The Tales of the Beedle Bard

The author of the famous fantasy book series “Harry Potter” (J.K. Rowling) will be releasing a book that is mentioned in the last book in her series “The Deathly Hallows” called “The Tales of the Beedle Bard” to the general public.

This is a fictious book mentioned in the book was used as a plot device; it was given to Hermione Granger by Albus Dumbledore. This book is described as a popular book among the wizarding children, therefore Harry Potter and Hermione Granger didn’t know about the book but Ron Weasley knew about the tales since he was brought up by a wizarding family.

J.K. Rowling has included 5 short stories into this book but the only tale that was mentioned in the book “The Deathly Hallows” is the “Tale of the Three Brothers”. The other tales included in the book are

• The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
  
• The Fountain of Fair Fortune
  
• The Warlock's Hairy Heart
  
• Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump
  

First it was said that J.K Rowling will only be publishing 7 hand written books but later have decided to release it to the general public but all the earnings from it's sales will go towards charity.

From the 7 hand written books, one book (moonstone edition) was auctioned and was bought by Amazon.com for a whooping 1.95 million pounds ($ 3.98 million). The money earned by this auction was donated to The Children's Voice charity campaign. The other copies were handed out as a way of thanking to the people who were greatly involved in making the harry potter series a success.

Here are some pictures of the hand written book purchased by Amazon.com

Now for the great news for all the harry potter fans out there. The general public edition of the story book will be launched on the 4th of December 2008. Many of the news articles state the realease of this new book as “Christmas comes early for Harry Potter fans!” which is very true. I know that I will be very much longing until this is released world wide.

Sources: -
Pictures: - Amazon.com
Information: - Various sources in the internet.

Heroes Vol. 3:- 2 hour Premier

After like a life time, another season of Heroes started. It was a 2 hour special with 2 episodes being broadcasted back to back. Even though I’m bit disappointed about where the story line is headed I was really happy that a long standing question was answered brilliantly. That question was 

Does Sylar eat his victim’s brains to gain their power?

            This question was seen in every forum and because of that even in the TV series they did put this question. But as most of the people thought he does not eat the brains. He just sees how their brains work and learn the power from what he learns from the victim’s brain. 

Even though this big question was answered several other questions popped up in my mind. 

How did that Lindeman guy come into play again? He is just an image for Nathan? Is he actually alive? Was he the one that cured Nathan? 

            This actually reminded me of “Beautiful Mind” where only Dr. Nash can see his imaginary people (Obviously). 

Who is the Nikki Sanders’s double? Is she actually Nikki or somebody else? And if she is her other self how can she have the power to freeze people? 

            This might explained as the story goes on (I hope) 

What happened to the plague stricken future? Did it change due to Peter coming from the future and shooting Nathan? 

            I think he did change that future. (Butterfly effect that Peter’s mum was talking about) 

And oh the big surprise!

How on Earth, Sylar be a brother or may be even a half brother to Nathan and Peter???

Shocker! Hope they will clear this big question in the next few episodes! :)

For me this story is getting bad to worse… There are too many people with powers at the moment and also they brought back Clare’s biological mother back in to the picture (I was wondering what happened to her). And top of that Mohinder Suresh has got a power of his own now, but with some side effects. If he gets that formula right, there will be people with power popping up like mushrooms.

Anyways hope that the story writers won’t do that. I will be watching and waiting how the story is developed. 

Thanks for reading this post. 

Biggest LAN party held in Sri Lanka!

My dear readers!

It is with great pride and joy that I announce the biggest ever LAN party in Sri Lanka is happening on the 26th and 27th of April 2008 at
Capital Mall Banquet Hall,
No.531, Capital Mall Building,
Madiwela Road, Thalawathugoda.


33 hours of non-stop, action packed gaming will be happening with close to 150 gamers from all over Sri Lanka. This LAN party is organized by "Death Company" the first ever organized and multi-gaming clan in Sri Lanka. I'm proud to say that I'm also a part of this great clan.
Sri Lanka is in the infant stage when it comes to hosting big LAN parties attracting large number of gamers. Sri Lanka's gaming industry is also at an very infant stage when you compared to other countries such as India, China or Singapore.
This is a big stride in creating a environment where LAN parties are held for gamers to come out and show their talents to others in the country.
If you guys are also interested in participating in this groundbreaking LAN party please go to www.deathcompany.org/lan and register yourself. You don't have pay anything to register because this LAN party is absolutely FREE!
You can also check out our Death Company website.
Come and Enjoy playing for non stop 33 hours of fun filled gaming!

Demonoid.com is BACK!

There is a good news for all the people using torrents. Demonoid.com is back. YAY!

It was a major disappointment for all the torrents users when Demonoid.com site was closed! That was several months back. All had to use different site and trackers to get their torrents.
But now it seems that everything will get back to normal. Once everyone who was using demonoid come to know that the site is being reopened it'll be back in business.

All my friends who is reading this post!
BE HAPPY! DEMONOID IS BACK! Happy downloading everybody!

Making money from your Blog

In Sri Lanka only a handful of people blog and from that handful only a few try to generate money from it. From this post what I would like to tell is that while you do your blogging hobby you also can make some reasonable amount of money too.
My site hasn't had 500 hits yet but I thought of putting some ads in here just for fun. I haven't got any money from it but there are many guys out there who blog and make a handsome amount of money from it. Why don't you also try it??? You might get lots of hits to your website one day and that day you will regret that you haven't had monetize your blog before!!
Why regret?? I doesn't hurt anyone by monetizing your blog.
It's not a long and tedious process to add some ads in to your blog! Here's how I did it.

I went to Google Adsense and got registered to it. You don't have to pay anything for them to get registered and you can use your existing Google email address(That is if you have one) to make an account in adsense. There are also bunch of other sites who post ads into your blog (Yahoo also has something like adsense but I don't know much about it). And then fill in your details it's that simple. You don't have to put credit card details or anything just fill out the form and they will mail your earning to your doorstep(via post).
You can also get your earnings debited to your bank account too. Google adsense has presentations prepared for users who doesn't know who to add the ads to there blogs and presentations on many more things related to monetizing your blog.
But they only sent in your earnings when it reaches $100. If you are not that much of a blogger and your site doesn't gets hits much(Like my blog) you might think it's a waste of time doing it. But wait!!! Think again!!
If people don't come to your website MAKE them come to your website!! Here are bunch of stuff that might get you to increase your hits and thereby increase your earnings.(I too am trying to do that :D)

1. Post articles about timely and interesting stuff. (People always want know new stuff)
2. Make your post short and sweet. (People doesn't want to read too long articles)
   
3. Put pictures and make things look attractive.
   
4. Don't write long paragraphs and try to use lists and much as possible.

If you do things like this people might be tempted to come again and again to your blog.
Well, monetize your blog and make some money while you are doing your hobby.
So, then Happy Blogging!! :D

3D Instant Messaging Client (IMVU)

  Are you sick and tired of chatting in the same old Instant Messaging Client?? Well, there is a good news for u guys!! There is this Messaging client that takes Instant messaging into a whole new level.
  Now you can create an 3D avatar and configure it to your own way and you can start chatting with your friends or with a randomly selected person.This messaging client is called IMVU. This facility is totally free. You can download the messaging client for absolutely free of charge.
  You can differentiate your avatar from the others by buying new products and using them in your avatar. However to buy the clothes and other accessories one needs pay money and get IMVU credits(The method of exchange in the IMVU community). You can get these credits by paying money directly to the IMVU.inc or you can buy them from third party dealers. You might get discounts when u get from third party dealer but for every $1 IMVU provides users with 1000 IMVU credits.
  This is not the only way that one can earn credits. there are many ways in which you can get credits but they are all termed as promo credits and this can only be used to buy products. One way in which you can get promo credits is by refereeing your friends to this online community.
Below is a snap shot of a chat.

  When you first register for this community you will be getting a avatar name which has the prefix "Guest_". This is due to the fact that you have to get a package called "Account Name". For this a user must pay directly to the IMVU.inc.
Product inventing and selling can be done by the users themselves and for that one need to pay to pay for the IMVU developer program. When you sell your products the money you make will come to you and you can use it to buy new products or to resell them so that you can get money. if you want to join in this 3D instant messaging client the link is given below.
IMVU - The World's Greatest 3D Chat



Oh by the way you'll have to have a good internet connection to chat in this cuz it might get very slow when chatting in a dialup connection.
Well, happy chatting guys!! :D

A Movie Review : Eight Below

This Movie is based on a true story and it is about eight sledge dogs left behind in the cold, harsh antarctic.
Firstly it was just a temporary evacuation but then since the weather was not good it turned out to be a permanent evacuation and the guide and the owner of the eight dogs struggle to go and rescue these dogs.
This portraits the need to be as a team and to work as a team to survive in the most dangerous environments. The dogs find their day to day food by working as a team and it is very encouraging to see dogs act as a team to overcome the problems in life, when some humans don't do that in their day to day lives.
There is this place where one member of the pack is striving to get the leadership position in the pack. He didn't quarrel to get the position, he acted as a leader when the existing one was hurt and also learnt from the existing leader how to overcome problems as a leader. The leader of the pack gave the leadership to a new dog when he knew that he couldn't go on being the leader since he was injured. The new leader didn't abandon him in the antarctic when the owner came to rescue them. He showed the owner where the injured dog was and saved that dog's life.
These kind of acts are rarely seen in the human world. In the human world, when someone gives up the leadership to some one else he who got it doesn't even care for the one who gave the position in the first place. And also few humans in this world will give away their leadership position to someone else even though he feels that he is not fit for the job.
So these kind of good acts can be learnt by we humans from these dogs in this movie. It was such a great movie and I couldn't help myself shed a tear when the dogs reunited with their owner in the end. They went through a lot in the months that they were alone in the antarctic but they ran to great their owner and friends when they came to rescue them.
If you guys have not seen this yet, go on and find the movie and experience this great movie.