Posted in Mauritius, tagged Mauritius, poverty, SADC on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
About 1 week ago, Mauritius hosted the SADC Conference on Poverty with delagates staying in 5 star hotels, eating at banquets, travelling in limos, … Hopefully something good will come out of this; at least there was a buzz last week but it has quickly died out.
The really good thing that was set up [...]
Posted in Anime, tagged Afro Samurai on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
An anime about an Afro Samurai - wow that original!
Afro Samurai is an anime from GONZO studio. In terms of story, it’s not so different from the usual anime stuff - basically it’s a samurai seeking revenge. In the world of Afro Samurai, samurais faight to be the number 1 in which they attain a [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged racism on April 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since some time now, I’ve noticed something quite “dangerous” that’s starting to happen in Mauritius. When person A from a certain community X accuses person B of community Y and latter doesn’t know what to answer, he immediately accuses person A of be a racist! It’s so easy and … so lame.
I’m going to be [...]
Posted in Anime, tagged Anime, Grave of the fireflies, studio ghibli, setsuko, seita, war-movie on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last week-end, we had the annual chinese festival in Chinatown, Mauritius. As usual, I wanted to go have a look (with Bertrand and Pawan) and buy some salted plums (salangis) and while walking I saw a shop selling DVDs and I managed to get hold of Grave of the Fireflies (now the ones missing on [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged tourism, tsunami, flooding, climate change, firefighting on April 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Have you ever tried driving by looking in your rear mirror only? If you’ve not tried yet, I’m sure there’s a good reason why!
In Mauritius, we govern not by looking forward but by looking back, apart from the fact that our Prime Minister likes to continuously refer to his dad ;), all we talk about [...]
Posted in Computing, tagged database, forms, php, phpmaker5 on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So you want an easy life; you want to make PHP forms as if you are working with access? It’s possible. There are loads of such programs available but the best I’ve seen is PHPmaker5.
How it works
To start with, you need to have your database ready (in MySQL for example). PHPMaker5 will connect to your [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, tagged Kubuntu, Linux, qt, interface, trolltech on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday I decided to investigate Qt from Trolltech and get something working with it.
Very briefly, Qt is a library that allows you to create interfaces. Lots of programs use it (a lot of KDE programs do) and i’ve heard a lot of good things about it but alway thought naaa, this is too complicated. So [...]
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