May 31, 2007
The airport shutdown.
Sri Lanka is the only country in the world where the airport closes for business at night. It's shutdown during 21:00 to 05:00. That is to say no flights take off or land during this period but obviously the lobbies,...
Posted by raditha at 7:10 AM
May 29, 2007
The first floor.
My house building project is pretty much like crawling through the traffic in Colombo. In the city you get stuck at the intersections for long periods of time, but the moment you pass it, you can race along merrily,...
Posted by raditha at 1:39 AM
May 27, 2007
Photo Printer.
I went out and bought a Cannon Pixma ip1700 photo printer. There are better printers about and I don't normally buy canon because most of their equipment is not linux compatible. This one isn't fully compatible either but it's compatible...
Posted by raditha at 4:51 AM
May 23, 2007
What's happening to the Telecoms?
A couple of weeks ago there was intense speculation that Dialog was out to buy Suntel the CDMA operator. No surprises there Dialog has been struggling to get their CDMA service off the ground. But they came out with press...
Posted by raditha at 3:42 AM
May 19, 2007
The Hobbit.
Of course it's a children's book but the moment I got my hands on it, I stopped everything and I do mean *everything* else and started reading. Since the style of writing is much much more simpler than the Silmarrilion...
Posted by raditha at 11:37 AM
May 15, 2007
Sports Boycotts.
About 20 years ago for a sportsman to visit South Africa would mean the end of his career. Now it seems like Zimbabwe's turn. The Australian government has just forbidden their cricket team to tour Zimbabwe. How long before governments...
Posted by raditha at 2:30 PM
May 14, 2007
There goes Moody.
During the cricket world cup there was speculation that Tom Moody might quit. Sri Lanka cricket played it down and Tom Moody himself didn't go out on a limb. That is he didn't say for certain whether he would stay...
Posted by raditha at 10:14 AM
May 13, 2007
Concreting.
Finally on the 8th we poured the concrete to make the ground slow slab of the house that we are building. It was almost a farce and things very nearly descended to a circus act, but as they say...
Posted by raditha at 3:27 AM
May 7, 2007
Flood waters.
Flood waters in and around Colombo have just receded but life in Colombo was severly disrupted (yet again) for a week. Seven lives in fact were ended. One of the deaths were caused by the Colombo Municipal council. A girl...
Posted by raditha at 2:02 AM
May 3, 2007
Air Raids.
For more than thirty years the Sri Lankan air force has been bombing targets in populated areas of the north and east. Many people in the south think of it as a neccasary evil. Sinhala hardliners usually say 'Serves them...
Posted by raditha at 1:42 AM
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