tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76436482024-03-14T17:00:14.250+05:30PRan's BlogPRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-44523641170751902102013-04-17T08:21:00.000+05:302013-04-17T22:28:35.208+05:30New Year, Alcohol & Driving<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems this season is an appropriate time to talk about alcohol related harm as alcohol related problems increase sharply during the Sinhala - Hindu New Year period.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year alone <a href="http://www.colombopage.com/archive_13A/Apr16_1366087888CH.php">Sri Lanka police nabbed 189 drunk drivers during New Year</a> period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also it is known that <a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/2002/07/09/new23.html">one dies every 4.5 hours in road accidents</a> according to a survey carried out in Sri Lanka and 11% are due to drunken driving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drunk drivers are a worldwide problem. In US alone almost 30 people die in alcohol related motor traffic accident, which is, one death every 48 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is worthy to note that,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The consumption of alcohol, even in relatively small amounts, increases the risk of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">being involved in a crash for motorists and pedestrians. Not only does alcohol impair </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">processes critical to safe road use, such as vision and reaction time, it is also associated </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with impaired judgement and so is often linked to other high-risk road use behaviours such as speeding or not using seat-belts.</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.who.int/roadsafety/projects/manuals/alcohol/drinking_driving.pdf">[4]</a></sup></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are adequate legal measures to curb the drink driving problems. A suspected driver can be subjected to a <a href="http://www.sljol.info/index.php/CMJ/article/download/226/234">clinical examination</a> by a government medical officer. Still these are enforced only when <a href="http://www.colombopage.com/archive_12A/Sep10_1347281737CH.php">major</a> <a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/09/11/sec01.asp">disasters</a> <a href="http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/09/30/imp01.asp">occur</a> due to drink driving.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Sri Lanka legal limit for Drink Driving is 80mg/100ml <sup><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:DRl9S7MJEkQJ:www.sljol.info/index.php/CMJ/article/download/226/234+&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj5aB7voSJe2Krda8GV7HG1-nCFmd71BZpnEL9AdR7wE7GErV07oujFsxA-zo2hSti306Vn7IJ_nRg9isDUEq9QwJ8muh4H7meRank1ChW0WNi0lnhgxZaSgD8jOA5Cy0qGbR09&sig=AHIEtbTgzY4K_TSoXU_BuH75K1MsDkCXnw">[5]</a></sup> & selling Alcohol products is prohibited to persons under 21 years of age<sup><a href="http://www.nata.gov.lk/images/stories/english_law_book.pdf">[6]</a></sup>. This limit is still very high compared to the predicted <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/Impaired_Driving/bac.html">effects of Blood Alcohol Concentration on driving</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a lighter note, o<a href="http://sundaytimes.lk/020421/bus.html#1">ld law bars liquor sales to women</a> & there are suggestions to change the policies & laws governing the drinking in <a href="http://www.ips.lk/talkingeconomics/2011/07/alcohol-policy-in-sri-lanka-needs-a-rethink/">Sri</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:FsYnLrHgsF0J:www.sljol.info/index.php/SLJPSYC/article/download/3156/2534+&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShBGRbAt-EyeNcS7AX0rRba0oXRqTy8mPQARkkj132jYBOfxuB8Hc8UfQzFMHUV4gMJlqaL11F8R04KOcpQj6KB3ViJobOvTzV3CrueA-trZZLXSEq3xr0-9yfbCel3JZuGTz3Q&sig=AHIEtbQl-oCu-Z-qcSWrJrdY1H8n2SCiIA">Lanka</a> & the <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387517/">world</a>.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.colombopage.com/archive_13A/Apr16_1366087888CH.php">Sri Lanka police nab 189 drunk drivers during New Year</a> 16 Apr, 2013</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/2002/07/09/new23.html">One dies every 4.5 hours in road accidents - survey</a> - 9 July, 2002</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/Impaired_Driving/data.html">Injury Prevention & Control: Motor Vehicle Safety</a> CDC, October 2, 2012</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.who.int/roadsafety/projects/manuals/alcohol/drinking_driving.pdf">Drinking and Driving: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners</a>. Geneva, Global Road Safety Partnership, 2007.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a 16px="" href="http://www.sljol.info/index.php/CMJ/article/download/226/234">Examination of a driver alleged to have consumed alcohol</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEoQxQEwAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fviewer%3Fa%3Dv%26q%3Dcache%3ADRl9S7MJEkQJ%3Awww.sljol.info%2Findex.php%2FCMJ%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F226%2F234%2B%26hl%3Den%26pid%3Dbl%26srcid%3DADGEESj5aB7voSJe2Krda8GV7HG1-nCFmd71BZpnEL9AdR7wE7GErV07oujFsxA-zo2hSti306Vn7IJ_nRg9isDUEq9QwJ8muh4H7meRank1ChW0WNi0lnhgxZaSgD8jOA5Cy0qGbR09%26sig%3DAHIEtbTgzY4K_TSoXU_BuH75K1MsDkCXnw&ei=0mpuUaaBJMaNrge0hoHgAQ&usg=AFQjCNHwz3IbdzSq4AXMMJyIUNQ1onSC8A&sig2=uqXK_0BBtVS2qs-YoI5USA&cad=rja"><span line-height: 16px;">(</span><span style="line-height: 16px;">view on-line</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEoQxQEwAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fviewer%3Fa%3Dv%26q%3Dcache%3ADRl9S7MJEkQJ%3Awww.sljol.info%2Findex.php%2FCMJ%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F226%2F234%2B%26hl%3Den%26pid%3Dbl%26srcid%3DADGEESj5aB7voSJe2Krda8GV7HG1-nCFmd71BZpnEL9AdR7wE7GErV07oujFsxA-zo2hSti306Vn7IJ_nRg9isDUEq9QwJ8muh4H7meRank1ChW0WNi0lnhgxZaSgD8jOA5Cy0qGbR09%26sig%3DAHIEtbTgzY4K_TSoXU_BuH75K1MsDkCXnw&ei=0mpuUaaBJMaNrge0hoHgAQ&usg=AFQjCNHwz3IbdzSq4AXMMJyIUNQ1onSC8A&sig2=uqXK_0BBtVS2qs-YoI5USA&cad=rja">)</a> 27 Dec 2007</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nata.gov.lk/images/stories/english_law_book.pdf">The law & Tobacco control in Sri Lanka</a>, Page 30, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">May 2012</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/Impaired_Driving/bac.html">Effects of Blood Alcohol Concentration</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">February 11, 2011</span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://203.94.76.60/NCD/temp/NATA%20Act%20English.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">National authority on tobacco and alcohol act, no. 27 of 2006</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> (</span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEEQxQEwAg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fviewer%3Fa%3Dv%26q%3Dcache%3A7z4d8PMPYNsJ%3A203.94.76.60%2FNCD%2Ftemp%2FNATA%252520Act%252520English.pdf%2B%26hl%3Den%26pid%3Dbl%26srcid%3DADGEEShWzLo8lM2Q6Zey3dFDIObrlOBABlz9DDjZ9s_cB09DJdsiEqTSM2tktl06cUjGvZAN90OKlBO0nzEWtaQ0R7lM7Z8A4LgcrbwwKaPO7Px-JB_fxVUUyZ403fbsieCZSOAuD_JS%26sig%3DAHIEtbQaJSgLNMhISqf02pp2BJ-ANsKehA&ei=7nFuUcuTBYTZrQeF8YCIAw&usg=AFQjCNGlHnySLaoja3fcM1zAidVCOImMpg&sig2=tWasgDgPV3fb2PvSxQKGJw" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">view on-line</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">) 29 August, 2006</span></li>
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PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-6310854514263036652012-09-06T00:23:00.000+05:302012-09-06T19:34:36.096+05:30Hatred ceases not by Hatred but by Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><i>"Hatred ceases not by Hatred but by Love"</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The words from then Ceylonese Finance Minister J.R. Jayawardene on 6th September, 1951 played a major role in supporting the San Francisco Peace Treaty which pawed way for a free Post WWII Japan.</span></span></div>
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PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-20394996041249451872009-12-26T11:23:00.002+05:302010-02-08T11:30:34.650+05:30Tsunami 2004Occasion: On the way to a health camp after 2004 Tsunami<br />
Location: Ferry, Verugal aru<br />
Date: 2004 Dec 27<br />
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Ferry at Verugal Aru (marked) <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=8.253523,81.372196&spn=0.004353,0.008658&z=17"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Google Map</span></a> </div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-22561359810679306222008-07-08T22:45:00.005+05:302008-07-08T23:16:10.599+05:30News 1st, Daily Mirror & CNN<div style="margin: 5pt 5pt 5px 5px; padding: 2px; float: left; width: 410px;"><a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXt0wit8KnvxylMLGv1FR77Xjh9l74TBTLdR29Cdl7xXAIAkOaURz4Cz1sKFbcdOaPeuQgXOKYxAbal9ifrMrVWwh5gGAiFl8UEeQWoLo8RV4Unf59mdzfAh_6_YFJefALAJ0loQ/s1600-h/Sirasa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXt0wit8KnvxylMLGv1FR77Xjh9l74TBTLdR29Cdl7xXAIAkOaURz4Cz1sKFbcdOaPeuQgXOKYxAbal9ifrMrVWwh5gGAiFl8UEeQWoLo8RV4Unf59mdzfAh_6_YFJefALAJ0loQ/s400/Sirasa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220693709075260354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p>News Article on Daily Mirror web site</p><br /></div><div style="margin: 5pt 5pt 5px 5px; padding: 2px; float: left; width: 410px;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWJz7XRo-DRx4qgM6KR_f66Fbb7YwiKdJMewc1gS9VStDR4FtuRRg5YzI0f_oeKC2GlKCejUSYBiWOOQ6YPauWYF-HVU2Om5uBa8tzRDu7hYBqPpFNp0vxTzBz8lx1P6L3DOtqQ/s1600-h/Sirasa1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWJz7XRo-DRx4qgM6KR_f66Fbb7YwiKdJMewc1gS9VStDR4FtuRRg5YzI0f_oeKC2GlKCejUSYBiWOOQ6YPauWYF-HVU2Om5uBa8tzRDu7hYBqPpFNp0vxTzBz8lx1P6L3DOtqQ/s400/Sirasa1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220693709804400050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="http://www.topix.com/world/sri-lanka/2008/07/news-1st-wins-cnn-award#lastPost">Topix</a> linking to article published by Daily Mirror</p><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It seems the Sirasa/ MTV had got an award for "Best World Report"!!! Is it really?<br />This was posted as a <a href="http://www.dailymirror.wijeya.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=19439">News Article</a> in online edition of Daily Mirror as a breaking news on 3rd July 2008. Just two sentences for such an achievement!!!<br />Well few searches turned out negative results & it made me curious. The facts is there is no evidence of such award or an award ceremony, any where in the web or at least in the <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/">CNN website</a>. The news report itself looks bit suspicious. It doesn't give any proof of such or links to the original news item. Further more it seems the award ceremony is for 2008. How can they have an award ceremony for 2008, in the middle of the year of 2008? How can a responsible media company like Wijaya, publish such baseless reports? Hope they will remedy it promptly & not by taking the relevant page off line, but by publishing an explanation or an apology on the same page...<br /></div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-36199371522912940282008-06-18T14:02:00.004+05:302008-06-18T16:01:48.713+05:30Firefox 3 is here<div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 2px 2px; padding: 5px; float: left; width: 410px;"><br /><a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbsLOj_cHDDa0FNiwASNxWlcLt2xVIqK9A78E0K9LMQhofRhLAxaZxCKsUL6ZUJ2ouiAz-60VauXSwNlywECNbsZ2H25CSueREk0afDky_2QtFXW3sNJuk86kdgPHV0WrIBlgRg/s1600-h/FF3Certificate.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbsLOj_cHDDa0FNiwASNxWlcLt2xVIqK9A78E0K9LMQhofRhLAxaZxCKsUL6ZUJ2ouiAz-60VauXSwNlywECNbsZ2H25CSueREk0afDky_2QtFXW3sNJuk86kdgPHV0WrIBlgRg/s400/FF3Certificate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213142968961501890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p> Firefox 3 Download Day certificate </p><br /></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 2px 2px; padding: 5px; float: left; width: 410px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://arstechnica.com/news.media/IMAG0073.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://arstechnica.com/news.media/IMAG0073.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p> to Firefox from Microsoft IE with love</p><br /></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 2px 2px; padding: 5px; float: left; width: 410px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2587912633_9084fecde4.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2587912633_9084fecde4.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p> Al Billings of Mozilla Corporation </p><br /></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 2px 2px; padding: 5px; float: left; width: 410px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.flickr.com/118/278562314_14716c0232.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/118/278562314_14716c0232.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p> The cake the Microsoft IE team sent on the Firefox 2 launch </p><br /></div>Ahh got my own Firefox 3 download certificate for helping to set the World Record. It's way past the expected 5million by the time I write this post & <a href="http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/">still counting fast</a>...<br /><br />Get your copy of Firefox from <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/">here</a> & also don't forget to get your own <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form">Firefox 3 Download Day certificate</a> too.<br /><br />It seems Microsoft Internet Explorer team had delivered a <a href="http://www.arcanology.com/2008/06/17/ie-sends-mozilla-a-new-cake-for-firefox-3/">cake</a> personally to the Firefox team, as the tradition continues from the <a href="http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/">Firefox 2 release</a>.<br /><br />I think it's really amusing that they had kept the 'e' part of the Firefox 2 cake in their freezer to this day. Hope they will keep a piece of the cake this time too until they get their Firefox 4 cake. Hope that will not take long...PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-35804944966921774742008-03-19T09:49:00.001+05:302008-03-19T09:56:38.066+05:30Arthur C. Clarke, no more...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5jveqOApJtGeCWscnUr8PFUuYWBkA?size=s"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5jveqOApJtGeCWscnUr8PFUuYWBkA?size=s" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Arthur C. Clarke, the sci-fi author had passed away today at Colombo after a brief illness.PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-425755650272515352007-12-30T16:35:00.000+05:302007-12-30T17:19:15.199+05:30Ridi Viharaya goes onlineA new web site was launched yesterday for the <a href="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/">Ridi Viharaya</a>, Kurunegala.<br />It has a <a href="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/history-si">Sinhala</a> Unicode version thought not fully implemented.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/RidiViharaya.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/RidiViharaya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/ridi_viharya_bodhiya.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/ridi_viharya_bodhiya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/ridi_viharya_buddha_05.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/ridi_viharya_buddha_05.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/ridi_viharya_paintings-14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/ridi_viharya_paintings-14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/ridi_viharya_moonstone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.ridiviharaya.lk/ridi_viharya_moonstone.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-43403459536644157662007-09-27T23:02:00.000+05:302007-10-10T00:05:22.619+05:30Happy 9th Birthday Google!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.google.com/logos/9th_birthday.gif"><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/9th_birthday.gif" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.google.com/logos/9th_birthday.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>It's Google's 9th Birthday today. Happy Birthday Google!<br />I was very much moved by a <a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2006/09/happy-birthday-google.html#comment-1066719279382700730">comment</a> left by a visitor to my blog post<br /><a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2006/09/happy-birthday-google.html">Happy Birthday Google!</a>, exactly one year ago..<br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05891321683913442924" rel="nofollow">prakashraju</a> said... <br />YOU ARE MY GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!<br />EVERYTHING IS IN YOU!!!!<br /><br />I LOVE YOU GOOGLE!!<br />WITHOUT YOU MY DAYS WON'T START!!<br />I WISH YOU MANY MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY!!!<br /><br />I PRAY FOR YOUR SUCCESS!!!!<br />WITH LOVE & AFFECTION!<br /><br />yours forever!!!!<br /></blockquote><br />I couldn't agree more.<br /><br />Well this time I thought of bringing some facts about the Web search, the thing that Google does best...<br /><ul><li>Choose your search term wisely. Multiple terms will narrow down your search.</li><li>The order in which search terms are entered will effect the results.<br /></li><li>All letters are treated as lowercase even if you type in uppercase letters.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">and</span> >> No need to have 'and' between words. By default all search terms entered are searched for.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >+</span> >> common words & single digits & characters are ignored in Google searches. To include them, you need to have + sign in front it.<br /></li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Google+birthday+%2B9">Google birthday +9</a></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">" "</span> >> having quotes around search terms will search for exact phrase.<br /></li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Google%27s+9th+Birthday%22">"Google's 9th Birthday"</a></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >-</span> >> to exclude a term from the search, add a - sign in front of the term<br /></li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=google+-9th+birthday">Google -9th birthday</a></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >~</span> >> to include synonyms in a search<br /></li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%7Efood+research">~food research</a> includes results with Food, Nutrition, Restaurant , etc.. as synonyms of food<br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">OR</span> >> to include either of the terms, put uppercase 'OR' between two search terms.<br /></li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Google+OR+Yahoo+birthday">Google OR Yahoo birthday</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">..</span> >> to include a number range, which can be years, $, v, kg etc.. as you specify.<br /></li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=search+wars+2005..2007">search wars 2005..2007</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=electric+shaver+100..250+v">electric shaver 100..250 v</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=electric+shaver+%24100..250">electric shaver $100..250</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >*</span> >> to include one or more keywords in it's place. Google will fill in the blanks.<br /></li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22google%27s+*+birthday+logo">"google's * birthday logo"</a> will return results with 9, seventh, goofy , etc.. in place of '*'<br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">site:</span> >> to restrict a search to a particular web site.<br /></li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aranatunga.blogspot.com+google+birthday">site:ranatunga.blogspot.com Google birthday</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">allintitle:</span> >> to restrict for search terms appearing only in the title of web pages.</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=allintitle%3A+google+birthday+9th">allintitle: google birthday 9th</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">intitle:</span> >> to find web pages with the search term appearing immediately after 'intitle:' in the title of a web page. Note: No space between 'intitle:' & search term.</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3Agoogle+birthday+9th">intitle:Google birthday 9th</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">allinurl:</span> >> to find web pages with all of the search terms occurring in their URL.</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=allinurl%3A+ranatunga+google+birthday">allinurl: ranatunga Google birthday</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">inurl:</span> >> to find web pages with the term immediately after 'inurl:' occurring in the url. Note: No space between 'inurl:' & search term.</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aranatunga+google">inurl:ranatunga google</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">link:</span> >> to find web pages that link to a particular site.</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=link:ranatunga.blogspot.com">link:ranatunga.blogspot.com</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">related:</span> >> to find similar web pages to a specified web page.</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=related%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Franatunga.blogspot.com">related:http://ranatunga.blogspot.com</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">cache:</span> >> to get last snapshot Google bot created</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Franatunga.blogspot.com">cache:http://ranatunga.blogspot.com</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">info:</span> >> to get information Google has collected about a web page.</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=info%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Franatunga.blogspot.com">info:http://ranatunga.blogspot.com</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">definition:</span> >> to get a definition of a word, as given in various web sites</li><ul><li>Eg: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Agoogle">define:google</a><br /></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">filetype:</span> or <span style="font-weight: bold;">ext:</span> >> to retrict search to a file type other than html. Supported types are,</li><ul><li><span style=""> Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Adobe PostScript (ps) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Lotus WordPro (lwp) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> MacWrite (mw) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Microsoft Excel (xls) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Microsoft Word (doc) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Microsoft Write (wri) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Rich Text Format (rtf) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Shockwave Flash (swf)</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=""> Text (ans, txt)</span></li></ul></ul>Further readings at <a href="http://www.google.com/support?ctx=web">Google: Web Search Help Center</a> :<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=basics">Basics of Search</a></li><li><a href="http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advanced">Advanced Search</a></li><li><a href="http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=50187&topic=352">Is there a Web Search glossary?</a></li></ul>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-84279142003826296292007-09-16T01:30:00.001+05:302007-09-16T03:08:52.260+05:30Cricket Scores @ Google<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40cW6v-UnMlp8ZO9-XG_sFMmL8OKRtWxa1QBsxTUbY546ylBuQvaCRdqPYV9KwI1108AegXGu0C_jiF0cTKOzNYWFCBqhd4RfsEJoqWfIZBoWDm-8pEtsStwz49CA8oNpwpQiYg/s1600-h/GoogleCricket.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40cW6v-UnMlp8ZO9-XG_sFMmL8OKRtWxa1QBsxTUbY546ylBuQvaCRdqPYV9KwI1108AegXGu0C_jiF0cTKOzNYWFCBqhd4RfsEJoqWfIZBoWDm-8pEtsStwz49CA8oNpwpQiYg/s320/GoogleCricket.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40cW6v-UnMlp8ZO9-XG_sFMmL8OKRtWxa1QBsxTUbY546ylBuQvaCRdqPYV9KwI1108AegXGu0C_jiF0cTKOzNYWFCBqhd4RfsEJoqWfIZBoWDm-8pEtsStwz49CA8oNpwpQiYg/s320/GoogleCricket.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110537995842924882" border="0" /></a><div style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zahidul/1388060560/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1388060560_65bf0cbf28_m.jpg" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1388060560_65bf0cbf28_m.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:78%;" > Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/zahidul/">zahidul islam</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> I was amazed to find that Google search box can be used to see the latest Cricket Scores in Twenty20 world championship matches being played.<br />You can just type <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cricket">Cricket</a> for results of the latest match or <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=cricket+sri+lanka">Cricket Sri Lanka</a> for your favorite team or <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=cricket+sri+lanka+new+zealand">Cricket Sri Lanka New Zealand</a> for a specific match. A summery of the score card is shown with a link to the complete score card.<br />After all Google seems to have noticed the enthusiasm among Cricketing fans...</div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-39300625037592938482007-08-17T22:44:00.001+05:302007-08-18T00:50:14.958+05:30Ministry of Education Hacked into...<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvlZNzyM3_SbFDA460Dm4X2CpdRryDv9PRgB9_gB-XsZqhtcvBF0m5Ep2STGE0XEDfxXV3IcwH6R4TYqfIv3pkokoiDRkUPD3sgaqRttohkiDALmY-A1gZXZIyf84rItGGnRgRjg/s1600-h/MOE1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvlZNzyM3_SbFDA460Dm4X2CpdRryDv9PRgB9_gB-XsZqhtcvBF0m5Ep2STGE0XEDfxXV3IcwH6R4TYqfIv3pkokoiDRkUPD3sgaqRttohkiDALmY-A1gZXZIyf84rItGGnRgRjg/s320/MOE1.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvlZNzyM3_SbFDA460Dm4X2CpdRryDv9PRgB9_gB-XsZqhtcvBF0m5Ep2STGE0XEDfxXV3IcwH6R4TYqfIv3pkokoiDRkUPD3sgaqRttohkiDALmY-A1gZXZIyf84rItGGnRgRjg/s320/MOE1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099721563259700082" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmFxtPhF6PoajFSC0TvDI_S3-B2Kh9DTDKjW2o7wsF5D3lfE7DlL4r_cZhzG36GAbKjWDKQZpglBLeXhMRt4HMxkaYHol9KmNm23-h95QEdJ6CI_qiv13bHHbg9_qm2O-s19x8g/s1600-h/MOE2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmFxtPhF6PoajFSC0TvDI_S3-B2Kh9DTDKjW2o7wsF5D3lfE7DlL4r_cZhzG36GAbKjWDKQZpglBLeXhMRt4HMxkaYHol9KmNm23-h95QEdJ6CI_qiv13bHHbg9_qm2O-s19x8g/s320/MOE2.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmFxtPhF6PoajFSC0TvDI_S3-B2Kh9DTDKjW2o7wsF5D3lfE7DlL4r_cZhzG36GAbKjWDKQZpglBLeXhMRt4HMxkaYHol9KmNm23-h95QEdJ6CI_qiv13bHHbg9_qm2O-s19x8g/s320/MOE2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099720923309572962" border="0" /></a>Well not exactly...<br />I was browsing among the Government Web sites, when I came across our Ministry of Education <a href="http://www.moe.gov.lk/">web site</a> (see the image on right). I was shocked to see that it had been Hacked by some hackers. I quickly checked the Google cache for the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.moe.gov.lk%2F">snapshot</a> they had created (see the image on left side). It was dated 15 Aug 2007, 14:18:06 GMT. So this site had been hacked during last 3 days. The hackers intentions are not very clear from what they had done. May be they just wanted to deface a government web site for fun.<br />It seems only the home page of the site had been hacked.<br />On further research I came across <span class="pathway"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/" class="pathway">Zone-H</a> which has an archive of Web sites that have been hacked. I was amazed to see the number of Sri Lankan Government web sites that had been subjected to defacement by various Hacking groups.</span><br /></div><span class="pathway">As I could not link to the particular <a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index.php?option=com_attacks&Itemid=44&filter=1">table</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">,</span> I have copied the text, as you can see below:<br /></span><br /><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="20">Date</td><td align="center" height="20">Attacker</td><td height="20">Domain</td><td height="20">OS</td><td align="center" height="20">View</td></tr><!-- DEFACEMENTS ROWS --><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2007/07/30 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">RitualistaS</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://mcg.mpi.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> mcg.mpi.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Win 2003 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&Itemid=44&id=6478074" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a> </td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2007/01/27 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Dr.Jr7</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.dmc.gov.lk/external.asp" target="_blank"> dmc.gov.lk/external.asp </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Win 2003 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;Itemid=44&id=5543622" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2007/01/06 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">yas</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://mail.samurdhi.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> mail.samurdhi.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Linux </td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=5411706" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2006/12/04 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">DeltahackingSecurityTEAM</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.primeminister.gov.lk/record/delta.htm" target="_blank"> primeminister.gov.lk/record/delta.htm </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Linux </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=5104537" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2005/12/12 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Devil Code</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.mpdinor.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> mpdinor.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Win 2000 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=3151135" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2005/10/16 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Tz4r</td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.muslimaffairs.gov.lk/forum" target="_blank"> muslimaffairs.gov.lk/forum </a> </td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Linux </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=2948430" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2005/03/14 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">batistuta</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.muslimaffairs.gov.lk/forum" target="_blank"> muslimaffairs.gov.lk/forum </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Linux </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=2168794" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2005/02/06 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">H4ck3rsBR</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.slelections.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> slelections.gov.lk </a></td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> SolarisSunOS </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=2050532" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2005/02/06 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">H4ck3rsBR</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.sec.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> sec.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> SolarisSunOS </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=2050534" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2005/02/06 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">H4ck3rsBR</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.ports-aviation.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> ports-aviation.gov.lk </a> </td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> SolarisSunOS </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=2050527" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2005/02/06 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">H4ck3rsBR</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.npd.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> npd.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> SolarisSunOS </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=2050531" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2005/02/06 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">H4ck3rsBR</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.trc.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> trc.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> SolarisSunOS </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=2050533" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2004/01/24 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Red Eye</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.ibsl.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> ibsl.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Win 2000 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=847997" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2003/06/19 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">[ LunixO ]</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.moe.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> moe.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Linux </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=317209" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2003/06/07 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Digital lords</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.moe.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> moe.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Linux </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=301018" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2002/09/27 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">PaGgY</td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.hinduministry.lk/" target="_blank"> hinduministry.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Win 2000 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=73837" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2001/04/08 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">SadoR</td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.erd.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> erd.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=20808" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2001/04/04 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Silver Lords</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.customs.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> customs.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=22066" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2001/04/01 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Silver Lords</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.erd.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> erd.gov.lk </a> </td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=22076" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2001/04/01 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">PoizonB0x</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.customs.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> customs.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=18186" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2001/03/31 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">PoizonB0x</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.erd.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> erd.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=18187" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2001/03/18 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">LOUCOS.BR</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.erd.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> erd.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=13814" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2001/02/26 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Alien00 </td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.erd.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> erd.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=519" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2000/12/24 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Silver Lords</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.erd.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> erd.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=22637" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2000/12/23 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">Silver Lords</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.customs.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> customs.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=22638" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" height="15" valign="top" width="10%"> 2000/06/04 </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="30%">EhW</td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="25%"><a href="http://www.erd.gov.lk/" target="_blank"> erd.gov.lk </a></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="20%"> Windows </td><td align="center" valign="top" width="8%"><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorwrp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=44&id=7505" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" src="http://www.zone-h.org/images/lente.gif" alt="View Mirror" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> </a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="pathway">Still most of the above sites are not back online or have not been repaired completely. Any way most of our government websites are ill designed & not maintained well. Almost all of them use tables rather than CSS for layouts & are very poor in design, compromising their usability.</span><br /></div><span class="pathway"><br /></span>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-59176036903131326082007-07-18T11:47:00.000+05:302007-07-20T23:04:41.578+05:30Earthquake near Sri Lanka!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPzcwBrcURLQZ8lIfDFZ0CaFuNJU6I0DJ5Nf_LAt4ykBv5ei3JdKEBLpkwojU-iWkf34YDhR8lXH5Uf2cUss4kZB6exou6yJ1iBkXYUYRuy1__rke2G4yjhfOQAQaUEWl39IcsQ/s1600-h/80_10.gif"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPzcwBrcURLQZ8lIfDFZ0CaFuNJU6I0DJ5Nf_LAt4ykBv5ei3JdKEBLpkwojU-iWkf34YDhR8lXH5Uf2cUss4kZB6exou6yJ1iBkXYUYRuy1__rke2G4yjhfOQAQaUEWl39IcsQ/s320/80_10.gif" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPzcwBrcURLQZ8lIfDFZ0CaFuNJU6I0DJ5Nf_LAt4ykBv5ei3JdKEBLpkwojU-iWkf34YDhR8lXH5Uf2cUss4kZB6exou6yJ1iBkXYUYRuy1__rke2G4yjhfOQAQaUEWl39IcsQ/s320/80_10.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088418918931867330" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNAosnUXPZYslszbLyGu9ElwaCu9KuCkDh45Y4fIbGxJNORgC7OOAibb9H9_ZtyKg6AVKMk3FkIUzRMD7vmgVNF707X2571PQJhTo-PADY3Qiz47iZXPFpz8uC_UdZIqgzAM7yRQ/s1600-h/legend.gif"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNAosnUXPZYslszbLyGu9ElwaCu9KuCkDh45Y4fIbGxJNORgC7OOAibb9H9_ZtyKg6AVKMk3FkIUzRMD7vmgVNF707X2571PQJhTo-PADY3Qiz47iZXPFpz8uC_UdZIqgzAM7yRQ/s320/legend.gif" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNAosnUXPZYslszbLyGu9ElwaCu9KuCkDh45Y4fIbGxJNORgC7OOAibb9H9_ZtyKg6AVKMk3FkIUzRMD7vmgVNF707X2571PQJhTo-PADY3Qiz47iZXPFpz8uC_UdZIqgzAM7yRQ/s320/legend.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088418923226834642" border="0" /></a><br />Earth tremors have been felt in some areas of Sri Lanka, including Colombo & Kandy. The images here are from <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/80_10.php">USGS Earthquake Hazards Program</a>.<br /><br />According to USGS,<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Magnitude</span>: 5.2<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time</span>: at 04:27:28 (UTC)<br />at 10:27:28 am local time at epicenter<br />at 09:57:28 am Colombo, Sri Lanka<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Location</span>: 6.548°N, 84.455°E (In bay of Bengal)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Distance</span>: 510 km (315 miles) E of Colombo, Sri Lanka<br />More details visit here <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007eyah.php">Magnitude 5.2 - BAY OF BENGAL</a><br /><br />I couldn't find any details regarding any Tsunami Warnings at the time of posting.<br />The relevant links are:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&u=http://www.jma.go.jp/en/distant_tsunami/WEIO40/index.html&prev=/language_tools">JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY</a></li><li><a href="http://www.meteo.slt.lk/Tswarn.html">Department of Meteorology - Sri Lanka</a></li><li><a href="http://www.gsmb.gov.lk/index_english.htm">Geological Survey & mines Bureau - Sri Lanka</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://ioc3.unesco.org/itic/categories.php?category_no=149">ITIC</a><br /></li></ul>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-8903475004329642092007-07-15T23:18:00.000+05:302007-07-16T00:25:59.207+05:30Typo?<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=define:typo&hl=en">Typo</a> is an abbreviation used to denote a typographical error or an error in a typeset. But now it's commonly used to define all spelling mistakes. For bloggers like us, it's a common thing, though we try hard not to do such mistakes.<br /></div><div style="float: left; width: 340px; clear: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070713_sts118_typo_02.jpg"><img src="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070713_sts118_typo_02.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070713_sts118_typo_02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> Photo: <a href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070713_sts118_typo_02.jpg&cap=After+being+moved+from+the+Vehicle+Assembly+Building%2C+space+shuttle+Endeavour+rests+on+Launch+Pad+39b+at+the+Kennedy+Space+Center+in+Cape+Canaveral%2C+Fla.%2C+Wednesday%2C+July+11%2C+2007.+Supporters+errantly+misspelled+the+orbiter%27s+name%2C+leaving+out+the+letter+%27u%27+in+a+banner.+The+launch+is+scheduled+for+Aug.+7.+%28AP+Photo%2FJohn+Raoux%29%0D%0A">AP Photo by John Raoux</a> </div><div style="float: left; width: 340px; clear: left;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070713_sts118_typofix_02.jpg"><img src="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070713_sts118_typofix_02.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070713_sts118_typofix_02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> Photo: <a href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070713_sts118_typofix_02.jpg&cap=At+left%2C+the+edge+of+the+crawler-transporter+is+seen+rolling+away+from+Launch+Pad+39A+after+delivering+space+shuttle+Endeavour%2C+in+the+background+on+July+11%2C+2007.+The+%27Go+Endeavour%21%27+sports+a+new+banner+that+replaced+the+%27u%27+errantly+left+out+in+a+previous+version.+Credit%3A+NASA%2FKen+Thornsley.">Ken Thornsley, NASA</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Look at these images closely. They were taken when the Endeavour space shuttle was taken to it's launch pad today. Look carefully at the banner. Can you see a difference between the two photos? First one says 'Go Endeavor'. But the space shuttle is named 'Endeavour' after 18th century explorer James Coock's ship HM Bark Endeavour. The mistake was noticed & was corrected as seen in the second photo, where the banner reads 'Go Endeavour'.<br />So typos can happen even at that level? Please <a href="http://wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/bare.html">bare</a> with me if I have done any...<br /></div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-21687886844917748382007-07-06T21:57:00.000+05:302007-07-10T21:36:10.111+05:30Talents 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdqXoh8lYAJHjhFkhf1-CZix-xlsAVagX1obcyMGCdb1Lv6f0zWKc2CrORmzft7hMJ0J35GmYYqhcvKzgv9ge6hM-kLNdnTlbpTQxolFBTBMQ1UDBEzXMv9oBDn4XaJCxxds8xg/s1600-h/DSC04990-mod.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdqXoh8lYAJHjhFkhf1-CZix-xlsAVagX1obcyMGCdb1Lv6f0zWKc2CrORmzft7hMJ0J35GmYYqhcvKzgv9ge6hM-kLNdnTlbpTQxolFBTBMQ1UDBEzXMv9oBDn4XaJCxxds8xg/s200/DSC04990-mod.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; clear: left;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdqXoh8lYAJHjhFkhf1-CZix-xlsAVagX1obcyMGCdb1Lv6f0zWKc2CrORmzft7hMJ0J35GmYYqhcvKzgv9ge6hM-kLNdnTlbpTQxolFBTBMQ1UDBEzXMv9oBDn4XaJCxxds8xg/s200/DSC04990-mod.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084075973548793490" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG31XjvmabVORqWtyfUyvWeU16ydY2dysJHxMsZpD9eqb6r2Lu0XOhYaK2G8dClEkFradieYwhCGui3KKpOPwZCwh_jEhQJYHtIBVFJaAK0Uf137emGe__fGlq2lB1pSiuFf8Pw/s1600-h/DSC05006-mod.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG31XjvmabVORqWtyfUyvWeU16ydY2dysJHxMsZpD9eqb6r2Lu0XOhYaK2G8dClEkFradieYwhCGui3KKpOPwZCwh_jEhQJYHtIBVFJaAK0Uf137emGe__fGlq2lB1pSiuFf8Pw/s200/DSC05006-mod.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; clear: left;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMK-bVimS2F4ElPxXLPyq4t1etNbXvNrMIM1Tw6pLNkaMbp9grJssfzkbO1cjAaXtlZ94SHXJSGq7OibHzlkEBX0WHvF2cfqsFNd1k6n63yAQTT61e_7Bp4d2sVjGb4oZIKviEg/s200/DSC05023-mod.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084087204888272610" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">There were only two days remaining, when I got hold of the news about <a href="http://talents.lk.googlepages.com/talents2007">Talents 2007</a>. I had to make some arrangements in a haste so I can attend the occasion.<br />During our University life, Talents was a major event where we looked forward to with much enthusiasm. During the period we got prepared for the variety show, the <a href="http://www.sjp.ac.lk/fms/index.html">faculty</a> start to overflow with life. Heads bent on books, start to wander around singing, dancing, acting & laughing. It's the time to dream, rather to make creative dreams & make them a reality. It's a welcome break from the tedious work at the faculty, but still managing to find time to run for lectures, tutorials, practicals, ward work, etc..<br />Committees elected from the students look after various aspects of logistics in this mega event, with help from experienced seniors & the ever so helpful staff members, ranging from the academic to non-academic.<br />It always brings back memories when I sat in front of the stage, of the time we were in the limelight. Ahh weeks, if not months, of preparations, sleepless nights... After all it lasts only for few moments on stage...<br />There were only very few I knew among the students. I only can remember them very faintly, even tough they could remember me very well. After all it was a grand show second to none, of it's predecessors...<br />Keep it up dear sisters & brothers, it's our signature... <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">A unique blend of Arts & Medicine...</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br /><br />Please visit my previous post on <a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2006/06/talents.html">Talents 2006</a><br /><br />Also visit: <a href="http://talents.lk.googlepages.com/home">Talents</a><br /></div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-59707965847619833322007-05-31T20:10:00.000+05:302007-05-31T23:55:39.017+05:30Once in a Blue Moon<div style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalamakia/522827679/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/245/522827679_1a7b8e36a8_m.jpg" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/245/522827679_1a7b8e36a8_m.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:85%;" > <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalamakia/522827679/">Once in a Blue Moon</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kalamakia/">Kalamakia</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Well it seems my postings have become so rare lately, that I post <span style="font-style: italic;">'Once In a Blue Moon'</span>. Well today is a such day, that we are going to have a Blue Moon.<br />Blue Moon, has nothing to do with it's colour. It only means, a full moon that occurs for the second time in a month. Considering that the average interval between two full moons is about 29.5 days & a month has about 30.5 days, it's a rare occurrence to have two full moons in a month. But it occurs about 41 times in a century or only occurs once in about 32 months.<br />The term 'Once in a Blue Moon' has been in use in medieval England from old times & one such occasion was in a <em>'Treatyse of the Buryall of the Masse' by</em> William Barlow, the Bishop of Chichester, in 1528.<br />But the usage of this phrase had had different meanings during these long years of use,<br /></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>in 16th century: obvious absurdities, where there could be no doubt.</li><li>in 18th century: as equal to 'never'</li><li>in mid 19th century: a fairly infrequent event</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">There had been times, where the moon really appeared to be blue. This occurs due to light reflected from moon being scattered by dust particles which are about a micron or so in diameter. In these occasions dust particles were ejected to upper atmosphere during large volcano eruptions such as that occurred in 1883 of Krakatoa volcano or large forest fires that occurred in 1953 in western Canada.<br />But this year Americans have seemed to have celebrated the Blue Moon on 31st of May, 2007. >>> <a href="http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_57968.shtml">Blue Moon over North America on Thursday</a>. How can that be? How can they have a Blue Moon two month before New Zelander's had one?<br /><div style="text-align: left;">Well it also has a logical explanation. This occurs due to the World Time Zones. When the time of the full moon changes with each time zone it falls to the next month. This is illustrated below.<br /></div><table style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto;" border="3" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr> <td>Time Zone</td> <td>City</td> <td>Full Moon 1</td> <td>Full Moon 2</td> <td>Full Moon 3</td> <td>Full Moon 4</td> </tr><tr> <td>GMT + 12hrs</td> <td>Auckland</td> <td> 2 May @ 22:09</td> <td>1 June @ 13:04</td> <td bgcolor="#446688"><strong>1 July @ 01:49</strong></td> <td bgcolor="#446688"><strong>30 July @ 12:48</strong></td> </tr><tr> <td>GMT + 04hrs</td> <td>Moscow</td> <td>2 May @ 14:09</td> <td bgcolor="#446688"><strong>1 June @ 05:04</strong></td> <td bgcolor="#446688"><strong>30 June @ 17:49</strong></td> <td>30 July @ 04:48</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#006633"> <td>GMT</td> <td>Greenwich</td> <td>2 May @ 10:09</td> <td>1 June @ 01:04</td> <td>30 June @ 13:49</td> <td>30 July @ 00:48</td> </tr><tr> <td>GMT - 05hrs</td> <td>Chicago</td> <td bgcolor="#446688"><strong>2 May @ 05:09</strong></td> <td bgcolor="#446688"><strong>31 May @ 20:04</strong></td> <td>30 June @ 08:49</td> <td>29 July @ 19:48</td> </tr></tbody></table><br />For more details go to <a href="http://www.obliquity.com/astro/blue2007.html">The Blue Moon of 2007.</a><br /><br />It seems the method used for calculating the blue moon astronomically also had not been the one used earlier. This new definition had come into use after it had been mistakenly interpreted by an amateur astronomer in an article in 1946 in Sky & Telescope magazine on Blue Moons (see <a href="http://skytonight.com/observing/objects/moon/3304131.html">What's a Blue Moon?</a>). It had then been adopted by various other newspapers, radio & TV shows giving wide publicity to this misinterpretation.<br />The correct definition had been a complex one, that uses seasons rather than months to calculate the blue moon. The third full moon occurring in a season with 4 full moons had been considered to be the blue moon (Usually a season only had three full moons). But it had not been so simple either.<br />The year they used was 'tropical year' running from one winter solstice to the next. The seasons were defined using a method which gives seasons of equal duration (which uses dynamical mean Sun or fictitious mean Sun, which are imaginary bodies & this method is not used now to define seasons). Then also they used some rules which are laid down in Gregorian calendar reform in 1582.<br />To see a list of blue moons according to this old definition visit <a href="http://www.obliquity.com/astro/seasonal.html">Blue Moon - four Full Moons in a season.</a> According to this it seems there is no Blue Moon in 2007. Phew... after all I'm not doing blog posts <span style="font-style: italic;">Once in a Blue Moon</span>.<br /></div><br />references:<br /><ul><li>The Phrase Finder: <a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/269500.html">Once in a blue moon</a></li><li>Science @ Nasa: <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/NEWHOME/headlines/ast26feb99_1.htm">Once in a Blue Moon</a></li><li>Obliquity: <a href="http://www.obliquity.com/astro/bluemoon.html">Once in a Blue Moon</a><br /></li></ul>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-87990303571195385092007-05-03T22:25:00.000+05:302007-07-05T19:51:02.749+05:30Boys, you are our Champions.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dropcap">W</span>e are proud of our cricket team even though they couldn't beat the Australians. Still they are our champions. You did your best guys. What could we ask for more?<br />The Sri Lankan team returned home from Caribbeans today. Amidst torrential rains many gathered by the sides of the roads just to greet them.<br />I'm very much relived to see & hear, that Sri Lankan media has all the praises for them, unlike the attitude the Indian & Pakistani media had towards their teams. (ehh, Indian & Pakistani friends don't get crossed with me, but that's the truth.)<br />I found something very interesting that will keep our heroes right on our desktop. A screen saver from <a href="http://www.cricinfo.com">Cricinfo.com</a> (<a href="http://www.cricinfo.com/homepage/index99.html">Cricinfo home</a>), which has each player in action & some statistics about their performance. You can down load the screen saver from here>> <a href="http://img.cricinfo.com/PHOTOS/WP/teamsrilanka.exe">teamsrilanka</a>.<br />Also visit <a href="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PHOTOS/screensaver.html">here</a> for other screen savers from cricinfo.com. They have some pretty screen savers on other major cricket teams & also some on legends of cricket.<br />Below are some screen captures of the screen saver. First one is the startup image. Next one is a composite of four screens.<br /></div><br /><span style="float: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFD2-74_JLmm7PU9kAejvOEZ4TsEiLx3DiZNQnKDs8DpEl-pfKCuHFJzuVy4bn6XmCBoUZpieYrG4aJM6_BCJfF5F3vGJAbKry73m-LJqXEHrzwWfFPlUIhCZbEyTH2kARF9HiVg/s1600-h/ScreenSaver1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFD2-74_JLmm7PU9kAejvOEZ4TsEiLx3DiZNQnKDs8DpEl-pfKCuHFJzuVy4bn6XmCBoUZpieYrG4aJM6_BCJfF5F3vGJAbKry73m-LJqXEHrzwWfFPlUIhCZbEyTH2kARF9HiVg/s320/ScreenSaver1.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFD2-74_JLmm7PU9kAejvOEZ4TsEiLx3DiZNQnKDs8DpEl-pfKCuHFJzuVy4bn6XmCBoUZpieYrG4aJM6_BCJfF5F3vGJAbKry73m-LJqXEHrzwWfFPlUIhCZbEyTH2kARF9HiVg/s320/ScreenSaver1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060382416617636306" border="0" /></a></span><span style="float: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm3DoMDf2La4Re_jZ27gNMZ06SttiL8l24KpJSB9zJLjKMqyjN8tzeIDHII81difAvS_nK2POSP2kVexa2CVukLTSn6LfOh9RBl0IHyTJhVT3mQr17m6WhlhfN4LH2RvtS_Zruwg/s1600-h/ScreenSaver2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm3DoMDf2La4Re_jZ27gNMZ06SttiL8l24KpJSB9zJLjKMqyjN8tzeIDHII81difAvS_nK2POSP2kVexa2CVukLTSn6LfOh9RBl0IHyTJhVT3mQr17m6WhlhfN4LH2RvtS_Zruwg/s320/ScreenSaver2.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm3DoMDf2La4Re_jZ27gNMZ06SttiL8l24KpJSB9zJLjKMqyjN8tzeIDHII81difAvS_nK2POSP2kVexa2CVukLTSn6LfOh9RBl0IHyTJhVT3mQr17m6WhlhfN4LH2RvtS_Zruwg/s320/ScreenSaver2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060383361510441442" border="0" /></a></span>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-42212423106548036152007-04-29T17:59:00.000+05:302007-04-29T21:35:13.744+05:30Found & Lost, life...I was in Colombo during the weekend. We went over there for the delivery of our sister-in-laws baby. It's a beautiful baby girl. All family members were happy to see that both mother & baby were doing well.<br />When I arrived at home today, I found that I have lost a long standing friend. Rover was born in 1993. Don't be fooled by it's innocent looks, it bites! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfco9CdupYWWV4gegjkwldX-ZXFrp5f33ubW9U5QjDrUvdlF9Jyt8Z8eLnhYfOe57nBlzcM3GikhifDxYT3T-eQrvgOZpqfx3-fOsmwNkIhwg-Ukzhr-OBaOiNgjN0qeEhdHVgw/s1600-h/Rower2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfco9CdupYWWV4gegjkwldX-ZXFrp5f33ubW9U5QjDrUvdlF9Jyt8Z8eLnhYfOe57nBlzcM3GikhifDxYT3T-eQrvgOZpqfx3-fOsmwNkIhwg-Ukzhr-OBaOiNgjN0qeEhdHVgw/s320/Rower2.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfco9CdupYWWV4gegjkwldX-ZXFrp5f33ubW9U5QjDrUvdlF9Jyt8Z8eLnhYfOe57nBlzcM3GikhifDxYT3T-eQrvgOZpqfx3-fOsmwNkIhwg-Ukzhr-OBaOiNgjN0qeEhdHVgw/s320/Rower2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058812842294149554" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV38zc0mq9wmregDlr0NgwZoedeHvxOx_icDCq1HRxcnPVHmbT33k5dB8AF07Rc9t0czv-8OCGgTv7kiBahxa7D_iw9W7jJoGkyqHOQhaVGrm33xEok27qVprSiODS31BXO9FkTQ/s1600-h/Rower2.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(17, 51, 85);"> Rover Hope you will be a human in your next life!!! </span>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-14841915299554062262007-04-20T23:42:00.000+05:302007-04-20T23:49:56.509+05:30Let down by a friend...<div style="text-align: justify;">The first two things I do after returning form a busy days work are, check my email, then check site statistics of visitors to this blog. After doing these two today, I loaded up my blog in another tab just to check whether all is well after the changes I've made to layout during past few weeks.<br />Nothing was special, or is it? There is a message at the end of the web page from Firefox's NoScript Add-on. That was odd. I have enabled all the scripts from my blog. Still there is another new java script that has not been enabled, originating from my own blog!! See the screen capture below.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnja2QEPrkmfdcJlmdwyWJMYQm03FA7mSHmVk9tuVHD1od5_vLlfAbS_NL2Z0oqlk9ufmMeBI-orfMoLPsa3zb2wx2Vbv5spWv4YoCdGmZTCaYC-IO-5dypeWyOMhCnrIJsya8w/s1600-h/specificclick_net.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnja2QEPrkmfdcJlmdwyWJMYQm03FA7mSHmVk9tuVHD1od5_vLlfAbS_NL2Z0oqlk9ufmMeBI-orfMoLPsa3zb2wx2Vbv5spWv4YoCdGmZTCaYC-IO-5dypeWyOMhCnrIJsya8w/s320/specificclick_net.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnja2QEPrkmfdcJlmdwyWJMYQm03FA7mSHmVk9tuVHD1od5_vLlfAbS_NL2Z0oqlk9ufmMeBI-orfMoLPsa3zb2wx2Vbv5spWv4YoCdGmZTCaYC-IO-5dypeWyOMhCnrIJsya8w/s320/specificclick_net.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055560112940183330" border="0" /></a>As it was not there yesterday when I loaded the blog, I just thought of doing a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=specificclick.net">Google search</a> to get to know more about it.<br />I was shocked to read the search results. I was shocked more than on that day that I had my blogger account switched (see <a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogger-busted.html">Blogger busted...</a> & <a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogger-busted-part-ii.html">Blogger busted - part II</a>).<br />My trusted site statistics tracking service, sitemeter had deceived me. Please read this article <a href="http://www.tenthofmarch.com/2007/04/11/sitemeter-installing-spyware-in-your-website/">SiteMeter Installing SpyWare In Your Website?</a>. It seems they have sold the trust we kept on them to a third party. I am ashamed to be associated with them.<br />As bloggers, most of us rely on site statistics tracking services to keep track of the visitors to our blogs (and of course to other web pages). We check on statistics regularly to see just how many read our sites, what search quarries bring traffic to our sites etc..<br />But it seems sitemeter had been tracking all our blog readers' web browsing habits with the help from specificclick.net. Thats a bit unethical to say the least.<br />So please read <a href="http://michaelsync.net/2007/04/11/things-you-should-know-before-using-sitemeter/">Things you should know before using Sitemeter</a>. At the end of it you can see how you can remove tracking cookies that have been installed from Sitemeter's partner specificclick.net. If you have visited this blog earlier or have visited another site that used their service, please try block their cookies, as they may have already placed their cookies in your browser.<br />Dear friends of the blogsphere, if you are using sitemeter, then you are exposing your site visitors to being spied upon. Take care of your valued site visitors!!! I have already...<br /></div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-72675969240240662462007-04-15T22:48:00.000+05:302007-04-19T22:32:07.261+05:30Migration complete!<div style="text-align: justify;">Well it was sometime back that I upgraded to new blogger. But I was stuck with my classic 3-column-template (provide free by <a href="http://thrbrtemplates.blogspot.com/">Thur's tempates</a>), because I thought it's a waste of browser space to have only one sidebar rather than having two of them.<br />After migrating to new blogger, I started working on the new template. <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/">A List Apart</a> & <a href="http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/3cols.asp">TJKDesign</a> were of great help. But I couldn't do it alone.<br />So I started looking for a new 3 column blog template, which supported the new blogger. Well it was too early & all blog hackers were busy creating hacks. I couldn't find a template that suited my needs (like fluid middle column, first loading the main section rather than sidebars, etc.).<br />Finally I found the template I was looking for, at <a href="http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2006/11/download-three-column-beta-template.html">Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta</a>. I did the necessary changes so it looked the way I want.<br />Please use comments below if you find any bugs when loading in your browser෴</div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-56163837681215516762007-03-28T22:02:00.000+05:302007-06-02T10:31:33.239+05:30Woodpecker's headache!<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeA7LA_Eo3PLTNbytWf7jiMTqpRADOx2J9BtrefwOFKPLNDX1EkLbmy14zBo1aFAanNeBhaAbedx-D6uHimFFsP5M4Ky-U6BD8S1YFIe45d0LWXbeuEUO_2MEDrdk8Y055nLSTw/s1600-h/RedBackedWoodpecker.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeA7LA_Eo3PLTNbytWf7jiMTqpRADOx2J9BtrefwOFKPLNDX1EkLbmy14zBo1aFAanNeBhaAbedx-D6uHimFFsP5M4Ky-U6BD8S1YFIe45d0LWXbeuEUO_2MEDrdk8Y055nLSTw/s320/RedBackedWoodpecker.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeA7LA_Eo3PLTNbytWf7jiMTqpRADOx2J9BtrefwOFKPLNDX1EkLbmy14zBo1aFAanNeBhaAbedx-D6uHimFFsP5M4Ky-U6BD8S1YFIe45d0LWXbeuEUO_2MEDrdk8Y055nLSTw/s320/RedBackedWoodpecker.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046274175229515634" border="0" /></a>These are a couple of Red backed Woodpeckers or <span style="font-weight: bold;">Black-Rumped Flamebacks</span> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-rumped_Flameback"><span style="font-style: italic;">Dinopium benghalense</span></a>) I saw in my backyard. I got their attention because of the characteristic hammering sound they generate while searching for insects in tree barks.<br />When I did a web search, I found some amazing evolutionary adaptations they have for their niche.<br />They hammer 10 times a second up to 5 hours & creates a force of 30G (30 times the force of gravity) when the beak hits the tree bark.<br /></div><br /><br /><ul><li>beak is stronger than steel with a chisel like tip</li><li>neck muscles highly developed for hammering</li><li>skull is relatively thick with relatively spongy bone to cushion the brain<br /></li><li>bones between skull & beak are joined by flexible cartilage, which cushions the shock</li><li>relatively less cerebrospinal fluid around brain & relatively small brain, less prone to concussion<br /></li><li>contracts mandibular muscles just before impact, transmitting the shock to whole body passing the brain</li></ul>Read more,<br /><ul><li><a href="http://bjo.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/86/8/843">Cure for a headache, Ivan R Schwab, British Journal of Ophthalmology 2002;86:843</a></li><li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/1/image_pop/l_011_04.html">Evolution: Library: How the Woodpecker Avoids a Headache</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wvdnr.gov/Wildlife/Woodpecker.shtm">West Virginia DNR - Woodpecker Adaptations</a></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker">Wikipedia: Woodpecker</a></li></ul>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-14438483837045308292007-02-04T21:44:00.000+05:302007-03-27T00:36:04.754+05:30Are you over weight? Check it for yourself...Are you over weight?<br />Are you putting up more fat?<br />Is your new year's resolution is to loose some weight?<br />Wondering how much weight you should loose?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For this purpose, Body Mass Index (BMI) is used. It checks whether an individual has appropriate weight for height.<br /></div>The formula is; BMI = Weight in kg/ Height in meteres<sup>2</sup><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I have done the hard part & wrote the below JavaScript calculator to do it. Before proceeding any further, shall we do some calculations? Use the below BMI calculator to calculate your BMI.</div><br /><br /><iframe src="http://ranatunga.lk.googlepages.com/BMI.html" frameborder="no" height="540" width="495"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">BMI value is independent of age & sex. So all age groups & both males & females can use it to assess their health risks & it indicates body fatness. Health risks increase at both ends of the spectrum, especially at higher end. The <a href="http://www.who.int/bmi/index.jsp?introPage=intro_3.html">WHO classification</a> is used in this calculator. There is an ongoing debate, whether to have different cut-off points for different ethnic groups, specially <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14726171">Asians</a>, but still the results are inconclusive.<br />BMI itself is not a diagnostic tool. If your BMI is higher than 24.99, you have a higher tendency to have health risks associated with obesity. So in that case a doctor needs to check up whether you really have any health risks & to check whether you should lose weight.<br /></div><br />Read further on BMI:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index">Wikipedia: Body mass index</a><br /><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/adult_BMI/about_adult_BMI.htm#Interpreted">CDC: About BMI for Adults</a><br /><br />Read further on, <a href="http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/control.htm#part2" name="#part2">Controlling Your Weight</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Notice:<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Above BMI calculator was written by me. I'm not a pro in Javascript. If you find any bugs, please fell free to bring it to my notice. This have been tweaked to run on Firefox 2. It had been tested on IE 6. both on MS Windows. If you find any problems in using it on any other browser or platform, please put a comment with the problem you have noticed, and a method to contact you, to get further details if I need to. Thank you.</span></div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-13306231939211892652007-01-12T23:24:00.001+05:302007-06-02T10:25:03.178+05:30Blogger busted - part IIThe things are getting out of control.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you haven't seen the earlier post <a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogger-busted.html">Blogger busted</a>, please read it first.<br />Today I got an email from the owner of the blog that I talked about in the previous post. It seems he had got stuck in my blogger dashboard. Please see the comments in that post or <a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogger-busted.html#7398921940323875137">click here</a>.<br />Today I could login to my blogger dashboard with out any problem. Well thats a relief...<br />But not for long... I clicked on my profile to edit some details. Alas, my profile name was different.<br />It is happeing again. It's somebody else's profile. See first image below. To see the blogs he had published, I just clicked on 'select blogs to display' link. Well the next screen was even worse (second image). It belonged to another person. So now I have access to parts of three other blogger accounts. All this seems to be from Sri Lanka or at least Sri Lanka & India.<br />Still by clicking link to dashboard from that profile, i could access my profile.<br />Why is this happening to me? Hope others will not change any settings , if they have access to my blogger dashboard.<br /></div>Is any of you blogger users out there having the same problem?<br />I had no problem with this blogger account for years & it seems all these blogger accounts that I have access to are newer ones.<br />I don't know to whom I should report this to. We have already reported this to blogger support.<br /><br />Why me? Why is this thing happening to me?<br />I am posting this in a hurry, because I may not be able to log into Blogger next time.<br />Hope this will be resolved soon by Google engineers!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3hF9IICoNtk1LBH7ptONGVfkc3wwffKTErspI6bwWIF4dug9yxqUU-8C5zMReRQbri_fN3qxjPgJSbEFJke0d1VZ5pMphxxp8lCKtU8y3C8mYjEWbS7dAVuyEXDtGIvrB5DrTg/s1600-h/blog4.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3hF9IICoNtk1LBH7ptONGVfkc3wwffKTErspI6bwWIF4dug9yxqUU-8C5zMReRQbri_fN3qxjPgJSbEFJke0d1VZ5pMphxxp8lCKtU8y3C8mYjEWbS7dAVuyEXDtGIvrB5DrTg/s200/blog4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3hF9IICoNtk1LBH7ptONGVfkc3wwffKTErspI6bwWIF4dug9yxqUU-8C5zMReRQbri_fN3qxjPgJSbEFJke0d1VZ5pMphxxp8lCKtU8y3C8mYjEWbS7dAVuyEXDtGIvrB5DrTg/s200/blog4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020270847416686306" border="0" /> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWX0laut2xCWIxpntyhKTG3stAE_JBwng-_GqF46FV9WjHplceASQ0WOywqdkYUuYoeC-CZml1BkbJx2F6pVFaHjSRoyAGoOjDXLilxT01cmyBunYNt-XCgwwg0mKolXXIUfjzjg/s1600-h/blog5.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWX0laut2xCWIxpntyhKTG3stAE_JBwng-_GqF46FV9WjHplceASQ0WOywqdkYUuYoeC-CZml1BkbJx2F6pVFaHjSRoyAGoOjDXLilxT01cmyBunYNt-XCgwwg0mKolXXIUfjzjg/s200/blog5.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 115px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWX0laut2xCWIxpntyhKTG3stAE_JBwng-_GqF46FV9WjHplceASQ0WOywqdkYUuYoeC-CZml1BkbJx2F6pVFaHjSRoyAGoOjDXLilxT01cmyBunYNt-XCgwwg0mKolXXIUfjzjg/s200/blog5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020273055029876466" border="0" /></a>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-84543671448535185652007-01-12T23:24:00.000+05:302007-06-02T10:25:03.179+05:30Blogger busted...<div style="text-align: justify;">Today I had the shock of my life when I tried to log into Blogger to put up a new post. When I typed in my user name & password to blogger login page, the blogger dashboard looked bit weird. To my shock there was only one blog (rather than the 3, of which 2 are for testing purposes), & it's name also appeared to be so long <a href="http://adventuresofscottywhite.blogspot.com/">Adventures of Scotty White</a>. Then only I saw that the user's email address is different from my one. It was some c*****.s**********@gmail.com (see images below). In this account, I could do some things like put up a new post, change blogger layout, etc, etc. But it asked for user name & password again, when I tried to change important settings like changeling profile info, etc.<br />Well first I was bit excited to get to somebody else's account by chance, but when I got to know that repeated attempts at logging in to my account took me to this same account, which belonged to somebody else, I was bit shocked.<br />Well may be it's my destiny to start writing this Scotty's adventure...<br />Finally I managed to log into my blogger account, but when I typed in the URL to see the Scotty's blog (the other blog I was logged into by mistake), it still appeared as if the author of that other blog has logged in (see 3<sup>rd</sup> image below), rather than showing my email address.<br />I wonder how much our accounts at Google are secure. For it being a free service we can not expect more. And also I wonder whether any body else went through this same experience.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLmjE1HrMiDrZXTk2Bdzz_AYHVch-TiI97ezi4A87F7025sMej0TrNiYa2GV5Aeweh3ueqx7a9BdlwMEI_KwKVMAeCB4HZkCdgbIjVviIgLNXcAADD5bi1aIJz-E1mcUR097RFA/s1600-h/blog1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLmjE1HrMiDrZXTk2Bdzz_AYHVch-TiI97ezi4A87F7025sMej0TrNiYa2GV5Aeweh3ueqx7a9BdlwMEI_KwKVMAeCB4HZkCdgbIjVviIgLNXcAADD5bi1aIJz-E1mcUR097RFA/s200/blog1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLmjE1HrMiDrZXTk2Bdzz_AYHVch-TiI97ezi4A87F7025sMej0TrNiYa2GV5Aeweh3ueqx7a9BdlwMEI_KwKVMAeCB4HZkCdgbIjVviIgLNXcAADD5bi1aIJz-E1mcUR097RFA/s200/blog1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5019226216881018546" border="0" /> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1vA5Mr5ppZUJGv_gq5CbvSXqPiDPDbaQcTpfG9UtqCuwIklKhEY8feahOak5RjtM1JKLRVl12ZJ0k_SMmf_vB_8a33J2WpB28aXD3qAlMSypnM8WW74XQTBYzKiwJEG_nDXsRA/s1600-h/blog2.jpg"> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1vA5Mr5ppZUJGv_gq5CbvSXqPiDPDbaQcTpfG9UtqCuwIklKhEY8feahOak5RjtM1JKLRVl12ZJ0k_SMmf_vB_8a33J2WpB28aXD3qAlMSypnM8WW74XQTBYzKiwJEG_nDXsRA/s1600-h/blog2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1vA5Mr5ppZUJGv_gq5CbvSXqPiDPDbaQcTpfG9UtqCuwIklKhEY8feahOak5RjtM1JKLRVl12ZJ0k_SMmf_vB_8a33J2WpB28aXD3qAlMSypnM8WW74XQTBYzKiwJEG_nDXsRA/s200/blog2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1vA5Mr5ppZUJGv_gq5CbvSXqPiDPDbaQcTpfG9UtqCuwIklKhEY8feahOak5RjtM1JKLRVl12ZJ0k_SMmf_vB_8a33J2WpB28aXD3qAlMSypnM8WW74XQTBYzKiwJEG_nDXsRA/s200/blog2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5019227526846043842" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsFjDnnO819jDfjt9xlFqkYWLM8UQIjJUh5BuM2mA0NUDdYIg7w4Joo-fWu5bEottsBEb_WnBhzQQ_IuKh0cKstdqFtGnnUKF43ovitmTiu0OXeeLl0bWHKY4PFUvYjTB20FPtA/s1600-h/blog3.jpg"> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsFjDnnO819jDfjt9xlFqkYWLM8UQIjJUh5BuM2mA0NUDdYIg7w4Joo-fWu5bEottsBEb_WnBhzQQ_IuKh0cKstdqFtGnnUKF43ovitmTiu0OXeeLl0bWHKY4PFUvYjTB20FPtA/s1600-h/blog3.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsFjDnnO819jDfjt9xlFqkYWLM8UQIjJUh5BuM2mA0NUDdYIg7w4Joo-fWu5bEottsBEb_WnBhzQQ_IuKh0cKstdqFtGnnUKF43ovitmTiu0OXeeLl0bWHKY4PFUvYjTB20FPtA/s200/blog3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 113px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsFjDnnO819jDfjt9xlFqkYWLM8UQIjJUh5BuM2mA0NUDdYIg7w4Joo-fWu5bEottsBEb_WnBhzQQ_IuKh0cKstdqFtGnnUKF43ovitmTiu0OXeeLl0bWHKY4PFUvYjTB20FPtA/s200/blog3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5019228248400549586" border="0" /></a>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-36492956915945936942006-12-27T00:15:00.001+05:302007-06-02T10:31:33.240+05:30Tsunami remembrance...<div style="text-align: justify;">I was busy carrying out my usual duties, when suddenly it seemed that all the noise had died out, except for the cardiac monitor, which beeped with every beat of my patients heart. Then I suddenly noticed that all the staff members in the operating theater were standing still. I looked at my watch & it read 9.25am. The whole of country stood still for two minutes to remember the unfortunate catastrophe that reached our shores two years ago at this very moment.<br />Immediately after this great catastrophe in 2004, most of the staff members (including specialist consultants) from all government hospitals were mobilized to conduct health camps in the affected areas.<br />Below are some of the photos I took at Sainthamaruthu Hospital in Ampara District after it was destroyed by Tsunami waves.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wugGyh3tmVbaYUHExKlyb0mjzfTfCoEon_1Lhm6k6TCYolf8V0e3SIHxtP6SdU9R9clnyA7PT_-52TJf3X6i-7RxFeNkD1SRWBpn31tzjvEWad9mys33CYJGYQx4CKdaXkMolQ/s1600-h/SainthamaruthuHosp2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wugGyh3tmVbaYUHExKlyb0mjzfTfCoEon_1Lhm6k6TCYolf8V0e3SIHxtP6SdU9R9clnyA7PT_-52TJf3X6i-7RxFeNkD1SRWBpn31tzjvEWad9mys33CYJGYQx4CKdaXkMolQ/s200/SainthamaruthuHosp2.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wugGyh3tmVbaYUHExKlyb0mjzfTfCoEon_1Lhm6k6TCYolf8V0e3SIHxtP6SdU9R9clnyA7PT_-52TJf3X6i-7RxFeNkD1SRWBpn31tzjvEWad9mys33CYJGYQx4CKdaXkMolQ/s200/SainthamaruthuHosp2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012904645558001810" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVmgbp8WpRBQt3CqIgzXNjDJg03txvqd2C_ouN8lMQMX44EBFWOV2Xu2NrjWTrbjwF37chdVAMn7NEL4WQ7yn6ztHQ3B63lfwNQWM5zLe9EOHUYMFtu35SofgnPZwX4TlFdF2ADQ/s1600-h/SainthamaruthuHosp1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVmgbp8WpRBQt3CqIgzXNjDJg03txvqd2C_ouN8lMQMX44EBFWOV2Xu2NrjWTrbjwF37chdVAMn7NEL4WQ7yn6ztHQ3B63lfwNQWM5zLe9EOHUYMFtu35SofgnPZwX4TlFdF2ADQ/s200/SainthamaruthuHosp1.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVmgbp8WpRBQt3CqIgzXNjDJg03txvqd2C_ouN8lMQMX44EBFWOV2Xu2NrjWTrbjwF37chdVAMn7NEL4WQ7yn6ztHQ3B63lfwNQWM5zLe9EOHUYMFtu35SofgnPZwX4TlFdF2ADQ/s200/SainthamaruthuHosp1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012903769384673410" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-DpSoMbskRJw63WKqGy-inhxXIHVwd7-upIkRdfTHR8PE1FbMjZWhgG9vKzxuNZWmpHkPSXShwhc_plKc0CRBKJhNJKaFnhyphenhyphenI38ZnD3JqwGv_mnmSt03XNS_JIGTMrlMj-BRPA/s1600-h/SainthamaruthuHosp3.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-DpSoMbskRJw63WKqGy-inhxXIHVwd7-upIkRdfTHR8PE1FbMjZWhgG9vKzxuNZWmpHkPSXShwhc_plKc0CRBKJhNJKaFnhyphenhyphenI38ZnD3JqwGv_mnmSt03XNS_JIGTMrlMj-BRPA/s320/SainthamaruthuHosp3.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-DpSoMbskRJw63WKqGy-inhxXIHVwd7-upIkRdfTHR8PE1FbMjZWhgG9vKzxuNZWmpHkPSXShwhc_plKc0CRBKJhNJKaFnhyphenhyphenI38ZnD3JqwGv_mnmSt03XNS_JIGTMrlMj-BRPA/s320/SainthamaruthuHosp3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012905143774208162" border="0" /></a> The last photo is of an intravenous infusion bottle & infusion set with the needle & adhesive plaster (circled) which was used to connect it to the patient. It got entangled in this tree, what happened to the poor patient to which it was connected?<br /></div>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-1159808706813228432006-10-02T22:08:00.000+05:302007-06-02T10:31:33.241+05:30Busy Bees...Today morning I saw these bees busy at work. Got some really beautiful photos of them.<br />I just thought of reading more on them & found some very interesting facts...<br /><table><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/1600/Bee%26Flower1.jpg"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/Bee%26Flower1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/Bee%26Flower1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Busy at work</td><td rowspan="9"><br />Bee Facts:<br /><ul><br /><li>Belong to genus <em>Apis</em> </li><br /><li>Have been producing honey for at least 100 million years.</li><br /><li>Have 4 wings, 5 eyes & fly at an average of 13-15 mph. </li><br /><li>Stroke wings 13,800 beats/minute, thus making a distinctive buzz.</li><br /><li>Produce beeswax from 8 paired glands on the underside of their abdomen.</li><br /><li>Honey is created when bees mix plant nectar with their own enzymes & then evaporate it by fanning their wings.</li><br /><li>Honey contains about 17.1% water, 38.5% Fructose, 31.0% Glucose & Maltose, Sucrose and other complex carbohydrates.</li><br /><li>Honey supplies 2 stages of energy, Glucose is absorbed quickly & gives an immediate energy boost & Fructose is absorbed more slowly providing sustained energy.</li><br /><li>Average hive temperature of 33ºC is maintained even if the outside temperature is 43ºC or -40ºC.</li><br /><li>A colony contains one queen, 500 to 1,000 drones and about 30,000 to 60,000 workers.</li><br /><li>Worker bees live for about 28 to 35 days</li><br /><li>Bees have an unusual genetic sex determination system, haplodiploidy. Workers are produced from fertilized eggs and have a double set of chromosomes. The males, or drones, develop from unfertilized eggs and are thus haploid with only a single set of chromosomes.</li><br /><li>Queen may mate with up to 17 drones over a 1-2 day period of mating flights & stores the sperm in her spermatheca, thus she has a lifetime supply and never mates again.</li><br /><li>Queen bees live for 2 to 5 years.</li><br /><li>Queens will lay almost 2000 eggs/day.</li><br /><li>Queen bees mandibular gland produces a pheromone, called queen substance, which workers lick from the queen's body and pass along. It inhibits the ovaries of workers.</li><br /><li>When the bee stings, the stinger, poison sac and several others parts are torn from the bee's body to be left on the victim & it will soon die.</li><br /><li>Bees communicate using Dance language & consists of a dance in a circle, for indicating sources & a tail-wagging dance in which the exact distance is indicated by a number of straight runs with abdominal wagging, fewer the runs per minute, farther away the source.</li><br /></ul><br /></td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/1600/Bee%26Flower2.jpg"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/Bee%26Flower2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/Bee%26Flower2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/1600/BeeFlying.jpg"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/BeeFlying.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/BeeFlying.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Hovering near a flower, just before landing on it...</td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/1600/BeeCloseup1.1.jpg"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/BeeCloseup1.1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/BeeCloseup1.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Bees still busy at work,<br />even after the flowers had withered<br />away in the hot sun</td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/1600/BeeCloseup2.jpg"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/BeeCloseup2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5311/480/320/BeeCloseup2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643648.post-1159390152071824752006-09-27T22:09:00.000+05:302006-11-09T13:44:11.445+05:30Happy Birthday Google!<p><a href="http://www.google.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/8th_birthday.gif" alt="Google 8th Birthday Logo" title="Gogle Celebrates 8th Birthday, 27, September 2006" src="http://www.google.com/logos/8th_birthday.gif" /> </a></p>When I went to Google home page to do some searching to find some facts for my next blog post, I was surprised to see the Google logo. It's Google's Birthday!!! Then I did some searches & got these old Google Birthday logos.<br /><p><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/7th_birthday.gif" src="http://www.google.com/logos/7th_birthday.gif" alt="Google 7th Birthday" height="60" width="138" /><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/6th_birthday.gif" src="http://www.google.com/logos/6th_birthday.gif" alt="Google 6th Birthday" height="60" width="138" /><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/5th_birthday.gif" src="http://www.google.com/logos/5th_birthday.gif" alt="Google 5th Birthday" height="60" width="138" /><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/4th_birthday.gif" src="http://www.google.com/logos/4th_birthday.gif" alt="Google 4th Birthday.gif" height="60" width="138" /></p><p> </p>Google derives from Googol which means 1.0 × 10<sup>100</sup>. It's founders are Larry Page and Sergey Brin. You can read about all the Google milestones <a href="http%7C//www.google.com/corporate/history.html">here</a>.<br /><p>I wonder how much we use Google services daily. If Google weren't here, I wonder how different a world we would be in. My list of Favorite Google services are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/"><img src="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/images/logo1.gif" src="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/images/logo1.gif" alt="Gmail logo" title="Visit Gmail" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/">Gmail</a><br /></p><p>Read more about it <a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2006/06/gmail.html">here</a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://www.google.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/images/logo_sm.gif" src="http://www.google.com/images/logo_sm.gif" alt="Google logo" title="Go to Google Home" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/">Google Search</a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/start"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/logo40.gif" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/logo40.gif" alt="Blogger Logo" title="Visit Blogger" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/start">Blogger</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html"><img src="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/common/toolbar_sm.gif" src="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/common/toolbar_sm.gif" alt="GoogleToolbar logo" title="Get Google Toolbar" /> </a></p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html">Google Toolbar</a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://news.google.com/"><img src="http://news.google.com/archivesearch/images/news_res.gif" src="http://news.google.com/archivesearch/images/news_res.gif" alt="Google News logo" title="Visit Google News" /><br /></a></p> <p><a href="http://news.google.com/">Google News</a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://picasa.google.com/index.html"><img src="http://picasa.google.com/assets/logo.gif" style="width: 190px; height: 34px;" src="http://picasa.google.com/assets/logo.gif" alt="Picasa logo" title="Download Picasa" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://picasa.google.com/index.html">Picasa</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="http://books.google.com/"><img src="http://books.google.com/intl/en/images/books_sm.gif" src="http://books.google.com/intl/en/images/books_sm.gif" alt="Google Book Search logo" title="Get free fultext Books" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://books.google.com/">Book Search</a><br />Read more about it <a href="http://ranatunga.blogspot.com/2006/09/freedom-to-read.html"> here</a> </p></td> <td><p><a href="http://images.google.com/"><img src="http://images.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/images_res.gif" src="http://images.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/images_res.gif" alt="Google Image Search logo" title="Search for Images using Google" /></a></p><p><a href="http://images.google.com/">Google Image search</a></p></td><td><p><a href="https://www.orkut.com/"><img src="https://www.orkut.com/img/i_o.gif" style="width: 127px; height: 54px;" src="https://www.orkut.com/img/i_o.gif" alt="Orkut logo" title="A friends' network" /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.orkut.com/">Orkut</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="http://pages.google.com/"><img src="http://pages.google.com/-/images/logo-labs.gif" src="http://pages.google.com/-/images/logo-labs.gif" alt="GooglePages logo" title="Create web pages in WYSIWYG editor" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://pages.google.com/">Google Page Creator</a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://groups.google.com/"><img src="http://groups.google.com/groups/img/groups_medium.gif" src="http://groups.google.com/groups/img/groups_medium.gif" alt="Google Groups logo" title="Viait Google Groups" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://groups.google.com/">Google Groups</a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/"><img src="https://www.google.com/calendar/images/calendar_sm2_en.gif" src="https://www.google.com/calendar/images/calendar_sm2_en.gif" alt="Google Spreadsheets Logo" title="Get your Google Spreadsheet" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/">Google Spreadsheets</a></p></td></tr> <tr><td><p><a href="http//:www.google.com/calendar"><img src="https://www.google.com/calendar/images/calendar_sm2_en.gif" src="https://www.google.com/calendar/images/calendar_sm2_en.gif" alt="Google Calendar Logo" title="Get organized with Google Calendar" /></a></p> <p><a href="http//:www.google.com/calendar">Google Calendar </a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://desktop.google.com/"><img src="http://desktop.google.com/images/logo3.gif" src="http://desktop.google.com/images/logo3.gif" alt="Google Desktop Logo" title="Get Google Desktop" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://desktop.google.com/">Google Desktop</a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/"><img src="http://www.google.com/analytics/home/images/logo.gif" style="width: 173px; height: 45px;" src="http://www.google.com/analytics/home/images/logo.gif" alt="Geogle Analytics Logo" title="Google web traffic Analyser" /></a><a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics</a></p></td> <td><p><a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/"><br /></a></p> </td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="http://local.google.com/local"><img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/maps_results_logo.gif" src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/maps_results_logo.gif" alt="Google Maps Logo" title="See the world through Google Maps" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://local.google.com/local">Google Maps</a></p><br /><p> </p> </td><td><a href="http://www.google.com/language_tools">Google Language Tools</a></td><td><p><a href="http://labs.google.com/"><img src="http://labs.google.com/images/labs_logo2.gif" style="width: 155px; height: 62px;" src="http://labs.google.com/images/labs_logo2.gif" alt="Google Labs" title="Try new technology develped at Google Labs" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://labs.google.com/">Google Labs</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><img src="http://earth.google.com/images/googleearth.gif" src="http://earth.google.com/images/googleearth.gif" alt="Google Earth Logo" title="View World through Google Earth" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</a></p></td><td><p><a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/"><img src="https://www.google.com/accounts/google_notebook.gif" src="https://www.google.com/accounts/google_notebook.gif" alt="Google Notebook Logo" title="Make notes acesible from any computer" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/">Google Notebook</a></p></td><td><p><a href="news.google.com/archivesearch"><img src="http://news.google.com/archivesearch/images/news_res.gif" src="http://news.google.com/archivesearch/images/news_res.gif" alt="Google news Logo" title="Search Archived news" /></a></p> <p><a href="news.google.com/archivesearch">Google News Archive Search</a></p></td> </tr></tbody></table><br />For a more complete list of Google Services please visit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Directory">Wikipedia</a><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Happy 8<sup>th</sup> Birthday, Google!<br /></strong></span></p>PRanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249211690118280409noreply@blogger.com1