Posted in Anime on May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I think I must have got lucky today (life can’t all be bad luck anyway), walking in Rose-Hill I finally managed to get hold of “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”. It’s a rather old animation (1984) by the grandmaster Hayao Miyazaki.
I’ve seen a couple of the 3D movies that Hollywood is serving [...]
Posted in Mauritius on May 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well it seems that some wise “counselors” (counselors are always wise) in Pamplemousses have decided that the APEIM kids need some fresh air. Indeed, classroom learning is a thing of the past and now, classes should be done outside … under the trees. Through this unique opportunity, the handicapped will have the chance to study [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius on May 23, 2007 | No Comments »
This is one of ACM’s Special Interest Group that I was aware of but never paid a lot of attention to. Most of the time, i prefer to see what people are talking about in SIGGRAPH (the special inteest group on graphics) or SIGART (the group on A.I.). However since next year I plan to [...]
Posted in Computing, Music, Films & Games on May 19, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Python is All Around
I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Python is all around me
and so the feeling grows
It’s written on the web
It’s everywhere I surf
So if you really love coding
C’mon and python it
You know I love coding
I always will
My mind’s [...]
Posted in Mauritius on May 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This week I was reading an article on the demise of academia by Dr Traver. It was describing the downfall of British universities and how it happened; the really scary part is that we, in Mauritius right now, seem to be doing exactly the same mistake that UK did some years back! I won’t tell [...]
Posted in Computing on May 14, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Knowing how to use a debugger is an essential skill that any programmer should have. Yet, I see many final year students and future “programmers” still not knowing how to use one whether in C++, Java, … and I pity these poor souls who have no choice but to use only print statements in their [...]
Posted in Computing on May 12, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Last Friday for lunch (the 15 mins that I had between a lab and a meeting), I suddenly badly wanted to eat “dholl purris”. While queueing up before getting served, I heard an “interesting” conversation.
Guy 1: “Do you have Adobe - After Effects”
Guy 2: “Got version X.”
Guy 1: “I’m looking for the latest version.”
Guy 2: [...]
Posted in Computing on May 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Subsumption architecture was invented by Rodney Brooks (currently director of the MIT Computer Science and AI lab) and his colleagues in the 1980’s. It is described according to wikipedia as:
“A subsumption architecture is a way of decomposing complicated intelligent behaviour into many “simple” behaviour modules, which are in turn organized into layers. Each [...]
Posted in Anime on May 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
This is a nice anime with many funny characters. The story line is as follows:
Yoh is a shaman who is training to be the Shaman King (basically the leader of all shamans with powers close to God) to acheive his dream - live lazily while listening to music! Eventually the aim changes a bit as [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius on May 1, 2007 | 18 Comments »
On the 18 of April 2007, I got this text from Emtel:
Aujourd’hui, realimentez votre Emtel Prepaye a travers les ATM des banques (MCB, SCB,MPCB & FCB) et gagnez 20% du montant realimente en bonus. Conditions applicable.
Since I didn’t have lots of money on my mobile, I went for a refill at MCB. Tried a [...]
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