Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Some interesting principles that I’ve come across and would like to share:
Peter’s Principle: It states that successful members of a hierarchical organisation are eventually promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to a level at which they are not competent.
Conclusion: Most organisations haveincompetent people in key positions - quite [...]
Posted in Music, Films & Games on June 19, 2006 | No Comments »
Had nothing to do last Saturday and was quite bored at home. So I decided to see Memoirs of a Geisha.
It's interesting - a bit slow at times I think but visually very nice and also it shows a different world (well with an American touch in the end, can't do much about that [...]
Posted in Computing on June 19, 2006 | No Comments »
I’ve just discovered a Proceeding in ACM. It’s SIGCOMM and the interesting part, for me, is that part of it is about Games and Networks.
People often don’t consider games as something important in Mauritius but maybe if ACM is looking at that, this might change the opinion of some people - hopefully.
I’m reading an interesting [...]
Posted in Computing on June 9, 2006 | No Comments »
I was told that being an ACM member was good. U have access to a whole lot of stuff. However, I did not not know that it was that good!!! I registered a week ago (for developping countries it’s only $43) and the wealth of up-to-date information available is absolutely amazing.
So many papers and [...]
Posted in Anime on June 9, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Just finished the series (not too long - only 25 episodes). So, it’s dark, but nice :). The end is not at all what I’d been expecting - all the better and I would definitely rate it as a must-see anime. Mind you, might not be for kinds though.
Enjoy
Posted in Mauritius, Music, Films & Games on June 6, 2006 | No Comments »
A few weeks back, the movie Benares was released in Mauritius. It was advertised as the "first Mauritian movie". So out of curiosity, I went to have a look.
Comments: Not bad. Basically it's just a long trip by road for 2 guys looking for some girls to spend the night with. But why was [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux on June 5, 2006 | No Comments »
Since december 2005, Ive been using Linux at work - just decided to try that as my PC was getting very very slow. Oh surprise, Kubuntu (Breezy Badger) is nearly as easy to use as Windows. So I’ve swithced to Linux for about 7 months now and i’m happy (still use Windows for some applications [...]
Posted in Music, Films & Games on June 5, 2006 | No Comments »
Started playing that game a week ago, and as my friend warned me, it’s quite tedious. Yet quite catching after some time
Posted in Anime on June 5, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I've not seen a lot of manga but according to what I've watched recently I'd just like to give some ratings.
Good:
Bleach - very nice anime. It has a quite slow start but it's very gripping once u've got over the forst 10 episodes. It's has some good fights, is funny but for now lacks romance.
Full [...]
Posted in Anime on June 5, 2006 | 2 Comments »
In Mauritius, where I live, Anime is very often seen as stuff for kids. But I totally disagree!!! Some (not all I admit) are very deep and "kids" will miss all of what's in it. For example, I've just started watching Serial Experiment Lain. It's one of those stuff that u absolutely adore or hate [...]
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