Monthly Archives: June 2005

Muffled Chinese Blogs

Posted on 6/30/2005 by derick

The thought of a world where you can be arrested and sentenced to prison for criticizing public officials or for simply voicing an opinon is quite scary. So scary in fact, I often feel they are just confined to Orwell’s … Continue reading →

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Motel in Kissimmee Florida

Posted on 6/29/2005 by derick

My Uncle Tom is one of the few–if not the only–entrepreneur in our family. And, I guess it’s only fitting that this same uncle is not even “technically” related, but when it comes to Sri Lankans, it’s a blurred line … Continue reading →

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Post-College Rut

Posted on 6/20/2005 by derick

Sustaining a blog can be so difficult sometimes, and even more so when your life is as dull as mine– even my meals haven’t differentiated much. Every morning (since I wake up with little to no time to spare) I … Continue reading →

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Ariyam.com 2.0.1

Posted on 6/10/2005 by derick

I was starting to get a little bored with my website so I’ve made some slight modifications. I’ve further stratified my blog categories into labels more specific than just “general” and “politics”. I also ripped-off Monet for my new banner … Continue reading →

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The Cellphone Anathema

Posted on 6/6/2005 by derick

I thought of a neat little device for a cell phone. I call it the “People Scanner”. It works like this: it will be a built in device that will detect if there is more than one person around the … Continue reading →

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Forster’s Two Cents

Posted on 6/6/2005 by derick

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its … Continue reading →

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