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The last article in the blog , SLIIT wins another award at NBQSA attracted a lot of attention. Got more than 200 visits in the last two days and had 10 comments for that post , which is the highest for this blog. Sad part is only 5 people voted in the poll ( Firefox is still leading :) ) and only 5 subscribed to the the RSS feed even after I put a big box asking them to subscribe. So I thought I'll give some details about RSS and hopefully more readers will subscribe to the feed.
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SLIIT wins another award for best use of Microsoft technologies in NBQSA

I guess when good news comes they tend to come in a heap , If you were following this blog you should know that SLIIT won both the gold and the silver awards for student projects in NBQSA. This alone was a great achievement for SLIIT , But the Tripwire project which won the gold medal won another award for the best use of Microsoft Technologies. If you guys are tired of hearing the good news I'm sorry to disappoint you since theres more good news. The Tripwire project was nominated to represent Sri Lanka in Asia Pacific ICT awards ( APICTA ) to be held in Singapore. Normally BCS - Sri Lanka section only nominates one project to participate in APICTA for a certain category , but one of the judges who were in the panel that decided the winners were also impressed of the project that won the silver medal. So he has come forward to sponsor the silver medal team to go to APICTA, so both teams from SLIIT are going to APICTA. Thats enough of good news for now and lets wish both the groups from SLIIT all the best in APICTA.

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Sri Lankans making money from the internet ?

If you have being browsing the net long enough I sure you have gotten some email or you have come across an advertisement that says you can make tons of money from the internet. Most of these are referral systems that are build like a pyramid , where the people at the top get most of the money and people at the bottom levels get a scratch. All those examples they provide are from the top level people who have being lucky enough to enroll first. And most of them requires you to pay some amount to startup so you might end up losing your money as well. There are some ways that you can make some money without spending a cent , most common of them is the paid e-mail ads , but they tend to have a history of not paying on time. And they pay you around 2 cents per e-mail making it bit difficult to get to their payoff mark quickly. One such site that I have used is Hits4Pay , which doesn't overload you with e-mails but sends just enough for a decent payment and also they give a 10$ sign up bonus making that first check come that much quicker. Another site is HTMail which pays you more but doesn't send that much mails. One of the reasons your not getting many of these mails is that most of them are targeting the US consumer base , which is growing rapidly. So it's going to be a bit difficult to make some money just by reading mails. Those are two sites that I have found to be reliable and has good user reviews, Let me know if you know a site that has done well for you , more money making opportunities to follow.

SLIIT graduates get paid less ?

SLIIT won the gold and silver medals in NBQSA this year proving that it can compete with the best when the occasion demanded. While SLIIT is primarily a institute where the focus is on Information Technology , common belief is that most IT companies pay less for SLIIT graduates.

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SLIIT wins gold and silver medals in NBQSA

Two fourth year projects of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology ( SLIIT ) has won the gold medal and the silver medal in the National Best Quality Software Awards ( NBQSA ). For the final six three projects from SLIIT were selected along with three from University of Moratuwa (UM). For SLIIT to emerge winners after competing with established universities like is a great achievement. This highlights the fact that SLIIT has come a long way in a short period of time and SLIIT student can held their own against the best. Congratulations to the winners and lets hope SLIIT can keep up the good work.

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Is The Balance Right ?

For the whole of past week the topic in media was Thoppigala victory and the celebrations following the event. Government made a big show of the event for their political gain , to be fair to the government I don't think any other party would have done the same if they were in power. One of the major reasons the government staged a such a massive rally is the poor state of the economy. The only strong point in this government is its handling of the war, price of almost everything is sky high and it keeps going up. The huge number of ministers in the government has come under heavy criticism and the government is having a hard time covering their costs. Government also got a major setback because of the reluctance of donor countries to provide aid for the rebuilding of Eastern province citing violations of human rights. Now the government is trying to take a huge loan from the international community , for which the details were not very clear. There is a limit to the amount of loans we can take , and when we take loans we become dependent on other countries and somewhat bend according to their needs. So it is critical that the government give due consideration to the economy before its too late.

Hello All

Hello All ,
This is my first blog post , and since I'm new to this I'm not going to say much , I'm hoping to post topics mostly about Sri Lanka , So all you Sri Lankan's out there please feel free to join in the conversation.

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