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2008-11-07T06:00:00.000-08:00

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2008-11-07T05:58:00.000-08:00

Whushu

2008-11-07T05:57:00.000-08:00

The Colombo Magistrate courts today ruled that the boy who died at the Wushu tournament that was held at the Sports Ministry indoor stadium had succumbed to Internal Cerebral Hemorrhaging caused by a hit he received to the head. The magistrate ordered police to check whether the equipment used during the tournament were in line with safety regulations.

නැවතත් ලියමි

2008-11-06T06:52:00.000-08:00

ගොඩ කාලෙකට පස්සේ, ඔයාලට කියව්න්න විස්තර රැසක්ම මම ලියන්නට පටන් ගතිම්. දිගටම රැදෙන්න.

බලවත් ශෝකය........

2008-04-17T19:25:00.000-07:00

පේරාදෙණිය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ශිෂ්‍යයකු ද, අපේ සිංහල බ්ලොග් අවකාශයේ මිතුරකු ද, බ්ලොග්කරුවකු ද වූ යසරුවන් ගුණතිලක ඊයේ හදිසියේ මෙලොවින් සමුගත් බව මේ දැන් ආරංචි වුණෘ. ඔහු හෙට පැවැත්වෙන අපේ මැරතන් ඉසවුවට ද උද්යෝගීමත් ව සහභාගී වීමට සූදානමින් සිටි බැවින් මේ හදිසි වියෝ වීමේ පුවත අදහා ගත නොහැකි තරම් කම්පනයක් අප සැම තුළ ඇති කළා. හෙට ඔහුගේ දේහය පිළිබඳ අවසාන කටයුතු සිදු වන බව ඔහුගේ සොහොයුරු සඳරුවන් අපට ප්‍රකාශ කළා.

ඔහු අවසන් ගමන් යන හෙට දිනයේ ම රෑ 8ට ආරම්භ වන අපේ සිංහල බ්ලොග් මැරතන් ඉසවුවේ ආරම්භක සටහන් යසරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් හිස් ව තැබීමට සිංහල බ්ලොග්කරුවන්ගේ සංසදය සියලු සහභාගී වන්නන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා. “යසරුවන් වෙනුවෙන්” යන මාතෘකාව සහිත ව හිස් බ්ලොග් සටහනක් (blank post) හෙට රාත්‍රී 8ට මැරතන් අරඹන මොහොතේ පළ කිරීමෙන් අපේ සාමූහික ශෝකය බෙදාහදා ගැනීමට එක් වන්න.

මේ එම සිදු වීම අද දිවයින පුවත් පත වාර්තා කර තිබුණු අයුරුයි.

අත්වැල්තොට ඇල්ලේ දියනෑමට ගිය තරුණයා සැඩපහරට හසුව මිය යයි. (දිවයින, අපේල් 17 වැනි බ්‍රහස්පතින්දාල 3 පිටුව)
- දයානන්ද ජයනෙත්ති. බදුරලිය

අවුරුදු නෑගමි පැමිණ අත්වැල්තොට දිය ඇල්ලේ දිය නෑමට ගිය පේරාදෙණිය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ඉංජිනේරු පීඨයේ සිසුවකු එම දිය ඇල්ලේ සැඩ පහරට ලක් ව දියේ ගිලී ඊයේ (16 වෙනි දා) මරුමුවට පත් ව ඇත. මෙසේ මරුමුවට පත් ව ඇත්තේ රත්නපුර වෙරළුප පදිංචි යසරුවන් ගුණතිලක (23යි) නමැති අයෙකි.

සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් බදුරලිය පොලිසිය පරීක්ෂණ පවත්වයි.

මේ යසරුවන්ගේ බ්ලොග් අඩෙවියයි
http://yasaruwan.gunathilake.com/
Courtesy : blog.malinthe.com

2008-04-12T21:22:00.000-07:00

Suba Aluth Avuruddhak Wewa!

විභාගය

2008-04-03T08:31:00.000-07:00

ඔන්න ඉතින් සාමාන්‍ය පෙල ප්රතිඵල ආවනෙ. ඔක්කොමලගෙ කියුම් කෙරැම් බලාගන්න පුළුවන්. හොදම ප්රතිඵල තියෙන්නේ කොලඔ ඉස්කෝලවලට. ඉතින් ගමේ ඉස්කොල වලටත් හොද ප්රතිඵල නැතුවමත් නෙමෙයි . කට්ටිය දන්නවත් ඇති ඉතින් කමක් නෑ.මමත් දාන්නම්. ප්රතිඵල දැනගන්න www.doenets.lk යන්න

මහා ප්රාග්නියෙකුගේ නික්ම යාම.........

2008-03-23T10:30:00.000-07:00

ආතර් සී.ක්ලාක් කියන්නේ ලොකයේ අභ්‍‍යවකාශ බිලිබද මනා දැනුමකින් යුත් විද්දයාග්නයෙකි. ඔහ ඔහුගේ ජීවිතයේ අවසාන කාලය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ගතකලේය. ඔහු ඔහුගේ මනසින් ලොකය වෙනස් වන ආකාරය බිලිබද සිහින මැව්වේය. ඔහුගේ සිහින මිනිසුන් විසින් යතාර්ථයක් බවට පත් කලේය. ඔහු ගේ අවසාන ප්රාර්තනා 3 අතර ඇති "මේ විශ්වයේ පිටසක්වල ජීවීන් ඇති බවට යම් සාධකයක" යන ප්රාර්තනය ඉටු වෙනව‍ා නම් මමත් ආසයි. මෙම මිනිසාගේ හදිසි නික්මයාම අප සැමට දුකකි. මෙවන් මිනිසුන්,මිනිසුන්ගේ සිත් තුල සදාකල් අමරණියයි.

ක්රිකට්

2008-03-23T08:38:00.000-07:00

මේ දවස්වල අපි ක්රිකට් බලනවනේ.ඔන්න ගියපාරත් අපි ඉන්දියාවට පැරදුනානෙ.මේ පාර නම් ඉතින් පැරදිල බෑ.මොකද අපේ ලංක‍ාවෙනෙ හොදම බොලර් සහ හොදම බැට්ස්මනල් ඉන්නෙ. (www.cricketratings.com) මේ පාර අපි පැරදුනොත් ඉතින් ලංකාවට ස්ථාන ගණනක් පහලට වැටෙන්න පුළුවන්.

මමත් සිංහල උනා........

2008-03-15T09:10:00.000-07:00

මම නම් ඉතිත් මෙච්චර කල් හොය හොය දාපු ලිපි ඉතින් ඉංග්රීසි නේ.දැන් මමත් සිංහලෙන් බ්ගලොග් ලියන්න පටන් ගත්ත.ඇත්තටම මම ඒක කරේ උපදෙසක් අනුව.උපදෙස නම් එල හැබැයි සිංහල ටයිපින් තමා අමාරැ.කමක් නෑ අමාරැයවෙන් කරන දේවල්වල ප්රෙථඵල හොදයිනෙ.

කොන්ඩා සමාගමේ නවතම නිපැයුම

2008-03-14T08:11:00.000-07:00

‍මේ පුවත අප‍ව රොබෝ ලෝකය වෙත ඉක්මනින්ම ගෙනයනවා නෙ‍අනු මානයි.මෙහි ප්රධාන චරිතය Kondo සමාගමේ KHR2HV නම් රොබෝට හිම්වී තිබේනවා.මේ රොබෝ රජ වැඩකාරයක් බව සදහන්‍ය.ඔහුගේ වැඩ කිඩ මෙසේය.මොහුට පාපන්දු ක්රීඩා කරන්න,නටන්න වගේම වලිවලට පැටලෙන්නත් පුලු‍වන්.මොහුගේ කථා ශෛලය Robocop ගේ මෙනි.මෙ‍හුගේ මෙම දක්ශතා නිසා මොහු 152$ වෙලද පොලේ හොද ඉල්ලුමක් ලබමින් තිබෙන බවයි වාර්තා වෙන්නේ.මොහු ලොක්උ ක්උඩා භේදයකින් තොරව සැමට විනෝදය සත්උ‍ට ලබා දේ.

www.latest-gadgets.info/ඇසුරෙනි.

Metallic video watch has OLED display

2008-03-05T09:25:00.000-08:00

Video watches seem to be getting more and more common these days, and here we have yet another one from ThinkGeek. It comes with a shiny exterior to blind all and sundry, retailing for $79.99 a pop - a $20 discount off its original price.

With a full color screen this watch displays video and images very nicely with a 128×128 pixel resolution. The OLED screen is crisp and bright and the watch itself is surprisingly well proportioned (not thick or bulky). It also has a stylish band and metal case. Audio is accommodated very nicely, with MP3/WMA playback and 5 equalizer modes. A built-in microphone allows recording of notes to self, meetings, conversations or various ramblings for later playback. Battery charges via USB and sports a 7 hour play time (4 hours for video

AverMedia announces AverVision CP300

2008-03-05T09:24:00.000-08:00

AverMedia has just released its new AverVision CP300 Interactive Portable Document Camera, featuring network sharing capability that allows the presenter to access live images while controlling the document camera from any classroom or location on a school campus. In addition, this new design comes with revamped interactive software as well as enhanced image quality for a better overall user experience. The CP300 is capable of displaying documents, 3-D objects, microscopic images, and more through virtually any multimedia projector, monitor or TV in order to enhance the learning and retention rate for all classroom subjects.

PC Keyboard Finally Opens Up

2008-03-05T09:23:00.001-08:00

Sometimes I see ideas like these and I just get angry. It’s not that that product idea is so bad. On the contrary, this idea of an opening keyboard is so good that I just want to scream “why didn’t I invent that!”

After all, the idea of a keyboard that opens up into a mini-storage bin is so very obvious. If your desk is anything like mine, then you have pens, CDs, and other office supplies littering your desk space like a landfill.

So why not have a PC keyboard that opens up and stores it all? Well, most of the little junk, anyway. This is exactly what the PS2 Keyboard was invented to do. I have to admit that I wouldn’t have called this a PS2 Keyboard, because I thought it was a keyboard for a certain console gaming system put out by Sony. I believe the PS2 actually refers to the type of connectors needed to make the product work, the PS/2.

Razer Lachesis Mouse Review

2008-03-05T09:22:00.001-08:00

The Razer Lachesis is a high-end gaming grade mouse that was released late last year, catering to the hardcore gamer market. As we all know, having the best gaming hardware on the table does not necessarily translate into frags, so you had best have the skills to justify the use of this mouse. The Lachesis is a 4000 DPI mouse, which is roughly five times as fast and sensitive as today’s average optical mouse (the majority of optical mice feature 800 DPI resolution), and is also ahead of the gaming mice crowd that tend to stop at 3200 DPI. Read on more of the review after the jump.

Electrolux 36″ Induction Cooktop

2008-03-05T09:19:00.000-08:00

Electrolux has a brand new 36″ induction hybrid cooktop to decorate your home - and this time it features a couple of induction zones as well as three electric elements. This means you’ll benefit from precise temperature control with a peak power of 3.2 kW that boils water in just 90 seconds, while the 6″ induction cooking zone has maximum power of 1.5 kW. Other features include Power Assist function, Sabbath Mode and Hot Surface indicator lights - no idea what Sabbath Mode is, does it mean it will just shut down throughout the entire Sabbath to ensure that no work gets done? This 36″ hybrid cooktop will retail for $2,000.

2008-02-19T09:01:00.000-08:00

Last but not the least, Sony has taken the wraps off its latest NV-U71T nav -u handheld GPS system, which, according to me, is not quite as fancy as those new-fangled NV-U80 & NV-U81T units that were shown off by Sony last month. Yet the latest NV-U71T nav-u handheld GPS system clutches the entire GPS vitals into 3.5-inch touch screened unit, and perhaps is all set in time for the holidays just like its big brothers.

2008-02-17T04:18:00.000-08:00

Triple Your Wi-Fi’s Signal Strength With Wi-Fire

hField Technologies’ Wi-Fire is a compact high-performance USB Wi-Fi Adapter for Mac and PC that extends the Wi-Fi range upwards of 1,000 feet. Being a college student, I am blessed with a blanketed campus, offering a strong Wi-Fi signal wherever I go, right? …. Well, wrong. Dreaded dead spots exist and, to my dismay, my dorm room seems to be the epicenter of a dead spot, a barren wasteland of former Wi-Fi signal.

My solutions included hardwiring—too easy. Setting up a router? Forbidden. And as this epic conundrum reached a head, an epiphany hit me like a ton of bricks (as they tend to do). However, this epiphany came in the form of a small device called the Wi-Fire from a startup company that I had never heard of. The device triples the power of the internal receptor, making it virtually impossible not to get a signal, regardless of where you are.

2008-02-17T04:16:00.000-08:00

Canon EOS-1D Mark III Has Live-View LCD

Canon has announced its latest professional DSLR body, the Canon EOS-1D Mark III. Not only is it Canon’s first DSLR with live-view LCD, it is also capable of bursting 10 whooping frames per second. That’s the fastest ever on a DSLR!

Canon claims that its new sensor is their most light-sensitive ever, reaching up to an ISO of 6,400. Its APS-H sensor size with 1.3x fov crop remains the same as its predecessor, the EOS-1D Mark II (not to be confused with EOS-1Ds Mark II which is full-frame).

And another less surprising feature is the EOS Integrated Cleaning System, which vibrates the sensor for 3.5 seconds, shaking off any dust stuck on it.

Other Features:

10.1-megapixel
Dual DIGIC III image processor engine
3-inch LCD with live-viewing
45-points AF module, with 19 of them being high-precision cross-type
New LC-E4 Lithium-ion battery pack for up to 2200 shots per charge

Price has yet been announced, but Canon says it’ll be similar to that of the EOS-1D Mark II. It should start hitting shelves sometime in Spring. Pro-shooters using EOS-1D Mark II, start saving now!

2008-02-15T11:41:00.001-08:00

Self-inflating key ring Davis Key Buoy

The ultimate key fob for boaters! When keys fall in the water, Key Buoy self-inflating key ring opens up, releasing an air tube which inflates automatically. Within 30 seconds, your keys rise to the surface, and the 14" (47 cm) inflated tube extends above the water, allowing you to reach over and pick them up.

2008-02-15T11:38:00.002-08:00

USB rechargeable battery USBCELL

This NiMH AA cell can be used like a normal battery and can be recharged simply by plugging into a USB port.

2008-02-15T11:38:00.001-08:00

Bizarre Electric Bulb : Lamp

An electric bulb with a dummy cap. You'll be embarrassed with a lighted electric bulb directly stuck to the socket.

JBL Kawasaki ZX10RBike

2008-02-15T11:23:00.000-08:00

JBL Kawasaki ZX10R

This Kawasaki ZX10R is not your standard motorcycle. It has 12 loudspeakers with 1,500 watts of output, two iPod’s, a Sony PSP, a flat screen with DVD and remote control, a connection for an electric guitar.

cre8txt Keyboard

2008-02-15T07:32:00.001-08:00

If you're a person who prefers to write a sms instead of talking on cellphone, then take a look at this pretty-bad-idea gadget.

This gadget, called cre8txt keyboard was designed specially for SMS users with familiar button set like on cellphone keypad.It's essentially a keyboard that lets you type like you do on a cellphone, but on a computer. You can plug it into any PC, MAC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

This gadget can also translates the text slang into the real actual English language.

Sony Ericsson Releases latest walkman phone “W880i”

2008-02-15T07:28:00.000-08:00

Sony Ericsson has just released its latest walkman-phone, showcasing the Sony Ericsson W880i.

Slim Walkman®. Fat sound.
Funnel your favorite music into the ultra slim W880i Walkman® phone. Store up to 900 tracks - enough to give your musical taste buds whatever they fancy.
Music in style
9.4mm thin and with a casing of stainless steel: the W880i is ready to rock. And the Walkman® player 2.0 is never more than a click away.

Full Walkman® kit
The W880i kit contains all you need for a full musical experience. It includes a stereo handsfree, PC software and a 1GB Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™).
Shortcuts to more music
Click the PlayNow™ icon to browse the latest hits. Or check out potential future megastars at m-buzz.com, a site for unsigned artists.

Screen

* 262.144 color TFT
* 240×320 pixel

Memory

* Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support
* Phone memory 16MB*
*Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration.

Networks

* GSM 900
* GSM 1800
* GSM 1900
* UMTS 2100

Available colours

* Steel Silver
* Flame Black

Sizes

* 103 x 46.5 x 9.4 mm
* 4 x 1.8 x 0.4 inches

Weight

* 71 gr
* 2.5 oz

Sony Cyber-Shoot DSC800

2008-02-15T07:10:00.000-08:00

Sony has announced the new 8.1 Megapixel Cyber-Shoot S800 digital camera, offering a 6x optical zoom that restracts into the camera body just like those 3x optical zooms do, coming with 2.5-inchi LCD monitor, Direct Playback mode, 54MB of internal memory and many more features included.

Sony DSC-S800 key features:

8,1 effective megapixels
6x optical zoom, 12x digital zoom, up to 30 smart zoom
ISO 1250 high sensitivity (REI) for shooting in low-light situations
Large 2.5-inch (6.2cm) LCD screen
Silver full metal body, compact design
56MB internal memory
High quality Sony lens
2cm macro for close-up shooting
Easy operation with an on-screen function guide
16:9 mode for playback on a widescreen TV
Motion-JPEG (30 fps movie mode with audio)
PictBridge for direct connection to printer without need for PC
STAMINA battery life, up to 390 shots (CIPA standard with LCD screen on)
On-screen menu in choice of 15 languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Supplied with: 2x NiMH rechargeable batteries, charger, AV & USB cables, wrist strap and

Electronic Arts

2008-02-13T09:30:00.000-08:00

Electronic Arts (EA) (NASDAQ: ERTS) is an American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games. Established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for their games. EA was just a publisher for its first few years and exclusively published for home computers, but began developing games in-house in the late 1980s and started supporting consoles in the early 1990s. Also in the 1990s, EA began to expand by acquiring several successful developers and, as of the early 2000s, EA has become one of the world's largest third-party publishers, with a net revenue of US$3.129 billion for its fiscal year March 31, 2005.Currently, the company's most successful products are sports games published under their EA Sports label, games based on popular movie licenses and games from long-running franchises like Need for Speed, Medal of Honor, The Sims, Command & Conquer and the later games in the Burnout series.

EA headquarters in daylight

අනේ මට උදව්වක් කරන්න.

2008-02-13T09:09:00.001-08:00

අනේ මට උදව්වක් වශයෙන් මෙහි ඇති ඇඩ් වලට ක්ලික් කරන්න.

Foreign exchange market

2008-02-13T08:41:00.000-08:00

The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The average daily trade in the global forex and related markets currently is over US$ 3 trillion. Retail traders (individuals) are a small fraction of this market and may only participate indirectly through brokers or banks, and might be subject to forex scams.

Market size and liquidity

The foreign exchange market is unique because of

its trading volumes,
the extreme liquidity of the market,
the large number of, and variety of, traders in the market,
its geographical dispersion,
its long trading hours: 24 hours a day (except on weekends),
the variety of factors that affect exchange rates.
the low margins of profit compared with other markets of fixed income (but profits can be high due to very large trading volumes)

As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal perfect competition. According to the BIS,^[1] average daily turnover in traditional foreign exchange markets is estimated at $3.21 trillion. Daily averages in April for different years, in billions of US dollars, are presented on the chart below:

This $3.21 trillion in global foreign exchange market "traditional" turnover was broken down as follows:

$1,005 billion in spot transactions
$362 billion in outright forwards
$1,714 billion in forex swaps
$129 billion estimated gaps in reporting

In addition to "traditional" turnover, $2.1 trillion was traded in derivatives.

Exchange-traded forex futures contracts were introduced in 1972 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and are actively traded relative to most other futures contracts. Forex futures volume has grown rapidly in recent years, and accounts for about 7% of the total foreign exchange market volume, according to The Wall Street Journal Europe (5/5/06, p. 20).

Average daily global turnover in traditional foreign exchange market transactions totaled $2.7 trillion in April 2006 according to IFSL estimates based on semi-annual London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore Foreign Exchange Committee data. Overall turnover, including non-traditional foreign exchange derivatives and products traded on exchanges, averaged around $2.9 trillion a day. This was more than ten times the size of the combined daily turnover on all the world’s equity markets. Foreign exchange trading increased by 38% between April 2005 and April 2006 and has more than doubled since 2001. This is largely due to the growing importance of foreign exchange as an asset class and an increase in fund management assets, particularly of hedge funds and pension funds. The diverse selection of execution venues such as internet trading platforms has also made it easier for retail traders to trade in the foreign exchange market. ^[4]

Because foreign exchange is an OTC market where brokers/dealers negotiate directly with one another, there is no central exchange or clearing house. The biggest geographic trading centre is the UK, primarily London, which according to IFSL estimates has increased its share of global turnover in traditional transactions from 31.3% in April 2004 to 32.4% in April 2006. RPP

The ten most active traders account for almost 73% of trading volume, according to The Wall Street Journal Europe, (2/9/06 p. 20). These large international banks continually provide the market with both bid (buy) and ask (sell) prices. The bid/ask spread is the difference between the price at which a bank or market maker will sell ("ask", or "offer") and the price at which a market-maker will buy ("bid") from a wholesale customer. This spread is minimal for actively traded pairs of currencies, usually 0–3 pips. For example, the bid/ask quote of EUR/USD might be 1.2200/1.2203 on a retail broker. Minimum trading size for most deals is usually 100,000 units of currency, which is a standard "lot".

These spreads might not apply to retail customers at banks, which will routinely mark up the difference to say 1.2100 / 1.2300 for transfers, or say 1.2000 / 1.2400 for banknotes or travelers' checks. Spot prices at market makers vary, but on EUR/USD are usually no more than 3 pips wide (i.e. 0.0003). Competition is greatly increased with larger transactions, and pip spreads shrink on the major pairs to as little as 1 to 2 pips.