City Hits + TechnoGuy's Blog

TechnoGuy's Blog has formed a partnership with City Hits, aiming to provide even more information and an improved service to our readers.

City Hits is a Sri Lanka-based Entertainment Community with the vision "to be the most important gateway to WORLD and a "one-stop" site for ENTERTAINMENT and leisure related information on the Internet". Although launched only in December 2007 (4 months ago), the blog has already garnered a large readership with almost 5500 hits so far. City Hits provides information on the latest TV Shows, Box Office Movies, Promotional Offers by Local Services, Sri Lanka's Popular Night Clubs, and so much more. Go there now and have a look for yourself.

TechnoGuy's Blog is about "Information Technology and Electronic Media from a Sri Lankan viewpoint". It has been online for just over a year now, and have over 5500 hits with 7 feed subscribers.

We hope that our readers will benefit as much as we do from this partnership.

TechnoGuy is now on YouTube

I'm now registered on YouTube to provide videos related to Pay Television and IT in Sri Lanka. Of course I only have Dialog TV at home, so most of the videos will be related to it. Through this I hope to tell the world how good/bad the situation of Pay TV in Sri Lanka is, and educate future customers through real life videos so that they can see the truth for themselves.

My YouTube Profile

Please send in your ideas for new videos via comments here or email.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke has left us

He is most well known around the world for creating the concept of Satellite Technology. Satellites play a vital role in today's world for communication and other purposes. If not for this man, when would such a conecpt have been created?

He also wrote a number of interesting science fiction books, and made many predictions about the future of mankind and the universe. He predicted that man would visit the Moon before the year 2000, and man did go there in 1969 and many times afterwards. Most of his other predictions too have proved to be correct.

Arthur C. Clarke lived in Sri Lanka (of all countries) for a large portion of his lifetime. I believe he liked the peaceful environment and beautiful scenery which would help him continue inventing, writing and predicting. He adapted to the Sri Lankan way of life and ofter enjoyed wearing a sarong and t-shirt like most other Sri Lankan men do.

Another major part of his life was his post-Polio syndrome which made him unabled to walk properly and placed him in the wheelchair. Yet he continued to lead an active lifestyle. Countless times I saw him at the Otter's Aquatic Club, sitting in his wheelchair, enjoying the scenery and watching the children have fun in the pool. He came there for regular exercise to keep himself as fit as possible.

Sri Arthur C. Clarke was awarded a CBE (knighthood) in 1989, although he was unable to fly to England and receive the honours from the Queen as he was too ill for the long journey. He was also the Chancellor of the Moratuwa University from 1979 to 2002. The Moratuwa University was the first to offer IT eduction in Sri Lanka, and Arthur C. Clarke would have played a major role in its development.

In 2005, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was present at the opening of CBN Sat, Sri Lanka's first Satellite Pay Television network. CBN Sat caused a revolution in the television industry of Sri Lanka, and Arthur C. Clarke would have been happy to be a part of its beginning.

In December 2007, Arthur C. Clarke celebrated his 90th birthday together with the President of Sri Lanka and numerous other dignitaries. At the same time he produced a video bidding farewell to his frined and fans, knowing that he would leave the world soon.

Early this morning, Sir Clarke passed away after being hospitalized for four days. He would have predicted his deaths months or even years ahead. And he would have been happy and at peace when he died, as he knows what a great service he has done for mankind.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, may your sould Rest In Peace!

VerveEarth

VerveEarth is a new seach engine-type website which turns surfing the World Wide Web into just surfing the World. VerveEarth organizes registered websites and blogs according to their base position in the world. For example, my blog's link is in Colombo, Sri Lanka on the VerveEarth map.

When you visit VerveEarth, first you see a world map (via Google Maps), with RSS icons all over the place. You can zoom in to any region and all websites/blogs in that area will be shown clearly using those icons. You place your mouse over the icons to read their titles, or click on them to see the latest posts in short (thanks to RSS). If you are registered at VerveEarth, you can choose favourites and then view a map of only your favourite websites in the world.

VerveEarth gives everyone a more interesting way to browse the internet. Apart from just clicking around the world map, you can type in a website and search in normal fashion. If you really want to understand what I say clearly, then visit VerveEarth now.

I got to know about VerveEarth from a email sent to me from the CEO of the service (it was probably automated). VerveEarth's website is completely interactive and loads surprisingly fast on my snail-type SLT ADSL connection.

At the moment VerveEarth has very few websites documented as blog owners have to register for people to see it on the map. VerveEarth probably will not go for web crawling like other search engines. And also VerveEarth is still in beta, so you can trust the service to improve more as time goes on.

If you own a website or blog, I recommend you go over to VerveEarth and put it on the map. Once the service becomes popular you can expect a ton of hits to your blog/website.

In Sri Lanka - As of now only my blog and another blog are registered at VerveEarth.