Kerning, Contrast, and the Violent-Crime Link

June 24, 2021

Most of the visible work is technical: contrast ratios, kerning, character spacing, and how hard bad typography makes a site to read. The sharp interruption is a crime note about Duminda Silva and older Sri Lankan pardons, before the page drops back into IT scoring.

10:45 AM

10:30 a.m.

(c)

Nayana, he should get hosting from one of these sites I would secondary source reference.

https://www.bitcatcha.com/research/fastest-web-hosting-services/

This will make his website load faster.

Or he can contract a better CDN service such as Cloud Flare who focus on DDOS protection.

Web hosting is a service. It is a server company. This company 'hosts' your website for you.

A CDN or Content Delivery Network is a similar server service company. They boost web loading times.

Obviously, when I say, "I am the only one you can trust in SL, the only one who speaks English".

What I really mean is I am the only one who understands and clicks with those guys who are running Cloud Flare.

These people, you have to try to build better relations, in order to build better solutions.

Dinesh Saparamadu, he does Hsenid. His name spelt backwards. He makes HRM software.

I saw him. He is Lalith Kahatapitiya uncle's friend. Lalith uncle should be COYLE chairman one day soon.

Dinesh's website is okay on Lighthouse. He gets 55 for Mobile compared to my 63, and 88 for desktop compared to our 91.

It is generally held, the faster it loads, the better.

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10:45 AM (b)

10:45 a.m.

I cannot edit to correct a typo. In 10:15 a.m.

(e), it should be:

We operate according to a very different set* of standards.

11:00 AM

11:00 a.m.

(d)

This is considered terrible contrast ratio.

You cannot read or even see it.

11:30 AM

11:15 a.m.

(c)

Sanjaya Padmaperuma does South Asian Technologies.

He has a Muslim COO.

He has been nice enough to hire Seylan Bank's CEO Kapila Ariyaratne's son.

The son Rehan is good at this IT stuff.

Sanjaya is best friends with Harsha Wannigatunga at Seylan Bank as well.

The shareholder is Ishara Nanayakkara.

The shareholders may ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

South Asian Technologies get 69 for Desktop and 35 for Mobile.

We will approach Ishara using our channels.

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12:15 PM

12:15 p.m.

I wrote on Jo Teo's FB post re: terrorism:

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ISIS, like their predecessors, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Mujahedeen, Hezbollah, and Hamas, they have a very different set of key performance indicators.

Their terrorist CEO, or chief terrorism officer, he or she wakes up, they look at the 'list of countries'.

They see 196, they want to commit a terrorist act in every one of them.

We might measure performance, $ earned per country, they measure kill count per country.

Alas, Buddha and Newton may have been right. For every good person, there must be an equally, wicked person.

对于恐怖分子来说，这类似于“未成年童贞”的吸引力。

伊斯兰国与其前身基地组织、塔利班、圣战者组织、真主党和哈马斯一样，拥有一套截然不同的关键绩效指标。

他们的恐怖主义首席执行官或首席恐怖主义官，他或她醒来后，会查看“国家名单”。

他们看到196个，他们想在他们每个人身上犯下恐怖行为。

我们可能会衡量绩效，每个国家的收入，他们衡量每个国家的击杀数。

唉，佛陀和牛顿可能是对的。每一个好人，必定有一个同样邪恶的人。

பயங்கரவாதிகளுக்கு - இது ஒரு "வயதுக்குட்பட்ட குழந்தை கன்னியின்" ஈர்ப்பிற்கு ஒத்ததாகும்.

ஐ.எஸ்.ஐ.எஸ், அவர்களின் முன்னோடிகளான அல்கொய்தா, தலிபான், முஜாஹிதீன், ஹிஸ்புல்லா, மற்றும் ஹமாஸ் போன்றவற்றைப் போலவே, அவை மிகவும் மாறுபட்ட முக்கிய செயல்திறன் குறிகாட்டிகளைக் கொண்டுள்ளன.

அவர்களின் பயங்கரவாத தலைமை நிர்வாக அதிகாரி, அல்லது தலைமை பயங்கரவாத அதிகாரி, அவர் அல்லது அவள் எழுந்தால், அவர்கள் 'நாடுகளின் பட்டியலை' பார்க்கிறார்கள்.

அவர்கள் 196 ஐப் பார்க்கிறார்கள், அவர்கள் ஒவ்வொருவரிடமும் ஒரு பயங்கரவாத செயலைச் செய்ய விரும்புகிறார்கள்.

நாங்கள் செயல்திறனை அளவிடலாம், ஒரு நாட்டிற்கு சம்பாதித்தவை, அவை ஒரு நாட்டிற்கு கொலை எண்ணிக்கையை அளவிடுகின்றன.

ஐயோ, புத்தரும் நியூட்டனும் சரியாக இருந்திருக்கலாம். ஒவ்வொரு நல்ல மனிதனுக்கும், ஒரு சமமான, பொல்லாத நபர் இருக்க வேண்டும்.

12:45 PM

12:45 p.m.

When reading, there is something called character letter spacing and also kerning.

Kerning, is actually distinct. Kerning is the individual spaces between letters in a word itself. So, the space between "Lehan" is L*e. * = kerning.

In Millennium IT website, they have used character spacing. The problem, is they used too much.

It is harder to read. I cannot read it. I use 1.05 character spacing and 1.4 line spacing.

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2:00 PM

1:45 p.m.

I block a few people on FB.

I just go with my gut instincts -- it is one of those bad habits I picked up from Donald Trump.

The slightest detection of contempt, you throw them out fast.

I read my dad Palith's business books, not just Trump's Think Big and Kick Ass, but Jeffrey J Fox's How to be a Good Boss --

He teaches, hire slow, fire fast.

I am a bit more humane, I start with, "call me Lehan".

Sidath, these friends of cousin Koshitha Gunadasa, they probably despise me.

Why should I be friendly with them? What's in it for me? There is no need.

In SL, I do not really have to build any relationships or compromise on moral integrity (US interpretation), there is always Thilanga uncle --

He is a career politician, he can handle local politics.

People like these guys, Sidath, they are never going to get along.

It is best to be cautious.

I talk to dead people (just joking), I listened to Dave Goldberg:

I can decide very quickly if I don't like someone.

I want my friends list down to 100 from 400 now.

This is because I have reduced pain-thresholds, I have reduced capacity for stress coping --

I have very limited emotional capital, I get tired quickly.

People who want to reach me, they can contact our team or company or me directly --

But they should, as per conventional wisdom, use our trusted contacts for legitimate, evidenced business enquiries that are worth our efforts.

Our firm has evolved, we are hiring from the top percentile of the domain expertise population.

Things have changed. I hope for the better.

There is no reason for people to call me. There is enough info on our website.

As you can see, I have a very small block list.

Waruna █████ our business, he is Sriyani, Lal's sister's kid. They have lost everything. They are now ███████. I feel sorry for them. Waruna Buwaneka is drug dealer ███████████████ friend -- they went to President's College in Kotte together. Sriyani hates me because my dad Palith was driving, when according to (uncle) Martinn Teng, some motorcyclist crashed through front windshield, killing her husband Buwaneka de Silva.

██████, she seems to be an unsavoury individual, she was rude to me -- seems to have the character required to operate in the direct sales of sleazy sole proprietorship. This is not usually a bad thing. But I saw she has acted in a malicious manner. I mean, ffs, haha.

█████, there was suspicious activity on FB. I have decided to end personal contact with their █████████. I am ready for professional and business relationships only. But friendship, visiting homes, it is out of the question after what happened with ███████.

3:45 PM

3:30 p.m.

I was just writing this in light of recent news:

https://economynext.com/former-sri-lanka-mp-and-murder-convinct-duminda-silva-out-on-presidential-pardon-83320/

It is quite disturbing. It has happened in the past. President JR Jayawardena released Walpita Kankanamlage alias Sunil Perera. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ JR issued a presidential pardon. Sunil became a justice of peace. He served as JR's nephew PM Ranil Wickramasinghe's bodyguard.