Behold the next generation of Keyboards , the russian Optimus wireless Keyboard has buttons that light up to your touch , is open source and comes with an SDK + keyboard studio application . It allows its user to customize its buttons and has a nice ...standard design .. ok thats a minus point...apart from the buttons that light up!
Category: Pc,Keyboard
Its finally hitting Mauritian roads , the tuning mania has begun. More and more people are interested in getting their cars revamped Fast and Furious style which is absolutely delightful to watch on the streets.
Just yesterday i came across this site Le Concept Car , kinda of cool and sets you directly into the tuning world.
Its the Concept Car tuning shop's website online (based at Q.Bornes ,Mauritius). I didn't see any prices though on the alloy wheels that would have been interesting. Still its worth the visit.
Category: Mauritius,Tuning
Ever wondered how a hurricane looked liked whislt looking out of your window off pensacola in florida USA , well that is possible , even if you are not in Florida! Thanks to the webcams installed on Pensacola people from all over the world can witness this whirpool of wind and rain. The picture above shows the image of
To get the latest images click here .
Category: Dennis,Hurricane,Weather
Just found a few interesing websites related to Mauritius:
1. Sega music from Mauritius : Songs are proposed along with nice pictures and descriptions of the origins of our good old sega songs.
2. Birds of Mauritius : Have a look at all the native birds of the island , most of which like the kestrel and pink pigeon are in danger of extinction.
3. Kreol : A good "dictionary" to start learning creol which is the most spoken language on the island.
4. Encyclopedia Mauritiana : one of the first Mauritian Online Encylopedias
Category: Mauritius
Last week i was watching french news on our sister island's channel Antenne Reunion and i was really surprised to see that these guys which seemed to be providing professional information did not even know how the name of our Mauritian prime minister was spelt.
They kep saying Navin Rangoolam whilst his name is Navin Ramgoolam on top of that it was written as Rangoolam on the headlines .... humm wow such professionalism. Either they really dont care about us or its really a typing mistake.
Category: Mauritius,Antenne Reunion,Tv,Reunion
According to BBC.co.uk , uk police is seeking footage taken by camera amateurs or mobile phone users on the crime scenes of the london bombing. These can prove to be valuable source of information in their investigations. These footage can be sent to the following address : images@met.police.uk .
Yesterday i was really sad to see that there was one Mauritian who might have dissapeared in the london bombings , we can really can not imagine what her friends , relatives and family must be going through.
These barbaric acts of terrorism should definitively be put to a stop , its just not permissible to have a bomb exploding every 12 months anywhere in the world. Its really revolting. This is to say that no one will feel safe anymore and this is not something which can be tolerated.
Category: London Bombing, Mauritius,BBC
Like many Mauritians I was really horrified to learn that there had been a terrorist attack killing 37 and wounding 700 innocent civilians. There are loads of Mauritians in london and our immediate reaction here have been to contact as many as possible to see if they were ok.
Its really depressing to see that every year there is always a bunch of idiots out there who kill innocent individuals just because they want to get themselves heard and whats worst is that as they strike in the dark its always others that get blamed for such actions.
Category: London, Mauritius, London Bombing
I have tried loads of OS over the years but the one which i found really easy to use and does meets it purpose as an OS has always been Microsoft Windows , people can always say the Unix/Linux variants are free and just as cool but we have to be realistic there is definitely much more support towards Windows than any other OS on the market.
I have worked with Windows 3.0 , Windows NT/95/98 , Windows 2000 , Windows Millenium , Windows XP and i just can't wait for end 2006 to get my copy of Windows Longhorn.
If you are one of those people who started using your pc after 2000 you probably never saw the versions which came before Windows Millenium and 2000 so here is a site which provides screenshots of those nostalgic years of rapid evolution, where everything was different and harder and dos prevailed.
Category: Windows,History,Longhorn
Just tried Yahoo's My Web 1.0 BETA . This service from google yahoo allows you to save your bookmarks online. So far it was able to import my firefox bookmarks successfully.
This feature can be really cool if for example you have important bookmarks at work and you want to get them when switch to another pc at home or elsewhere. You can share your bookmarks with other people and be able to search them easily.
Category: Bookmark , Yahoo , Review
According to news.com.au , the first zombies are already amongst us and they not only come from the dead but also bark and wag their tails! Yes .. zombie dogs!
These form part of an experiment to re-animate bodies after removing their blood and injecting saline solutions in them. The purpose of such a procedure is to be able to preserve body tissues and organs of patients in cases where these patients are losing lots of blood and need to be preserved until taken to hospital for example in battlefields.
The first trials are already a success with dogs being put to death and re-animated
a few hours later.
Read full story
Category: Zombie, Dog, Medecine
So the counting is over and the winner is Alliance Social . Navin Ramgoolam is now our Prime Minister for 5 years.
Am right now at the cybercity , it seems that there is a giant congestion in port-louis and I have absolutely no idea at what time am gonna be back home ..yikes :S .
Election results can be found on the government portal :
http://electoral.gov.mu/elec2005/index.htm
Category: Mauritius, Election, Result
So today is big day for many fellow Mauritians ,who of the parties will win the elections 2005 is still a mystery. But my guess it will be either MSM/MMM (current ruling party) or Alliance Sociale.
Yesterday was voting day most voting centers recorded between 75 and 85% attendees , which is quiet good although i do wonder what the 20% remaining were doing.. :) .There apparently was not too much trouble , I went voting around 3pm many people like me prefered having lunch first before heading to the voting centres.
It was rather calm there 200 meters off voting center premises there were both MSM/MM and Alliance Sociale activitist sitting in front of each other or rather ignoring each other. Lots of young people in the locality were among them which was quiet surprising to me.
Right now the counting is about to start , results will be obtained by the end of the day.
Category: Election, Mauritius, Vote
Having nothing to watch on tv at times can be a bliss. As today was the case I immediately turned towards my pc for my daily surfing exercise.
I thought "Hey why not have a look at what the other blogs are saying" , so after a quick browsing sesssion on del.icio.us, I came on this blog called cool hunting which was showing how to dissapear completely . Its basically about using sheds for hideouts ,well that was the bizarre blog of the day.
Afterwards I came across a site or more precisely a project online called The Gutenberg Project , its kind of a collection of free literrature mostly in Text format , that you can download and read without having to pay for anything , I just downloaded The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and The Best American Humorous Short Stories both less than a megabyte in Zip format. Its nothing compared to reading a physical book (unless you print it of course) , but still its better than nothing.
Talking about litterature its astonishing to see the amount of people rushing to their book stores to get hold of the Da Vinci Code . The book is already one of the best "best-sellers" of all time. Even here in Mauritius lots of people of both sex keep gossiping about it.
I have a feeling that despite it having an intriguing and fascinating story, that this book has become more of a trendy object that one would showcase on one's desk or library than anything else. Of course there are many people who do enjoy the book for its content rather than for the trend.
Anyways I haven't read the book nor am I thinking of doing so , I prefer watching a nice documentary on National Geographic channel or BBC . Although reading such books is good , entertaining and greatly improves your imagination and vocabulary , i believe that one gains considerably less than learning about true stories of people , animals , insects , forests ,fish and places ,things that you learn by reading scientific/economics litterature or watching docs.
Coming to think of it even Leonardo Da Vinci had a well developed general knowlege of the world around him.
If you are in Paris , Philadelphia , rome and other places in europe and america , you must have heard about it Live8 concert is to be held on the 6th of July . This is concert which is held at different places in the world simultaneously to help poverty stricken countries to fight this plague. Frankly i find it a very noble gesture and if you get the chance to go then dont hesitate.
Here is a list of artists perfoming at different places around the globe (source About.com):
Berlin - Brandenburg Gate
* A-ha
* Crosby Stills and Nash
* Brian Wilson
* Green Day
* Lauryn Hill
* Bap
* Die Toten Hosen
* Peter Maffay
Johannesburg
* To be determined
London - Hyde Park
* Mariah Carey
* Coldplay
* Dido
* Keane
* Sir Elton John
* Annie Lennox
* Madonna
* Muse
* Pink Floyd
* Razorlight
* Scissor Sisters
* Sir Paul McCartney
* Joss Stone
* Stereophonics
* Sting
* Robbie Williams
* U2
* REM
* Velvet Revolver
* Bob Geldof
* The Killers
* The Cure
* Snow Patrol
Paris - Versailles Palace
* Jamiroquai
* Craig David
* Youssou N'Dour
* Yannick Noah
* Andrea Bocelli
* Calo Gero
* Kyo
* Placebo
* Axelle Red
* Johnny Halliday
* Manu Chao
* Renaud
* James Brown
* Sheryl Crow
* Cure
Philadelphia - Museum Of Art
* Will Smith (host)
* Bon Jovi
* Maroon 5
* P Diddy
* Stevie Wonder
* Jay-Z
* The Dave Matthews Band
* Sarah McLachlan
* Rob Thomas
* Keith Urban
* Kaiser Chiefs
* Destiny's Child
* Linkin Park
Rome - Circus Maximus
* Duran Duran
* Faith Hill
* Irene Grandi
* Jovanotti
* Tim McGraw
* Nek
* Laura Pasini
* Vasco Rossi
* Zucchero
There will also be live transmission on M6 for people like us who never get to go to these types of events ;) .
Category: live8,concert,M6
Below is a target that you could add to your ant build.xml file to checkout codes automatically from subversion (svn). I had a lot of trouble finding the svnant.jar file necessary for this target so i thought i could share it online with others.
<target name="checkout" depends="init">
<taskdef name="svn" classname="org.tigris.subversion.svnant.SvnTask"/>
<svn username="javed"
password="pass">
<checkout url="http://10.12.5.19/svn/MyRepository/trunk" destPath="${basedir}"/>
</svn>
</target>
Do add the svnant.jar to your ANT_HOME/lib directory.
Category: Subversion,Ant, Build
Mauritian company Network Plus is offering a service called Nomad Office. This service allows you to stay connected to the net even if you dont have a telephone nearby. It uses Wimax technology , allowing wireless connectivity to the web. All that you need is simply a modem and your pc/laptop.
Currently the Nomad Service is available from Grand Baie to Vacoas. The rest of the island still needs to be covered , so you just can't be that nomad after all :) .
Two types of connections are offered 128kb and 512kb. Whats good is that Network Plus allows you to temporarily shift to 512kb if you are on 128kb if you need , you just pay extra for the number of hours you increase your bandwidth.
Its the price which unfortunately leaves a salty taste in the mouth,you need to do a rs2000 deposit , rs 300 monthly for
rental and rs 1710/monthly for the 128kb connection whilst the 512kb is at rs 3240/monthly + 15% TVA (VAT). At this price , i
find servihoo's packages really better given the fact that mobility is really not and issue for most individuals.
The service is supposed to target offices , but i dont think that offices would require such a service in Mauritius. We all know how dangerous wireless connections can be . I personnally think its safer to use a wireless LAN in the office with
connection to the external environment via optic cables / telephone lines than relying solely on wireless Wimax connections.
Category: Mauritius, Technology,
Review
As you are aware of it the general elections are due soon and political websites have started to spring up on the web. Its a pity that there is no blog however , would have been a pioneer step by our politicians.
Here are some sites which i found whilst reading l'express:
1. http://www.msmmmm18.com - MSM/MMM ward 18 website.
2. http://www.bizinchanger.net/mlp - l'Alliance sociale (OOps not working!)
By the way right now there are all kinds of ribbons around lamp posts and buildings in Mauritius , its really looking like a big party is taking place. Political discussions are in the minds and heart of many . Just this morning i heard that
poitical activists from opposing camps had started a fight last night and gun shots were heard.
Category: Mauritius, Elections
I know , i know i was away for a while from my blog , but thats what you get when you work in the private sector in Mauritius ...very little freetime. So i'll try to forgive myself with some articles on what is happening in the country.
Its getting colder here and my fingers are starting to freeze . Days are shorter and the sun is most of the time playing hide and seek behind the clouds , ideal time to go to the beach if you dont like being roasted and tanned.
Category: Mauritius , Blog
