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I used today to go through the collections of movies I had downloaded and kept without deleting after watching them the first time. It does not go near some of the collections I know of, but it has some decent movies. And yes, of course all of them are pirated copies, what do you expect?

Watching them and trying to decipher their messages, a sudden realization came upon me. When would Sri Lanka produce someone like Robert De Niro? When would Sri Lanka be able to create something like The God Father? When would a Sri Lankan actor direct movies to the level of Clint Eastwood? When would Sri Lanka reach Hollywood’s 1931 by producing movies with strong messages like All Quiet on the Western Front? When would Sri Lankan movie industry start adopting good books in to movies like Of Mice and Men or when would good books be written to create great movies like 2000:A Space Odyssey? Will contemporary Sri Lanka produce someone legendary like Tarantino?

To make it short, is money the only thing that holds Sri Lankan movie industry from creating good movies?

Capitalism is criticized for destroying values of a society, reducing aesthetic abilities of humans and killing Art by making everything a commodity. It is true that Socialist societies have produced some of the best works of Art in the recent history -it has even given rise to its own paradigm of Socialist Realism-, however neo-liberalist Capitalism too has not lived up to its evil character as well. Hollywood has been successful in expanding and nurturing really good artists in its giant empire at the same time living up to the very Capitalistic values the American state is bound with. True that it has a rich investor base and a technology way ahead of most other industries, but they are only partially contributing factors to its success. The other half is the creative workforce it attracts. Neo-liberalist Capitalism has facilitated the creative to materialize their ideas in to works of art, instead of killing them.

Sri Lanka, even though officially a socialist republic, follows Capitalist ideas of the market and the other sectors of the society. It has created some of the great minds in South Asia with regard to the movie industry in the past but not anymore, not at least in the mainstream. The movies that provide a great ROI are crap like “Mahindagamanaya” or “Bindu“, in contrast to a history of work like “Nidhanaya” or “Hansa Wilak“. Movies like “Akasa Kusum” sometimes hit certain populist nerve points and create waves but those waves are not followed. Post-war movie wave has been at best “shit”. Even greatly hailed Matha doesn’t resist the temptation of copying D-Day invasion shots from countless war movies of Hollywood. The best actor award is given to Ranjan Ramanayaka, most probably for his roles like “Leader” or “One Shot“.

The alternative and the radical streams do sometimes produce great work, but are hardly noticed by the layperson. Ashoka Handagama had a great line of work, with a consistent philosophy building up right until he had to back down and produce Vidhu. “Sulaga Enu Pinisa” is a fantastic piece of work, which got banned like the rest of the others. There is a growing short-film ecosystem that usually goes unheard by the common people, people who would otherwise see something like “Ali Patiyo Oyai Mamai“.

The truth is that today’s Sri Lanka is not capable of producing the artistic wisdom that would both salvage the dead industry and produce great work at the same time. The great work are appealing only to the alternative loving niche, while the works for the layperson are utter bullshit.

Capitalism in Sri Lanka, like someone I know used to say, is not complete. It is a freak fusion of Feudalistic values and Capitalistic control.  The people still live in a Feudal society while governance follows theoretical Capitalism.  Liberal thinking is frowned upon by the “Nationalist” majority and almost always labeled as “Western”, even by the “educated” lot. Socialist ideas do not exist, instead the term is used as a synonym for Nationalism.

This kind of a society would not produce a Tarantino or a Kubrick. This society will never be able to create a market for something like Apocalypse Now. The best of the actors will be people like Ranjan Ramanayaka, and will never reach people like Al Pacino.

The movies will always be cheap rip offs of the Bollywood and Kollywood work and be colorful and vibrant as they are, with at least three interrupting unrelated crap songs sung by the protagonist. Investors will never put money in something like the couple Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, simply because they do not entertain the war-crazed majority. The person who would produce something like The God Father would not live a healthy life, because government would be portrayed attached to the underworld. This is the difference between the Sri Lankan movie industry and the Hollywood. This is why this post will sound nostalgic.

We would always have to look up to the Hollywood and the European movie industry to provide us with good art.

urgh… I forgot this one crucial fact that would’ve saved this long rant from being typed. Sri Lanka only produces movies for babies. No adult subjects will be discussed by them. The whole country is one big nursery now.

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“නෝ මෝ මාක්ස්”

අජිත් කුමාරසිරි ගෙ සින්දු කිහිපයක් අහන්න ඕනෙ කියල හිතුන කට්ටියකට එහෙම චාන්ස් එකක් ඊයෙ ලැබුනෙ ඒ ‍විදියට. මාක්ස් තව දුරටත් නැහැ.

අජිත් ගෙ ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම් අනර්ඝයි. ඒත් හැම අයිටම් එකක්ම ඉවර කරපු නැති ලී බඩුවක් වගෙ. රලු කොන් දැනෙනව වචන ඇහෙද්දි. ඒක මේන්ස්ට්‍රීම් එකෙන් වෙන් වීම නියෝජනය කරන්න කරපු වැඩක් වෙන්නත් පුලුවන්. ෂෝ එකෙන් පස්සෙ බෝත‍ලේක අඩියෙ මාක්ස් හොයන ගමන් අපි කතා කලෙත් අජිත්ගෙ සින්දු තව මටසිලිටු කරන්න ඕනෙද කියන එක. ඒත් එහෙම වුනොත් අජිත්ව හොයන්න පුලුවන්ද කියන එකත් ප්‍රශ්නයක්. මොනව වුනත් ඒ සින්දු වල තියෙන වචන ලොකු කතාවක් බොහෝම පොඩි වෙලාවකින් කියන්න හදනව. බයිල රීමික්ස් කරන්න යන කාලෙක ඒ වගේ උත්සහයක් ගන්න එක මැරෙන්න යන මිනිස්සු බේරගන්නව වගේ වැඩක්.

රාජසිංහ නාමෙන් පොඩි දරුවා වංගෙඩියට දාලා කොටනකොට බලං හිටියෙ අපි ත්‍රිලටද මගෙ සඳ

රොක් කිව්වාම ලංකාවෙ තියෙන ගොඩක් ෂෝ rich kid ජාතියෙ සල්ලි වනන දේවල්. දේශපාලනය ගොඩක් අඩු වීම තමයි ඒවගෙ දේශපාලනය. Emo කතා දෙක තුනක් එක්ක රොක් කරන්න හදන අය තාමත් ලංකාවේ ඉංග්‍රීසි රේඩි‍යෝ චැනල් වලින් ඇහෙනව. ඒව එපා කියනව නෙමෙයි. හැබැයි රොක් වල දේශපාලනය හරියට ඉදිරිපත් කරනව දැක්කනං ඒ ඊයෙ. තාමත් හිතන්න පුලුවන් දර්ශනයක් ගන්න පුලුවන් වචන දැක්කනං ඒ ඊයෙ.

හමුදා භටයට මලක් පෑගුනා, බෝම්බෙකට පොඩි ලමයෙක් අහුවුනා

හෘද සාක්සිය වතුරෙ ගියා

ගාලු මුවදොර බේසමෙන්

අජිත්ගෙ බනින්න ගොඩක් දේවල් තියෙනව. ගොනු කරල කියනවනං අහන්නෙ කවුද කියන එක වැඩි කරගන්න ‍එක බල්ලට දාල තියෙන එක ලොකුම එකක්. හැබැයි ඕවා ඔලුවට වදින්නැති සීයට අසූවට බලෙන් කවන්න යනවට වැඩිය හොයල අහන සීයට විස්සකට සින්දු කියන එකත් සැපක් කියල හිතෙන්න පුලුවන්.

ෂෝ එක මැද්දෙ සින්දු දෙකක් කරපු බෑන්ඩ් එක ‍වචන තුනකින් කිව්වොත් මෙලෝ රහක් නෑ. පොහොසත් දෙවියන්ගෙ ඔලුව කපල දුප්පතුන් පාමුල තියන්න වගේ ගැලරියට ආතල් දෙන්න කෑගහල රොක් කරපු අයිටම් දෙකක් තිබුනෙ. මෙටැලිකා ටියුන් වල ආභාෂය තිබුනට මෙටැලිකා වචන වල තියෙන දේශපාලනික ගැඹුර ඒ අය ආභාෂයට අරගෙන තිබුනෙ නැහැ. තිබුනත් මට දැනුනෙ නැහැ.

ගැලරියට ආතල් දීම ගැන කතා කරද්දි එතනට ආපු සෙනඟ ගැන කතා නොකර බැහැ. මේ සෙන‍ඟෙ බොහොමයක් එක ටෙම්ප්ලේට් එකකට දාලා ගොනු කරන්න පුලුවන්. කොන්ඩෙ වවපු නූල් බැඳපු ලී මාල දෙක තුනක් දාපු ඩෙනිම් ෂර්ට් ගහපු ටෙම්‍ප්ලේට් එක. කරුමෙකට වගේ අජිතුත් ඒ ටෙම්ප්ලේට් එකේම තමයි. ඒ රටාව දැක්කාම හිතෙන්නෙ අජිත් පස්සෙත් කල්ලියක් හැදෙනවද කියන එක. රැඩිකල් ටෙම්ප්ලේට් එකක් හැදෙනව කියන එක, එක විදියකට පරස්පරයක්.

ග්‍රීස් ගහේ මුදුනටම ගියා මම, ඇය අවුරුදු කුමරිය වෙන්න ගියා

සිංහල අවුරුදු දවසේ

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පබාවතිය මගෙ යන්න ගියා, කුසට ගෑස්ට්‍රික් අම්ල තියා

සිංහල අවුරුදු දවසේ

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රටක් වටින ඇය යන්න ගියා, වැඩිම මනාපය ඇයට ගියා

සිංහල අවුරුදු දවසේ

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ඔබෙ දෙතොල් විකුණන්න, ඔය දෙතන් විකුණන්න

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හසරැල්ල විකුණන්න

අජිත් කරපු තුන් වෙනි ලෝකයෙ රටක් ඇල්බම් එක මම දන්න විදියට හැමෝටම නිකන් අහන්න පුලුවන් විදියට බෙදල තියෙනව. අජිත් ගෙ කටහඬ රලුයි. මියුසික් අත්හදා බැලීම්. වචන සිංහල බවුද්ද ජාතිකවාදෙට වහකදුරු වගේ. ඒත් ඕන කෙනෙකුට හිතන්න පටන් ගන්න පුලුවන් ඒ වචන ඇහුවොත්.

ලංකාවෙ රොක් වල දේශපාලනිකය දැනට නියෝජනය කරන්නෙ අජිත් කුමාරසිරි. ‍දේශපාලනික කතිකාවතක් රොක් වලින් හදල රොක් අහන සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාව අතරට ගෙනියන්න නං තව ගොඩක් දුර යන්න තියෙනව. එතකං හැම රැඩිකල් ආට් වැඩකටම එන ඊයෙත් ආපු පොඩි සෙට් එකට විතරක් මේ පණිවිඩය දිදී ඉන්න පුලුවන් තව කාලයක් යනකං. ඒත් දැනට ලොකු පියවරක් තියල තියෙනව. අජිත් කුමාරසිරි දෙන දේශපාලනික පණිවිඩයට මම සම්පූර්ණයෙන් එකඟ වෙන්නෙ නැහැ. ඒත් එහෙම හරි දේශපාලනිකයක් තියෙන ගායකයෙක් ඉන්නව කියන කරුණට මම කැමතියි.

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කුල්මත් වූ පුරහඳ-

නැලවුනු ඉ‍ඟෙන්

කුල්මත් වූ මගෙ සිත

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Seeing this a lot lately

Anonymity in content publishing has been thoroughly questioned from time to time, mostly for the reasons of credibility and for the usual blunt nature of anonymous content. However it has always been the norm and the right of users to be anonymous, not for any reason but the Freedom of Expression alone. Give up this right and you give up the rest along with it.

Sinhala blogging has always had a fierce discussion about the legitimate nature of anonymous comments and blogs, that would ultimately end up protecting users’ right to be anonymous. From time to time some wise guy would stand up say that he wouldn’t take any input from someone without an online identity and if anyone to comment on his blog the user should have the “guts” to reveal who he is.

This morning I saw just that. A Sinhala blog post bringing out levels after levels of populist logic to prove that anonymity is wrong. This person, writing under a pseudonym himself points out that anonymity is just not worth it and -”surprisingly”- users should have the guts to reveal themselves if they are to say anything against him.

I’ve met this person in real life, so it is really hard for me not to come to quick conclusions for most of his logic, but I’ll try my best to dissect his text without taking his personal habits in to account.

His text begins with a comparison of the real and the virtual communities. He points out that what he calls the “ID” is identity of the online world and since it can be easily changed the anonymity is easily seen in the online ecosystem. Then he goes on to add some pseudo-logic to prove that having an ID is “so much” better than being completely anonymous.

This is friggin hilarious, especially provided that the idea itself comes from a person behind a pseudonym. One would go on to say that his is a brand rather than a pseudonym but then if that is a brand his real world details should clearly be visible connected to the brand.

The real situation is that on the virtual environment even a profile with a real name is not authentic, unless the authenticity is verified in some physical or near physical manner. Twitter and Facebook has such methods, but they are not always enforced, clearly for the massive impracticality of authenticating everyone. For this simple reason, the logic shown above does not validate at all. We are all anonymous on the web, whether we like it or not. Turning on anonymity is like punching yourself in the face.

Then this guy goes on to rant about the majority of anonymous feedback that is “harmful” to the society. He questions the backbone of the anonymous users and even goes on to excessively foolish levels to prove that “people with broken backbones cannot type comments”.

The fact about the majority of anonymous users being “harmful” to the society, I couldn’t agree more to. Most anonymous feedback is related to trolling and flame wars. But then what do these so called “users with identities” contribute to the society? Let us take a look at his own archive.

1. How he and his gang selected a brazier for one of his friends’ girlfriend in school
2. Why  new girls have to pee a lot
3. Another post on boobs
4. Apparently some asses had their skin taken off above the city of Galle (I can see how)
5. Some posts on Big matches and butts

Pretty positive contribution there my good sir. I feel like I’m trolling, so let us leave his blog alone.

Even if we take the majority of blogs, they talk about trivial simpletons like teenage love, fun time in schools etc for most of their quick burnouts. Ironically the biggest positive contribution from Sinhala blogosphere to the society came from TabooSubjects – an anonymous writer – whose blog was apparently silenced. The contents of his blog were far more rich and valuable than the junkie bullshit these ano-haters’ blogs provide. The same goes for the writers under pseudonyms today.

The point is that anonymity is the best medium of expression there is. Even when weighted with the fact that most of them are harmful, anonymity beats ten times the people with the so called “identity” who rarely contribute anything of worth to readers.

So we can let that joke aside. Let us get back to the illogical thesis.

He continues to mention the Anonymous Aathal blog (as the anonymous users’ hangout place) and start throwing stones at it. The first thing to say about this is that anonymity has nothing do with this super massive troll. It is based on anonymity but not vice versa.

He tries desperately here and there to base his illogical logic on some sense but fails miserably, like when he tries to equate anonymous users to bastards.

අවජාතක =   අව- ජාතක

අව- අඩු, පහත්   වේ

As pathetic as it seems his interpretation of the word is off by lightyears. That aside, this attempt to show some intelligence that is not there is based on his own accusation, and not on any semantic relationship to anonymity. Once again not so much of a positive contribution there.

The rest of his text is based on this one sided flame and references to dogs. Even if his extended affection to dogs is emphasized greatly let us leave that and come to the cold hard facts.

To clear any doubts here it should be said that I have been greatly trolled by these anonymous people as a blogger. So it should not be mistaken that I’m defending anonymous users. I’m defending anonymity.

This blogger might not be aware of the Electronic Freedom Frontier’s declared “Bloggers Rights” or the other freedoms attached with online user base, but they make up the crucial legal and constitutional structure of the Internet. These very rights have allowed him to express his ideas. Given that he is new to blogging and does not engage in it seriously this ignorance is understandable.

However what he should understand is that the fundamental right that allows anonymity on the Internet is the same right that allows him to publish his trash posts about butts and bra’s in a public medium, i.e. Freedom of Expression. Try to fuck that and you wouldn’t know until it has almost backfired on you. Take GoDaddy and other SOPA supporters here as examples.

The unfortunate situation of the Sinhala blogosphere from a long time is apparent in the reply comments. Most of the repliers are under pseudonyms at the same time attacking anonymity. This demonstrates that most of the said bloggers have no idea of what bloggin truly can accomplish. The majority of the blog posts are to do with topics like “can women piss like men do”, “what we did when we were in school” (no one else had this much fun I promise, NOW DON’T YOU LEAVE WITHOUT A COMMENT YOU BASTARD!) or some pure bullshit like how to cook this and that. I’m not saying that bullshit should go away. I’m saying that bullshit should be called bullshit for what they are, not promoted like Pulitzer material. It’s this ignorance that has led to a state like this, where idiots have the popular saying and shoot their own feet in the process.

The writer closes the text by mentioning that the cityfolks are the ones without the backbone, which combined with a comment of his sounds like a little bit of finger pointing. If we leave out the fact that the people who bash the cityfolk and the city’s way of life the most are the ones dying to get to the city to prosper, the fact that most fork-tongued backstabbing people I’ve met in my life are from rural areas should be of enough to understand his mentality. I’ve socialized with them throughout the schooldays, the university and on the general society. Compared to them most of the so called “posh” people from cities have far more open minds.

What I hate more than just plain stupidity is the double talk. We’ve got quite a range of characters in Sinhala blogosphere, most of who are trying to hide what they truly are. I will not do any name calling here, especially not at the verge of a another so called get-together, but most of us know what these characters are. Their bullshit can only be covered by rants like this, “I’m against anonymity”, “I’m against pseudonyms”, “I’m against eating meat” etc. It never sees an end.

I wouldn’t normally write something like this, not since few years, but seeing an idea like that bubbling up was just outraging. Now I know that this post would probably attract a large number of trolls, which is why I wrote it in English, to filter out most of the people (no offense) who wouldn’t read a long post like this (took offense? Good, because I wouldn’t have given a fuck anyways). If you’re a brave troll to conquer this long strip of Latin script feel free to release the first arrow right here. I’ve been in worse shit storms than the one coming so this should be relatively easy.

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වස්සාන දායාදය-

ප්‍රේමිය

නොතෙමී දුවන ලස්සන

හෙට නොඑන්න

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Nothing. It’s a good search engine with one of the best search algorithms. But then one can start to question some of its privacy related practices, especially personalized advertisements and stuff like SPYW. In the Internet the best solution is as good as the next best alternative around, meaning if you have a good enough alternative to a product you’re starting to despise then you’re sure to drop it and go to the alternative. That is what happened to Google in my case. It wasn’t good enough for me (and it seems there are serious consequences to personalized search results) so I went searching for an alternative.

Enter DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is a start-up (solo until 2011) search engine that builds upon simplicity and privacy. It doesn’t track you across web sites, it doesn’t record your web history and most importantly it doesn’t personalize anything. It provides the same simple search results to you, to your grandmother and to your gay cousin. It doesn’t try to build a profile on you trying to guess whether you’re a male aged between 25-30  or not.

Is Google Evil?

Probably not. I’m not sure about DDG’s business model (it has sponsored search results), but Google’s business is its search clients, i.e. us. So when we agree to their EULA thingy we submit ourselves to being manipulated so they can earn money. They don’t hide this fact. So I’d say Google is just business. Some people are happy with it, hell I’m still stuck in Gmail, some are not. And I’m of the latter group.

Pros and Cons

Pros

1. DDG is simple, and to the point. No fancy page previews and stuff to distract you from the actual content.
2. It doesn’t track you.
3. Zero-Click results are really good, especially ones from Wikipedia and StackOverFlow.
4. No Spam.
5. No auto-complete suggestions so again distraction free and prevents you from being manipulated like a rat in a maze.
6. Goodies so that you won’t miss Google Hacks
7. Contribute yourself at GitHub.

Cons

1. Didn’t find an image search yet. and no Image based search too.
2. There is a possibility that Google or Microsoft would acquire this start-up.
3. No real time search.
4. And no auto-completion comics for DDG.

Taking the Red Pill

So if you’re thinking of subscribing to the Privacy-First camp, let me help you get started on using DDG.

1. Firefox: Go to https://duckduckgo.com  and select “Add DuckDuckGo” under the search box in Firefox.
2. Chrome: Under Settings page you’ll see the Search section. Click “Manage Search Engines” and add DDG at the bottom of the list. Enter “https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s” as the url. Make it the default.
3. IE: You’re still using this shit? O_o
4. Additionally for Firefox: Type about:config in the address bar and search for “keyword.url”. Double click it and enter “https://duckduckgo.com/?q=” as the value.

That’s it. Now you’re a Ducker and no longer a Googler. Shed a tear for the decade long service you did at Google and move on.

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Dennis Ritchie, an academic who was more focused on contribution than securing market segments passed away within a few weeks time frame as Steve Jobs did but was massively overshadowed by the corporate demigod’s death and mourning. Millions of Apple fan(boy)s wept for months all over Facebook and other places in the Internet, repeating that the world lost its only noteworthy man, that Steve Jobs would even change the Heaven it self. Dennis Ritchie didn’t receive that much of a praise. Few who knew how valuable he was made sure that the his demise was noted, but there was no mass gatherings at the Calvary mountain, no mass hysteria over who would drive innovation for the world, and no Facebook display pictures dedicated to him.

Basically what happened was that Steve Jobs had millions of fanboys gathering in a cult, his personality cult, that would ultimately provide the market for his products, the computers in shiny covers (The only instances I’ve used a Mac are at some tech conventions, and I’d never deny that Apple’s design is great). They wept when their god died, just like how the North Koreans wept when Kim Jong-Ill died. Steve Jobs had created this image of a hippy tech guy who is supposed to be a rebel, which all turns out to be a beautiful masquerade for the totalitarian corporation he ran.

Steve was a major player in building a voice for a closed platform. Needless to say like making the dogs bark at the same people coming to release them, his fanboys did the majority of the work in completing this task. Apple openly supported SOPA, and to this date despises FOSS movement (although Mac OS was forked from BSD). Steve went on a pointless rant on how Android was a stolen product when his own company was founded on a bunch of stolen products (Great artists aren’t they). He had this great talent in making people think that he actually means it when he talks about stuff (especially “open web”, “freedom”, “convenience”), that he used effectively to push products like slightly better versions of iPhone and iPad. His rebel nature? My ass, he was an ultra-religious who decided to ban any app which contained pornographic material. When people who are stereo-typed to be monopolist corporate suits like Bill Gates spent a record budget on charity Steve Jobs spent zero dollars. Do we need to take in to account how he refused to provide child support for his daughter conceived out of wed-lock? Yes I’m targeting his personal life, why? because his personal life is part of Apple’s products.

The truth is one can go on talking about Steve like this for hours, but coming to the same conclusion, which Richard Stallman put into beautiful words, although a bit harshly.

 06 October 2011 (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.” Nobody deserves to have to die – not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs’ malign influence on people’s computing.

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.

RMS suffered heavily for this, but he said what had to be said. He called a spade a spade.

Dennis Ritchie on the other hand passed away without much of a calamity. He had no personality cult, he had no fanboys. Hell, he didn’t even try to wear the same “hipstor”-wear for thirty years just to maintain a market. I haven’t seen his picture on anyone’s FB display picture.

The point in this post is that if Steve Jobs had another 5 years to live he would probably have spent that time expanding the tablet market through the next iPad series and trying muffle out Flash from the web, or trying to kill Android which already seems to be matching statistics with the iPhone. If Dennis Ritchie had that time, we would’ve seen the next internet protocol, or the next UNIX (which he already took part in when creating Plan 9) or whatever the next big barrier-breaking invention through Bell Labs. Why don’t we take Dennis’ personal life and criticize him? Because it was never the product of his inventions. What he had to offer to the world had nothing to do with how he dressed.

Following is the video from the blog entry which has some testimonials from Dennis Ritchie’s colleagues.

Just like I said, have few important people talk about you.

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“මහා රාවණයාණෙනි කාලය යනු කුමක් වේද?”

“ශුන්‍යත්වය වන්නේය භාග්‍යවතුනි”

“ශුන්‍යත්වය යනු කුමක් වේද මහා රාවණයාණෙනි?”

“එද තවත් එක් දෘෂ්ටියක්ම නොවන්නේද මහා රාවණයාණෙනි?”

“එද තවද වූ දෘෂ්ටියයක්ම වන්නේය භාග්‍යවතුනි”

“මේ මොහොතෙහි තොපගේ සිතෙහි එම දෘෂ්ටිය වන්නේද මහා රාවණයාණෙනි?”

“එම දෘෂ්ටිය ගත් මෙම මොහොත ග්‍රහණයට ගත්තා හාම මොහොත අතීතය කරා දියවී ගියේය භාග්‍යවතුනි”

“නැවත වර්තමාන ක්ෂණය ග්‍රහණයට ගත මැනවි මහා රාවණයාණෙනි!”

“ඒ හා සමඟ නැවත ද එම වර්තමාන ක්ෂණය අතීතයම විය භාග්‍යවතුනි”

“එළඹෙන්නා වූ අනාගත මො‍හොතක් ග්‍රහණයට ගත මැනව මහා රාවණයාණෙනි”

“අනාගතය ග්‍රහණය කොට ගත්තා වූ වර්තමාන මොහොතද ක්ෂණයකින් අතීතයටම පත් වූයේය භාග්‍යවතුනි!”

“කාලාත්‍රයෙහි මෙම විසංවාදයෙන් බැහැර වූ ද කාලය අරභයා වන්නා වූ කාලයෙන් සීමා වන්නා වූ නොවන්නා වූ දෘෂ්ටීන්ගෙන් පරිබාහිර වූ සත්‍යයක් වේ ද මහා රාවණයාණෙනි?”

“එබඳු සත්‍යයක් වේ ම ය භාග්‍යවතුනි”

“එය කුමන සත්‍යයක් ද මහා රාවණයාණෙනි?”

“මහා ප්‍රඥාවම වේය භාග්‍යවතුනි!”

“සාදු! සාදු! සාදු!”

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කොලරාව*

ෆ්ලොරන්තීනෝට

කොලරාව!

බලං ඉඳල එපා වෙලත්

අවුරුදු ටික ගණන් කලත්

කොලරාවට වයස නැති

ලෙඩේ උඹව මරනු ඇති

ෆර්මිනා

එන්න

ඔබ එනකන් ඌ හිටියට හිතන්නෙපා ආදරෙටැයි

කොලරාවෙන් මැරෙන්න යන එකා කොහොම හිතන්නටයි

අවුරුදු සතරක්ම වෙනව

ඌ ඇඳටම සින්න වෙලා

එන්න කියල නහිනව

අර වයලීන් එක පුස් කාලා

ෆ්ලොරන්තීනෝ,

උඹ

කොලරා කාලෙ

කලත් ආලේ

කොලරාවටම කරා නේද

නිදහස නැති

සුවයක් නැති

කොලරාවටම ආලේ නේද?

ෆර්මිනාට

ගිය පණිවිඩ සියල්ලටම නැත පිලිතුරු

ෆ්ලොරන්තිනෝ

හිඳියි බලා කොලරාවෙන් මියැදෙන තුරු

එන්න කිව්වෙ

ඇයි? උඹටත්

ඒකි නැතුව

ඉන්න බැරිද

විශබීජෙත්

සුව බෙහෙතත්

දෙකම ඒකි වුනෙ කරුමෙට

එන්න කිව්වෙ

කොලරාවෙන්

මිදී යන්න හොඳ නරකෙට

ෆර්මිනා

ඊලඟ දවසෙවත්

එන්න

* Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, කොලරා කාලේ ආලේ – පරිවර්තනය ගාමිණී වියන්ගොඩ

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