Archive for July, 2008

Preview of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

More than 10,000 performers have been working on the 50-minute show for three years and all were sworn to secrecy - but, with just eight days to go, a South Korean television network managed to breach security and broadcast just over a minute of the show yesterday.
The images went up on the internet last night, [...]

Picture: Chinese performers dancing *aww*

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Chinese performers dance in front of a float decorated with Fuwa Huanhuan, the Olympic mascot representing fire, during a parade promoting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

*Aww* *Ultimate Cuteness Overload* I don’t like their hair though.
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Yo! Males wearing make-up rule!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The title speaks for itself. In current times, most men still find it weird to wear mascara and other types of make-up. I’m not talking about TV anchormen who wear make-up to have a uniform skin texture and to prevent the sweat on their brows. Of course, no one gets a close look at them [...]

Bazaar dans Assemblé Nationale…

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

fuf! Enkor ene tigite et pu croire zotte dan bazaar!!!
Wow, that was SHOCKING !!!

Today in the MBC News, for once, i (as well as thousands of hundreds of telespectators) witnessed a very embarrassing situation as a Mauritian!
bon, nu bouze lo creole pli facile !
Pendant séance parlementaire azordi, le 30 July 2008, ene ‘bagarre’ ine preske [...]

Got pinched…….because of a cigarette

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Today, while returning home after university courses, I stopped in the capital (Port-Louis) to enjoy a meal in a fast-food restaurant. After eating I immediately headed to a retail shop to buy a one cigarette ( this practice of buying is common in Mauritius), light it up and enjoy the smoke.
Unfortunately after smoking I carelessly [...]

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - Trailer

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Enough teaser posters and title treatments, here is your first look at an actual trailer for the sixth “Harry Potter” film! November 21st is The Big Day.

So what did you think? Are you as excited as ever for the sixth Potter movie?
I’m not so excited because I loved the books, and shall be disappointed by [...]

Geolocate your visitors with PHP (part 2)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

In the first part of this series I showed how you could get the country of a visitor via his IP address. Now with this precious information, I’ll show you how to map the visitor visually on the world map using Google Maps.
Sample preview.
You must sign up for a Google Maps API key if you [...]

Cautionary (XKCD)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Today’s XKCD comic is so cool.

Alt. Text: This really is a true story, and she doesn’t know I put it in my comic because her wifi hasn’t worked for weeks.
URL: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cautionary.png
Fantastic and so true! And he teaches the newbie all the man pages without focusing on the xorg. She’s lucky to have such a cousin. [...]

Laptop crashed again

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Laptop crashed again yesterday. First diagnostic would be the new graphics card not working so well with current configuration. Saw the purple streaking and picture freezing that occurred just before the other graphics card went off.
Still haven’t installed new theme as I can’t use my laptop to make file transfers/upgrades. Probably will install the Vita [...]

Microtrottoir sur summertimes…

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

No no, we are not talking about the song !

Featuring on the above picture :
Varsha, Deepa & Neha [from left to right] at Mont Choisy…
Dont worry, i was (still?) just like some of you a few days ago and i had to ask my dear colleagues Bernard & Ashvin to explain to me the concept [...]