Love ( A poem by Hafiz )

Even after all this time

The sun never says to the earth "you owe me".

Look what happens with a Love like that!

- It lights the whole Sky.

-By Hafiz

This is really a wonderful poem. I think it has the real meaning of love.

UoM wins GSoC First Place

When I read my emails in today morning I found an amazing news. It's about GSOC 2008. It says the largest number of GSOCers in this year are from my university, University of Moratuwa. Hey friends, It is cool.

Read this blog for more info.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-weeks-top-10s-universities-for.html

Sir Arthur C. Clarke : A Great Man in Our Age, has passed away

When I was a child, I was fascinated by the beauty of the sky. Sky was a real mystery which hide beautiful secrets to me. Moon, sun, stars, comets, meteors, these were really great things that attracted me and saw me a path to a hidden world full of secrets, mysteries. There was one person who helped me to go beyond my imagination about space and its secrets. I began to love sky, astronomy, and was curious to find its secrets because of that great man. He was a great philosopher, a great scientist, and a great author. He had his imagination beyond many of men in his generation (many sci-fi writers has this ability). I can describe him as a great man of our age. Many technologies that changed the world were his brain children. Famous example for his ideas that used successfully in these days is concept of geostationary satellites use for telecommunications relays. Now you know who I am talking about. Your guess is right. I'm talking about Sir Arthur C. Clarke, a great man of our age.

Once I have read somewhere that science fiction is a super weapon invented by future scientist and it was invented for speed up the development of technology of mankind in order to prepare for future alien attack. (It was also a science fiction :)). Although that was another science fiction, concept of that science fiction is right. Actually science fictions written by those great sci-fi writers like Sir Arthur C. Clarke were and are really helping for the progress for science and technology. Science fictions helps science and technology to get close to common peoples without knowing much theory and complex concepts. So science fictions are really a kind of great inventions made by man. If you have read, you know that Science fictions written by Sir Arthur C. Clerk are really great. Those sci-fi novels written by Sir Arthur C. Clerk are not some fancy thinking of a day dreamer. Those novels are written on scientific facts and incidents that can happen in the future. In his every novel there is something new interesting story in there. When I were at grade 8 and 9, my pals were very addicted in reading his sci-fi novels, especially series of Space Odyssey, from "2001 A Space Odyssey" to "3001 The Final Odyssey".

I was very proud because he is a citizen of my country, Sri Lanka. He was the vice chancellor of my university, University of Moratuwa until 2004, but unfortunately he retired before I enrolled my BSc (Eng.) course in there. He was a great scientist who help the world to travel through time to few years ahead of its development. He was a great thinker who changed the world by his concepts. He was a great sci-fi writer who helped to taking science and it's concepts to common people. He is a great man. I proud to say I was living in the age of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

What I heard first in today morning, was a very sad news. That's why I wrote this post about one of great man of our age, Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Today, that great man, Sir Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. My heart shocked by that news. I know, not only my heart. Hearts of thousands of people who know the worth of this great man, were shocked by this sad news. I think he should not die, He should live more years to see how his imaginations comes true. I wish the highest and noblest wish of my religion. May Sir Arthur C. Clarke attain nibbana.

These are some of books by Sir Arthur C. Clarke I have read

• 2001 A Space Odyssey
• 2010 Odyssey Two
• 2061 Odyssey Three
• 3001 The Final Odyssey
• A Fall of Moon dust
• Childhood's End
• Cradle
• Reach for Tomorrow
• Rendezvous With Rama
• Dolphin Island
• The Fountains of Paradise
  

If you want to learn more about him go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

http://www.clarkefoundation.org/acc/biography.php

Great advice for today, anyday, and EVERYDAY

This mail I found in my mail box. It's a nice one. So thought to share it with you.

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Carry a Heart that Never Hates...
Carry a Smile that Never Fades...
Carry a Touch that never Hurts...
Carry a Friendship that Never Fails.

SinhalaKey Extension Release

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Sinhala key is a extension to Firefox which helps to typing Sinhala language. It'll be suitable for chatting, blogging and other common typing purposes in Firefox browser. Now (In version 1.0) it supports only for SINGRISH ( ea kiyanne mehema type karana eka [ typing sinhala words using English letters as same sound generate as Sinhala word] ). In version 2 , it'll support to Wijesekara keyboard layout, which is the standard keyboard for typing Sinhala.

PREREQUESITES: You should install sinhala unicode fonts in your computer inorder to use this extension. Follow the instructions on the

http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sinhala_font#How_to_read_Sinhala
and install correct sinhala pack from here.
https://www.siyabas.lk/files/SinhalaTamilKit_XP.exe

SINGRISH TRANSLITERATION:

Here is a preview of it's use for typing

HOW TO INSTALL:

IMPORTANT : If you have not installed sinhala unicode fonts and not followed the instructions at page http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sinhala_font#How_to_read_Sinhala , Do it before continuing.

1.click the link http://downloads.mozdev.org/sinhalakey/sinhalakey-0.9.0-fx+tb.xpi . Then Firefox will tell that it prevent installing software form this site. Click the popup bar in the window and allow this site to install softwares.Then click the previous link again. Then Click Install.

2.Restart Firefox browser.

3.To use sinhala singrish, Go to required text box and click on it.

4.Then,

  1.Right click on it, then select "Sinhala Yathuru Puwaruwa"->"Singrish"

OR

  2.Press Alt+F2,

to use the Singrish typing.

5.To go back to normal English typing,

  1.Right click on it, then select "Sinhala Yathuru Puwaruwa"->"English"

OR

  2.Press F2,
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NOTE:

this version still has some little bugs, as soon as i have time I'll fix it. :)

THANKS: For NiMaL(S. Nimalaprakasan)[1] for help me by sending many resource links.

For Creators of TamilKey extension, I got the idea to do this from TamilKey extension.

Any comments on this are welcome!

Happy typing!

Manjula A. Weerasinghe http://www.risingofsilversurfer.blogspot.com

Project Home Page http://sinhalakey.mozdev.org/

Addons Mirror page http://forum.addonsmirror.net/index.php?showtopic=7238

Firefox Add-ons site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6404

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Version History

Version 0.9.0 Added : 28/01/2008 : Removed bugs

Version 0.9.1 Added : 14/07/2008 : Update for Firefox v 3.0 compatibility, But this version is still in the sandbox of Firefox addon official site, But You can get it from here .

RMS came here!!!

Today, I participated a lecture from Richard M. Stallmann or RMS. RMS is the founder of GNU free software foundation. Actually what he did in those days was a great turning point of software world. It lead way to have freedom to share softwares with friends , modify as we needed for all people . He is a strange man with a big belly and a long hair. I think his some ideas are extreamist ideas. But what he started is realy great thing.
I came to company at about 8.40am to go to SLIIT for participating RMS's lecture. But we went from the company at about 10.30am. All of our training group except Nimal went to the event with Dilum ayya, Dilan ayya and and Dilshan ayya. He told us about why software freedom is neccessary and what free software means. At the end, i took a photograph with him. I also met & talked with Dr. Shahani Weerawarna at the lecture. It was realy a great experience to meet such a great pioneer in software field.
Here is photo with RMS, Me and Praithees.