Archive for May, 2006
creativecommons.lk
The website www.creativecommons.lk has been launched with the presence of Prof. Lawrence Lessig in the intention of promoting Creative Commons licensing amongst creative Sri Lankans.
Sri Lanka has an advanced Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime based on the Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003. An element of IPR (i.e. Copyright protection) has traditionally been [...]
community of hackers
It was awesome two days of absorbing FOSS at the 'foss-ed for hackers' Conference as I enjoyed each an every bit of it and learnt loads of stuff in the FOSS arena as it was highly technical this time. Highlight of the whole event was Prof.Lessig's keynote address. You could listen to him the all [...]
A great escape
Sri Lankans pulled off a great escape to draw the first Test against England and Sri Lanka at Lords after they were made to follow on in their second innings. The butter hands of England allowed the Lankans to make sure that they have pulled off one of the greatest escape in Test Cricket as [...]
FOSS-ed for hackers
A great event is lined up for next week. Its FOSS-ed again and this time its 'FOSS-ed for hackers' as the topics dig deep into the technical side of it as expected. Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University and the founder of Creative Commons will be the Keynote speaker. I really got [...]
Series of holidays
I wonder whether we only have a series of holidays here in Sri Lanka? There might be some or the other reason but the best part is that these holidays fit in either on Monday or Friday creating long weekends. Its really tough to regain the energy back to start working. One way its refreshing [...]
Drag & Drop on webpages
Anyone who has the necessity to drag & drop images or layers should look into the DHTML API, Drag & Drop for Images and Layers. Its a really cool API as I played around it quite a bit. Most importantly this library is a free software and released under LGPL.
The thing I like the most [...]
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Today I dragged my collegue Rehan AKA IceBerg to New Malar Cafe in Town Hall for lunch. Seriously no one has to teach Rehan to eat. But I felt that he was curious why I took him there for Lunch. Saturday is normally a day off for us but we dropped by at office to [...]
How is my driving?
I normally snoop in through those small gaps in heavy traffic while riding on my bike. Today evening I managed to get through a car on my left and a van on my right. This car was right next to me and the van was bit behind waiting for the green light to flash. As [...]
