Google Page Creator

Google is really up to becoming a big superforce on the internet. Their new baby is called Google Page Creator and allows you to create webpages using your Google ID , the same that you use to check your gmail account.

Creation is really simple and even my next door 90-year old neighbour would find it easy. However there is a lack of advance features that amateur web-designers will find irritating.

I created a page here: http://javed2.googlepages.com/home to test the new service.

I would trust google to keep adding features over 2006 to make this service really cool. Anyways AJAX rocks on Google Page Creator.

Category: Javed Mandary ,Google,Mauritius,Webdesign,Web

Windows Live Messenger

Got my Windows Live Messenger invite today in my hotmail inbox , i was like a kid getting a christmas present only to find that this wicked tool was in fact very far from working properly.

After the somewhat sluggish install , entering your username and password is absolutely enerving , the text just doesnt come up and I am upto now not able to login to the system even though am using a really powerful 1GB RAM P4 pc.

Its really not worth downloading if you ask me , its just not ready yet for the general public. So will have to wait for the official realease somewhere mid-2006 to really get the best out of this.

Category: Windows,Messenger,MSN,Hotmail,IM

Mosquito 2 or the return of the Chikungunya

A mosquito is spreading havoc and terror amongst people in MRU-DODO country these days. Our sister island is already in a panic since the Chikungunya spelt "Chicken Gundah"..(at least thats the way i spell it :P ).., has been infesting all the little ponds and stagnent water.

Our dear minister of health has been saying since last week that there is absolutely no reason to panic ...last week the count of sick people related to the mosquito bite was around 300 , at this moment it is around 600 so yeah he is right i mean its just that the number of sick people is doubling , we will wait for next week before panicking.

Given the fact that its been rainning intensively since a couple of weeks this has helped increased the number of these pests considerably. They even got their website http://www.chikungunya.net/.

Do note that unlike common mosquitoes ,which by the way are just as malicious, the chikungunya is bigger and has white stripes across its body and normally doesn't move very far from where it is born. This may explain why for the moment only people in Mahebourg are falling like flies (.....thats a good one).

Category: Mahebourg,chikungunya,Mauritius,Reunion,Epedemic

So far so good

Now we are almost end of Feb and must say that this year has started nicely with its little bit of ups and downs but so far so good.

I haven't been really eager to blog since there was not so much interesting things going on (..that i can share with the hundereds of annonymous people online).

The only experience i suppose i could narrate is that of my intensive search for a car that would match my budget. I have been skimming though the pages of l'express , browsing servihoo for my dream vehichle but to no avail.

Last saturday i went to Phoenix where there seems to be a boom in second-car and re-conditioned car sellers , but the cars were just too lame or just too expensive. Second option is to get in contact with a "courtier" which i did but damn these guys just want to make money out of your head.


How difficult can it possibly be to get a good working condition, manual , 1500cc/above , full option, 1997/above vehicule ? Now the only problem is that i dont know which make/model am gonna look for. The Japanese are very expensive and not so high-tec as the European ones whilst the European cars have very low-resale value and you dont get spare parts as cheap and easily as the Japs.

So much parameters to take in consideration that i might just as well end up choosing the first vehichle that i see a "FOR SALE" notice on it.


Category: Mauritius,Javed Mandary,Car,Vehicule

DODO is back

Am back in the island , its really hot here ..wish winter would come soon.

Category: Javed Mandary

Been to Sun City on Sunday

Had two consequetive brilliant weekends , the first of them i went to MonteCasino which is like a big casino with lots of attractions like bands , balloon rides , casinos , circus and food courts.



Had a balloon ride then we ate at the Ocean Basket which is a really cool place to taste delicisious fried Hake and Calamari, before finally having a chill listening the live band playing.



This Sunday we went to a park i think its called plainsberg"-something" park on the way to Sun city it was a good ride , nothing really obvious to see until you stop your car and realise that you are actually in a middle of a herb of Zebras or buffalos , their camouflage is so remarkable that its just very difficult to spot anything if you drive like crazy. I saw an elephant , loads of zebras , buffaloes and what i like to call as a "leopard" which actually turned out to be a deer or a donkey or something.



Then hunger struke us as we drove the 1km drive from the park to Sun City , which was just brilliant and awesome . We had lots of fun going through the water rides , one of which was actually at a virtual 90 degrees and at one point you do end up being airborn. The artificial tidal waves were also just awesome its really a shame though that i left my camera in the lockers.. but i did get some pictures try my flickr photos here.



Category: South Africa,.Sun City,Holidays,Mauritius,Javed Mandary

Backr-Eid Mubarak from South Africa

Just would like to wish Eid Mubarak to muslims across the globe. Am so unfortunate to miss the Quarbani ceremony , hope the rest of you will make the most out of today in Mauritius and else-where.

Category: Eid,South Africa,Mauritius,Quarbani

Back to a Dodo XMAS

Am back in dodo land for a few days (holidays) before going back early Jan. So I got off my plane like 4 hours ago . Watched Alien v/s predator DVD . Ate some noodles , read the newspaper and now am blogging.

Dont no where i get the energy to do these things. But am planning to catch Father Xmas today read handed as he misses my house as he has been doing ever since I turned 11.

What has changed in the country since i left exactly 31 days ago ? ...the weather. Its really hot here in Port-Louis , even hotter than in Sandton , Jo'burg.

Must definitively go to the beach under these conditions.

Anyways MERRY XMAS to all of you people out there !!!!!!!!!!!

Category: Xmas,Mauritius,South Africa,Holiday,Javed Mandary

South African Safari

Yesterday I went on safari at the Lions Park which is very near to Lanseria Airport in South Africa. Was able to encounter animals that would be impossible to touch and see in good old Mauritius.



I saw giraffes , lynx , hyena , cheetah and the king of all animals the lion , loads and loads of them . I actually parked my car just next to lioness having its mouth full of the severed head of a cow. She was chewing on it as if it was a lollypop or something.



I also played with the lion cubs , adorable little lazy animals which didnt mind hundreds of tourist playing with them everyday.

Unfortunetly these animals are not really in the wild and would not be able to survive by themselves if they were let loose. Its a pity that because of mans wrong doings these majestic creatures now have to live in private farms and closed areas.

Category: South Africa, Mauritius, Lion,Wild,Safari

Blogging from South Africa

Here I am in South Africa and its my first blog from here. Its a really beautiful country , the weather is great and people are kind. I'm currently in Sandton , Johannesburg.

Will try to find some time to blog more.
Category: South Africa,Mauritius

Out to South Africa

To everyone whom I might not have had the time to say this , well am leaving Mauritius tommorrow to South Africa for work ,I would be back normally before or on X-MAS.

Sorry for not having called everyone cause I just got the news myself.At least its a good thing to have a blog :P, you can desiminate information quickly.

However I dont have any clue if I will have facilities there to go online or if I'll have time to blog ...normally i wont.

Ayways be sure I will try to take a maximum of photos possible and will go hunting for the LION in the bush !!!!!

I do hope to meet some Mauritians there in SA , so if you are Mauritian and you are in SA just send me a mail javed.blog@gmail.com ... :P

I think I will concentrate all the personal blogging on My MSN Space as its faster and keep the photos on flickr so do check these out.

Category: South Africa,Mauritius,Work,Blog

Mauritius AutoShow 2005

Had a blasting time at the Autoshow 2005 on saturday ..definitively much more than I had for Infotech 2005 . I have brought some good news and some bad news with me though, the good news is that cars really look much better now , designs are sleek and aerodynamic but prices now top the rs 2 millions for semi-luxury models !!!!!

Many people came to Pailles to see the show , on the way I came across the iframac centre where there were at least a dozen jaguars ready to be sold . That was enough to have me salivating . In front of the Pailles centre there were at least 6 classic cars . Ticket cost around rs 35 rupees which is really cheap .. depending on the number of people coming with you.

The main attraction was at the Nissan stand and more precisely for the Nissan Z 350 which where showcased , 2 sexy beast which i would have loved to ride. Well enough of talking pictures speak for themselves:
Pictures I took : http://www.flickr.com/photos/56452775@N00/

Category: Mauritius,Pailles,AutoShow,Honda,Nissan,Toyota,Car

You will never guess what this blog is about!

Ok I know am out doing myself today ..here is a blog on powerpoint presentations , a lot of interesting material to read , reall nice though... but still a blog about powerpoint presentations ...where are we heading!

Category: Blog,Powerpoint,Presentation,Site,fun

Customize msn spaces blog

This guy
talks you around how to customize your msn space ..if you have one of course
Category: MSN,BLog

30 gigs invite hack

Just copy pas the following URL in your browser :
http://www.30gigs.com/accept/79380/enter-any-name-here

You can replace enter-any-name-here by anything you want.

Found this hack on dreamchaser's. blog

Category: Hack,30gigs,Mail

Infotech 2005 aftermath

So I did eventually go to infotech 2005 on Saturday, there was less stands than before , it was hot and everyone was crowded inside a small arena, it felt a lot like being in an oven with lots of crawling ants...needless to say rude , pushing and sqeeking ants.

This time I walked with my hands in my pocket so as vendors dont keep junking their brochures my way or at times I just kindly(..hmm) refused to grab everthing they threw at my face.

Met loads of people there with everyone saying the same thing .. "Nothing new!" or "Theres nothing to see" which depicted exactly the situation. One stand that really attracted me was that of the MT+ livebox , which is a small rectangular box which provides you with ADSL access , internet TV and video-enabled fixed telephone line surprisingly the stand was empty....yes Mauritians are really techie

Most people were after the cash & carry stands which had on display their inexpensive computer-wares ..mind you a Sony Vaio at rs62,000 , I do wonder who would be the idiot who would spend that amount on a laptop. There was also the leal informatics stand that had quiet a few visitors with the IPod Nano looking realy cute and sexy. And the Apple-Mini being sold at rs 18000 (without a screen).

On the whole the only thing I would cherish in my memories of that Saturday would be the ride to Mer-Rouge and back home!

Category: Mauritius,Javed Mandary,Infotech

Eid the day after

Eid Mubarak if i missed one of you people . Eid went well , lots of briani and now am suffering from stomach ache ... ouch.

Lets wait for bakreid now :) heheheh.

Category: Eid,Mauritius

YouTube - Upload Tag and share videos

YouTube is the technorati and flickr for video files . You can upload and share your videos with thousands of other users and visualize all the sites content via Tags just like technorati.

The idea is great and right now the japs and chinese are making the most out of the service. There are some really cool videos like this Ninja Man or the funny 2 chinese boys I want it that way , which is an absolute must see loool .

If you want to save the YouTube videos follow this guide.

Update: The Lion Song kewl!

Category: Video,Tag,Site,Share,Review

Me v/s the Mango Eater Bats

Eaten up mangoes
Originally uploaded by ledodo.

Last night was one of the most annoying and sleepless night of my entirely life. The reason BATs!

This must be my 3rd blog entry on these dumb creatures. Even my parents are now concerned with them, no one is able to sleep peacefully annymore.

Imagine being waken up at 1:45am by flapping wings , sqeaky noises over a well-laden late-night mango dinner party... just after having seen Dracula TV ..brbr..

So I decided that enough was enough , me and my dad come up with a list of possible solutions to frighten them off .

First we tried to light up all lamps in the house but this did not have much effect . Dad told me that someone had advised him to put a radio near the tree , so we bundled his little blue radio to a sort of long stick and placed it high up near the mangoo tree ... that was the end of dad's favorite blue radio ... as it fell with a big crash .

Exasperated I took hold of the stick and angrily rattled it through the leaves of the tree , imagine our surprise on seeing at least 20 bats rising up to the dark skys one by one . And there were big ones amongst them. Actually the entire area we live in is full with loaded mango trees at this period of the year and for the bats its like a gigantic mall.

Tonight am gonna try scaring the hell out of them with firecrackers. Anyone has any suggestions , i would be glad to hear them.

Ah and yeah the picture shows the mess after the late night dinner in my yard.

Category: Mango,Bat,Mauritius,Pest,Port-Louis,Javed Mandary,Dracula,Halloween,Sleep

Cheap Alienware Laptop

If you are anywhere in the northern hemisphere and happen to want a laptop then do consider the new Area-51 laptops from Alienware not only are they cool but are also cheap starting at $1,049 ..on top of that they have wide-screens.

Category: Alienware,Laptop,Review