figures.

Everybody who was somebody was greeting me and to my surprise even Environment Lady Helen Clark was there to greet me.

She greeted me and that was the first time I met her face to face and before I could even start a conversation with her, I was ushered to a big platform which looked like Antarctica to me and I was elected as the earth representative with a big applause.

I had a strange feeling as if I was in heaven.

Everybody who was somebody was known to me and there were no enemies at all. Only missing person which I dearly expected was my dog and he was not there. There was nobody from home and in my dream and I new instantaneously it was a dream for sure and I could please Maha Brahma when I wake up and I went into real dream's dream mode, so to speak, if I may.

So I was taken into water polo event and then another event and another event and it was never ending high fun.

No distractions at all.

Finally they let me rest in a far corner of this dream land where there were no mosquitoes.

I remember telling one person who looked like an angel, I like tea but hate mosquitoes.

I remember them asking me  "tea or coffee" not with the British or American Air Hostesses' Accent but very very sweet pronunciation with an appropriate pause in between, indeed for "is it with sugar and / or milk".

I had a very invigorating cuppa and without batting an eyelid I was in "Metta Meditation Mode, the 3 M Mode of my contemplations, without mosquitoes. I must tell you that I cannot practice even in my dream Metta Meditation if there were mosquitoes around which are plenty now in this blessed land affected by global warming. It was simply due to my medical training where we were (like in dogs) trained to tune into subtlest of or a faintest of murmurs and the mosquitoes beatings (somewhat similar to our Suntush's Music) down my ears are like bomb blasts to me.

I was in a prolonged Metta Mode and nobody disturbed me.

Then I woke to the tune of my dog who was greeting the visitors.

I looked at the clock.

Past 1 P.M.

It was 14 hours of long sleep and 14 hour long nice healthy dream.

I washed my face and joined the lunch few minutes late without a cup of tea.

It was very strange and usually my dreams are bizarre to say the least and nothing futuristic in content. Immediately posted an email and in return of post I get a Maha's Voiced Mail (M.V.M).

He was in a jolly good mood but I wasn't.

I told him this one was a dull dream and it was like my childhood days and now with lot of bad experiences, nobody would ever elect me as a earth representative (they won't select me to represent even hell, though -they are sacred I do a good job there with my supercomputer program) and I new in my heart it was a dream.

Then he told me, I was checking your heart beat and it was very slow and there were no heart sounds audible and your brain waves were very smooth and there was a nice aura around your vertex, I thought you were attaining Nibbana in your dream and I did not want to disturb you.

What nonsense I told him.

One of your angel guys told me that there were no mosquitoes and I did not believe him and I, as a good precaution went into energy saving metabolic mode (E.S.M.M.) and that is why I did not exhale CO2 (to prevent global warming) and the heart was slow.

You thought I was dead.

Weren't you?

He was bit embarrassed with my last tone of voice.

I nearly did but the aura around your vertex was visible and it was very pleasing.

You do not know anything about M.M.M. Mode.

Isn't it?

One get this Aura when in Metta meditation I told him.

Or, I see.

Yes, we do not have anybody to feel jealous or angry in heaven and Metta Meditation has no value in heaven.

My gosh?

You mean to say we earthlings have to have enemies to make the effort of Metta Meditation.

Don't con Sir.

We in this blessed land practice Hate Philosophy and it is the only valid currency.

No Metta for even Generals who were veterans of Hate Philosophy if one is not of the same colour or race or creed.

I cannot believe it.

Calm down Son.

You practiced Metta Meditation even without having major enemies (except of course mosquitoes) and it is a good practice.

I saw you were levitating and not touching on the bed below at one point.

Don't con Sir.

It is true and it is better to go into Metta meditation in your dream.

But there is one problem Sir, I did not dream anything in that long period and there was a long inner silence, Sir.

No dreams?

Yes Sir.

He was taken aback.

Dream or no dreams can you teach me M.M.M.

No problem Sir.

Just recite Karaneeya Metta Sutta (KMS) and you get the feel of it, Sir.

What is this Vissudhi Magga?

It is what is recommended, isn't it?

Don't worry about it Sir.

That is only recommended for earthlings who spread Hate Philosophy and love dead bodies around them or see the enemies undergo untold suffering in prison and not for nice godly people like you.

Is there a second part to my dream?

Yes, YES.

Why didn't you interrupt the dream?

There was no necessity and you were not at all in danger except your slow breathing and the slow heartbeat but your brain was in full swing.

I see.

What was the second part?

Well, well it was not good at all.

Do you want to hear it.

Yes.

What I am going to tell is not good news but here it goes like this.

1. They had excavated Sethsundaram and got only a very little gas and petroleum but the money spent was not enough to pay for the debts and income was meager.

2. There was a long period of drought.

3. They continue to use coal as energy source.

4. Global warming peaked and Alps were barren land no snow for skiing.

5. Nasty earth quake shook the Indian plate.

6. The crack went though the belly of India dividing it to two North and South.

7. Another deep crack went through Sethusundarum and Sri-Lanka was pushed towards Australia and to the south.

8. There was a strong tsunami and that took all the Maldives islands for good.

9. Within months of this catastrophe what looked like a black hole exploded and the effect was to have great amount of radiation and heat enough to increase the earth atmosphere by 10 ° C.

10. Two thirds of the Lanka was down and under water what looked like the port was near Gampaha and the rest is history.

What happened to the parliament?

Nothing.

Don't con?

11. I must tell you one important thing and you must not tell present politicians.

Will you?

No, I promised.

Long time before the episode I mentioned here happened, Sri-Lankan voters had created a Digital Monster (DM-not DiyaWadana Nilame) and every time a politician lies his tongue get blown away and the second time they lie the heads get blown away and there was long period of good governance.

Then, they had a budget speech one day and everybody was having the after budget cocktail and what was called the Third Force / Third Revolution digitally coined blasted the entire parliament.

What happened was a mistake.

They had programmed the server to detect even the tiniest of lies of digital content and the programmer forgot to include the proviso, one can have a little lie as a yarn to illustrate how old politicians perennially lied and as a joke in the tea party time.

He, the MP did not say it was a joke and before the crowd could laugh the computer thought he was lying and automatic automated activity instantaneously activated to blast the entire parliament with it members.

This MP was the youngest in that crowd and he actually took oath on the same day and he was not told of the parliamentary etiquette before the tea party.

Then there was a long period without party politics and that was the best period in Sri-lankan living history till the above natural catastrophe took a turn for the worse.

You mean to say there were only two recipes for the civil society.

Yes.

1. Do not lie.

2. Do not have party politics.

You mean to say if we keep one precept of the five precepts there will be wonders in this land.

Yes, but it has to be digitally controlled with population expansion and explosion.

But we are digitally backward and only 132 with 26 computers use Linux in this land.

Only Linux and not Microsoft can achieve that target of developing a Lie Free Server (L.F.S) in this country.

That will take eons in the present rate?

Don't you realize?

You got a big responsibility to promote Linux before you kick the bucket and not Microsoft.

You have to persevere and promote Linux with same enthusiasm with cloud computing to help you.

Will you do that?

Yes SIR.

Bird Watching, Global Warming and Unusual Findings.

Bird Watching, Global Warming and Unusual Findings.

This year was unusual for me.

Our industrial action taught me how to be proactive and make best use of the extra time I had for intellectual studies not related to my paid academic activity.

Boredom would kill me if I do not use my creative thinking for some useful earthly activity.

Bird watching was one of those earthly activity I was engaged in.

I know many of us use that for mundane topics, politics or gossips.

With my connection with Maha Brahma now I know that gods do not gossip.

That does not mean that they are not interested in human activity or earthly activity.

They do because they have lot of free time.

I have good news to break.

There was a lonely cuckoo without a mate.

I complained to Maha and he seems to have answered my call and the cuckoo has found a mate.

Thank you Maha for your kindly gesture.

You have done a another miracle this time.

The Indian Golden Oriole (Sivuru Hora) who migrates from Northern Part of Asia did not go home this time. They are supposed to breeds Uzbekistan, E Turkmenistan but I bet my bottom dollar that they did stay here and probably started breeding here for some unknown reason. I will keep a closer look at this pair and if I see more of them come February, it is most likely they are now breeding here.

We hare having something special for them in my neighborhood.

certainly it is not me. If we did not have the industrial action I would have failed to observe this phenomena.

It was more fun bird watching than listening to out treasury secretary who was very god at evading rather than finding a binding solutions.

They love problems without solution so that they can prolong our agony and  stay on course happily ever after of IMF target figures.

I had another observation.

I think birds hate very warm weather and there is total inactivity (no singing at all) when the temperature is above 95 degrees Fahrenheit. This has something to do with their myoglobin physiology which nobody seems to have done any worthwhile research.

Moment there is little rain (not downpour) their is hive of activity.

They love the mulberry tree and the butterfly larvae.

Rain pattern was the most bizarre this year.

Heavy showers followed by equally dry weather that if i do not water plants wilt away.

Some of the Angle plants never grew shoots in spite of my close attention.

Flowering was erratic and the oldest pineapple plant had a flower. That was also  after I uprooted it with the weed which had invaded its rooting system with its stem rotting and I put it to final resting in a dustbin, "so to speak" thinking it might die.

Then of course the commissioning of the Coal Power Unit make us 100% electricity for year 2012.

I will not go into it now but wait for another year with my critical assessment of the effect of Coal Power on this tiny island and its non-human (avian to be precise) beings.

They are not earthly wise but confused and did not know which way to fly with warm air overhead with coal power burning 24 hours a day.

1. The pattern of air currents have changed.

2. Temperature has changed.

3. The rain patten has changed.

4. The flowering pattern has changed.

5. Flowering of water plants changed.

6. Behavior of the angle plant was not normal.

7. Fish did not die (I was doubly protecting them this time).

Almost everything changed except my observations.

7. Above all the Indian Oriole did not go home.

Yes miracle is happening in this country. Even the birds who come here get confused not due to alcohol of course.

All the sign of miracles are heralding.

Watch for my own Earth Summit.

That will certainly will happen if I see young Orioles bred here in this country.

One has to wait for a few months only, if they do not (they will not now that the winter is coming) go back and die on their way, they will certainly will breed here.

Who said miracles cannot happen in this country.

If not in the human world it will happen in the non-human world which is fast disappearing, for good with IMF development strategy.

Global Warming and IT industry, any connection?

I was post postponing writing about global warming for sometime and it was related to bird watching (that will come soon) and not IT industry.

I predicted this 5 years ago (Flooding) and at that time every American Scientist, including Scientific American was skeptic but the email doctoring incident bared before the Earth Summit (in which only European Nation New Zealand and the former PM Helen Clark stood against that conviction) and all Scientist are in broad agreement now that global warming is taking shape in real time.

I never though the floods in Thailand would adversely effect the IT industry.

There is acute shortages of Hard drives and the supply will fall behind demand by over 6 months.

The best Christmas present one can give this time round is a good external hard drive.

I cannot go for a SSD but bought a hard drive on loan since the vendor guys alerted me well in advance.

Even the computer manufacturing will come down and this will add to the HP Saga and it is supposed to be stockpiling hard drives (supposed to be ordered for PCs they discontinued producing) to make gain of the losses they had with tablets.

This is a strange world and one does not know which will hit you first(debt crisis or floods).

So don't load your hard drives with videos and if you have money buy at least an external drive.

Happy Christmas for guys and Girls in the IT industry.

I will be writing about global warming in Sri-Lankan perspective soon and not about computers and IT.

Guys this is a good time to promote Cloud Computing and their Server Capacity.

Hurry Up.

Read my book on Kindle if you have spare time.

EyeNux and Distromania-Update-Alive and WELL.

EyeNux and Distromania-Update

I am writing this with happy memories.

My blog piece on EyeNux and EyeOS has done wonders.

Number one distromania is up and running.

Thank you guys for what you are doing.

Thank you for revitalizing your efforts to keep old distributions available for everybody.

Your repository was the one from where I got EyeNU in the first place.

It is now available at Softpedia too.

if you are a newbie please be patient till they get the server running smoothly.

Number two is EyeNUX 1.2 is available again and I am currently downloading it to have an image in my archive.

in case somebody needs it.

Number three EyeOs 2.5 is doing great things but they give you a zip file and one cannot run it without Apache I believe.

I hope they have an iso for us to test.

They have a great application store and i hope many developers contribute to its success.

Linux is getting Cloud Computing ready.

I am getting excited.

Thanks guys and girls for your wonderful efforts.

Hampers for Christmas

Hampers for Christmas

It is the budget day today.

I think it is appropriate to post this as a cocktail after the budget for MPs who blindly vote for any blessed thing without even opening the eyes.

Mind you, I was one who enjoyed these stuff while on sojourns abroad but not now.

I do not know what the average voters he/she has for this Christmas 2012.

 List Price and delivery FREE.

 Price: US$83.94

 MD Strawberry Jam Bottle - 485g

 Lipton Yelow Lable Tea Pkt (100 Bags) - 200g

 Motha 3 Jelly Flavours + Custard Powder pkt - 350g

 Sunquick Orange Juice Bottle - 840ml

 Johnnie Walker - Red Label - 750ml

 Large tin of Pringles Original Potato Crisp - 170g

 Munchee Savoury Nuts Biscuits pkt - 180g

 Happy Cow Cheese Tin - 340g

 Kandos Legend an assortment Chocolate box - 240g

 Price: US$64.01

 Deviled Cashew Nuts - 200g

 Sunquick Orange Juice Bottle - 840ml

 Two Pack of Red Bull Energy Drink Can - 500ml

 Large tin of Pringles Original Potato Crisp - 170g

 Martini Rosso - 750ml

 Smirnoff Vodka - 750ml

Mahela J, this one is for you-Cricket

Neither do I watch Sri-Lankan Cricket nor I talk about Sri-Lankan cricket after politicians entered the fray to bloat their image at the expanse of cricketers.

I do not endorse cricketers entering politics except Arjuna who comes from a political background (he did not play politics when playing cricket) but he practices a different brand of politics at the expanse of his own cricketing image.

He is mature enough to play politics and to talk about Sri-Lankan Cricket too.

I do not like businessman who enter into cricket with a private agenda.

That is what is happening now.

Now Mahela, you know about all these things but I want to give you a piece  of advice before you say good bye to cricket.

I hope it is sooner than late.

I believe if anybody around you say this to you, it is all about kicking you out  in broad day light and stepping into your cricket gear and spoil it for us.

I have no such agenda.

I watch you from your entry into cricket and your 167 or 169 odd against India which was a classic entry.

It is not like this boy Chandimal (he spoiled it for himself with Matthews in UK) who has a bloated image and no flair in cricket and putting between you and Sanga was the stumpiest idea of Sri-Lankan cricket (I do not think he can fit into any place like you do when conditions demand from you).

I hope you got the message.

They are showing the way out for you, get out soon before they destroy you.

You played your best innings for us in the finals of the Cricket World Cup and  I / we will never forget that.

The match was mismanaged by Sanaga and the politicians behind his back.

I do not blame him for what he did then except his cricketing brain did not see the political strategy of others well in advance.

I think he should now concentrate on his legal career and the way the judgements are passed in this country we lack good lawyers to defend innocent citizens framed for what they did not do.

You know what I say now "if Mahela is playing a game", go and watch him for even the little time he spend at the crease.

We won't see a guy like him for another 20 years.

I have coined C.I.C. (Crimes in Cricket) and the way they treat you is a crime and get out fast and soon and save your image which none of us will forget, for long.

It is too much on you and your family.

If they cannot pay your salary and spend millions to bit for Commonwealth Games it is "rank old stupidity".

Politicians do not know how to play fair and they are a corrupt lot.

Get out soon.

Cloud Computing and what one can expect in year 2012?

Cloud Computing and what one can expect in year 2012?

It is too early to predict but we are gearing up to lot of innovations.

These innovations come not because we ave become groovy but because of necessity.

Already some writers who have seen the "Sea Change" making analogy to Volkswagen Era.

It is Hitlers creation but it outlasted him by a century.

The people car , the Volkswagen (People's Wagon) he built to take advantage of harsh conditions in the Africa where water for cooling was not available Beetle was even built in  Uganda in latter part of the last century.

Now the analogy is different. Fossil fuel is becoming exhausted with www in vogue and the whole world connected one need not travel far to get new technology and the freedom for innovation open for everybody.

In comes Amazon Kindle and its Silk Browser to go with the Cloud Computers we are in for a sea change.

Amazon will lead at a time whole western economy is collapsing due to "greed based economy" that was developed by greedy high flying CEOs.

One need not fly one need is a fast Internet and only a Silk browser to be connected and high flyers are wasting money of their own and cloud will actually make many people redundant in the IT  industry employed by corporate clients.

There is centralization and decentralization going in hand in hand.

When there is economic crisis redundancy will not be tolerated and machine will take over.

In this case the computer.

In another 20 years it is predicted the "cloud cluster computers" will surpass human intelligence and CEOs become redundant.

Small become beautiful and big and bigger (IBM mentality) mentality will be replaced by "Ant Philosophy".

Each small unit of computer power (Linux Clustering replaced Super Computers and even NASA used it when the money supply went down) will add and make "a cloud of computers" super powerful that few companies (they can thing big though) will inherit this phenomenon. Companies who ignore this will have to buy the resources or become subservient.

I will list the order of things in small to big with or without the company involved.

1. Silk Browser and Amazon

2. Kindle Fire

3. Amazon Cloud Service.

Mind Amazon has only silk Browser and the Linux Utility to run the cloud systems and have no OS.

4. Eye OS and any free software browser from Dolli to Midori to Gecko go with it and the Apache.

It is available at SourceForge free.

At eyeOS, we believe in free software as a way to share new technologies and make a contribution to the community, to the explorers who have great ideas but lack the resources to build upon them.

Open Source runs in our blood. It is our story and our legacy. eyeOS was born as an Open Source Project 6 years ago and since then it has thrived with a growing worldwide community of 16,000 active members, 70 minor and major releases over time, chapters in more than 60 countries and downloads that have recently passed the 1 million mark.

5. Suse and its Cloud Service.

One can own a Cloud with Suse.

OpenSUSE comes with customized Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and OpenStack. It also supports ownCloud 2.

This is a do-it-yourself Web-based storage cloud application. OpenSUSE claims that “ownCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets you own the data.

6. Not to forget Ubuntu ONE comes next.

7. Google with own OS will be the next with little community support but corporate mentality unless it decides to make amends and forge with open software.

8. Even though small Puppy Linux derivative Slako will be there to take us to the post.

9. Then the other players like Dropbox will take their due place.

10. Number 10 is any combinations above which include Meebo, JoliClouud and CloudSUB.

There will be 5 tier service protocol that will emerge.

1. Mini Browser like Silk Browser.

2. Thin Clients with lot of OEM guys having to port cloud services by default without an operating system bias. They have to produce Thin Client systems with or without proprietary operating systems.

3. Cloud Service with Clusters of Clouds in the backyard (even in my own backyard if an N.G.O will provide me the resources).

4. Mobiles (Meego, Meebo and Mobilin derivatives to link with cloud.

5. Then the all important Tablets Galore from Kindle Fire, Barnes Noble to all that come from China (China has not done anything in the line of Linux but it will flood the market first the mobile and then the Tablets).

In this 5 tier system where does the Desktop stands?

It is is nowhere and most of them in the attic or porting eyeOS with Apache and Midori and become a server instead of a stand alone desktop.

Desktop era is numbered and even laptop is not immune unless, they reduce the price and add some battery power and docking mechanisms to go with it.

Instead of laptops S.S.D type of Microchip will storm the market instead of Flash Drives probably with James Bond type Audio-Video capabilities.

I may be dead by then.