THE CRACK

After I read the anonymous comment about smart Tamils living in Malaysia and Singapore on the blog post “How many of you out there support the LTTE” on Kalharie’s blog I thought I have to write this.

As Sinhalese do we introduce each other by the terms Colombo Sinhalese, Galle Sinhalese or Ampara Sinhalese? No. But the commentator is talking about ‘Jaffna Tamils’. Why don’t he/she use the word ‘tamils’ to tell about those smart people? Because tamils from Jaffna including Prabakaran think they are superior among the tamils on other areas.

According to Karuna that’s the reason he broke up with the LTTE. It may be true that many tamils from south and east are supporting the LTTE to fight for a separate country with the hope that all their problems will be solved in a tamil eelam. But I’m sure if there’s a tamil eelam their problems become more worse.

You may think how can someone tell like this after reading a comment on some blog post but this is only a single experience among thousands of the same kind. In my university everyday I witness how those ‘Jaffna tamils’ behave with other tamils. Honestly I don’t have close relationship with the tamils but I can see how they are separated.

So at the end I like to know your opinion specially from the tamils because they are the people who knows the reality.

Here’s the anonymous comment :

Tamils have been suffering under a racist and deliquent goverment. Worst things are about to come. The LTTE has also attacked a naval detachment. Hatered is one full circle. Nazis/Japanese tried it and got what they deserved in return. Likewise you will too.

The Tamils in the South fear to openly support the tamils but most in their heart do. They would opely support them if they had their sister raped or family killed or they themselves beaten.

If there is a tamil eelam then all the problems for the tamils will be solved but how about the sinhalese and rest. You need to go back to the muslims like in 1915 and burn and loot them.

Sri Lankan economy is failing. The country is on its knees for world aid.

The richest man in malaysia is a Jaffna Tamil. He is Ananda Krishnana who just bought telco shares in Sri Lanka. The Jaffna tamils are probabily the richest people in Malaysia per capita.

SIA- Singapore Airlines was build up by JYM Pillai a Jaffna tamil. Its the No 1 airline in terms of profit He was also behind Singapore stock exchange now and DBS - one of Asia’s largest bank.

Singapore Airport and Seaport is build up by Dr Vijayaretnam who is also a Jaffna tamil. Both are No 1 in the world.

Rajaretnam who was Singapore deputy prime minister was also a Jaffna Tamil. He made prima setup the only flour manufacturer in Sri Lanka. He was hounered with a state funeral which 2 former presidents of Singapore did not get.

Presently the Singapore PMs right hand man is tharman shamugaretnam and the man behind Singapore central bank which the pm heads.

I got a comment from a guy called Greg for one of my previous posts, “Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s predictions - did they come true?” stating that Google is working to achieve artificial intelligence(AI) and they will successful within few years. Today I got a proof that Google search engine is more intelligence than we thought.

I searched for “tamil tigers arent terrorists” and Google asked me “Did you mean: tamil tigers are terrorists”. Here’s the screen shot. Click the photo to enlarge.

So, Google is intelligence than some of the people living in this country, isn’t it?

Yesterday I scanned some of my childhood photos with my brother and those photos recalled our sweet memories of the past. Few weeks back my brother developed a wordpress widget which can use to show random photos on a picasaweb account in the blog. So, I thought I should use it in my blog with those photos.

But I’m not a technical guy so I always seek help from my brother in these matters. First he installed wordpress 2.2 on my blog (otherwise the widget plugin should be installed) and then installed the widget. I uploaded the photos to picasaweb and it worked nicely. But all the photos I had was my childhood photos so I asked him whether I can use the photos on his account too. But it was only capable of handling one account so he upgraded it to a newer version.

Now you can see three random photos on my sidebar and every time you refresh the page there are three new photos. If you are using wordpress and picasaweb you can also try this. Click here to download the widget. Copy the file into wp-content/plugins/widgets directory. Then, activate the plugin and add that to the sidebar from Presentation -> widgets. If you encounter any problem leave a comment on this page or here.

By upgrading the blog into wordpress 2.2 I had another advantage. There was a really bad error with my feed and any of my posts didn’t appear on kottu on last month. The feed worked with Google reader but feedvalidator indicated there’s a problem. But we couldn’t find any error so we gave up. But with the wordpress 2.2 the feed also work nicely.

So at last I’m showing you my sweet memories as well as my brother’s

In last few days some blog posts emerged in Kottu claiming that TamilNet can’t be accessed from Sri Lanka and there were some solutions too. I haven’t visited TamilNet for a very long time perhaps for about 2-3 years because its unbalanced nature of providing news. But at the same time people can’t access TamilNet, there seems to be a problem of accessing www.lankanewspapers.com too. It brings news about Sri Lanka from various sources specially from the Sri Lankan English news papers, international news agencies and some other news providers including TamilNet.

So I used one of the proxy service, www.proxyindex.com to enter lankanewspapers.com and surprisingly the top news item was “Sri Lanka blocks TamilNet” and the source is TamilNet. I also visited TamilNet and their top news item was also the same. So probably the government has decided to ban TamilNet and other news sources which brings news from them. Even though TamilNet is linked to LTTE and providing false information this is a shameless and blind step taken by the government to stop them because anyone can easily access the site with the help of a proxy service.

It’s a tragedy for all of us that our leaders haven’t yet understood the fact that they can’t hide information forever from the public. This is the information age and it’s flowing freely. None can stop that. So Mr. President let them say what they want and let us decide what is true and what is not.

Today when I was analyzing the site report from Google Analytics I saw that someone has used the keyword “adsense pay scales” on Google to reach my site. I have posted an article regarding adsense once before(click here to read it) but I have never searched for “adsense” or a keyword like that on Google to see whether there’s my blog. So I searched for “adsense pay scales” and it gave me a search result page with the phrase “Results 1-10 of about 662,000″.

Then I visited page by page looking for my blog but I couldn’t find it. But the most surprising thing happened to me was that there was only 818 results. Then what is 662,000? Still there’s the phrase “Results 811 - 818 of about 662,000″ but the 818th result is the last one.

At the end of the page there was a link to repeat the search with omitted results so first I thought the other results have been omitted. So, I did the search again and this time their number of results was 657,000. With the omitted results they have omitted about 5,000 results! What a surprise. Anyway here again I ended up with 1000 results but still with the phrase “Results 991 - 1000 of about 657,000″. This is getting more and more interesting!

So, I searched for few other keywords to see whether the same thing happens and yes it did. Always Google gives us a meaningless big number but the actual number of results are much more smaller. Then I tried the same thing with Yahoo and it also gave me the same result.

Please if you have encountered this before or if you know what’s going on leave a comment here. Your opinions are also welcome.