Raditha's Photos

Jasmin

raditha — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:04:16 +0000

Kataragama

raditha — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:31:02 +0000

Devotees braving the weather at the famous shrine in Kataragama

Back from the dead.

raditha — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:34:18 +0000

Has it already been two months since I thought out loud about reviving this blog, instead of reviving the site was actually offline for three days! but I don’t think anyone would even have noticed cause the site get’s very little traffic nowadays due to the lack of updates.

What exactly caused the outage is described at the Site With the LAMP. in short it was because a massive spike in demand for amazon EC2 spot instances.

I had a bit of trouble recovering because I hadn’t maintained proper backups but fortunately google cache always came to the rescue.

Revival

raditha — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:57:35 +0000

Well it’s been six months, more than six months since the last post and it’s high time for a revival. By the way have you noticed how some blogger go silent for months and even years on end and then suddenly make an announcement that they are going to start blogging again? Well most of those people don’t post another post ever again! Let’s see if this turns out to be like that.

Two Leaves and a Bud

raditha — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:56:06 +0000

To make the best tea, you need to pluck just two leaves and a bud from a tea bush. The leaves should not be too mature either. There’s only one way to do it, by look and feel. Each day, hundreds of thousands of a workers across Sri Lanka pick millions of these sets of two leaves and a bud to produce the finest Ceylon Tea, which of course also happen to be the finest tea in the world. That begs the question how do they do it in other countries? using machines of course. Those machines pluck not just the two leaves and the bud but a bunch of leaves and a few twigs as well.

Crested Serpent Eagle

raditha — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:00:05 +0000

I did not go deep into some jungle to capture this photo of a Crested Serpent Eagle. No siree, it was just shot from my window in Battaramulla. We only a Kilometer from the town center. Despite the efforts of successive governments and countless people, there are a few trees still left standing in this neighbourhood, and sometimes they attract beautiful and rare creatures such as this.

Tool Box

raditha — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:53:07 +0000

Cattle Egret

raditha — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:50:48 +0000

An Egret, and I think a Cattle Egret.

Instrument Cluster

raditha — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:45:43 +0000

Ever wondered what the back of the instrument cluster on your dashboard looked like? This the cluster from an e32 a few of the bulbs are missing.

Ban this porn.

raditha — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:44:29 +0000

Came here looking for porn? sorry there’s only food porn, and not enough to go round either.

The Telecom Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka has acquired a new habit; they goto courts every week with a list of domains names that are supposed to be full of pornographic content and ask that they be banned. The court then gives an order which the country’s internet service providers and telcos have to obey – by blocking those sites. One wonders whether the TRC guys opens each and every one of the sites in their list in a browser and demonstrate that it is indeed porn. It would be interesting to know if they food porn is something they would consider banning. Since they no longer publish the list of sites that have been banned, there is only one way to find out.