Off on a Tangent ~ හිතුමතේ හී සර

Oranges are awesome. They're tangy, sweet, packed with vitamin C, and ah yes not that expensive :) Also Oranges dont go bad soon. Which is why I bought a whole 2kg bag of yummy Oranges the other day. So today, I decided to make a juicy Orange cake. There are hundreds of Orange cake recipes on the internet, and I followed this one here . I did make some changes though: I added only about 100g butter instead of the 125g since someone had commented the cake was a little heavy, and I needed a light airy one. And I added a spicy twist by adding some freshly grounded cinnomen and nutmeg (warning : too much of nutmeg will make you tipsy) Plus, I used a little more Orange zest and juice than is called for in the recipe. And... the reuslt is: A lovely golden Orange cake baked just right :) Instead of icing, I punctured the cake while still warm and poured Orange syrup all over it. Let it soak in for a few minutes, and enjoy with some hot tea, or with a dollop of whipped crea...

I have been playing around with Android lately, and one thing that annoyed me is the emulator does not support Bluetooth (as opposed to J2ME emulator, which does). So if you do not have an actual Android device (like me), and you want to do Bluetooth/WiFi programming, you run in to a problem. Fortunately, there is a way out - Install the Android image on a VM and use your own Bluetooth device. This is what I did: Download Androidx86 from http://www.android-x86.org/ . This is an .iso file, so you'd need something like VMWare or VirtualBox to run it. Me, I use VirtualBox. When creating the virtual machine, you need to set the type of guest OS as Linux instead of Other. After creating the virtual machine, set the network adapter to 'Bridged'. Start the VM and select 'Live CD VESA' at boot. Now you need to find out the ip of this VM. Go to terminal in VM (use Alt+F1 & Alt+F7 to toggle) and use the netcfg command to find this. Now you need open a command...

I wish I'd listened when they told me that I shouldn't wear my heart on my sleeve...

This is a question that many people ask me. And one that I ask myself, in those wee hours of the morning when I am trying to finish writing a paper before a deadline. (I'm sure you're wondering what the Heath Photos at the top has got to do with any of this. No I'm not a crazy fan. Well. I am. Just not crazy. not that much. Anyway I'll get to that at the end) I know that some people do a PhD just for the sake of doing it - as in a pay raise or a promotion in the academical career. But in my case I did not even have an academical career, being employed in the industry for more than 2 years before I started on my doctorate. So why? Well, I got bored in the industry. And I wanted to do research. To have a career as a 'Researcher', you need to prove to your prospective employers that: a) you are capable of spending months tackling an interesting yet difficult problem b) you have patience and perseverance to learn from failures c) you're di...

From an email I received: Too funny not to share~ " නෑ නෑ මල්ලි , තමුසෙලව ඇතුලට ගන්න බෑ . දන්නෙ නැද්ද ඕයි , දැන් අපිටත් එක්ක දඩ ගහනවා " බස් කොන්දොස්තර මොරදෙන්නට විය . " අනේ අයියෙ මම ඉක්මනට බැහැලා යන්නං ..." " ඔන්න ඔහෙ ඇතුලට ගනින් බං ..." ඒ බසයේ රියදුරුය . " හා හා නගිනවකෝ එහෙනං , අනේ මංද ඕයි තමුසෙලත් " මූණ පුරා රැවුල වවාගත් , බෝතල් අඩි කණ්ණාඩි දමාගත් කොල්ලෙක් බසයට ගොඩවිය . ගංජා ගැසූවෙක් මෙන් එහෙට මෙහෙට පැද්දුන ඔහු , සතියක් පමණ නොනිදා සිටියකු මෙන් සෙස්සන්ට දිස්විය . ටී - ෂර්ට් එකක් හා ඩෙනිමක් ඇඳහුන් ඔහුගේ කරේ බෑගයකි . උරහිසේ තවත් බෑගයක් වූ අතර එහි ඉදිරිපස පොකට්ටුවට අත දැමූ ඔහු එළියට ගත්තේ විරිඳු රබානකි . උගුරේ රැල් බුරුල් හැර සියලු දෙනාටම මංද හිනාවක් පෑ ඔහු , රබාන වාදනය කරන්නට ගත්තේය . ඩං රඟර්ර්ර්ර් ටං ඩං රඟර්ර්ර්ර් ටං // සරසවි නැත වරම් දීල තාලෙට කවි පද කියන්න [ ඩඟරං ටං ..... ඩඟරං ටං ..... ] ගණදෙවි නැත නුවණ දීල හරි පාරක් හොයා ග...