Posts filed under 'Notes'
Eben Moglen at Redhat Summit
This month’s Redhat magazine has videos of Eben Moglen, Cory Doctorow and Matthew Szulik talking on various FOSSy topics, including digital freedom, DRM, patent legislation, and the value of transparency and truth.
Theena: Tamil. Not a Terrorist.
I weep because I am a Tamil. Not a terrorist. Like me there are others, Tamils not terrorists, who weep at the state of things in this country.
But I look around and I see the proverbial silver lining and I smile.
The best college essay ever
Hugh Gallagher sent this to colleges.
It’s a wonderful piece of writing, and I was delighted to read the line: I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.
Emphasis mine.
We are honoured, as a nation, to have been his host ;-)
Defence.lk needs a copywriter
The guardians and the fallen deserve better. They should have a proper journalist writing those entries, and someone to proof-read what goes online. A better design wouldn’t hurt, but I know that’s asking too much.
Net Neutrality Axed
US politicians have rejected attempts to enshrine the principle of net neutrality in legislation.
…O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
A Free Designer
Came across this interview of Issara Willenskomer in the RedHat magazine. He discusses the overly protective way designers tend to keep their design tricks secret, and why that’s totally bullshit.
Vesak and Dhamma talks
Today is Vesak, the most holy day for Buddhists. I’m a Theravada Buddhist, the school that still follows the dhamma as taught by the Gautama Buddha, twenty five centuries ago. The Sinhala people of this country preserved true Buddhism through a troubled history of wars, famine, pillaging invaders and a dark era of western colonization. Their numerous sacrifices made it possible for people like me today to be thankful for being born a Sri Lankan.
Failed State my ass
This is old news, but a discussion on TV today got me thinking. So the Fund for Peace spat out a list of failed states and the Foreign Policy magazine published it. Incidentally, Sri Lanka is the 25th on that list.
One for Apache from Sri Lanka
Apache Axis2 1.0 released, comes the announcement from Dr. Sanjiva, a pioneer in promoting FOSS in Sri Lanka. Through LSF, and their latest venture WSO2, Sanjiva and his clan are leading the web service innovation.
CSS Reboot Guest Reviewer
Kev has called in Mr. Johnny Nice-Painter for a guest review on CSS Reboot, and he has been extremely nice to Nidahas.
Johnny seems to be especially puzzled by the invasion of black backgrounds, and Rebooter Premium.
In other news, I’m enjoying the attention of some really talented designers, who have done a stellar job with their own sites for the reboot.
Update: Kineda Magazine loves us too, and so does the man behind the whole thing.
