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: cse, sec, apache

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: cse, buki, sec, t-bill

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: broadband, road.lk

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

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

"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: sec, bubble, bartleet

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: october curse, mark twain effect

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: lame, cse, mpi, trade halt, intra day, chart

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: weird, cse, warrants, tizen

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: cse, wapo, kgal, namu, rich, csf

"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: wordpress, movabletype, lame, javafx

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: mysql, percona, xtrabackup, webtatic

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

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

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: wordpress, security, ctc

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: cse, asi, c, capital trust, trading range, guar

"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: centos, cloud, mysql, percona, aws, remi, webtatic

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: cse, sec, debug, price band, wapo

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