Archive for March, 2008

April Fool

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Happy April Fool
Enjoy your plans. Check these out:
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2008/03/pranks08
http://lifehacker.com/373817/top-10-harmless-geek-pranks
I hope you’ve planned something as cool as what the Hitachin brothers have.

I’m off to launch PHPMSADMIN. Nope, it may sound like a joke but this tool does exist
Good Tuesday.
I wish you well.
Shah

I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The latest version 2.5 of Wordpress was released yesterday and I’ve just upgraded Noulakaz.net.
I use a number of plugins and I had a small issue with one of them, Alex King’s Popularity Contest, which kept generating fatal errors when activated. Fortunately, I came across a simple one-line fix. This is where open source software really […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5″, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/03/30/ive-upgraded-to-wordpress-25/” });

Privacy & Technology : co-existence possible?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Can someone have a private life today? I doubt it. Will it be possible in the future? No…Do we need privacy? depends on your way of life… i personally don’t need; do you?
As new technologies come into play…i think we can say bye to our privacy.
Curious as i am…i feel it will be nice to […]

Google in black

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Google switched off the lights. There was a stupid article the other day claiming that would save a lot of energy (750MWh) if Google used a black background.Well, let’s see now. As for the Earth hour, you will see that the energy usage will drop well before 8pm mark if people anticipate it or there […]

Mauritian Law : No more than 2 dogs!

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Hello everyone…
I was astonished by wat i read this morning in the Le Defi Plus newspaper…

Oh, no, not exactly by this title, but rather, one sentence from that particular article, as shown below…

According to an inspector of the MSPCA, an owner can have only 2 dogs, else, he is considered as a dog breeder, thus […]

I love purple

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Purple is kinda my colour. It makes me go all “Awww.”

My next mission: Paint my room purple! Sure, it’s kinda girly for some but I don’t mind for purple is AWWW… *cuteness overload*!!!

18 minutes with an agile mind

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I got this off HackerNews today:

Richard Stoll shoots out some gems like:
When you do something the first time, its science.When you do it the second time, its engineering.When you do it the third time its technology.  
18 minutes for a very well prepared presentation.

Latest WebKit passes 100/100 Acid3. Get it now!

Friday, March 28th, 2008

From Surfin’ Safari:

With r31342 WebKit has become the first publicly available rendering engine to achieve 100/100 on Acid3. The final test, test 79, was a brutal torture test of SVG text rendering. Details of the bugs we fixed will follow. Indeed, we found a critical bug in the test itself that would have forced a […]

Internet Public Library

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Hello,
well ish and yav thought of writing something on our blog but havnt yet got time to really write… so just something to share ‘en passant’!
I discovered it some days ago and guess I am the last one to know about Internet Public Library. Well, if am not then check it out for yourself @ www.ipl.org. […]

The Flood of Irresponsibility

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

14:30 26 March 2008, I was in the computer lab of UTM doing my assignment with some friends, the guy responsible just come in and tell us, they need to close. Puzzled I asked him for the reason, and he replied “Pluies Torrentielles”. Still confused we packed up quickly and went to the […]