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Simple command line todo list manager - LakTEK
They say pen and paper is the best way to manage a todo list. Following the popular norm, I also started tracking my todos with pen and paper. But after several unsuccessful attempts of finding a pen or deciphering tasks from torn or soaked paper, I felt keyboard and the pixel-screen would be more a...
1 hour ago
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beautiful blur... - Yajith's Blog
14 hours ago
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Pissing people off - Engwar
From time to time, if you feel the need to piss someone off for their own good, let me assure you that it’s a perfectly natural thing. If you see someone living their lives without getting pissed off even for few minutes, do them a favour by pissing them off, at least once. Just like eustress ...
1 day ago
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sun and green... - Yajith's Blog
2 days ago
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Howto Setup a Subversion (svn) Repository for a Rails Project + Bonus - Gaveen's Blog
Setting up a Subversion (svn) repository is something development teams have to do fairly regularly, not that I want to use Subversion. :) If you listen to me, go use Git. Subversion is undoubtedly very good. But after using Git for about a year, you can't simply get me to switch back. Git is that g...
2 days ago
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Twiddle - Engwar
Grimness of the sound was just not giving in to the hot and gruesome night outside. Continuous screeches reassured that there were no one else but those little wanderers keeping everyone else company. Certainly a time when no like minded homo sapien step in. It was a definite cry for improvement, bu...
2 days ago
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white and blue... - Yajith's Blog
3 days ago
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engulfing loneliness... - Yajith's Blog
4 days ago
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Blue-pencil syndrome - Engwar
The length and breadth of the discussions about Internet anonymity could easily be found if you spend some time with google (”search”, as some folks would say). IMHO, it’s going to increase if the content that’s delivered to the doorsteps gets the blue-pencil treatment.
As th...
4 days ago
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My favorite links from the 4th week of August 2008 - YESChandana -Blog
SharePoint
Integrating Custom ASP.NET ASPX form into Sharepoint InfoPath Form Service
Programmatically
The Great Debate: SharePoint Designer vs. Custom Site Definitions
How To Use Site Definitions in SharePoint
SharePoint development tools
EndUserSharePoint.com: Email and SharePoint...
4 days ago
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Multi Monitor Support in Visual Studio 10 - YESChandana -Blog
It is a bit old news, but still pretty interesting among the community. Actually, Multi Monitor supporting is a new feature of Visual Studio 10. Here is the link where you can get more info about this.
4 days ago
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Drupal, amelioratory management - Engwar
I’m going to take Drupal as an example during this post and outline some of the challenges of working on it with a loosely knit team. One major problem with PHP based content management systems is that it’s PHP. So, anyone who have taken the time to stare at some code snippets could mo...
5 days ago
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Fiddling with drupal forms - Engwar
This will show some of the neat API calls Drupal provides which you could use to do almost anything. OxygenTank, the developer portal related to WSO2 products runs on Drupal. The code examples in this post are extracted from a soon to be implemented module which will alter the way you download pro...
6 days ago
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Don’t let them ——! - Prove that real but not virtual
Internet censorship is on it’s way. And what can we do against? Let me suggest.
Gather against it. Make yourself sound louder.
We can’t do anythng alone. Here’s the facebook group against internet censorship - No to internet censorship in Sri Lnanka.
Inform others about the threat....
7 days ago
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Microsoft SharePoint Application Template: Sales Lead Pipeline - YESChandana -Blog
This is how i explain the Sales Lead Pipline to my customer....
Sales Lead Pipeline.pdf (110.83 kb)
1 week ago
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Differences between SharePoint .stp and . wsp - YESChandana -Blog
Actually this is a very simple explanation between SharePoint Site Template (.stp) and SharePoint Solution package (.wsp).
*.wsp
*.stp
*.wsp solution file includes the resources and manifest files.
*.stp site template file also includes...
1 week ago
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EndUserSharePoint.com: The Fundamentals of Libraries and Lists - YESChandana -Blog
If you are new to Microsoft SharePoint platform or if you are willing to enter the SharePoint arena, then Mark Miller's online workshop is a good place to get kick start. Actually you may see some "Fundamentals" contents, but really well for the entry level and beginning level end use...
1 week ago
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SL government to sell porn. - Prove that real but not virtual
It was a heart breaker to hear that the Sri Lankan Government is going to block adult content on Interenet. You didn’t hear the whole story, so don’t be hurry to judge me as a “porn addict”. The fun part is here. If you really want porn, you can get it. What’s so fun in...
2 weeks ago
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My favorite links from the 3rd week of August 2008 - YESChandana -Blog
SharePoint
Congrats to SQL 2008 and SharePoint SQL 2008 Tips
Moving MOSS 2007 Content Database by STSADM Command-Line Tool
How do I list all my SharePoint sites in the Site Gallery?
EXACTLY where SharePoint documents are stored
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for Mi...
2 weeks ago
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Firefox on Fedora - No sound on Flash Videos - Sandarenu's Blog
I recently shifted to Fedora from Windows XP. In Fedora it did not give sounds when I was watching flash videos such as from YouTube in Firefox. It was a big problem for me. But after some research I found out that it is due to not installing a dependency library 'libflashsupport' with Adobe Flash p...
2 weeks ago
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දත්ත සිල්ලර මිලට ගන්න ඔබට සහනයක් - ෆෙඩෝරා ලිනක්ස් සටහන්
ඔබත් ඔබේ ජංගම දුරකථනයේ GPRS, EDGE හෝ 3G සබඳතාව මගින් ඉන්ටර්නෙට් සැරිසරන්නෙක්ද? නිතරම නොකලත් හදිසි අවස්ථා වලදී මෙසේ කිරීම...
2 weeks ago
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My favorite links from the 2nd week of August 2008 - YESChandana -Blog
SharePoint
Trick for SharePoint Site Authentication Problem
Do not read from the SharePoint Database
Video: Michael on the Go - SharePoint Wikis Best Practices, Tips, and Gotchas
Top SharePoint WCM Web Sites
Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products a...
3 weeks ago
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Does the TRC have the right to ask us to carry PhoneIDs? - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Muse
In the few weeks that I have been incapacitated, there have been many things that have happened in the country.
If I was a superstitious man, I would say that my accident was a symbol and symptom of the unlucky period Sri Lanka has entered into.
Our eroding rights, burgeoning government usur...
3 weeks ago
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Who will watch the watchmen? - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Rant
Or as the original goes - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The cops demand ID wherever we go. So does the army. I can't walk in the street in Colombo without getting copped and checked.Now the TRC wants us to carry ID that can then be inspected by the cops to make sure our cellphones are ours. ...
3 weeks ago
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Minimalism - Engwar
I’ve always been a fan of minimalistic design. After the recent flurry of minimalistic redesigns I’ve been wanting to do my own. I stole the archives page from Dejan. I think that’s elegant and go with the minimalistic theme than getting Clean Archives. It does gracefully degrade b...
3 weeks ago
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A flawless journey to be the peoples' star - CodeKadiya writes...
Dushyanth was an unknown personality for many Sri Lankans until the Sirasa Dancing Stars(SDS), though some knew him as a singer of the modern times. He was not releasing songs at a rate which most of our young artists are inclined at present. The talent he showed in performing as a singer while danc...
3 weeks ago
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All free CSS Crashcourse. - Prove that real but not virtual
I wanted to create a website. It was an assignment & doing it was a must. There were HTML,CSS & Javascript to learn, for the design part. I knew HTML & a very little of CSS (just enough to understand others code). So CSS… It was the biggest thing bothered me through last week. Howe...
3 weeks ago
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My favorite links from the 1st week of August 2008 - YESChandana -Blog
SharePoint
Question to SharePoint developers
How to customize rendering of SharePoint list form fields
Why SharePoint projects fail?
An introduction to Agile SharePoint Development
Why SDLC is always needed in SharePoint projects
Patterns & Practices SharePoint Gui...
4 weeks ago
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ස්තුතියි වැන්කුවර්! - ඩනිෂ්කගේ දිනපොත
සතියකකට පසු මොසිලා සමුළුවෙන් අනතුරුව ගම්රට බලා ඒමටයි මේ සැරසුම...වැන්කුවර්ගුවන් තොටුපලේ ඇති රතු ඉංදියානුවන්ගේ ස...
4 weeks ago
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Tip : How do I catch the RowIndex in GridView RowCommand event? - YESChandana -Blog
As you know, ASP.NET GridView is the successor of the ASP.NET 1.X DataGrid. But with ASP.NET 2.0 GridView, there is no default way to catch the RowIndex in RowCommand event. Somehow, with ASP.NET 1.X DataGrid, we were able to catch the ItemIndex in ItemCommand event.
As a solution, you can catch t...
4 weeks ago
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It's my story, and I'll say what I want to - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Muse
It's now a month since I got hit. The physical scars are disappearing. The scabs are falling off. My knees are still painful. and my left one is still impossible to bend or straighten fully. My shoulders are a nit of a mess. My right one cannot be straightened and I can't seem to lift anything...
4 weeks ago
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Reading Excel Date fields from Java - Sandarenu's Blog
Previously I posted on how to read data from Microsoft Excel file using Apache POI HSSF. This is a small addition to that.
If the Excel file you are to read is using 'Date' fields, then you have to be little careful about it. In HSSF these Date fields are taken as numeric fields. Anyway that is how...
4 weeks ago
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Facebook style pagination - Sound of code - Blog
Facebook provides a great API for application developers. An API which helps developers to make their applications more facebook-fit.There are many things that a developer can do using FBML (Facebook Markup Language), but pagination. Recently I was looking for a way to add Facebook style pagination ...
4 weeks ago
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missing something... - Sound of code - Blog
I think I'm exhausted... but hey, I'm still trying to write a blog post. It is the matter of perspective; If someone thinks that an exhausted person can't write a blog post because he is exhausted; then fine, that is their perspective.According to my current perspective I'm exhausted.Most of the tim...
4 weeks ago
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Doing what I have to do - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Muse
If you are tired of reading how my life is and the problems and issues I'm facing, stop now. Go watch Playboy or something.It has been almost a month since the accident, and it has been eventful. I've been CAT scanned, x-rayed, and blood tested. All of which showed no physical problems. In fac...
4 weeks ago
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ජාලිය වික්රමසූරිය - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
අයිස්ලන්තයේ නව සිරිලක් තානාපති රංජිත් ජයසූරියයන් අපගේ ජාතික ඇඳුම ඇඳීම ගැන මා මෑතකදී ලියුවා. එක්සත් ජනපදයේ නව සි...
4 weeks ago
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Fedora 10 "Cambridge" - ඩනිෂ්කගේ දිනපොත
මෙම වසරේ ඔක්තොම්බර් මස 28 දිනට නිලුත් වීමට නියමිත Fedora 10 නිකුතුව "Cambridge" ලෙසට නම්කර ඇත.
4 weeks ago
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IM presence on your blog AIM, Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo!. - Prove that real but not virtual
You want to show your readers that you are available to share Ideas? And you didn’t know how to? Here’s the short & (may be) sweet or either simple how to for that.
AIM
1. Go and register for the AOL dev account at http://dev.aol.com/aim.
2. Find Your AIM presence HTML code at AIM pr...
4 weeks ago
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Wanna learn GIMP??? (!!!) - SeeJay.Net
Me too!!! :D We gotta develop this web site for our Internet Techs&Apps module for this semester and I'm suppose to design a nice header and a logo for the site. Well, the whole site actually. I'll have to do all the coding but my other group members are doing a great job collecting required...
4 weeks ago
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Are cops and tamashas more important than students? - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Rant
I'm back, and I am ranting. I may not be as good as I used to be, but, by Eris, I am pissed off.
I spent five days teaching teachers at Hali-Ela.
It wasn't easy, but there is a part of me that insists I do such things. I have to test myself and push myself. Otherwise, I may as well just lie ...
4 weeks ago
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ප්රජාවගේ සමුළුව! - ඩනිෂ්කගේ දිනපොත
මොසිලා ප්රජාවේ භෞතික එක් වීමක් තව සුළු වේලාවකින් ඇරඹීමට නියමිතයි."Mozilla Firefox 2008 සමුළුව" 2008 ජූලි මස 28 වැනි දින සිට අගෝස්ත...
4 weeks ago
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Why too late ? - Sound of code - Blog
I will make it quick. This is the C++ solution that I used to solve Google Code Jam Online Round 1C - Question 1. (it's so dumb, I know).//typedef long long int64;typedef vector<int64> vi;#define For(i,a,b) for (int i(a),_b(b); i <= _b; ++i)#define Rep(i,n) for (int i(0),_n(n); i < _n; ++i)...
1 month ago
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Tip : Does Firefox ignore the ASP.NET GridView border property? - YESChandana -Blog
By default, ASP.NET GridView comes with border property equal to null. So, you can see the vertical and horizontal grid lines in the ASP.NET GridView. No matter about the browser type, it shows correctly. But if you set the GridView border property to zero (border=”0”), then it will act...
1 month ago
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Eclipse XQuery - a breakthrough at last… - Lucky Tec
Last 2 weeks were very productive for the new xquery editor and finally able to get a breakthrough in the project.
I was trying to work out xquery syntax colouring as I thought it is what someone would be expecting first from an editor. So finally it was completed by this weekend and you can see [.....
1 month ago
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Contact Form using Merb & DataMapper - LakTEK
Major benefit of using Rails to develop web applications is its smart conventions, which promote developers to adapt to common patterns and avoid wasting time in reinventing the wheel. Rails is strictly bonded with a database and has a pre-defined directory structure. Though these conventions are he...
1 month ago
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ඔබටත් නිරවුල්, සරල දිසි-දිවැවුමක් ඇවැසිද? - ෆෙඩෝරා ලිනක්ස් සටහන්
ඔබ දැනටමත් දන්නවා ඇති mplayer කියන්නේ අනේකවිධ ඇසි-දිසි ගොනු දිවැවිය හැකි මුදුකාංගයක් කියලා. ඉතින් මේ mplayer විධාන පෙල මෙව...
1 month ago
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Getting Started with OpenCV - Sandarenu's Blog
Finally our final year project is finished. As I've promised in my previous post I'm going to do few posts on OpenCV. In this post I'm going to tell you how to configure MS Visual Studio 2005 to work with OpenCV library. Step 1: Installiny OpenCV First you have to download the OpenCV librar...
1 month ago
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Code Jam - Sound of code - Blog
I have never planned to do Google Code Jam this year (2008), but in the last minute I registered for the contest.The qualification round took place on 16th of July which had three questions to be solved within a day. I solved the first question, which was taken me easily to the Online Round 1. :)Onl...
1 month ago
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My favorite links from the 5th Week of July 2008 - YESChandana -Blog
SharePoint
SharePoint Skills Shortfall
Thinking in SharePoint - Zen and the Art of SharePoint
Upcoming conferences with plenty of SharePoint oriented content
Warning: SharePoint can create chaos if not used properly
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Security Model
ASP.NE...
1 month ago
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Microsoft gives Apache cash to promote open source...! - YESChandana -Blog
"As part of its move toward greater openness, Microsoft is becoming a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation."
I hope, it is a pretty interesting news tag for us. That’s why I like to share those news sources with you...
http://www.infoworld.com/
http://www.the...
1 month ago
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Intel සමාගම ජංගම Linux සඳහා Ubuntu වෙතින් Fedora වෙතට.. - ඩනිෂ්කගේ දිනපොත
චිප නිෂ්පාදක Intel සමාගම Moblin (Mobile & Internet Linux Project) හි දෙවැනි වෙලුම සඳහා Ubuntu වෙනුවට Fedora ව්යපෘතිය දෙසට නැඹුරු වේ.http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Intel-s...
1 month ago
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Mozilla Firefox Sinhala for the NEXT Generation - ඩනිෂ්කගේ දිනපොත
1st installFest in Sri Lanka @ Bandula Senadhira College - KarandeniyaAs per my request Mr. Susil Maduwage, Chief Project Officer - National Intitute of Eucation Sri Lanka, introduced Mr. ID Mitripala of Elpitiya Educational Zone (The IT Facilitator).Mr.PHS De Silva, The Prinsiple, already download...
1 month ago
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චාරිකා - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
1953 දී ලෝක ගුරු සමුළුවට ගිය අපේ සීයා කෙනෙක්, ඒ ගමන ගැන "චාරිකා" නම් පොතක් ලියුවා. ඒ පොතෙ මැය ගැන සිතීමේදී, චාරිකා යන්නට ...
1 month ago
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Tip : How do I catch with BODY tag of ASP.NET content page (Child Page)? - YESChandana -Blog
When we use ASP.NET Master Page inside our web application, the BODY tag take out from content pages (Child Page). Coz, at runtime Master page’s BODY tag renders as a content page BODY tag. But the problem arises when we want to access the content page BODY element. Just say we want to call J...
1 month ago
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Will this help??? - SeeJay.Net
OK! I'm not a blogger! seejay is not a blogger!! not anymore!!! :-S I can't believe I didn't blog from such a long time. And I can't think of any excuses other than plain laziness. It's not unfair to say my higher education is keeping me busy to some extend but I must admit I could've spend "some" t...
1 month ago
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Tip : Why we should call Page.Validate() and check Page.IsValid even with client side validation? - YESChandana -Blog
From end user perspective, client side validation is absolutely giving better user experience with UI. But, technically who can trust the user inputs? Because JavaScript is the key player behind the client side valuation and also anyone can bypass the JavaScript by disabling it. Not only that, bril...
1 month ago
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Xgnokii - තවත් ජංගම දුරකථන හා සබැඳි විය හැකි මුදුකාංගයක් - ෆෙඩෝරා ලිනක්ස් සටහන්
කලින් ලිපියේ කිවු Gammu වලට සමාන තවත් මුදුකාංගයක් තමයි Xgnokii . මෙය ග්නොකි gnokii නම් වූ විධාන පෙල මෙවලමට GUI එකක් ලෙස ක්රියා කර...
1 month ago
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Chanux gone mad… - Prove that real but not virtual
Yes I am. Or I was, for some time. Here goes the story which might sound little bit mad & it’s written before the day I post this.
May be this is my 2nd or 3rd blog post of this type. The feeling that I’m exhausted is come in my mind time to time & at [...]
1 month ago
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Is it just for me or? - Prove that real but not virtual
How many times you have felt like that? How many times you wanted to know if that damn thing is only happened to you? if it was just a web site fail to load you would use downforeveryoneorjustme.com . But if it is about something else, err… something about Firefox or a GNU/Linux problem or [.....
1 month ago
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Getting LAMP to work in Ubuntu Hardy - Nazly's BLOG
Few of my friends who switched to Ubuntu lately, asked me how to get LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) working in their desktops. Most of them have installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) so I planned to write a small guide on how to setup a LAMP development environment. This will require to have an In...
1 month ago
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නොකියා 3110, Wammu සහ සිංහල යුනිකේත - ෆෙඩෝරා ලිනක්ස් සටහන්
මාත් අළුත් දුරකතථනයක් මිලදී ගත්තා (Nokia 3110c). ඉතින් මා කලින් භාවිතා කල දුරකථනයේ ඇති අංක සහ කෙටි පාණිවුඩ නව දුරකථනයට ලබා...
1 month ago
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Wordpress 2.6 - pgdesigning | Priyantha's BLOG
Wordpress 2.6 has just been released, and adds Wiki-like tracking of post edits, use of Gears for faster page rendering for admins, theme previews, and more…
1 month ago
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Water for Fuel - Strength lies not in Defence but in Attack
There were some news items published on papers and electronic media saying that a Sri Lankan inventor has developed a technology which can be used to run internal combustion engines with water as the fuel. There are some photos in the papers where he is explaining his invention to the prime minister...
1 month ago
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My favorite links from the 4th Week of July 2008 - YESChandana -Blog
ASP.NET
Moving ASP.NET master.page to SharePoint
What is more important – Design or Content
Image Post Processing Caching
New ASP.NET security videos
Free Training for Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2
Introducing Multithreaded Programming to JavaScript
To...
1 month ago
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My sanity and other animals - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Muse
This system is turning from a blog to a LiveJournal, and for that I apologise.
To be honest I am trying to keep track of what is happening to me, in the best and only way that I can. There are others, but this at least gives me feedback. And feedback, I need.
Is it just me, or is my writing ...
1 month ago
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හෙළ හෙළිය - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
ටොල්කීන් සූරීන් ලියූ The Lord of the Rings කතා පෙළේ එන ගෝලම් වසර පන් සියයක් අඳුරු ගුහාවක සැඟවී සිටීම නිසා, ඔහුට තම නම පවා අමතක ව...
1 month ago
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I still haven't found, what I'm looking for - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Muse
I'm not even sure what it is I am looking for. But I think I know what it isn't.
Or at least, I tell my self I do. Which is as good isn't it?
My typing is slow these days. Since I got in the accident, my head hasn't been the same.
Yes, unless you missed the updates to my blog, I got into an...
1 month ago
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Passenger - Holy Grail for Ruby Deployment - LakTEK
Popular notion about developing web apps with Ruby on Rails (or other Ruby frameworks) was “You can write a web app in 15 minutes, but it will take 15 days to deploy it correctly”. Especially if you are coming from the world of PHP, where you have to just write the app and upload it, [.....
1 month ago
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Back to Firefox 2 - Sandarenu's Blog
It's being nearly a month or so I've started using Firefox 3 browser. Yes it has lot of cool new features such as new address bar. But I'm having a big problem with new FF3. It is giving me "Network Timeout Error" all the time. I have to do multiple refreshes to view the page, and if ...
1 month ago
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ලහි ලහියේ - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
මේ දිනවල පුවත් මඟින් නිතර ඇසෙන මැයකි "අධිවේගී මාර්ගය". ඉංගිරිසි "Express way" ඇසුරෙන් තනා ඇති ඒ වදන දිග වැඩි වගේම ටිකක් බර ව...
1 month ago
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රංජිත් ජයසූරිය - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
බොහෝ ශ්රී ලාංකික තානාපතිවරුන් මෙන් නොව, අයිස්ලන්තයේ සිටින අප තානාපති රංජිත් ජයසූරිය මැතිඳුන් එ රට ජනපති හමුවීම...
1 month ago
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බැසීමයි වැටීමයි - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
මේ රැපියල් තෙන්නකෝන් සූරීන් ගැන මා ඇසූ කතාවකි.
වරක් රැපියල් තෙන්නකෝන් "අනුරපුරයේ බැසීමයි, වැටීමයි" යන මැයෙන් කල දෙ...
1 month ago
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Passion - LakTEK
Most of us do work hard in our lives, but how many of us achieve the goals we strive for? Complains such as “I never missed a class and never missed homework but I couldn’t get through the exam” or “Though I work 12 hours a day I’m not getting a promotion in my job̶...
1 month ago
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Keep In Touch With Us - lkGeeks.org - Dasun's Blog
Hey all guys in Srilanka,One of our friends, [ Nazly ] has started a most awaited web portal for the Srilankan geek community.You can Check it in http://lkgeeks.org/. It tracks lot of blogs and our twitter posts in real time. So it'll be a great help us in get in contact with each other.Check the S...
1 month ago
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XQuery plugin - Journey continues… - Lucky Tec
Last few weeks had been good for the new plugin. Nothing too fnacy yet, but now I think it has a firm basic structure and other necessary classes to name it as an “Eclispe SSE based editor”.
Regarding how it’s processing is done (since that’s what really matters), we have tho...
2 months ago
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Few problems bothering me. - Prove that real but not virtual
Hmm.. I’m in a blogger block & a super busy period of life. So I thought I better do a blogpost on some random idiot stuff.
How does it look in a ladies wash room?
This has been bothering me every time when I have to open the door with a mans logo.
Would I ever learn to [...]
2 months ago
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Updated: A Simple Diagram on Distributed VCS (Hint: Git) - Gaveen's Blog
This post is an update of a post I made on 29 May. So if you like you can skip the whole post and just download the diagram (PDF/PNG). PDF version looks better.This is a simple diagram to illustrate the use and the difference of a Distributed Version/Revision Controlling System (DVCS) opposed to a t...
2 months ago
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lkgeeks.org - Only for Geeks - Charith.NET
My pal Nazly, the open source sage has twisted two local geek portals.http://www.vplanetworks.com/http://www.lkgeeks.org/lkgeeks.org was originally classified only for FOSS guy, but my good old pal has let me in. Thanks!nazly: lkgeeks.org will not only be limited to FOSS blogs since few of my .NET f...
2 months ago
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සුභ පැතුම් Bud!!! - Sinhalen FOSS
2008/06/20 දින අතිනත ගත්, Bud සහ කාංචනා යුවලට සිංහලෙන්FOSS වෙතින් උණුසුම් සුභ පැතුම්!!!
2 months ago
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Perl embedding example - Engwar
Since there was no progress from my last experiment, writing a rudimentary program without any WSF/C code seemed like a logical next step. For those of you who don’t know what I tried to do, here’s a brief explanation. I want to let other people provide Web services in Perl. My object...
2 months ago
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Facebook chat on Pidgin - Techmania
My friend Gunith mentioned that there was a plugin to integrate Facebook chat into the Pidgin instance messenger - and obviously, I tried it the very next day, and am glad to mention that it rocks
Pidgin is an all-in-one instance messenger client, formally known as GAIM. Facebook-chat is one of the...
2 months ago
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Gmail Provides Remote Sign Out and Tracking of Account Activities - Sandarenu's Blog
If you are using Gmail this may the security feature that you were looking for ages... Now Google let you monitor your account activities and Sign out remotely. This is very good news for people like me because I access gmail from multiple computers, including from the computers at university labs.&...
2 months ago
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I aten't dead yet - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Rant
No! I'm not
Not even close to it.
A big Thank you to all my friends who got me to hospital. Their fast action was appreciated.
On the other hand I would like to tell people a small message - DO NOT GO TO KALUBOWILA!!!!
Yes they've had multiple bomb casualties there. Yes, they've experience...
2 months ago
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Cheat Sheets for Web Developers - Nazly's BLOG
I found this excellent list of cheat sheets for Web Developers. It even includes a cheat sheet for SEO. It will be really valuable for Web Developers to keep these cheat sheets in hand.
Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quic...
2 months ago
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qGIS on Ubuntu Hardy - Techmania
I’m a big fan of qGIS, my favorite GIS desktop client. I recently upgraded to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS, a.k.a Hardy Heron, and was amazed to find that qGIS was no longer part of the standard Ubuntu repositories, which is absolutely dissapointing - anyways, here is a workaround to getting qGIS ins...
2 months ago
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Geeky Events After a Geeky Wedding - Kunchana's way to OPEN
Another Free and Open Source couple, Bud and Kanchana got married last week. The wedding took place in Mount Lavinia Hotel on 20th july. Suprisingly lots of rare geeks joined the wedding. We had a nice time there. But Suchetha and I were in a hurry to jump out from the wedding coz we had a GNU/linux...
2 months ago
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lkgeeks.org - A blog aggregator for Sri Lankan FOSS/geek Blogs - Nazly's BLOG
Early this month I put up lkgeeks.org a Blog Aggregator for Sri Lankan FOSS/geek Blogs. This site is not intended to compete with other Sri Lankan Blog Aggregators but its goal is to let everyone read Blog posts only from the Blogs of FOSS/geek Bloggers. I'm a fan of Kottu, but it consists of...
2 months ago
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සිංහලබ්ලොග්.ලංකා - ඩනිෂ්කගේ දිනපොත
ඔව්, ශ්රි ලාංකික ඔබට නුදුරු දිනකදි ඔබට ඉහත ආකාරයේ URL එකක් ලබා ගත හැකිවනු ඇත.දැනට භාවිතා වන .lk වෙනුවට අන්තර්ජාතිකව ප...
2 months ago
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I faw' down n' go boom - Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings
Yeah. I did. Really
Last Saaturday, La, Chabdrika and I watched Prince Caspian, and then went off to MC to watch The Incredible Hulk. Maybe I shouldn't have had multiple beers on an empty stomach, but I felt sober enough.
The next thing I remember was waking up in Kalubowila hospital with my body ...
2 months ago
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ගණ - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
අලුත උපන් දරුවන්ට නම් තැබීමේදී, ගණය ද සලකන බව පෙනේ. ඔබේ නමේ ගණය කුමක්දැයි දන්නවා ද?
කෙටි අකුරු ලුහු නමි. “අනුරාධ” යන...
2 months ago
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Lions roar in Asia Cup finals! - CodeKadiya writes...
It was Sunday evening and I was able to watch the match peacefully at home without having to go anywhere. It's been a long since I watched a match in full. I used to watch cricket ball-by-ball no matter it was a one day or a test match when I was young.As Sri Lankan team started to bat first, I was ...
2 months ago
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All-in-One Media Converter - Sandarenu's Blog
FormatFactory is a free application that can convert video, audio and images in to different file formats. It also supports batch file conversion as well. As reported by DownloadSquad is seems to be really good application.
2 months ago
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The long lost post - Dilantha.info
Its been a while. Looks like I'm not going to get around to writing the long post about how I moved out of Sri Lanka and how the grass is greener in Australia and stuff.
Well I moved the grass is about the same, just colder since its winter down here. Almost everyone I talked to [...]SHARETHIS.addEn...
2 months ago
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Color scheme generator - pgdesigning | Priyantha's BLOG
Generator of color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages.
Generate your scheme Now!!!
2 months ago
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ගලේ කොටුව බැන්දයි තිරිකුණාමලේ - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
මේ පසිඳු ජන කවියක අග දෙ පදය යි:
බලේ බලේ රාසිං දෙවියන්ගෙ බලේ
ගලේ කොටුව බැන්දයි තිරිකුණාමලේ
මෙහි එන බල...
2 months ago
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මෙහෙයවයි - අනුරාධ ගේ දිනපොත
“Operate” යනු නිතර ම ඇසෙන වදනකි. “Operating system”, “interoperate” ඈ ඉන් නැඟෙන තවත් වදන් බොහොමයෙකි. ඊට ඉන් සිංහළ වදනක් ලෙස “මෙහෙයවයි” යන්...
2 months ago
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Perl embedding woes - Engwar
While developing server side components that enables providing Web services using Perl bumped into a brick wall. First the requirement is when a client request comes, need to extract the payload and pass it to WSF/C which acts as the underlying Web services engine. So WSF/C knows how to process th...
2 months ago
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day-out - 03-07-2008 - Yajith's Blog
Quite an eventful day today.Woke up to the sound of my mother answering a phone call from from back home, saying my home at Walasgala ( a little village in Matara District ) has been robbed last night.For some reason the 1st thing that came to my mind was about the old books & magazines i have inher...
2 months ago
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My Blog in Sinhala - Anuradha Online
I started to blog in Sinhala. "Sinhala" is my first language. I thought it would be nice if I keep a separate blog for Sinhala postings. And there in that blog, I will talk about the life, imotions, etc. Less or no technical stuff. And I will write this blog as usual, in English.My Sinhala Blog is :...
2 months ago
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Firefox 3 - O Yeah! We did it! - CodeKadiya writes...
I was thoroughly happy to see this notification I had received in Facebook today in the morning when I came to work. Also I kept on checking the spreadfirefox.com website since 17th June, the day I downloaded Firefox 3 to contribute to the record. The news is what we were all waiting for - Firefox 3...
2 months ago
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laktek: New blog post exactly after one month - http://tinyurl.com/64sx9v
1 hour ago
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lahiru: @Nevindaree yeah it's a nice movie. :)
18 hours ago
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lokuhetty: Enough is Enough. I hate this Assignments
19 hours ago
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lokuhetty: Doing a Mechanical Assignment , I really Hate these non compulsory subjects. In facts all the Subjects. :_)
20 hours ago
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chanux: does Dialog Wi-Max block Torrents?
21 hours ago
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gaveen: Hey, today's the 100th birth anniversary of the Don. http://tinyurl.com/lmon7
23 hours ago
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laktek: todo gem is now in rubyforge.. 'sudo gem install todo' should work
23 hours ago
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gaveen: 8 GB IronKey is $299! Well, I'm using a regular flash drive with TrueCrypt when I carry around my World Domination Plan Docs. Works for me.
23 hours ago
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dumindaxsb: Just installed Ubiquity by Mozilla Labs on Firefox, a language based command-line, its far awesome. Im loving it. http://tinyurl.com/5lf7n7
1 day ago
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lahiru: Watched 'Made of Honor'. good.
1 day ago
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lahiru: @gaveen yep. :D
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gaveen: @dimuthu : Is there any possibility of you just eating the whole place? :P
1 day ago
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gaveen: @lahiru : Kapila Kumara Kalinga is your Uncle? Really?
1 day ago
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dumindaxsb: LTTE aircraft dropped bomb near Trinco Navy Gate few times ago and looks the aircraft/s safe landed again. Thats a shame.
2 days ago
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lahiru: Watching a nice TV program on Rupavahini.
2 days ago
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lahiru: Met Uncle Kapila after 6 yrs. had a nice chat. :) ( Kapila Kumara Kalinga ) ;)
2 days ago
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geekaholic: Installed pidgin-musictracker to show what I'm playing as the status msg..
2 days ago
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geekaholic: Downloading old podcasts I missed starting with LAS
2 days ago
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lokuhetty: Want to chat with Some one., Very sleepy
2 days ago
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lokuhetty: Yo K
2 days ago
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chanux: @susanrat Not only Americans third worlds Sri Lanka also have money to waste on elections
2 days ago
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chanux: Lost Firefox3 for the 3rd time pressing ctrl+s. Hate this!
2 days ago
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gaveen: @laktek : If you are tying to install todo from source (rake task), it requires hoe and newgem. Maybe something for the README. :)
2 days ago
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gaveen: @IndianGuru : An Advanced Ruby Course? Very nice. I'll keep an eye on when to enroll :)
2 days ago
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laktek: Uploaded the todo gem to github - http://github.com/laktek/todo
2 days ago
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laktek: yay! created my first ruby gem...hoping to upload this to rubyforge and github.
2 days ago
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gaveen: Did a New Blog Post: Howto Setup a Subversion (svn) Repository for a Rails Project at http://tinyurl.com/6ay8c9
2 days ago
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laknath: If any one missed great records of this Olympics watch them now(includes 100m,200m) http://tinyurl.com/62qkrt
2 days ago
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dumindaxsb: Had a lot of time on my workstation, but tomorrow onwards, Im gonna miss my keyboard regularly. Hmm...,thats kinda sad. Good Night Sri Lanka
2 days ago
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gaveen: @laktek : That's good
3 days ago
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laktek: Almost done coding my command-line todo list manager..thinking of releasing it on github
3 days ago
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gaveen: Trying to grok Ruby's Proc/->/lambda stuff. Metaprograming will have to wait.
3 days ago
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chanux: Registered Software Freedom Day event for lug.lk - http://ping.fm/kh8dM
3 days ago
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SeeJay: Got my new identi.ca account :D "http://identi.ca/seejay"
3 days ago
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yajith: @chanux :)
3 days ago
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chanux: @yajith +1 for new facebook image.
3 days ago
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laktek: need some inspiration to pump myself..
3 days ago
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gaveen: Feeling numb after trying silly surfing and reading blogs. I should drop it and get back to what I do best... $ ssh root@7.... $ ruby ./serv
3 days ago
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laknath: damn, Mini world cup has been postponed to next year. http://tinyurl.com/6mpfgq
3 days ago
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lokuhetty: Great , Just finished Todays work , I think!
3 days ago
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dumindaxsb: Lot of things going around about cheerleaders, what a dumb nation we're.
3 days ago
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dumindaxsb: Think I found a smart tool, its dead simple and do the work. Tested with Firefox, Digsby, bla blab bla, so far http://minimem.kerkia.net/
3 days ago
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laktek: When the norm is to decide the Olympic winner by most golds..NYTimes tries to put US on top http://2008games.nytimes.com/olympics/medals.asp
3 days ago
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gaveen: I still don't know why I still read Slashdot comments sometimes!
3 days ago
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gunith: is dissapointed at the SL team's performance... Specially when he was screaming his head off in cheering them
4 days ago
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