Convocation

Had our convocation last week at the BMICH. No excitement. Just the presentation of garlands. Some of the grads had to wait for hours to get their individual photographs because only one official photographer was allowed for the event.

Millennium IT Launches MARC

MARC (Millennium All-Island Robot Competition) is a new project by MIT to promote IT among teh Sri Lankan community. The objective is simple...

In the year 2100, a spaceship orbiting the planet Mars is hit by an asteroid and is minutes away from destruction. The spaceship is a biological research lab containing valuable experimental data. You are the only crew-person on the ship and manage to reach an escape capsule. You notice a utility robot near by and decide to re-program it to collect experimental data packages scattered throughout the ship and return to the escape capsule before its battery runs out.

MARC - Millennium All-island Robot Challenge is a programming competition aimed at promoting the software industry among school children and university students. Competitors are expected to design an algorithm to navigate spaceship using the robot’s vision and implement the algorithm using an API available in all popular programming languages.

I'm going to try my hand at this in a while.

Project Assignment

Training has been going on for the past two months. We've finished writing the "Mini Trading System" and it's time for us to get in to the real world of software engineering. I got the news that I was assigned to "Millennium Street Access", the next major product to be released by Millennium IT, the other day. Still don't know which process I'll be working on but one thing's for sure... It's going to be a huge responsibilty. Maybe the biggest responsibility I've had to shoulder my whole life.

Auto Hunt

I'm searching for a car these days. Something small and affordable, which means that I will have to settle for something which is about 10 years old. Sri Lanka's 200-300% taxing on vehichle has taken it's toll on the middle class workers. I'll most probably get a 1994 Corolla or a Lancer GLX.

Lanka Link classifieds is a nice place to find old used cars but it has a really clumsy search and listing system which means that you will have to scroll down hundreds of adds before you get down to the latest ones. No sorting available.

Auto Lanka is another cool place to find used cars but it doesn't have as many listings as the previous one. Anyway it'll still be a few more months before I actually get down to buying a car. Hope prices would go down by then ( and pigs would fly...)

First post from Windows Live Writer

Still going through training at MIT. I wasn't able to setup live writer the last time I downloaded it. Had to add the numeric id given to my blog page (i.e. "blogID=xxxxxxx"after you sign in) as the feed id.

We don't have any work just yet so most of our time is spent browsing the net or playing badminton in the gym. Kasun and Sagara who are two of the best players among us, got beaten by Sandani and Chathuri today.

Tomorrow's a poya day. There's a car wash organized by the Leo Club.