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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Today, I will be blogging about “La gentillesse des chauffards” near Pedestrian Crossings and the dangerous spot in front of Champs de Mars…
Did it ever happened to you that no driver stops their vehicle to allow you to cross the road on a pedestrian crossing???
Some of them ignore you even if you have already started [...]
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre which is at Bell Village is one of the most well-kept secrets in Mauritius!
We went there two weeks ago with average expectations… We payed (I believe) Rs. 30 for a ticket. The first nice surprise was that there were a lot of things to experiment with in the yard. Things like using parabolas [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Note : This post is not meant to be funny, but just to show that, our Prime Minister, Navin Ramgoolam, is a mauritian just like any of us, and he did not hesitate to dance a sega live, at Le Morne during a cultural show following the inclusion of Le Morne in the UNESCO World [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Adding a RSS feed to your website has never been this easy with PHP, especially with MagpieRSS.
About MagpieRSS
MagpieRSS is an RSS and Atom parser for PHP which supports RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, the various Userland RSS versions (0.9x and 2.0). Additionally it supports Atom 0.3, and many custom RSS namespaces.
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Hi everyone!
I just wrote a page on “Blogging“…
Took me about 3hrs to cover different important points on blogging…
My main objective was to introduce blogging to newbies, in a simple way, with lots of pictures…
You can read it here, and perhaps mention any additional points I have missed out…
Lets see if we can make the number [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Randy Pausch, Professor at Carnegie-Mellon university, died yesterday of complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 47.
A few weeks ago, Gavin and I watched his last lecture, Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and it was a nice experience. This guy knew he was going to die, yet he was happy to give a last lecture in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Rest in peace, Randy Pausch”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/07/26/rest-in-peace-randy-pausch/” });
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
I will be succinct: Watch “Into The Wild” as it’s one of the most beautiful and breathtaking movies ever…
For those who have some time, let me tell you that Kyan, Anya, Christina and I watched Into The Wild yesterday and we were mesmerized. Here’s the plot (courtesy of IMDB):
After graduating from Emory University, top student [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Into The Wild”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/07/25/into-the-wild/” });
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I am a fanatic user of Last.fm. Whenever I listen to a song either on my MacBook or my iPod, this information is sent to the Last.fm service which dynamically creates the chart shown above. It shows the artists I’ve been listening to during the past week. Here is what I feel about some of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “What I am currently listening to…”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/07/24/what-i-am-currently-listening-to/” });
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