Hi...

Well, it's more than 6 months after my last post. Few things kept me away from blogging;
MBA - which is almost finished now
Office work - few interesting projects occupied me
Laziness - Oh.. never ending

Hmmm.. from where should I begin...

I'll start from the personal things...
My kid... now he's one year old... can walk without being assisted. But somebody has to follow him all the time b'cos he wants to explore everything, everywhere. :-)



I changed my car... Toyota Carina Si MyRoad



A more spacious, comfortable ride than before. But not so good for the pocket...

Michael Dell uses Ubuntu

Look at Michael Dell's biography here
He uses Ubuntu 7.04 in his home laptop. Must be a beta version since the final version is due this week. (I'm waiting for it to install in my acer notebook)

Cricket Humor

I saw the following video sometime back at IESL in the time of our MBA get-together. I found it very hilarious and what a guy Vickram is...

Mihiri has an equally good one here

Acer Aspire

My Notebook arrived yesterday. It's Acer Apire 5630 series Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz (T5500 processor) , 15.4" Wide Screen, 1GB RAM, 160 GB HD, WiFi, 1.3 MP WebCam, 5-in-1 card reader etc. Not that flashy with compared to the notebook I dreamed from Apple (macbook). My poor cash flow prevented me from going for it. This one was $1025 (roughly SLR 115,000) and bought from Amazon. Still couldn't play around with it that much and haven't tested WiFi, LAN and Modem yet. There's a bluetooth button but specs don't say anything about it.

Today I saw the same one with 2GB RAM and nVidia GO 7000 for a lesser price ($999) in amazon. Sigh...

Mevinu's pics update

"Am I good for a desktop background?"

"Hey, I can roll now..."

"Hi grand ma, Hi grand pa"

Tech-GSM, two thumbs up...!

I am learning E-commerce as a subject in my MBA and our lecturer most of the times mentions how electronic commerce can be applied in Sri Lankan situation. Here is a good example. I found Tech-GSM web site, a promising company entered into the electronic commerce arena, selling memory related items, and doing it successfully in the local context. They don't have many products listed in their site, most of them are pendrives, SD cards, DIMMS etc. When you want to buy, an E-mail is generated and they'll contact you via your contact details via E-mail or phone. When the order is confirmed, they'll deliver it within Colombo city limits free of charge and you can pay for it at the time of delivery.
I bought a Kingston Data traveler II 2GB pendrive for Rs 3850/- which I found very competitive pricing even when compared with the price given in Amazon.com (only Rs.150 difference). I chose DT II merely because of the data R/W speed which is mentioned as 7 MB/s write and 11 MB/s read. The maximum waiting time to write the entire capacity is less than 5 minutes. (cool...)
To my surprise, they delivered it in the same day I confirmed the order. And the product is Original Kingston which I verified via the Kingston website. Two thumbs up for Tech-GSM guys...