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Our city life has being all about finding an easier way to do things, do things within shorter time. Go home quickly from work and go back to work in a very short time without a hassle on the next day.

In this busy life pattern polythene bags provide the best and the comfortable solution for our good carrying requirements. But it is a much known fact by all of us that this comfortable solution has started giving us problems now. All countries around the world trying so hard to battle this problem, as it is creating life threatening effects to all living things in the world.

Not so long ago Sri Lanka also imposed a policy to control the quality of the polythene that we use. Because the greatest problem with the polythene is, unlike other objects certain polythene structures are harder decomposing in the natural decompose process.

Here I am not going to talk about how polythene has become a problem to us, but how can we control this and reduce amount of polythene that we release into the environment.

Have you ever wondered how much of polythene bags that you use for a day? May be when you are going shopping, when you are going to the market. Some of you may answer very rarely that you use them. But think about when you are buying food from super markets, pastry shops or when you are buying certain products from the markets. Most of the time the person who stuff your goods into your bags may be packing may categorized them and put them in the different bags. Yes it is convenient but think he/she may be packing things into 2 or many bags that you would not mind even they were packed in one bag. There at that point you are increasing the usage of polythene by 2 or many times than you could manage with.  At that point if you can mention to the person that you don’t mind if he/she put certain goods in one bag. You are cutting down that extra release of polythene into the environment. I usually do it even when I am buying pastries from the pastry shop, I always mention  to use one bag to stuff my food if there is no situation that I should be separating them into 2 -3 bags.

If we can keep our grocery bags for another use, we are cutting down the amount of bags that we release to the environment. As one person we don’t see a big picture, but imagine, if we all are doing the same everyday. I am sure we can do a huge impact on the pollution that caused by polythene.

This is not for the future generation but for the rest of our lifetime. To live in a clean environment.

It is always harder to think about the future and save all to the future generation. Sometimes it may by frustrating, so why not just think about today and about us. Coz if we create a good life for us today. The generation who is inheriting the same from us will not have any problem. So what we save for us will be saved for the future.

I released my very first piano cover today. This track is actually a hymn named “Power of your love” by Hillsong (If I’m not mistaken). So here it is guys.. you are welcome to comment anywhere, Here , YouTube, Facebook and even in my Twitter.

Just in case if you can not watch the video here, specially my subscribers, please visit :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzwWxG_EdU

Please leave a comment guys.. thanX

All of us know that From Bambalapitiya to Colombo fort The Galle road is one-way towards to Colombo. Lately I’ve seen some idiots thinking that it’s a high-way. Some ppl think that they are in/on a G5 Jet when they get in/on their ride. This is for your information. It’s a Freakin ONE-WAY not a HIGH-WAY for you to do your speed thing. Please keep your speed low. If not sure I’m sure you’ll be ending up running over somebody.

Don’t kill no body, Coz you got it all fired up!

Peace

Last night I got into the Savoy Theater to see a musical comedy, which was great and did very good of it’s  1st Movie. “Alvin and the Chipmunks- 2” was incredibly unsuccessful of grabbing its audience.

One wrong thing that the movie importer did to support its unsuccessfulness was to bringing in 2 animated movies in a close time frame. When they are still screening AVATAR at the Liberty Cinema, they started screening Alvin at Savoy. Forgetting that the returning crowed from Avatar will be walking into Alvin, so they definitely are going to compare the two in their mind.

But I should mentioned that I really enjoyed the 1^st movie and it was awesome, I think what went wrong in the 2^nd movie is they removed Dave from the movie by hospitalizing him, and introduced someone else to take his place which I find not entertaining at all.

In a time where everything is being judged, and the respect for each other is losing little by little, when we see something like this, it’s actually turns our minds around for a while. perhaps these kind of events might refresh our memories and remind us who we really should be.

Following is an event took place in Korea. The original post is almost 1.5 years old but still feels good to read something like this.

“Teachers wash their students’ feet at a Seoul high school on May 14, a day before Teachers’ Day (May 15th), to thank students for respecting them:”

“Foot washing ceremony derives from the Christianity’s Maundy Thursday — Jesus Christ washed his disciples’ feet to express his love to them before the last supper.

Korean professors express good wishes to their students in the ‘foot washing ceremony’ “

The school master of a Pusan high school washes his student’ feet on honors day:

In Korea, not only teachers wash their students’ feet but also students wash their teachers’ feet to express their appreciation, the following photo was taken at a Korean campus:

Original post from [May 16, 2008] : http://www.asianoffbeat.com/default.asp?Display=1762

Year 2009 was a challenging year for me. But I survived, I will take this moment to wish you all my readers and their families a Happy 2010, and Thank you for being with my blog.

You all are wonderful people!

hey guys,
Just in case if you are on Windows 7 and surfing around, biting your nails, to find how to delete the VPN connection that you created, and if you can’t see the DELETE option on the connection list context menu. ?? (anyway it’s not there  )

Just click on the “Change Adapter Settings” link on the “Network And Sharing Center”, once you do you will see the connections that you’ve created just like previous windows. from there you can delete the connections that you don’t want.

If you are trying connect to a remote MySQL server and if your MySQL client giving you the error message

Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘< Host name or IP address >‘ (10060)

Check whether your Public IP is allowed to access server,whether your IP is in the Allowed host list.

Today when I was running one of my kettle scripts against a large Data Ware House DB, an error popped out in my log, something looks like this,

Unexpected error :
org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException:
Couldn’t get row from result set

and further

Unexpected error closing query : org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException:
Couldn’t close query: resultset or prepared statements
Communications link failure due to underlying exception: ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** java.net.SocketException
MESSAGE: Connection reset STACKTRACE:

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

This is simply because, after long time in execution the MySQL server get confused at somewhere in the corner and decides to not to feed the rows back to JDBC driver. As I found in MySQL massage board placing SQL_NO_CACHE next to your SELECT keyword (SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE * FROM users) should solve the issue.

I will confirm, if this works since my script is still running, so far so good!

To be verified….

REF :: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?39,203407,217196#msg-217196