I could be wrong, you know.
You can check the quality and speed of your internet connection with speed.io. Here’s what I got; overall quality: less good 
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Google has release their open source browser and I gave it a try yesterday. It’s based on the Mozilla framework.
It took only a couple of minutes to download and install the browser. I came across a couple of awesome features while clicking around the browser.
Just added a new theme to my blog; how does it look? I also upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.6.1.
We had the final examination paper today – Public Administration. It was kind of OK, better than I expected 
. We were supposed to have local selections for the ACM ICPC team, but the competition got postponed *again* 
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So with the exams finished I now have some free time to enjoy and once the ACM team selections and the work in the Binaural Beats project are over (hopefully mid next week). I can do some programming stuff 
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I haven’t been able to blog for a while, since I’ve been kind of busy during the last two months; also, I didn’t have anything much to write about . Anyway here’s what I’ve been doing during the last few months.
Work in the Google Summer of Code project (XPath support to Axis2/C) went on smoothly, but I had to work for about 30hrs in some weeks to keep up with the schedule. The coding phase of the GSoC project ended a few days ago and the final evaluation deadline is on 1st of September. I was able to finish all the coding a week before the deadline, except for the memory leak which I encountered only two days before the end of the coding phase; however, with some debugging I managed to fix that as well.
I was working on an interesting (and fun) project in a group of 10 to develop a portable device to generate binaural beats. We used a PIC microprocessor (PIC16F877A) to generate the waves. We faced some difficulties in programming (processing had to be very fast when high frequency waves are generated), because we could not find a synthesizer to generate the sine waves.
Apart from those I spent quite some time with badminton and tennis (even though I’m not very good at them ).
Now I need to get back to writing the problem statements for the NSSC selection test. 
Day before yesterday, I was watching the IPL twenty-twenty cricket match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. Thanvir, from Rajasthan Royals, has the best balling records in the tournament and he’s got a unique balling action. He’s got his own style. Perhaps, if he had been into training with a traditional coach since he was small, he might have had an ordinary balling action – what his coach considers as the best.
Most of the teachers and trainers try to teach you what they consider is the best method, not the one that suits you best; they might even want you to change you style, if it’s not what they think is the best. This is not something that apply only to cricket or sports, but for all professions. The folly in this system is that not everyone is the same – everyone is neither the best nor the average. There are differences between individuals.
I’ve seen teachers asking students to study continuously at a moderate rate, so that you don’t have to cram hard nearing the final examinations; however this is not the most productive approach for some students. Cramming a couple of days before the examination is much more effective for certain students than to revise daily throughout the course.
Therefore trying to do something the way all the others do might not be the best approach for you. You should learn how others do it, observe, try, and find your own way; an identical method, a combination, or a completely new style. May be you’ll have to ignore your trainers occasionally, but it’ll be for your own good.
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Great Britain has made their UFO files available to the public in their national archive. You can find them here. But, I think they haven’t released some classified information.
USA might also follow UK’s path and make their UFO files available to the public in the future; Scully and Mulder will have to change their job roles.
Some statistics of Google Summer of Code 2008 have been released. Sri Lanka is placed 9th in the top ten countries by the number of applications and by the number of accepted students.
Seems like Sri Lanka is way into open source development and probably this trend will increase.
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