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something to say.

Soliloquies based on the musings of Kashi Samaraweera.

Kashi's Blog: A chronology of musings

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A reputable dictionary [admittently in a modern slang edition] denotes a blog as a frequently updated
assortment of items of interest to its author. Make no mistake, that's precisely what you'll find here.

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Design and Practicality

My keenest interest is in interactive design and development and therefore SEO - for the most part is something I don't really have to delve into, but should remain conscious of.

Rejected (by myself) - What would have been my 2009 website.

Backing the Underdog: Advanced Micro Devices

I look forward to seeing what AMD come up with in 2010/11 and hope that we can one day see them as the brilliant innovators us computer enthusiasts once heralded them as.

I'm liking AMD's new roadmap.

Time & Space Travelling with Virtualisation

Dual (and indeed triple, quadruple, etc.) boot can start the computer in one of the operating systems installed, and you would simply restart the system to switch between them – this is nothing new in the realms of I.T

Windows 7 connected to an Ubuntu virtual machine connected to Windows Server 2008 R2 running Hyper-V hosting a Windows XP virtual machine... OS'es used to be simple.

Dawning on the Reality of Climate Change

Make no mistake; there is a very clear and overtly ominous message to be taken from environmental events like these: that we're on the cusp of a massive environmental change.

Sydney City shortly after dawn, 23rd September 2009. It's quite a confronting sight.

Re-capturing Interactivity

But if you really think about it there's a myriad of things that a genuine visitor will do - like scrolling the page, moving their mouse around and even clicking.

CAPTCHAs, the bane of interactivity

Running the Hamster Wheel of Web Design & Development

My latest endeavour is a result of downloading Visual Studio 2008 [thank you Macquarie Uni/MSDN] in the hope of learning some Microsoft technologies - namely ASP.NET and Silverlight.

Oh hamster... Are we really that dissimilar? (yes but I probably enjoy doing what I do more)

Kashi Samaraweera

Kashi wearing a bright green tie Graphic Designer, Interactive Developer & HTML Super-Hero