Archive for the 'UK' Category

Polaroid launches a wallet-sized printer that prints your mobile phone snaps in seconds

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

The Polaroid Pogo is fantastic.

It is small, kinda cute in a high-tech way, weighs 227g, and connect to digital cameras as well as phones through USB port or over Bluetooth. It uses thermal printing technology instead of evil expensive ink and produces colour photos of the size of business cards, in 60 seconds.
The device goes [...]

When “home” starts to mean somewhere else

Friday, March 21st, 2008

I’ve been in Mauritius since Thursday 6 March. I laboured remotely during the first and second weeks, and still felt guilty when I started my holiday at the beginning of this week whilst aware that an important project deadline had been missed and that a colleague would have to cram it out.

Adding to the strangeness [...]

Saint David’s Day. Or, when to wear a leek with style

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

This post includes a picture.

So, there was something that I had not seen during my seven years in the UK: Prince Charles wearing a leek on his lapel.

From Wikipedia:

Saint David’s Day (Welsh: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year.

And so, [...]

EU visa waiver for Mauritius

Friday, February 15th, 2008

The decision to waive EU visa requirements for citizens of Mauritius, the Seychelles, and several Caribbean countries is back on the table. Read more.

Post-Christmas sales

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

This post includes a picture.

Girls’ paradise, in a way.

Mauritian Londoner - Pilot Documentary Film

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Mauritian Londoner gives us a glimpse of the pros and cons of living in London as a student and expatriate. It illustrates some of the problems many students face because of the lack of finance, and because their colleges/universities are not really providing adequate education. In the end, many students stop going to classes and [...]