A crowning success

As planned both Curtin & SLIIT convocations were held on 21st Feb & undoubtedly it was one of the memorable days of my life , if not the most. I had my SLIIT graduation in the morning & Curtin in the evening.. Gosh I had to wear the heavy cloaks for 12 & half hours at a stretch & next day I felt as if the world was on top of my shoulders. Photo shootings went on till 9.30 p.m & I was so exhausted that I told myself I would never do my Msc (lolz....). Whatever it is, being a dual graduate means a lot to me as it has made me a qualified IT professional & given me the licence to demand myself where ever I step into....

My Graduation

Well , I don't wanna boast about my newest & so to say the biggest achievement of life so far, but I'm so glad I made it. I waited 4 straight years to earn this right and I doubt even god knows how much effort I put into it. Gosh… I never thought I’d have to kill myself for the Curtin degree like I did. SLIIT degree program was pretty easy going, apart from the final year research project. Anyway, I had a much needed break of couple of months after a 10 month marathon run this year. The convocation for SLIIT is due to be held on 21st Feb next year where as the Curtin one too could well be on the same day though it’s not been confirmed yet. I’m in the mood of doing an Msc. also, but I’ve got a lot to do before that. Now, don’t bother asking what they are …(hihi lolz…………)

I'm on Facebook..................

From what I have experienced so far, I believe Facebook is a better social networking website than hi5. It's kind of complecated to start with, but once you settle in, it's so much fun. It offers a varaity of applications to tell the world who you really are..

visit me on Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=729407971

I couldn't figure out a way to get direct access to Facebook profiles like in hi5. So the logic is simple. Members only.... Infact it should be friends only in my case (i.e. you have to be my friend to access my profile.) So send in a friendship request first & it'll be all fun afterwards.

I'll be back soon....................

It's like coming home every time I type my blog URL. I've been extremely busy with my seemingly never ending studies since August this year and it’s pretty embarrassing to say that I can’t manage time to peep into my blog every now and then with something new.
Anyway my exams are due to be over by the end of this month & hope to come back with a new look to my blog. Just for a hint, It’ll be more programmer specific, while cutting edge technology will always deserve its spot in this space……

I'm all set & ready to rock hi5...

I'm kind of busy these days with my final year SLIIT project and Curtin stuff. So blogging here regularly too has become bit of an issue. Anyway last week I got an invitation from one of my friends to join hi5. About a year back also I got an invitation, but i missed out somehow. This time no messing around, I got registered and built a nice profile with all sorts of css, java scripts and flash animations.

To see, about half of the SLIIT have registered with hi5 way before me and they are rocking. Geee... was I in a nutshell all this time? I could also find many of my classmates who schooled with me . Some of the images they had posted, really brought back memories of those good old days.. Those are the best days of my life by far..

All I can say is hi5 is a wonderful meeting place for guys who'd like to cherish their memories....

visit me @ http://nuwankarunaratne.hi5.com/

Bulk mails!! Spammers' best friend

For the last couple of months my gmail address was getting increasingly popular. Geee.. just for a moment I thought somebody had stolen and published my very own poem collection with my mail address . Everyday I checked mails, I had about 10 to 20 mails in the inbox from guys I had never heard of . 90% of them were promoting tit-bits in the internet. The best part of it was that my address was never there in their receiver list. At the first glance, I thought they were unintentional. But it didn't take me too long to put the thinking cap on and realise that I was getting blind carbon copies(bcc). So I picked the spammers' mail addresses and checked them against the bulk mails I got from some of my friends. Yep. I found plenty in forwarded mails.

I took a leaf out of those spammers' book and decided to bcc all my bulk mails thereafter so that no one will have hands on my contact list and asked my pals to do the same. It's pity that my super-star-inbox has been back to normal now that I have blocked most of my spammer fans, but it feels like heaven every day I see my inbox clean.