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Just now at WWDC, Steve Jobs confirmed the long-rumored iPhone 3G, which is what he actually called it. It hits stores in the US and over 70 other countries on July 11th. Here it will costs $199 for the 8GB version, and $299 for the 16GB one (in black and white).

As other chores becoming overhelming, I find it very difficult to focus in any of them and on the verge of giving up at least few of the commitments before it is too late for all, I happened to read the following article which is somewhat relevant to one of the commitments which makes me bit uncomfortable as it virtually makes it impossible to drop the GSoC commitment, worsen by quoting me in the article with an emphasis on being modest in giving the credit back to the university.

[University of Moratuwa topps the GSoC 2008 Open Source Venture... via Sunday observer] by Aravinda Dassanayake

The University of Moratuwa (UoM) ranked as the 11th best University in the South Asian region, has made yet another significant achievement in the international arena, to add to its glamour.

I am no big fan of movies.. however ran a movie marathon in the beginning of this year and thought of sharing the list with tags and rating (in my scale 1-10, 10 being the best)

The one, I shall call the best, would be Kite runner, especially for the background music and screenplay.

Let me start the series of posts (which will be abridged at the end) related to GSOC 2008 with the program logo that was released few hours back by the program manager LH 

In addition to writing the report on training as required by the module, I mainly handled two tasks. Using the CETK, which I wrote few months back, I was asked to conduct functionality and unit testing on the firmware code being written. As the current power micro firmware which is in assembly language is non-maintainable, it was decided to write it again in C language more efficiently and cleverly. Thus it was required to test the conformance with the existing specification, functionalities and API. CETK was used to run automated unit tests on the code, where initially four of them failed. Subsequently the code was modified in steps, and finally except for the yet to be implemented EEPROM write function, all other tests passed.

In CETK, as in any other unit tests, we prepare test cases and write functions to utilize the existing function calls and APIs, often repeatedly, and it is uncommon to go to the abusing extent to verify the robustness of the code.

I am neither an advocate nor with political interests, but as Einstein felt, it is where I live and this poem iterates it

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

I was looking for an excellent packing guide after an awful experience in a hiking trip and here it is [via zenhabits]

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you travel, do you want to be as light as possible? A light bag, and a light itinerary?

Many of us have had the nightmare experience of lugging around too much luggage, waiting in the baggage claims area, trying to cram too many activities into each day, and generally being so stressed that we need a vacation when we get home.

I’m definitely going to be following some of the tips. Although there are a lot of great suggestions about useful items, my biggest aim is to pack as lightly as possible and to keep my itinerary loose and light. Here’s my packing list for my small backpack right now:

Two anagrams I created after the inspiration of my ever time favorite of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons 

based on the article published in Mechanical Engineering, Vol 129