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[7 Jul 2008 | 15 Comments | ]

Hi everyone…
Since some days, i wanted to blog on this particular topic, especially with the rise of petrol/diesel/gas…

Perhaps some of you may have noticed this practice in some of the filling stations in our island, i did at several times, especially when the State Trading Corporation (STC) is on the point of reviewing the price of the petroleum products each 3months.
In Mauritius, the State Trading Corporation is responsible for reviewing the prices of different products to reflect the world price.
Some of these filling stations stop their daily activities much earlier …

About Me, General, Web & Tech »

[5 Jul 2008 | 26 Comments | ]

It was nearly a nightmare for me to take a final decision :

A desktop computer or a laptop???

I took nearly 2 weeks, and finally i went for a desktop computer, which i bought today.
Here are the specs;

Core 2 Duo 2.4 with 2Mb Cache

19inch LCD Screen (its enormous!)

2Mb GB Ram Memory
160Gb Hard Disk Sata
256MB Asus EN7200GS, but am not a gamer, not even solitaire!

DVD Writer Asus
Asus Casing
USB Mouse/Keyboard lol
A floppy drive and a modem (lol, despite Vicky‘s protestation)

I met Vicky at Plouis, 1 hr late
We took …

About Me, Blogging World, General, Leisure & Fun, Mauritius News, Web & Tech »

[3 Jul 2008 | 11 Comments | ]

200!!!
I reached it! and over 2750 comments…
Since more than 1 week, i have been testing, updating my wordpress, customizing a theme, everything on my local machine at home.
Now, that the 200th post is reached, i have uploaded everything to my domain
WordPress 2.5 is Great! Simply great!
Except its admin panel, but that can be modified using themes…
Moving to the new theme….
Just a little flashback at the previous design:

Enhancing your blog experience!

Use the icons at the top to

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[29 Jun 2008 | 39 Comments | ]

This post was initially destined to contain a new soundtrack, from the TV Serial Monk.

But while looking for more info on Monk, i found out that Wikipedia.org was not accessible!

Not even the english version at http://en.wikipedia.org/I tried to ping, but damn it, my command prompt is now working lol !So, i tried to access if from an anonymous proxy ( http://www.hidemyass.com) and the page got loaded

I did not really wanted to hide my ass but only browse using a proxy to check if the site was accessible.
I asked about …

General, Leisure & Fun, Mauritius News, Web & Tech »

[26 Jun 2008 | 16 Comments | ]

Facebook, one of the most rapidly growing web site is a very interesting subject to study and follow up, daily….

In addition to its official blog, there are lots of other facebook blogs (example All Facebook) that keep you updated of daily news.Every morning, I connect to these sites to be updated about the sites, technology and things i like!You can read below, the 10 most interesting facts i compiled about facebook from a lots of sites, listed at the end….
What about some interesting facts?

24 years old
Thats the age of the …

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