Budzy

So I’m back in Tokyo and back to work. FOWA & London was fun.
FOWA: Geeks. Good conversations. Beer. Could have been better only if I could get wifi working. Speaker lineups were great on both developer and entrepreneur tracks so some of interesting sessions clashed. Looking froward for recorded media. Two workshops [...]

Spotted in a rock cafe in Harajuku.
mobile, qr code, tokyo, moblog, harajuku

So it’s happening this Thursday. See you there!

WTF is UltraSuperTube?
Select your favorite music videos and strange or interesting video clips from YouTube and we will play these on 5 massive screens.
Before the event, you can use this website to suggest your favorite videos. The more you add, the more fun you will have… we promise

youtube, [...]

I know it’s little complicated, but I have found a new love and have been mixing Miracle Wonder for her for couple of months. Now, I can’t tell you how to make Miracle Wonder, but I’ll tell you how you make UltraSuperNew.
You need,

One ambitious Australian
One crazy, talkative Dutch
One French mad doctor
One Canadian-Japanese vocalist
One American speaking, [...]

Oi Flickr!, In English, Japanese or Sinhalese? This brought a smile to my face. I like Flickr greeting me in different languages when I sign in. But shouldn’t we be more careful in deploying things like this in internationally used applications? “Oi” seem to have a similar meaning to English in a lot of other [...]

At last Paypal is offering their services in Japanese. God knows how long I have been waiting for this.
They seem to offer all of their merchant services in Japanese as well. Need to compare this with other competitive solutions.

Hard Drives. One of Maxtor 300Gb hdd on my desktop gave it up the other day. None of the project files were lost. But it took things I could cry over for days. Lesson learned. Back everything up!
On os x, Synk seem to be doing a pretty neat job.

Yep. On YouTube. Pathetic. :) Was watching Jayantha Chandrasiri’s Guerilla Marketing last night, which screamed about the relativeness of reality, all the way through. Best Sri Lankan movie I have seen lately, after Prasanna Vitanage’s Ira Madiyama.
Was actually quite better than his first movie Agnidahaya. Interesting plot. Though I thought there were few weak points [...]

Because words just don’t do the justice… (flikr set)
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3rd November. Exhibitions
Holiday here. Tokyo was crazier with all the design exhibitions this weekend. Designers Week, 100% Design, Design Tide and Swedish Style (Continuing till 15th i think). Decided to checkout Designers week at Jingu Gaien Garden (near Shinanomachi St.) Atmosphere was refreshing and crazy with talent screaming for attention. Specially Designboom had pulled [...]

Went to the Sri Lankan festival at Yoyogi park. Wasn’t alive or interesting as much as I thought it would be. Except for the food. Which was quite good unlike what they serve in usual few Sri Lankan restaurants here. They could have done better, specially if they were thinking about promoting Sri Lanka as [...]

Random stuff as of today.
Budzy – celebrated his 1st birthday last week. Silently. Even without a post!
Me – Caught a cold. Bought a nano.
Still couldn’t register for the PowerBook battery exchange program. Lazy ass. Can’t understand why I tend to ignore and postpone small tasks as simple as filling three form fields.
Happened to [...]

How many living men can make a speech like this about them selves? A speech by Steve Jobs in Stanford University’s graduation ceremony.

apple, steve jobs, speech

Have been working my ass off for past couple of weeks. Definitely need some rest and looking forward to the little outing next weekend. Staring at a monitor whole day doesn’t seem to be a good idea after all.
And on other news…

July 5th
Yours truly became an uncle. Little one was named Rovin.
July 19th
Public speaking [...]

All the cool kids can see their roof tops on Google Maps and you can’t? That’s a frustration of a kid of our time!
Anyways thanks to Google’s new update Colombo is no longer in the dark. Now this, is a Siyambala (tamarind) tree which holds a whole lot of memories.

on wikimapia

Didn’t mean to forget you Budzy, but suddenly life became bit busier than it used to be. Yes, I went back Home (Sri Lanka) for a little vacation, where nothing had changed much for last one and half years, except that people seem to smile little less in Colombo. It was fun, though had [...]

Yeap, it’s my birthday (again!). Another year has passed by. Next year is going to be one of the most exciting years my life. Looking forward, very much.
It’s a nice day. A warm day after awhile. Everybody is going out. 21st of March is a holiday here. (Shumbun no hi / Start of Spring [...]

No need to say that every web shop in the town has a hosted beauty these days. Everybody is building a fancy app, for every imaginable purpose, fighting for my daily limited online tasks (or waiting for the call from Google) . No harm, the strongest & sexiest will get me. But how many of [...]

…warmth of your hugs, memories of your great inspiring stories and happiness of your smile will be with me for ever. Remember that story of little princess and his brother, who swept the dark forests in search of their parents? Remember how they managed to scare away the thieves and save the palace while they [...]

I have been a happy Skype-out user for almost a year now, since it successfully replaced my IP phone in last May. It has become the way to keep intouch with my parents in Sri Lanka and friends all over.
And the other day our good friend Mayu managed to bribe me with a [...]

January 19th
Somehow found time for the calligraphy session at our kominkan. Refreshing times. Played with the brush like a kid. Oh, how many years do I have to wait to draw my own haiku with it..?
January 21st
Snowed in Tokyo. Edo riverbank was as beautiful as it could be… white silence…
snow falls on snow. [...]

Do people feel normal all the time?
Something went horribly wrong with me in last couple of months. Life around me seemed to be frozen all the sudden and and nothing went in the way it should have been (or it normally does) . It was like being in a really long coma.
I did really [...]

Yes, I’ve been silent… Past few week have been really ordinary, silent and cold. Except that I visited Tokyo Disneyland last week, which was quite okay and attended a “CSS Nite” at Apple Store, Ginza, where I met Kaz, Haz, … and few more new interesting people. And got to see the Japanese translation of [...]

… that’s one thing I really miss about Sri Lanka. Politics, Elections and election nights!
I don’t know if there’s any other nation where people are this much sensitive to politics. In the election season, where ever you go that’s the thing to be talking about… Everybody has got something to rant about and get involved [...]

My new powerbook shipped yesterday :p and that’s it!
I’ve never been a mac lover, (because wherever I go, that mac user have been the trouble maker in my work group :D ), but however finally they got me.
Edit:
..just been couple of days and I really wonder why I’ve been messing with windows all this [...]

I can’t believe they just took off Fish McDippers from McDonald’s menu. These people must be kidding! How can somebody cut off about 30% of a living man’s food supply, just like that!? :D Seriously, got to find an alternative now.

mcDonalds

I’ve never been a programmer and also don’t intend to be one. But I always enjoy playing around server-side stuff since the first time I wrote print “Hello world!\n”;
Last night I found some time to play around with Ruby On Rails, and successfully did a little todo list with Vincent Foley’s help. Do I [...]

Just got an invitation for a Flock developer preview, and this is to test blogging via flock.  Here are few screenshots and people seem to blogging about it at a rate of more than one post per minute at this very moment.

Jeffrey Veen’s excellent workshop on “Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps” at WE05 was just ended up couple of hours ago at University of Technology, Sydney. Though the plan was to live blog the event, WiFi was not available at the venue, probably should be because of Jeff’s recent expressions on WiFi at events [...]

At last, yesterday I could find some time to skin my 3rd mockup for this site of mine. Before that I had been working on two other summer themes which I couldn’t find time to finish by the end of summer :D. Any how here I’m online again with an autumn theme!
Still she’s not [...]