Dreamsmademe Blog

It is nice to see that our theaters too now showing the latest movies simultaneously with their US counterparts. Good move because we always got perished our movie taste watching those crappy camera copies of must watch movies. When there is a hype nobody will wait years for them to come to the theaters but watch the very first copy they get. I wouldn't mind the DVD version but nothing beats the real theatrical experience. Glad now we got some chance.

Thanks Savoy, but you people have to clean up the air of the theater. Though I had a nice compay to compensate, it's SMELLY. eeyak!

The story is not that compelling (to me) but the flow of the movie and the topic is good. One or two times you can see the water is poured into a model but rest of the Digital Reality Creation was awesome, enormous and real. Best I have seen in years. I know some great creativity has gone into the movie. I would love to learn the tricks to make them too.

Make a note, this is a must see one!

Everybody(?) is waiting till Microsoft releases this critical security update to their flagship product Windows XP.

I'v been using Windows since version 3.1 and I know it took many years for them to got their basic product right when they released Windows 2000 Pro.

Everybody was blaimig Gates and the company for everything but I think that is their success what everybody was envy at. None of my business though, I respect what they've done to the computer industry making them affordable and widespread. I couln't have afford my life if I were to rely on Mac OS and their nice but pricy hardware.

Honestly I do like Windows. Don't get me wrong (you Mac and other OS falks) it is the most flexible OS when it comes to the installed software base. They are aplenty, cheap, no frills and whistles but does what they supposed to do. I have used Apple Macintoshes for nearly 2.5 years but I got fed up finding the right software for my work. Period.

When Windows XP debuted with ClearType on it is the best thing that happened to the Windows world since the colour monitor. Granted that there were no security issues.

But Windows has always been the most common target for all those viruses, exploits, malware, spyware like malicious codes of evey kind.

I have given up using IE and switched to Opera long since and learned to keep my PC out of trouble but it still takes an awful lot of my time to keep it that way anyway.

If you are still using Windows 98 or Windows 2000. Then, with this service pack release, you are quickly running out of reasons not to upgrade. XP already offers improved memory management and stability over Win98. XP is inherently better for handling video, audio and photos, than either predecessor. Despite the bad press Microsoft gets on a regular basis, XP is more secure than previous versions of Windows, even before this release. XP SP2, tightens the security belt and offers an intuitively unified security experience. But I'd sold to XP long before for the simple reason of having ClearType.

So I hope this time Microsoft will make my life easier with this more of a security update to Windows XP as Service Pack 2 goes Gold from today.

Good Luck you Windows falks!

When I looked back at my career I see that they were mostly walked in interviews. I went in, my work did the talking and I guess I did market myself well enough so people did hire me.

The places I've been were awesome. Everything was a learning. Here's the list.

• Central Finance Co Ltd - (Financial Institute)
• Lanka Medical Imports - (Pharmaceutical firm )
• Arpico Group - (They make every household thing)
• Computer Island - (Computer firm)
• DataOne - (Infomation statistics firm)
• Advatage Sri Lanka - (Advertising firm)
• Web Syndicate - (Web development firm)
• Aqucomp -(Web development firm)
  and currently
  
• Interblocks Ltd - (Software development firm)

Last month Palm Source got it's biggest blow in recent years when SONY anounced pulling off their CLIE handheld division.

I am hurt too because I initially jot down all there writings with my much loved SONY CLIE SJ33 handheld. SONY has made this device capable of competing with industry mammoths like Microsoft and HP single handedly while Palm Inc was sleeping.

And now they are out of the game. Palm devices too will soon be pushed into industry's niche place where Apple now resides compairing to Microsoft's Wintel group.

They still may have a few cards in their hands like Treo 600 and T3 line up. They are good products but late entries.

I love their OS. Instantly on, can leave where you stop, good battery life, never have to SAVE anything. Anyway without SONY I wouldn't buy another Palm device. Now I doubt if SONY will ever release a GSM Palm OS device since they got Symbian on their Sony Ericsson stake.

It all comes to a point most of Palm users like me will go for a Pocket PC or Symbian device in their next round of upgrade.

Hurt? Palm? Anyone?

Sometimes it is strange how things work out. I initially never had an idea to run a biz venture.

Though I had an idea of running a web design firm I never wanted to do the marketing stuff by myself. So it never materialised. Evan though an occasional freelance work had brought me good cash I hated visiting the customer sites for presentations and stuff. Needed a realiable guy who could handle the operations for me but never found one. May be I never looked hard enough to find one.

It all changed when Upul came along. When he and Dilum wanted me to help in this venture a completely different trade though I had no reason to stay put.

Bingo! That's how our little CDU Enterprises came to exist back in 28 February 2002. It is still in it's infancy but we will turn things around.

So wish us some Good Luck!

I've been using computers for years. Began using it with a 12" monocrhome screen which I don't even remember the brand. Had a Viewsonic 21" one in my early office. It was a from thier Professional series but made my eye painful. Too bright and when you set the brightness low the colours were not right. So I have never found another alternate monitor as good as SONY Trinitron range when it comes to monitors.

Soothing to eyes, Eastmen Kodak colours and two horizontal lines are unique to them. It's a sheer joy to stare at them considering the fact that we nearly spend 6-7 hours a day infront of them. Had been using 17" flat one upto now,

Time to time people do change their choices. When it comes to software that becomes very true for me. I start browsing Netscape Navigator back then and give way to IE whitout ever having a proper choice. Somewhere late 2002 I found out this sheer beauty called OPERA. It is still all I ever wanted in a browser. Fast and very customisable.



At their fan page I've written an appreciation. See, it's a pleasure to see my picture appearing there. Today the opera people have put my picture at their homepage.

Dancing. It was something I never thought that I would be good at. Strange that I ever came to liked it at the very first place when Rasika introduced me to it. Anyway I did and found out it's very relaxing and good workout with lot of fun after a long day. Today there's gonna be my Silver Level Exams. Still my count to the rhythm is horrible. Nonetheless I have come a long way in this. Glad I did.

Sri Lanka, the country is in chaos... My friends are migrating one by one. I just don't wanna do it. I love this country and I should be fine. But the way it's going on that I might jump into the bandwagon. politic is everywhere. Policies changing from colour to colour. Development is halted. You turn on the television every channel show some darn useless talks, politics but country's way ahead future. And now local elections. The walls are covered with posters, TVs are covered with somber faces... I HATE IT!

Some people simply afraid of it. Some just know how to type a letter and email while others knows too much they write all kinds of codes to alter the very thing. Computers.They really consumed me to a point I can never go back. Not that I have to. It's just that I wonder what it would be not to have computers around...?