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Join me in MJ ass kissers club. - Prove that real but not virtual
OK, There’s one now. wait.. wait… it was not me. That sage girl defined the club. First of all let’s see who are already in.
The Way you make me feel | How I see it
Michael Jackson and Me | Landon Lanka and Drums
A Legend | A heart on a sleeve
The way you make me fee...
7 days ago
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Make Twitterfox use the URL shortner that You want. - Prove that real but not virtual
I found This nice howto via @meaningful. Looks like the howto is for older version of Twitterfox. Here goes how to do it on Twitterfox 1.8.1 (The version I use right now)
And I recommend you to update to Twitterfox 1.8.1 coz it’s really improved.
First go here:
<path to your Firefox profil...
2 weeks ago
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Fedora 11: First impressions - Geek with an attitude
Fedora 10 (F10) was one of the best fedora release I've come to use. I liked it so much that I made it the default OS on my Mac Mini PPC. So naturally I was looking forward to the release of Fedora 11 (F11). But with a couple of release dates slipping, the wait was somewhat of a torture. This of cou...
3 weeks ago
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[Rails Tips] Reduce Queries in ActiveRecord with :group - LakTEK
I thought of sharing some tips in Ruby on Rails development, which would come in handy especially if you are a newbie. The cornerstone of all of Rails’ magic is ActiveRecord. As you know it’s an ORM, which hides all cumbersome and mundane SQL by a syntactic sugar coating. However, blind...
3 weeks ago
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What I learned from past 12+ hours of compiling tamasha? - Prove that real but not virtual
I was compiling Qt from source. And had loads of issues. This is what I learned after all.
1. Errors are chances to learn.
2. Never copy paste command / code blindly from somewhere on the Internet.
Even if it’s very trustworthy source. Copy paste process might produce errors to ruin your day ...
3 weeks ago
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Lights, Camera, Action! - Geek with an attitude
a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/babytux/3600872414/" title="UCSC.tv launch by Bud's photo blog, on Flickr"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2422/3600872414_d9ca0363d8.jpg" width="500" height="417" alt="UCSC.tv launch" //abr /br /a href="http://www.sinhalenfoss.org"SinhalenFOSS/a, the audi...
4 weeks ago
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Sri Lanka, a new future ? - Lucky Tec
Last week was a very memorable one for all Sri Lankans, in whatever way you look at it. End of a 30 year old conflict is not something you forget that easily IMO. Younger generation today (me included) hadn’t seen a day without a war. Each month (some times every week) there were bomb blasts [...
1 month ago
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A Rare Video of SWRD - Anuradha's Diary
pIn this recent a href="http://unprotectedthoughts.com/2009/03/tamil-struggle-vs-black-struggle-reply.cfm"blog post/a, Sam reminds how S W R D Bandaranaike changed national language in 1956, something most people in the present generation [wrongly] call a "Sinhala-only" policy./p
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1 month ago
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How "Free" Media Create Hatred - Anuradha's Diary
pHere are two reports on the resettlement of displaced people in Sri Lanka: a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8061623.stm"one by the BBC/a, and a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVoaDFmbCYS-Usz9ACDRIengj21QD98ALF1O0"another by the Associated Press/a./p
pThe BBC re...
1 month ago
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Playing with pligg - SeeJay.Net
div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"So I had this idea for a small (i guess) project which uses a digg like voting system. So I installed the pligg cms and tried playing with it for some time and after two days I decided to go with its well known drupal based competitor drigg. Of course pligg is...
1 month ago
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We Salute You! - Anuradha's Diary
pOur country has finally become a truly unified sovereign. Last time it happened was in the 1500s (no, not in 1948)./p
pI salute all our armed forces, those who have sacrificed their lives for the betterment of others in our nation, for making this happen!/p
pOur country is lucky to be blessed with...
1 month ago
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How to become a Superhero - Anuradha's Diary
pThere is Superman. There is Catwoman. There is Spiderman. And a few others./p
pThere was a time I could count the number of superheros with my fingers. Not anymore. They are now everywhere!/p
pAnd you can become one, if you like; simple./p
pJoin an NGO to become an "aid worker". Become a journ...
2 months ago
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At PHP|tek next week - me talking out loud
Can’t wait for next week and tek. I will get to once again see old and “new” good friends, some I haven’t seen in a year and others I have never met. It has been way too long since we got to sit down and talk face to face. I am [...]
2 months ago
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New Google Sidebar - Dilantha.info
Looks like something new. Only thing is once you are in a section how to get back to all results?
2 months ago
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Santa Clara here I come - me talking out loud
yep - going to be in Santa Clara next week for some company training. Excited about it since it will be covering areas I am not strong on. Only sucky part is shoving 7 days of training into 5 days.
2 months ago
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Birthday gift - Geek with an attitude
a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/babytux/3492063236/" title="pcfix_dsc03406 by Bud's photo blog, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3395/3492063236_7705dd0c34.jpg" alt="pcfix_dsc03406" height="375" width="500" //abr /br /Kanchana, my wife had an old P4 machine from back in the day...
2 months ago
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Pulling along ... - Geek with an attitude
pConsidering it's been exactly 1 year since my last post, I pondered a bit on a title for this post. "The comeback", "Still live and kicking" or "I'm back!" sprang to mind. But then I realized I'd be fooling my self and you, if I even remotely meant this blog was going to be regularly updated. Hence...
3 months ago
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One year at the Dolphin - me talking out loud
[Warning: There is a *lot* of gushing in this post, so feel free to skip it]
Can you believe I have managed to survive my first year at MySQL… and I haven’t gone mad yet… well not much anyway The year has gone by so fast I didn’t realize my anniversary came and [...]
3 months ago
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flight for tek09 - me talking out loud
Just wanted to get the word out that I have finally booked my flight for attending tek and will be arriving in Chicago early in the morning on the 18th and leaving in the evening on the 23rd.
If you are going to be there also and have time on your hands… maybe we [...]
3 months ago
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Ruby Best Practices - LakTEK
First of all sorry for letting this space go on a hiatus yet again.. Though I tried to make it a habit of posting regularly, other priorities didn’t allow me to do it as I wish. In last few months I had to run through lot of challenges in real life and in hacking, which [...]
3 months ago
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Happy Birthday SinhalenFOSS! - Prove that real but not virtual
SinhalenFOSS, Sri Lankas very first tech related podcast, the podcast that I proudly feature in, turned one year yesterday(9th April 2009). We didn’t have big plans for the day but it was truly a big milestone for me. I’m sure the story is same for the other two co-hosts Bud (geekaholic)...
3 months ago
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New YouTube Mobile App - Dilantha.info
There is a new YouTube mobile app out for Windows and Symbian phones.
It works on my Nokia E71 now. Check your phone’s support.
Its not as cool as I expected. Mostly just a side scrolling. Oh well better than nothing.
3 months ago
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Static DNS with wvdial. - Prove that real but not virtual
It’s over. The fight against the dynamic DNS is over for me now. It took me so long to figure this simple thing out. But I don’t worry, even the big bro Goog couldn’t come up with a satisfying straight answer for my problem. So I myself searched under the mattress & found the p...
3 months ago
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Florida Linux Show (post-conf) - me talking out loud
I had a good time at the conf and my talk seemed to go over pretty well. I somehow ended up in the largest session room (I admit to feeling a bit overwhelmed). Attendance seemed to be at a decent level, though I think I may have overwhelmed some of them a bit [...]
4 months ago
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From No Limbs to No Limits - Sound of code - Blog
Today, Inbsp;happened to see a a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqantZJ6WwM"Youtube video/a of one of an international inspirational speaker, posted on Facebook. He was 23 years old, an hell yeah the video was totally inspiring. But there was something else... he had no limbs.br /
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4 months ago
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Florida Linux Show Monday - me talking out loud
Just a quick reminder that I will be at the Florida Linux Show this Monday representing PHPWomen and giving a talk on MySQL performance tuning. My talk starts at 09:30 and afterwards I will be at either the PHPWomen’s booth or the Sun Microsystems booth or the Jax PHP User group booth. Feel ...
4 months ago
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Send tinyarro.ws on ubiquity. - Prove that real but not virtual
It’s today I found this new URL shortening service tinyarro.ws. It gives you http://?.ws/blah as the shortened url(yeah.. blah is a random string or you can choose what you like).
I really liked the idea & thought of altering my previously created trim ubiquity command and make a ubiquity ...
4 months ago
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Get mocked! - LakTEK
My first few days doing Maths in Advanced Levels was a nightmare. I usually sucked in Maths in high school and only because of my strong passion for IT made me do Maths (thats the only way in Sri Lanka to gain higher education in IT). I couldn’t grasp a single shit, other than knowing [...]
4 months ago
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How not to miss another reply? - Prove that real but not virtual
Replies are very important in communication. Specially where there isn’t a direct real time connectivity between people who communicate, replies are vital. In modern days comment replies on your blog, Twitter replies & all kinds of replies you get on your online activities are so important...
4 months ago
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How to Unlock the Huawei E220 HSDPA modem - SeeJay.Net
Huawei e220 or Vodafone e220 is the HSDPA modem we usually get from Dialog Telecom or Mobitel GSM (probably from Airtel) when we purchase a mobile broadband connection. But usually it's operator locked, so we can't switch between networks when the current ISP starts treating us like dust, If you've ...
5 months ago
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Dimi I miss you. - Prove that real but not virtual
Yeah I miss Dimi a lot. *Specially* on this *special* day. I want you. But I can’t find you in this internet jungle. But somehow I want you man. Oh shit I said that. That, Dimi is a guy. Which makes you guys think I’m in love with a guy. And that means I’m gay. [...]
5 months ago
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Why I unlocked my HSDPA modem (and why you should too) - SeeJay.Net
As usual it's old news to a href="http://twitter.com/seejay"my twitter/a followers that I've unlocked my Huawei e220 HSDPA modem I bought with the Mobile Broadband connection from Dialog Telecom. It was operator locked and could only be used with Dialog. Well I must say that I loved mobile broadband...
5 months ago
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Are Geeks really multitasking? - Prove that real but not virtual
I’ve read this fine article by rands, about the Attention Deficiency Disorder which nerds normally known to have. And it sounds like “Geeks are multitasking”. But I have another explanation for that. I’ll use the word Geek instead of nerd since it’s better known at the ...
5 months ago
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long time since I did a presentation - me talking out loud
It has been a long time since I did a presentation to a group of people. Yesterday I finally got back in the saddle and gave one on memcached to my local PHP user/WEb group. I thought I did pretty good though I have to admit to being REALLY nervous (red face and [...]
5 months ago
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Gmail?s new button bar - Dilantha.info
Just noticed that Gmail changed their top button bar
Nice and streamlined, could use some spacing between each button. Use simple l to get to labels.
Simple v will get you the move drop down
5 months ago
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iPhone 3G for 800+ USD? - Anuradha's Diary
pIn this a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YW7Lco0og"WWDC 2008 keynote/a, Steve Jobs said that the iPhone 3G will sell at 199/299 USD in emalmost/em all countries around the world./p
pToday I saw an email passing around which said that a href="http://www.dialog.lk"Dialog/a is selling the iPho...
5 months ago
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diGIT - Sound of code - Blog
I hope you might have already heard about the first ever Sinhala mobile game, "a href="http://www.games.lk/"Colomo Ride/a (Colomba Wate)", developed and released by a href="http://www.gtslk.com/"GTS/a. As a stepping stone fornbsp;another contribution towards Sri Lanka's IT improvement, GTS has launc...
5 months ago
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Should Google Apologize? - Prove that real but not virtual
Hope everyone knows that something went wrong with Google for some time. 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m on 1/31/2009 as Google says. They marked all their search results as harmful sites. Here’s photo proof from dave winer (I didn’t witeness the error. Unfortunately ).
Google made a statem...
5 months ago
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Secure Email - Dilantha.info
I just setup a secure email account for myself. I needed one to exchange some passwords etc with a friend. Here are a few links that will help you setup one.
First you need an email client. My choice was Thunderbird. The rest of the setup depends on this so if you pick another client the [...]
5 months ago
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My best 7 free JS modal boxes - Lucky Tec
I have been working on a new iteration of HOT (follow @hotelotravel for more info) for last few weeks and thought of changing the existing JQuery UI Dialog box for something bit fancy and solid (on other hand I may have just wanted to get a break from usual PHP stuff and to play with [...]
5 months ago
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14 Essential Wordpress Development and Design Cheat Sheets - Digg
Needing a little help with your Wordpress development? Try these useful cheat sheets, they are always helpful for reference.
2 weeks ago
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Firefox.next peek: profiling yourself - Digg
"One of the features planned for the next version of Firefox (tentatively named Firefox 3.6, but most accurately referred as Firefox.next) is about:me, a specially crafted web page that will let you see your browsing habits profile including most visited sites, time of the day and days you navigate ...
2 weeks ago
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HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? - Digg
HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.
2 weeks ago
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Are Women Born Like This? - Digg
Blah blah blah blah blah.
3 weeks ago
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25 Free Wordpress Themes With Handy Customization Options - Digg
This collection can help you find the perfect theme by offering a list of great wordpress themes that offer some great theme options allowing customization from the admin dashboard. To see the real beauty of these wordpress themes must see Admin Options screen shots.
3 weeks ago
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Extremely Useful PHP Tools
Just came across the a href=http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/20/50-extremely-useful-php-tools/ target=_blank50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools/a posted at a href=http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ target=_blankSmashing Magazine/a which immediately caught my attention. It lists all the great tools ar...
5 months ago
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Welcome 2009
iquot;Before the sun sets in this year, before the memories fade, before the networks get jammed, I didn#039;t wish, because my wishes come with the new sun and new day.I Wish u and ur family Happy Sparkling New Year 2009quot;/i
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br /The New Year has dawn and had a tough time going through all t...
6 months ago
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CHMOD recursively
Time to time I come across this problem when I have to move large portions of directories and files from one location to another. Mostly after extracting from tar archives. The directory/file permissions are often messed up depending on the source I copied them or based on the way I copied/archived ...
9 months ago
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Ubiquity - Connecting the Web with language
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10 months ago
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Getting LAMP to work in Ubuntu Hardy
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11 months ago
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Cheat Sheets for Web Developers
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.
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12 months ago
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lkgeeks.org - A blog aggregator for Sri Lankan FOSS/geek Blogs
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br /Early this month I put up a href=http://www.lkgeeks.org target=_blanklkgeeks.org/a a Blog Aggregator for Sri Lankan FOSS/geek Blogs. This site is not intended to compete with other Sri Lankan ...
12 months ago
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My new ASUS X51R laptop and Ubuntu 8.04
After giving up my IBM Thinkpad laptop sometime back, I got used to working on Desktops for a while. But it didn#039;t help me a great deal in organizing things when shifting my work from home to office and vice versa. So again I started hunting for a laptop that will fulfill all my needs. Finally I...
1 years ago
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Firefox3 downloads hit 8 million mark
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1 years ago
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KPs modified reverse sweep
England are on a roll after winning the Test Series against New Zealand. After that they have won the Twenty20 match as well the first One Day match as well. Keven Pietersen#039;s solid batting performances have been a major factor to England#039;s success. KP#039;s century in the first ODI was a hi...
1 years ago
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Make history with Firefox3
iAre you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now./i
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1 years ago
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Here comes Firefox 3
a href=http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord img border=0 alt=Download Day 2008 title=Download Day 2008 src=http://www.spreadfirefox.com/sites/all/themes/spreadfirefox_RCS/images/download-day/buttons/en-US/180x150_02.png //a
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1 years ago
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do yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid?
When I open my mailbox 50% of them are forwarded emails. My junks are filtered with 99.9% accuracy so I don#039;t worry about them. Most of forwarders I ignore and don#039;t fall into the trap of being asked to forward it to more and more people. There are times I read them for the fun of it, some ...
1 years ago
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Firefox 3 Download Day 2008
a href=http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord img border=0 alt=Download Day 2008 title=Download Day 2008 src=http://www.spreadfirefox.com/sites/all/themes/spreadfirefox_RCS/images/download-day/buttons/en-US/468x60_dday.png //a
br /iHelp set a Firefox 3 world record for the most software down...
1 years ago
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Cheaper than pumping fuel
I got this from a friend of mine via email. It will be the case for most of us in the near future considering the recent fuel hikes here in Sri Lanka.
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1 years ago
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@yajith yeah.. I was there with my colleagues between 18:30-20:00
34 minutes ago
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Expected a stiff back early in the morning after the Futsal game last night.. But I'm up early feeling fresh.. Never been better..
2 hours ago
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Back at home after a Futsal game at Excel World. It was so intense and tiring yet had loads on fun. Should continue. Headache. Off to sleep.
11 hours ago
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I haven't heard your talk.. Will download this episode and listen this time.. RT @kalinga techkatha EP23 is out http://bit.ly/Gt8mA
18 hours ago
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@dinidu country lacking good heads may be? I know how hard it is to find good headphones.. Max lifetime is 6 months..
22 hours ago
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@jasonatennui Cool.. Very informative post on JSON. I'm really glad to be part of it with my Flickr photostream.. Nice work..
23 hours ago
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RT @jasonatennui New post on JSON: What it is, how it works, and how to use it! http://bit.ly/W0g0b #ajax #jquery #json
23 hours ago
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Deprecated features in PHP 5.3.x http://bit.ly/195kuQ #php
23 hours ago
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@seeniDADDY yeah that dent is deep enough to create a heartache this time..
1 day ago
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@harshendras I think I should ask you that question. Heard that u r not well.. U missed a treat ;-)
2 days ago
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@seeniDADDY BTW u forgot the laddu..
2 days ago
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Changing test format will damage game, says Miandad http://bit.ly/jpjDg I agree 100% #cricket
2 days ago
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@kalinga if there were no invistigations they would have.. I assume..
2 days ago
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RT @hashir Micheal Jackson to be burried as a muslim - http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00025411.html
2 days ago
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Arghh.. Just another kiss behind a bus.. More damage than previous occasions.. This time need to put a claim..
2 days ago
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@jasonatennui You can use mine too http://www.flickr.com/photos/nazly/ though I didn't update any photos in the recent times..
2 days ago
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Fuel prices up from midnight today - source : adaderana.lk
3 days ago
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Pure CSS Image Rollover | The Montoya Herald
5 days ago
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GetDeb - Software for Ubuntu Linux
4 weeks ago
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AjaxDaddy - Ajax Examples in Action
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Install New Fonts in Ubuntu Linux
1 month ago
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bassistance.de » jQuery plugin: Validation
1 month ago
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ColorToy 2.0 - The Flash Color Scheme Generator
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Script / Leet Translator
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