Archive for November, 2007

Mauritius, the paradise island…and wat?

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Branded with the trade mark of “The Paradise Island”, Mauritius is the “destination de reves” of millions of people, source of inspiration of numerous poets, wonderful and un-exploited landscapes of hundreds of films, mostly bollywood movies

“You gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; [...]

Verbes transitifs/intransitifs - Transitive/intransitive verbs

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Les verbes transitifs sont des verbes qui peuvent être suivis d’un complément d’objet direct ou indirect. Les verbes transitifs peuvent être subdivisés en verbes transitifs directs et verbe transitifs indirects.
Exemples:
Les étudiants écoutent l’instituteur. (Transitif direct)
Cela dépend du temps. (Transitif indirect)
Les verbes intransitifs ne peuvent être suivis d’aucun complément d’objet.
Exemples:
Je dors.
J’éternue.
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Transitive verbs are verbs that can [...]

ICTA and Facebook

Friday, November 16th, 2007

So, after the Facebook - ICTA controversy, Trilock Dwarka, Chairman of the Authority, has admitted that the decision to block access to Facebook completely on Thursday 8th Nov (a black day for the Mauritian online democratic community) was excessive in an interview with L’Express on Tuesday 13th. But, he was shrewd enough to lay the [...]

New Technology Can Be Operated by Thought

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Physically disabled people can compose and send emails and operate a television by thought thanks to advances in brain-machine interface (BMI) technology, and further breakthroughs may even make the mental operation of prosthetic limbs a reality in time. “By permitting the subject to adaptively recode the generated neural activity, the overall performance of the [BMI] [...]

I’ve Been Tagged By Tushuxxx

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Hell Yeah I’ve been tagged by Tushal For some this may be a curse, but personally I like it since I’ll use this to make some fun….héhé

Top 5 quotes/lines
- You’re In The Jungle Baby, Wake Up Its Time To Die!!
- My Lifestyle Determines My Deathstyle
- Music Is My Religion
- When The [...]

More Navin Ramgoolam on the web

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

If there’s one thing that the Facebook mini-controversy achieved, that is letting people know that there is an ongoing revolution against Navin Ramgoolam’s government on the Internet.

Beijing Traffic Lesson: Left Turn

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

This is not from me, but it’s too damn funny not to post it. It’s definitely something that you might see in Beijing.
As I may have mentioned before, traffic in Beijing is its own art form. The city is adding thousands of cars per - I don’t even know, week? Which means you have a [...]

Joel de Rosnay

Monday, November 12th, 2007

French futurologist and scientist Joël de Rosnay gave a conference last week at UOM on ‘Nouvelles Technologies, Innovations et Résistances au Changement’. He drew a well organised map and catalogue of the crucial areas of innovation and listed the many stumbling blocks that need to be overcome in order to make the most of these [...]

Expression Engine : Daily posts at specific time

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Problem :
You want to display a particular post everyday but only during a time of the day, very useful when you’ve got a schedule you want to display.
Solution :
Post your entry but make the entry date a fixed one. For example, the post has entry date 2007-01-01 but with the time you want the post [...]

Mac OS X Leopard

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Depuis environ une semaine, mon Macbook tourne sous Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, le tout dernier système d’exploitation d’Apple. Comme il fallait s’y attendre, il y a du bon et du moins bon.
Les plus

Rapidité

Les applications maison (Apple) s’ouvrent rapidement. De plus, sous Mac OS X Tiger (le prédécesseur de Leopard), lorsque je cliquais sur [...]