Downloadaholics

Hello everyone, my name is JellyBrain and I’m a downloadaholic. Last year I owned an Acer laptop where the wifi indicator light blink rate was proportional to the data transfer rate. I used the laptop to download movies and TV series during the night in my bed room. If the light was not blinking fast enough, I couldn’t sleep! After extensively using the laptop it died out after 2 and a half years.

Doesn’t downloading totally divert your attention? Say you are editing your CV after 4 years and suddenly utorrent pops up say ‘download complete’ on your favourite show. Will you or will you not watch that 22 minutes of happiness right away? I would. And when you get back to your CV, all the attention will be gone and your CV would represent a 19 year old sexless person (typo) who was hibernated for 4 years (born in 1987, but age is still 19).
This is an addiction. I’m having a very bad one these days because I got all aired seasons of How I Met Your Mother. Once you watch 3-4 episodes you get attached to the characters. You watch the proceeding episodes mostly to know what happened rather than to enjoy the jokes. I realized this yesterday. When my brother was watching season 3, I was still on season 2. If I didn’t care about the story, it wouldn’t matter to me what season it is. But it did!
I hate myself. You should hate yourself too if you are in this position or worse.

Caution- Chinese extension chords

I know most of Sri Lankan households have these potentially hazardous power extension cords. Anyone with a basic knowledge of…. actually with common sense will notice that there are three pin outlets but the other end connecting to the wall outlet has only 2 pins. Is the earth wire (the green one) just for fun?
Since this is made of very cheap material, it melts even if you keep it in the sun. What will u think will happen if you use this for a prolonged period of time for a considerably high energy consuming equipment like an iron? The above. Now this one got totaled. What if the insulation got peeled off slightly? The next time you pull the wire out of the drum while it’s live, you would get electrocuted.
This happened because the wire was rolled around the drum so the heat couldn’t dissipate. One way to avoid this is to keep the chord completely extended all the time and be cautious when using these.
The other option is to not use these at all.

Know your fuse

Several months back there was a night of very heavy lightning. It was in the middle of the night so no one had cared to get out of bed to disconnect the telephone line even though it had woken us up. In the morning we found the telephones were not working. I checked the router. It didn’t show any sign of damage. However it was not working. We called SLT. They arrived and found out that the surge arrester had blown out and protected the telephone and the router. Look how they replaced the fuses.

Nope, they didn’t replace the fuses because they didn’t have any new ones in their van. So they did this. I told them if you don’t replace this fuses with proper ones, next time you will have to replace my telephone and my router. Then the technician called his supervisor and had a bit of an argument in the van. Finally they used a smaller wire and found one working fuse. Even this is not perfect. You have to replace the tiny wire with a proper fuse.

So guys, next time SLT repairs your telephony system, just check whether they have done it right. Prevention is better than taking action after everything has happened.

Forwarded e mail I found interesting

> Only in America ........do drugstores make the
> sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their
> prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the
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> Only in America ........do people order double
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> Only in America .....do banks leave both doors
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> Only in America .....do we leave cars worth thousands
> of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the
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> Only in America ......do we buy hot dogs in packages
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> Only in America .....do they have drive-up ATM
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> You know that indestructible black box that is used on
> airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of
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> If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the
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> If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the
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Few things I learnt about car insurance

Last Thursday I met with a slight accident. While I was going heading my way out of the car park near the Regal cinema, a car backed out of its parking spot onto my right rear door and got dragged over the wheel arc. The gentleman was a senior consultant to the Ministry of Public Estate Management and Development. The fault was his and he claimed it true. So there was no argument, only a polite conversation about… non accident related stuff.



The car I drive is registered in my mother’s name. It’s insured at Janashakthi Insurance. I called the number on the insurance card and they sent an agent within 15 minutes. He estimated the repair cost, gave me a receipt and told me, if it costs more, please produce an estimate to the office and it can be solved. Everyone was happy, end of story.

When a car get's into an accident, to claim the damage, the car must be running for a purpose of the insured person. That means, when I crash my mom’s car, I should tell the insurance company that I was on my way to pick her up or something like that. But that was then. Now they don’t care.

I’m sure most of you know about the no-claim bonus. For those who don’t know, it’s the discount you get from the insurance company on your insurance premium if you don’t claim anything during that year. At Janashaskthi insurance, they increase the no-claim bonus by a certain amount for each year you don’t claim anything. So even if you claim something this year, you won’t totally lose your no-claim bonus, you will lose only the addition this year.

So before you claim a small amount, calculate whether it’s worth claiming. Because the amount you save at the end of the year through the no-claim bonus will probably be higher than the small repair cost. You can get all these details from your insurance company through telephone.

The day after the accident, Janashakthi insurance called me saying an advanced payment is ready and asked me whether to post it or whether I can collect it. Of course you can cancel the claim even after they sent the cheque, but to keep things efficient, it's better to know before all this whether your claim is worth or not.

First day on training

Yesterday was the first day of training. Our name list were not sent
to the training centre. So we had to wait the whole day to get our
appointment letters and training schedules. As we were not informed
before, some groups had to leave for kandy immediately. CEB doesn't
provide accommodation. That's fair, but it's not fair that we got to
know about it at the last minute.
However, they were able to process all 35 applications within one day.
I guess that's something to be happy about.
I also heard that people who went to dockyard, airport and air force
were sent back because they had no security clearance.
To sum things up, nothing worthwhile was done on the first day.

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Malaka Gunasekara
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