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Tropical storm or free car wash?

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I haven’t had to wash the car in weeks. It just keeps raining down and keeping the poor car washers from decent work.

In other news I’m never freaking buying an assembled computer from Unity Plaza ever again! I bought one a few months ago an Atom. It was rigged from the start. First it came in a cute small case that makes a ton of fan noise for an Atom. Then the Samsung monitor didn’t work with the boxed power cable. I like Samsung but touch controls are not going to last long. Its just a monitor put some buttons on it!

Oh and that HP branded keyboard and mouse with 6 months warranty… the keyboard didn’t work!

I asked for Linux but they insisted on putting some bootlegged Windows XP in there that blew up in my face after a few updates. Not genuine eh? Format… Ubuntu 10.10. Its going to be fine now.

Here is an interesting video. Keep your goals to yourself.

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Its the end of the year. Looking back I want to believe I made good this year. I came down and just started working out of the spare room staring at a white wall. Now we have an office with a tree-top view mostly thanks to my wonderful wife. Who convinced me to build it without buying that nicer car. There are 4 more working with me and we have a water cooler. If there aren’t many power cuts we can make this work.

As for next year, watch the video, I have nothing to say ;)

So Much for 2009

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Hope you enjoyed my moving to Australia posts, cause just after posting those I moved back to Sri Lanka. I won’t get into “moving back to Sri Lanka” cause its pretty painful and I’m sure no one will want to read it.

Why move back? Well although its a bit crappy here most of the time its home, and with the end of the war one can hope again. Here are a few first impressions of Sri Lanka for someone returning after a few years.

Driving has got worse and kind of easier. Before there were only a few idiots who drive bad, now everyone does, so you go with the flow and try not to hit anything.

Everything is more expensive. The quality of products are lower. A bar of soap has been carved in so many creative ways now its about half the weight at the old price.

There seems to be a few new local products trying to fill in the gaps of more expensive imports so that’s kicked off a bit of business.

Everyone seems to be doing more business than going to a 9 to 5 job.

2009 has been a decent year. I’m still working so I survived the recession. I thought coming down in time for the holidays would be a great idea, but this season was a bit damp and low-key. Not my kind of Christmas.

Most of the time I feel very few reads this. Since I got down I’ve spoken to a few people and it seems a few more do. So I’ll try to post a bit more often even if its not too technical.

By the way if anyone is hiring Java people drop me a line I know a decent J2ME developer looking for work.

Breaking the ice

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I’m not really a writer. I prefer to code 100 lines than actually put down a sentence. But the blog thing was hot and I’m glad I jumped in the bandwagon at the time. I was once introduced as;

a fellow blogger that blogs now and then

and that fits me.

I’ve seen more than a few people fold up and shutdown their blogs in the last year or so. I’ve thought about it too but this thing costs me next to nothing to keep and so what if I don’t blog as often.

It’s good for a cubicle code monkey like me to have a public channel, even though only 12 Kottu visitors read me sometimes :)

A lot has changed for me in the last year or so. I’ve moved to Australia, and we had our first born here. Well thats 2 things if I say it like that, but its a world of change.

So I think its fair that I didn’t have the time to put down some words in a while, but anyway I’m back.

2008

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It was a good year. In January I came down to Australia for the first time for a holiday to get a feel of the place. Got to see some cool cars and animals :)

In February I was deciding to move to Australia. With a baby on the way and the house going through a renovation it was a tough call. The decider was the ever deteriorating state of the country and quality of life.

March to May it was visa forms and waiting for a word from Aussie immigration.

June was packing and sadness for leaving family behind.

Then it was resettlement in Australia. My friend here was so helpful and supportive that we got settled in quite fast.

More waiting in July and we had our moms visit in August just in time for our baby. She has definitely been the highlight of the year. The next few months was a blur with little sleep.

When Obama got elected in November I was happy. If he can materialize some of his flair in speech to action the whole world could benefit from it.

The rest of the year has been between just work and home. Christmas was just colored lights without the rest of the family. :(

Then again good year.

The long lost post

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Its been a while. Looks like I’m not going to get around to writing the long post about how I moved out of Sri Lanka and how the grass is greener in Australia and stuff.

Well I moved the grass is about the same, just colder since its winter down here. Almost everyone I talked to so far thinks it was a good move. So far so good, its not home but its quiet and stuff don’t blow up. This will do for now.