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Cerno (pronounced cer-no) means:
Latin for “to perceive, to separate, sift, distinguish /decide, resolve, determine” From the English – Latin dictionary.
After nearly 9 months of blogging I have been blogging since Feb 6th 2007. So I think a very faint idea of what this blog might be about: eclecticism around an assortment of themes being interesting in interesting way. Not being boring. . I won’t list those themes because I might be wrong. Personal blogs, written without the goal of selling products, ideas, or services are mysterious things. Fog like, morphed by distracting curiosities that posses their blogger.
I got “interviewed” by the The Pakistani Spectator blog. Essentially spent the time I normally would in pecking out a blog post responding to their questions. So did indi though I’m not trying to be name drop 
A while back I answered the 10 questions at blogs we luv. So far it is the most accurate description of my blog. It was also the most difficult thing I’ve ever written online.
Enough tell, click around for the show.
As for this blog, I intend to cling on to my “policy” of keeping it politics free. Let see if it lasts.
just came across this website and thought you might get a kick out of it..
http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/
Dear Cerno
Please can you let me know if the photo http://cerno.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/lesbian-advertisement/was taken by you and if it was do you mind the BBC using it?
The photograph OF the billboard is mine.
Don’t mind anyone using it as long as its credited to this blog with the URL http://cerno.wordpress.com
No idea who took the photo of the two models is though…
Curious as to what you are planning to use it for?
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Cerno,
A few things recently added to my blog might interest you from a few different angles.
(1) About Sri Lanka, for a change, and the strange role it has in contrast to “mainland Southeast Asia”, from the strange perspective of a Pali scholar:
http://a-bas-le-ciel.blogspot.ca/2012/06/sri-lanka-is-different-sri-lanka-is.html
(2) On stone inscriptions found in Sri Lanka, a few related ideas, and, believe it or not, the guy who made those Sinhalese fonts for the Mac a few years ago (you commented on these fonts on your own blog, quite some time ago): http://a-bas-le-ciel.blogspot.ca/2012/05/ashokas-edicts-dead-languages-and.html
(3) You’d probably enjoy the glimpse into the (comparable and yet starkly different) post-war Theravada contexts in Cambodia and Laos respectively:
http://a-bas-le-ciel.blogspot.ca/2012/05/pali-revival-and-survival-in-cambodia.html
http://a-bas-le-ciel.blogspot.ca/2012/05/on-learning-lao-fascicle-1.html
I realize that the vast majority of Sri Lankans regard their own history as wholly unique (and it is) but there are interesting points of comparison to be found in looking at other cultures that have endured war, revolution, etc., with a similar legacy of Theravada Buddhism in the air (and, in many cases, lying in ruins on the ground).
Those are some very interesting links! Thank you. Your comment got stuck in my spam filter & its been a while since I logged in to clear it. Apologies for delay.
You have a very poignant points to make about the Sri Lankan view of their deep past. From my personal experience if boils down to the fact that during the last 60 years, the mythologised past has become a political tool separate from the facts. Its used to get people roused up and distracted by rhetoric so that duller things like good governance stay off the radar. All of which makes the study of ancient text in their orignal languages/lettering a political act. It eats away on the cooked up myths politicians live on.
Hi Cerno,
We have a client who is looking for active Lifestyle / Tech / Automotive bloggers from Sri Lanka for a regional campaign. We would like to propose your blog. Would you be interested. Hope to hear from you!
Don’t think my blog fits that category. Please see the licensing info about using anything from this blog.