Sunday, May 27, 2007

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky?

'The fact that its popularity has not greatly diminished over time can perhaps be attributed to the fact that while the song asks these questions, it does not refer specifically to any particular political event.' I'm talking about the song "Blowing in the wind" by Bob Dylan.

'In 1975, the song was included as poetry in a new high school English textbook in Sri Lanka. The textbook caused controversy because it replaced Shakespeare's work with Dylan's.'

My point is how can you compare Shakespeare’s work with Dylan’s? I’m confused. I mean its two diverse scenarios. But when I was schooling I choose to study literature because of these poems (or songs or whatever you want to call it) like ‘Blowing in the wind’ and ‘Eleanor Rigby’, but not because of ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?’
I’m not saying that I don’t like Shakespeare’s work. But that’s how I felt about it at that time.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Poems of a web designer

roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
404 Error: Words not found


Fair warning...

"Put the world on notice. It's unlikely that you'll actually see anyone overtly change their behavior lest they be blogged, but you'll certainly shake up a paranoid few."

by ThinkGeek

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

A hot , violent wind....Maserati Khamsin



Some time back I’ve got an invitation from a friend, to attend for a rally that was organized by Italian car owners club of Sri Lanka. So I went to ‘Katu’ equipped with my camera hoping to capture some Italian beauties. When I was rolled in, there were several cars; most of them were Alfa Romeo s. But the main attraction was this Maserati Khamsin. It was a real beauty, parked along with several Fiats, Alfa Romeos and of course with Aravinda’s Ferrari.

After came home I started surfing to find more about this Beauty. The facts I found out was amazing.

The Maserati Khamsin (named after the Khamsin, a hot, violent wind in the Egyptian desert) was a sports car introduced in 1974 by Italian automaker Meserati.

SPECIFICATIONS
Engine Type: V-eight, Capacity: 4930cc, Power: 320bhp at 550rpm, Transmission: 5 speed manual, Top Speed: 153 mph (246 kmph).

Production of the Khamsin ended in 1980. There were only 421 cars were manufactured.
Yeh…there were only 421 cars.
WOW…. There’s a one in Sri Lanka and I got a chance to capture some photographs of it!

Friday, January 26, 2007

To all the lefty’s out there….



While I was surfing the internet last night, just came across this list of famous left handers. Being a lefty by my self it was kinda interesting to see all of these famous names. (Including Paul McCartney)

“Left-handed people play guitar or electric bass in one of three ways: (1) play a right-handed guitar right-handed, (2) play a true left-handed instrument (or a right-handed instrument that has been altered to play left-handed, i.e. with the bass strings on top), or (3) turn a right-handed guitar upside down, pick with the left hand, but leave the strings as they were — which makes them reversed from the normal order for a left-handed player.”

But mine it’s a different story. For some reason even though I’m a left hander, I play right handed guitar right handed. Hmm…wonder why…!

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

the site is launched. but still under construction! WHAT THE...

After working till midnight, able to put some web pages. But have to add more stuff...
www.port81designs.com