2011 Dec 14 at 04:01 » Tagged as: db-class , ml-class , stanford

Like many others, I too enrolled for the ml-class and db-class online courses conducted by the Stanf...

2011 Dec 8 at 15:47 » Tagged as: apache , cse , sec

Last post on the market for a while, from tommorow it's just going to be sit and watch with most of ...

2011 Dec 5 at 01:39 » Tagged as: bubble , clpl , greg , ponzi scheme , warrants

It was only yesterday that I talked about how doomsday theorist are crawling out of the woodwork. It...

2011 Dec 4 at 12:24 » Tagged as: buki , sec , t-bill , cse

It was only six weeks ago that the Lanka Business Review had a piece by Shamindra Kulamannage on the...

2011 Dec 2 at 05:51 » Tagged as: road.lk , broadband

Sri Lankan broadband speeds have always been pathetic, the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission f...

2011 Dec 1 at 13:54 » Tagged as: dow jones , rajaratnam , madoff , sec

"I have repeatedly said I serve at the pleasure of the president and at my own pleasure" ...

2011 Nov 30 at 15:56 » Tagged as: bartleet , bubble , sec

For the 5 people who have never gotten high, I will try to explain it. at first, before you are real...

2011 Nov 30 at 12:05 » Tagged as: mark twain effect , october curse

It is the birthday of Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. No need for a mere geek blogger to...

2011 Nov 29 at 14:43 » Tagged as: trade halt , intra day , chart , cse , lame , mpi

At 10:50 on Nov 25, the Milanka Price Index dropped 5.1% below the previous close and fell to 4,882 ...

2011 Nov 29 at 03:10 » Tagged as: csba , dpl , pump and dump

The Colombo Stock Brokers association had a meeting with the President of Sri Lanka about the curren...

2011 Nov 28 at 09:45 » Tagged as: tizen , cse , warrants , weird

Ladies and gentlemen, the challenge before you now to go through the Colombo Stock Exchange's top ga...

2011 Nov 28 at 03:18 » Tagged as: wapo , kgal , namu , rich , csf , cse

"I am going to invest 1.4 million rupees in the stock market which i got from selling JINS 40000 @ 2...

2011 Nov 27 at 10:59 » Tagged as: javafx , lame , movabletype , wordpress

As of today, there are 26 posts tagged as Wordpress in this blog. It probably indicates that i have ...

2011 Nov 25 at 17:06 » Tagged as: cse , dist , flash crash , liquidity , mpi , trade halt

Today trading at the Colombo Stock Exchange was halted when the Milanka Price Index dropped by more ...

2011 Nov 24 at 03:30 » Tagged as: webtatic , mysql , percona , xtrabackup

Having recently recently replaced MySQL installations with Percona it was time to try out xtrabackup...

2011 Nov 22 at 13:53 » Tagged as: disqus , google apps , cloud , javascript

It was a bit of a surprise to find that there is no easy way to add zebra stripes to a Google spread...

2011 Nov 21 at 16:34 » Tagged as: ctc , security , wordpress

I've blogged too often in recent weeks about issues with WordPress. Many of those issues were relate...

2011 Nov 18 at 17:26 » Tagged as: c , capital trust , trading range , guar , asi , cse

"Equity markets to face challenging times in the months to come with the knock on impact of vagaries...

2011 Nov 12 at 13:29 » Tagged as: aws , remi , webtatic , centos , cloud , mysql , percona

It turns out that all the EC2 Amazon Machine Instances that have Percona installed by default have o...

2011 Nov 5 at 03:17 » Tagged as: debug , price band , wapo , cse , sec

The director general of the Securities Exchange Commision of Sri Lanka was fired on the second of No...