Friday, January 27, 2006

Google.cn - My thoughts

I found this study on "Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005: A Country Study" http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china/

Seems like there blocking lot of political and news related contents as well, which is very annoying. Back home (Sri Lanka) we had a period around 1989 where the news contained only the praises for the government. No criticism was allowed. However, according to the history these things could not last long. It is up to the Chinese people to decide to accept this or not in their coming elections. (Hope it is not blocked  )

IMHO, blocking peoples' freedom to express ideas and criticizing something is really *bad* but with respect to other blockings I feel that it might be the way they have found to keep that country from crashing into pieces with 1.3 Billion people.

Friday, January 06, 2006

Initial Committers of Apache Sandesha


I found this photo in my album. These are the team members who wrote the initial version of the Apache Sandesha(ws.apache.org/sandesha) with me. From left to write we have Sudar, Jaliya (me) Amila and Nilantha. We took this photo in the last day of our university (undergrad) life and it is really a wonderful time in my life.