Archive for October, 2005
Another crushing defeat
The Test match that was supposed to be played for six days ended in the morning of the fourth day as the Aussies comprehensively beat a high-class World XI team lead by Graeme Smith. Though the World XI bowling department powered with Steve Harmison, Andrew Flintoff, Muttiah Muralitharan, Danniel Vettori did fairly a good job, [...]
First 30Km
I bought a new bike to ease my travelling. I have really got sick of travelling by bus and have been eagerly waiting to get my hands on a bike. Finally I picked Bajaj Discover, one of the coolest bikes to hit the streets of Colombo. I had a 30Km ride first up to bring [...]
Englishmen take more pride
Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis were awarded the joint Players of the Year at the ICC Awards which was held in Sydney, Australia. Jaques Kallis won the Test Player of the Year Award while Kevin Pieterson's explosive year earned him the ODI Player of the Year Award. Kevin was also awarded the Emerging Player of [...]
Robot Race
Robots hit the races and a technological milestone has been achieved when robotic vehicles raced across the Mojave desert. These vehicles without a single human command conquered steep drop-offs, obstacles and tunnels through a 132-mile course.
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Aussies crash World XI
The Aussies proved that they are the top one-day unit when they beat the World XI in a 3-0 whitewash in the One-day games of the ICC Super Series. The World XI was captained by Shaun Pollock and was packed with big names. Chris Gayle, Virendar Sehwag, Kumar Sangakkara, Jaques Kallis, Brian Lara, Andrew Flintoff, [...]
FOSSSL 05 photos
Here are the photos from the FOSSSL 05 Conference and Tutorial sessions. Sorry for the delay guys.
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Syntax highlighter
GeSHi the Generic Syntax Highlighter is a cool piece of code that can highlight the syntax of most of the well known programming languages. Source Code higlighting is a much needed feature in websites that has forums and tutorials. Since I only want to highlight PHP code in my blog I use the built-in functions [...]
