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January 13, 2011

Sudden weather change in Colombo, Sri Lanka

The start of this year has been very different to the ones before in many ways. One of the differences is that the warm days of Colombo have been suddenly stolen by the cold weather. How many of you are enjoying the Nuwara-eliya like climate in Colombo? I really love the present weather, so enjoy while it lasts.

I’m tired of the wrong predictions from the Met Department, so I get my temperature update from Google. Don’t need to wait for the hourly news update on the Television or Radio. Want know how to get the current temperature and forecast of world cities including Colombo instantly, just go to Google and type in “weather (name of city)” and enter. Eg. weather colombo, the present temperature and forecast of Colombo is displayed in a flash.

The temperature in Colombo dropped to 18.8 Degrees C (65 Fahrenheit) on the 13th of January 2011. It is the lowest in 61 years, the last time it happened way back in 1950.

Meanwhile, on the same day the temperature in Nuwara Eliya (typical little England) dropped to 7.9 Celsius and the eastern part of the island, Batticaloa, recorded 16.9 Celsius.

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January 11, 2011

Facebook closing down in March!

Surprised! I had the same feeling the first time I read a blog post which mentioned the same heading.

I immediately started Googling to find out what was going on and found many related blog posts and articles. This is one of the blog posts that I came across 2 days ago.

PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful.

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.

“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.”

In the mean time New York Daily News had the below to say.

New York Daily News says; Facebook dismisses rumors the social networking site is shutting down after users panicked. At the time I visited the About page on Facebook, I found the below post.

“We didn’t get the memo about shutting down, so we’ll keep working away like always. We aren’t going anywhere; we’re just getting started.”

I tried the Facebook Blog but didn’t find any related posts at the time of writing this. My advice would be that don’t be fooled by false alarms, but always check the official pages from reliable sources. Personal blogs and articles can be misleading most of the times.

Nevertheless, who knows what is going on at Facebook but we can always trust the Facebook official page.

Official Facebook posts can be found at

http://www.facebook.com/facebook

Or Facebook blog at

http://blog.facebook.com/

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