Archive for February, 2008

Reaction to “Augmentation fees UOM”

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I have been going through an article wrote by Miss Mottee Prisheela and following which I’m against her article and views.
The article can be found here.
{The article will not be produced here due to copyright}
I will only quote part of the article to which I will be giving my comments and reactions.
In a summary, [...]

Whats wrong????

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Since the last few days, many have been complaining about some pages which are not opening and by coincidence or whatever, all these people are using an internet connection from the same ISP.
Friend A cant open these sites
Yahoo
Hi5
facebook
Friend B cant open
Hi5
hotmail
Friend C cant open
Rapidshare
Hi5
Facebook
Friend D cant open
Rapidshare
hi5
Friend E cant open
Hotmail
hi5
Facebook
And Me..I cant open
Hi5
[...]

Fix your colour profile NOW!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

This post includes a picture.

If you’re using an Apple computer, do yourself a big favour right now by re-calibrating your display to at least set the gamma value to 2.2 instead of the Apple default of 1.8.

In the old days of B&W printing, gamma 1.8 was ideal as it produced a smooth grayscale. Nowadays, the [...]

New improved nomad???

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Hundreds/thousands of billboards, newpapers are displaying the following advert these last days…
Nomad is announcing that NOW has

Better experience
Improved service
Expanded coverage…

So, this proves that they accept that BEFORE this advert, nomad users had very

POOR experience
POOR service
POOR coverage!!!

SO BAD MARKETING for the image of a company!!!

Ignore hardware upgrade to save on mobile contract

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

My Vodafone contract ended a couple of months ago, but I renewed it only today. I ignored the proposed hardware upgrade and saved about GBP 200 for the length of the new contract by asking to have my line rental charge lowered instead.

This is a considerable saving if you are not after a new phone, [...]

EarthQuake in UK

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

0100 GMT while updating one of my websites , my house shook gently for five to 10 seconds with a short spell of significant vibration. The wardrobe doors banged during this period, which subsided to another five to 10 seconds and then peace again. I switched on the lights and came out on the [...]

Surviving on casserole

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Yep, I’m still alive. I have not starved yet, but am running out of ideas on what to eat for dinner. On this note, let me say that casserole dishes are a god-send to those with cooking disabilities: mix casserole sauce with water and add to meat of choice, forget the lot in the (preferably [...]

Mahashivaratri Controversy : Are we still in a free country?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

I’ve just received an sms from my friend Selven ( http://www.blogged4ever.com/) who informed me about an ongoing controversy surrounding the Mahashivaratri.
I quote, “It has its meaning only if celebrated on that nite (night) ie(that is) the 6 (th of ) this month. Partou entier le monde p fer sa zour la. Mais someone screwed up [...]

Learning Scheme with me

Monday, February 25th, 2008

As you all know by now, I am currently teaching the Scheme programming language to my 2nd year students as a means to master the functional programming paradigm.

I started four weeks ago with a general introduction on programming paradigms and on the necessity to at least know the most important ones in order to become [...]

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Port de Montréal

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Une très belle journée d’hiver.