Posted in Mauritius, My works on February 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It’s Tuesday night and I’m as usual knackered - spent at least 5 hours talking today. So some procratination is bound to do me some good and what’s better than to try my Volito.
Shitty Weather
My first comic strip - “Shitty weather” (inspired by looking out through my window where I see only rain these days!), [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, My works on February 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, this might not sound like big news but it in fact is! The Volito 2 graphics tablet is supposed to be a solely Windows product - the system requirements on the box does not even mention Linux; the systems requirements says only Windows. However, i tried it on Dapper Drake Kubuntu and it works!!!
It [...]
Posted in Computing, My works on February 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Yes, finally I got it. After months of longing, I finally finally finally got my graphics tablet. It’s not a professional one but I’m not a pro - just like to draw a bit. This graphics tablet is the perfect for beginners - it’s affordable and the quality that u get from it is [...]
Posted in Mauritius on February 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Trajectories
Here’s a list of sites providing info, tracking and trajectory simulation:
Joint Typhoon Warning Center Products - https://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc.php
Tropical Storm Risk - http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/
Mtotec - http://www.mtotec.com/
Mauritius Meteorological Services - http://metservice.intnet.mu/wcystm.htm
Specifically: http://metservice.intnet.mu/wcyfst.htm
Tropical storms worldwide - http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/
Specifically Indian Ocean: http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/Gif/sin.latest.gif
Meteo France - http://www.meteo.fr/temps/domtom/La_Reunion/
Specifically this cyclonic season: http://www.meteo.fr/temps/domtom/La_Reunion/TGPR/saison/saison_trajGP.html
More information on the first page - click here.
Posted in Mauritius on February 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On that Sunday, the 22nd of Febraury 1999, Joseph Reginald Topize - alias Kaya - “mysteriously” died in a police cell. The circumstances of his death are till today very unclear but there is a general feeling in Mauritius that there was some foul play and this sparked rioting in the country.
Will we ever know [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Since I started investigating Panda3D, I’ve delved a bit into Python (I’ve not been swallowed by the giant snake yet) - can’t dop otherwisem Python is the scripting language in use there! But it gave me the chance to learn a new language! So where can I get a decent editor?
A good resource for that [...]
Posted in Music, Films & Games on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The number of 3D movies coming out every year is on the rise and last year (2006) we’ve had our load. From Cars to monster house, we’ve had a whole range and it is beyond any doubt that the quality of the animation is improving! However storywise, I wasn’t too impressed - cars which was [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius on February 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Computer Science & Engineering department - the place where I work - of the University of Mauritius has finally got it’s own website. The address is: http://cse.uom.ac.mu/
There’s still more work to be done on it but now we have a “window on the world” and now people should be able to find [...]
Posted in Mauritius, Uncategorized on February 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Many people seem to treat Valentine’s day with a lot of disdain claiming that it’s only about spending money. Hold on, what festive celebration isn’t without money? Perhaps Christmas or Easter or mother’s day or birthdays or … . Come on, this is ridiculous! We live in material world and u want it or not, [...]
Posted in Computing on February 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve started to learn Squeak and as a result Smalltalk sometime back and there is a feature in Smalltalk that I find absolutely amazing.
First of all, if you have heard of Smalltalk, what u’ve heard is probably the usual crap: Smalltalk is the grandfather of most modern OOprogramming languages. But believe me it’s more than [...]
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