The rainy weather has spoil the whole weekend! I even decided to drive home directly on friday evening. Fortunately, I had not planned anything special this weekend.

So, if you are like me, waiting for something interesting to happen, why don’t you check out some of the articles on the blog?

• Very nice discussion going on about the new web site of MBC
• One of the worst adverts is repeatedly shown on tv : “La sensibilite dentaire“
• Which one is your favorite? Presto or Appollo?
• How much do you pay for your haircut and for your dental care?
• Do you think the loto draw is fair?
• Do you have a printer?
• Someone has any news about the “drole bato discotek” I spotted at Belle Mare? A few weeks ago, it was in the harbour of Port Louis.
• A small video I made while driving… Quite cool!
• The funny scene but painful situation for a driver who discovered his car without the 4 wheels…

Finally, someone please write a blog article on 24/7. Read the post about the one in Port Louis and Grand Bay.

You can also follow the example of Pif… Read some newspapers

Anyone got any ideas to add for helping us to spend the rest of the day without getting bored?

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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?

1. 24 years old

   Thats the age of the original founder of facebook and the Chief Executive Officer!!
   He is Mark Zuckerburg, and together with 3 of his roommates, he created the site while he was in Harvard University

2. More than 14 million pictures uploaded daily and total of over 4.1 billion pics!

   Most people who have an account with Facebook know the amount of pictures their friends post and so on that daily number of photos reaches over 14 million!

3. Over 500 full-time employees

   Thats the number recorded in March 2008

4. PHP-MySQL, C#, Perl, Python, Erlang, Java, ML

   These are the different platforms on which Facebook is built, and work together.
   It is also the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world after Yahoo!

5. 15 billion page views per month

   Wow! lol, i prefer not to disclose mine *shy*

6. Millions of queries a day

   Their custom-built search engine serve millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates

7. Over 10,000 servers (including more than 1,800 MySQL database servers) + 200 memcache  Servers!

   + Facebook has recently borrowed money for the purchase of additional 50,000 servers!
   Google is currently consuming over half a million servers each year whereas Microsoft is consuming 200,000 servers each year.
   
   A memcached server temporarily stores information in the server’s memory, reducing the need to search a database for information. This decreases the amount of time it takes between a request for information and the delivery of that data.

8. 100 000 new members per day!

   Thats the figure recorded in August 2007.

9. Over 18,000 applications

   Facebook is one of the largest opensource platforms in the world, perhaps The Largest!!!

10. Average of 20 minutes per day

    That is the average time a person spends on facebook daily

Thats niceeeeee!

Sources : Facebook.com | How stuff works | Allfacebook.com | charlnorman.com | mybroadband.co.za/blogs/ | jacklail.com | thepodcastsisters.com

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