Posted in Mauritius, tagged grande riviere sud est, ile aux cerfs, Mauritius, starfish, waterfall on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I went to Ile aux Cerfs again after a very long time and things have changed a lot since I last went there some 15 years ago.
We started our trip in Trou d’eau Douce at around 10:00. A boat swiftly took us to Ile aux Cerfs where a guy there explained how our day [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged Mauritius, society for the welfare of the deaf, sign language, mauritian sign language on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I attended an event held at the Society for Welfare of the Deaf (SWD) in Beau-Bassin for the 40th anniversary of that organization.
A nice presentation of the society by Mr Vinesh Hookoomsing recounted the story of the SWD which I gather was officially launched in 1968. They’ve gone a long way since with the [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius, tagged Mauritius, Facebook, wikipedia, proxy on June 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For some time now I’ve been unable to access Wikipedia both at home (using MyT) and at work (I suppose they use ADSL from MT or Orange now).
The solution is to use proxies and a good one is Anonymouse.org available at: http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
Proxies seem to be essential in Mauritius to:
check whether a site is really down [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, Mauritius, tagged firefox, map, Mauritius, pledge on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Firefox 3 is out and for sometime now there has been a campaign launched to help set a world record for the greatest number of downloads of one software in one day.
However, if you look beyond that, I think that this map (available at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord) gives a fair idea of the use of Internet and [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged elections, Mauritius, obama on June 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mr Barak Obama is going to be the Democrat candidate at the next presidential elections in the US. Mr Obama can be described as an “African American” (12.2% of US population are African American according to wikipedia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States) his dad being an African and he still managed to secure the place of Democrat candidate! If [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged brain, car, driver on May 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Do you need a brain to be a driver? I’m starting to think that no you don’t. Proof:
Fog lights - After 6 p.m. drivers turn their fog lights on but do we have fog in Mauritius? Apart from our occasional flooding, I don’t see anything!!! So I guess they either want to blind you or [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius, tagged OLPC, XO-2 on May 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The original OLPC laptop is great; it’s a small device that’s very robust but the XO-2 laptop is another story: it’s awesome!!! I saw that today and my immediate reaction was “I want one”. It’s supposed to cost $75 but I don’t mind participating in the programme buy two and donate one to a child [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged AIDS, Candlelight memorial, Mauritius, PILS on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Today (or rather tonight) we celebrate the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. It’s not just about lighting with a candle; it’s a about raising awareness about AIDS in the World and Mauritius.
For too long in Mauritius we have adopted an ostrich policy and despite all the talk sexual education is still not yet in our schools [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged bulb, eco-park, incandescent, Mauritius on May 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Incandescent bulbs use a lot of money and so we should (in order to try to reduce our energy bill) to try to use the low-energy bulbs but guess what, the latter are four times more expensive - Rs 20 v/s Rs 80!
If we want to convert Mauritius to an eco-park, we should surely try [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged 2008 IAAF, athletics, jonathan chimier, Mauritius, stephan buckland on May 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The championships are over and our “bilan” is two silver medals - not bad for a small country with 1.2 million people.
Congratulations to Stephan Buckland (silver medal - 200m race) and Jonathan Chimier (silver medal - long jump) and to the whole Mauritian team. We’ll do better next time in Osaka :).
Sportsmen in Mauritius
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