Seven used to be the luckiest number. At least that’s the impression I had until recent developments. On numerous occasions I have heard people say ‘lucky seven’ when making references to favorable outcomes. But this year things have become a little different. The Chinese consider eight to be a lucky number and have gone great lengths to prove it. According to this Wikipedia article, Chinese believe that eight is lucky as it sounds like ‘prosper’ or ‘wealth’ (in their language of course). I guess you know why Beijing officials want to start Olympics on this date at 8.08pm, specifically; neat. Read the full story →
Time pass by and we celebrate the new year. This is a perfect reminder to us that once a moment in time has passed by, it’s irretrievable. It is up to us to learn from past mistakes and adjust accordingly to face new challenges in the future. A very happy new year to everyone who stumble on my blog and and lets learn from 2007 to make a better 2008.
We love long weekends. I thought as my new year note this time I’ll post all the long weekends (imposed to Sri Lanka of course). Some of them are convertibles by adding a leave to the list yourself. Hence the list goes: Read the full story →
Anyone using the Internet must have at least hit on this page once. It’s the most famous HTTP response status code of all time: 404 file not found. Modern web browsers don’t show all HTTP response codes for obvious reasons, although there is one for every HTTP request. Read the full story →