Plautus has shell access. Video. This is deep geek, probably incomprehensible. indi.ca crashed for a day, but the only way to learn about computers is breaking them. This is a guide to moving a modern website from one server to another using command line. This is something I’ve done repeatedly...

Wrote a piece for today’s Sunday Leader called Cowards of Colombo. It’s about the choking apathy of this city, and how we need to wake up. Actually, apathy I don’t even mind, it’s about this city which complains yet does not act. I think we need to put our money and our time ...

Image from Collected Works of Geoffrey Bawa, one coffee table book fully worth buying Sri Lanka’s government is way too big to ever get smaller. The worst example is the Jumbo Cabinet, which will be politically impossible to shrink. The only solution is to make the Cabinet bigger. Make every m...

I was like WTF Pakistan? Link ended up buried on the BBC RD tells me. Then a Pakistani blogger contacted me, addressing me as Dear and Respected. I suspect she does that to all the boys. These bloggers seem quite cool, and they’re starting to organize at Pak Spectator. Some of the writing is a...

Oh, man, I don’t have any money but I’ve been looking at this watch for a long time. The Sony Ericsson MBW-150 (executive) is a flash looking watch which has Bluetooth built in. So you can accept and reject calls through the watch itself. If they just made a Bluetooth headset that double...

Buddhi From Wagon Park, Representing Moratuwa from Indrajit Samarajiva on Vimeo. This one wasn’t magic, till the very end. The thing about open mics is that they can be boring, but then you get stuff that really surprises you. This time, at the very end of the night - when many people had left...

So, Open Mic is on at Punchi Theatre (Borella, near junc) tonight. It’s hard to miss, it literally looks like it was built by termites, near the Lido Cinema. I was stressing the fuck out but things kinda settled. We can hang out in the rehearsal room upstairs. Jan will make some gal arrack tea...

With only 4 days left until the premiere of Pam Walton's documentary on the Raging Grannies of the San Francisco Bay Area, the reviews are coming in....strong! Top photo: Pam Walton and two Grannies get ready for another interview....

Guess I was in Maharagama for a friend’s birthday. I’m not a photographer per se, I just look at stuff funny. In particular, I’m obsessed with low-light, and liquids, and shadows. The only reason I buy cameras is for low-light performance. If you’re looking for one I’d ...

So, we can have another Open Mic this Thursday (the 5th) at the Punchi Theatre rehearsal room. Has to be 8:30 because there’s a Latin dancing class before. If you’re familiar with the Punchi (Borella), the room we’re in is directly up the stairs to your left. Note that this is not ...