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Where's Mauritian Education heading to? 2007-02-08 20:12:10 You’re by now the most aware of the various scandals that hit our Education
sector recently. While reading the news, I was asking myself how such things happened and why they got public? It’s all about the image portrayed by our Education sector that’s at stake. Shouldn’t such cases been treated internally and properly and not wait till the last hour for an ablaze headline?
Here are the recent briefing on the hits of our Education Sector:
Insufficient funds of University Of Mauritius to complete the year 2007
SSR Medical College students at home since several months waiting for a proof of life from concerned authorities to do their interns in hospitals
Rise in SC/HSC exam fees. Government contribution still undecided
It seems as if there’s a friction between administrations of the respective departments and the Minister of Education. Why are decisions and measures taken late as in the case of UoM? In cases where they are taken, they are directly affecti
how-to contact form for blogger 2007-02-06 17:45:04 A contact
form provides an easy way for visitors to get in touch with you from your blog itself. Visitors fill in their details like name and mail and write their message before submitting it. The whole is delivered to your mailbox without you divulging your mail address thus keeping off from spammers. I’ll here show you, users of the blogger platform how to get a contact form
for your blog in just a few simple steps.
We’ll create a normal blog post which will contain your contact form code. To deliver the messages to your mailbox, the processing is done by a free service called WebFormDesigner.
First we need to associate your contact form with your email address, the one where your messages will be delivered. We’ll do this by creating a free account at WebFormDesigner and proceeding as follows:
Fill in carefully the sign-up form with your respective details
Make sure to enter the mail address where your messages will be delivered to under the Where to send your fo
How-to never lose your Cellplus calls 2007-02-01 11:03:18 Here’s the scenario. You’ve got 2 SIMS : an Emtel and a Cellplus one. Most of the time, it’s the Emtel SIM that you use but there are people that still contact you on the Cellplus one. I’ll give you a simple trick that I got from comradejv which will allow you to use your Emtel SIM without losing calls
from your Cellplus one. This without changing SIMS back and forth.
To accomplish this, we’ll use the free Call Divert features available on Cellplus. This will divert any call to your Emtel phone even if your Cellplus SIM is not in your phone/switched off. You can also use this technique to divert calls to your home phone number if there’s weak network coverage at the place where you live.
First we’ll start by configuring your Cellplus SIM.
Put your Cellplus SIM in your phone and look for the Call Divert option among your phone/call settings
Open the Call Divert option and you’ll see various type of Call Divert.
Select the Divert when
Further studies for Mauritian Students 2007-02-15 18:21:18 Many HSC/A-Level students got their results recently and they are now confronted to the many choices they have to make. Some have decided to repeat for some better grades while others have all the requirements asked for further studies. By reading through this article, I hope providing you with as much information as possible for you to make a sound and knowledgeable choice. Certainly your feedbacks and comments would greatly help in extending the discussion and providing more light on the subject.
When to repeat?
I won’t personally advise you to repeat since the requirements for further studies are as follows:
2 Passes in your main subjects
Passes mean Grade A to Grade E for most universities. See how it works here for UoM
Pass in your General Paper would be a plus
So you’ve seen it : unless the grades are very poor or you’ve not obtained sufficient passes, there are high chances for you to get a seat for further studies. It might depend though on the number of av Read more:Further
Choose your future career for your own sake 2007-02-21 18:43:13 Like many out there, sooner or later we’ll(teenagers) kiss corporate life. But still we have lots of time to decide about our future career path and that said before choosing a study field for further studies. Down here, I shall discuss some aspects to consider in choosing the right future job for you.
where it starts
Everybody is born with an innate talent that somehow, someday he will discover in himself. Something down within him that he’ll enjoy doing. Day by day he’ll also want to improve to get better. Then it’s not just only getting better, it’s becoming the best. That’s when one knows he has a particular talent and would like to make a life out of it. That’s the start of a journey in quest for a job.
what it takes
Lots of determination and motivation. Being talented in something is knowing down within you that you’re good at it even if the rest of the world don’t share the same opinion.This is where someone needs to strive
Great entertainment over the hedge 2007-02-26 11:57:01 There are a couple of animated movies that I’m waiting for this year. Firstly the excellent following of the blockbuster Shrek that is Shrek 3 and then Ratatouille.
I love watching animated movies and I borrowed quite a few since I’m in holidays. I got myself Ant Bully, Monster House, Ice Age 2, Happy Feet and Over the hedge.
Monster House by Steven Spielberg is a good entertainment but I was really disappointed with Ice Age 2 and specially Happy Feet. They were really lamentable.
Over the hedge is my favourite watch. I will still watch it again after having done so several times. It’s hilarious,entertaining and amusing and has got some great moral and lesson behind.
One thing that differentiates for me a good animated movie with a lamentable one is its characters whatever the play, the age audience or the kind of animated movie.
Those from Happy Feet were a bunch of lame penguins learning to sing to conquer the hearts of their beloved ones. Not of my type! From Read more:Great
Download the best black minimalist theme for your Wordpress blog : ColourFull Wall 2007-03-01 06:33:55 ColourFull Wall is a black minimalist
theme, highly customisable, lightning fast,easy to deploy and use while supporting the vast majority of plugins out there. It is based on the original code of Chris Pearson’s(hats off to this guy) Pressrow. I’m glad to announce you that you can now download the ColourFull Wall theme(ver 1.0) below or see an extensive list of features and goodies down the post. Do subscribe to my feeds for future mods and additional features or releases. To install and use ColourFull Wall, see the comprehensive guide on using Themes.
Download
ColourFull Wall(ver 1.0)
Features list
For the present release 1.0, ColourFull Wall comes built in with the following features(more to be added for future releases):
Works perfectly with IE 6/7,Firefox and any major browser.
Built-in support for Brian’s latest comments
Built-in support for Gravatar
Tweak,modify and play to your heart’s content. It’s all free
Quick bookmark link to del.icio Read more:Wordpress
The sure way to get at the top of any blog toplist and boost your traffic 2007-03-03 18:33:06 All bloggers want to promote their blogs to drive in traffic
. Submitting blogs in blog directories and Toplists fitting particular category help people find you quicker, this said if they noticed your blog. How better could you do this than getting at the top position of Toplists like Top100Bloggers,UBSquare and others. Today I’ll show you how. This trick is simple yet powerful and you can even use it in your profiles page in any account like your Hi5,MySpace,Facebook account to promote your blog among your friends and visitors. Infact the possibilities are endless from promoting your blog in forum or on anything that allows you to display any picture file with your account.
All we’ll need is for you to create a banner picture and getting your feeds burnt at Feedburner. The principle behind is that good content acts as a traffic bait and showing it to those TopList visitors get them coming in, increasing your traffic and thus your rank position in the Toplist for more and
Making it quick and easy for you to bookmark and earn traffic 2007-03-08 12:52:27 It’s now more and more time consuming and tedious to submit posts to the vast number of ever increasing social bookmarking sites(digg,del.icio.us,etc) to get your content the exposure and traffic
it deserves. In this post I shall show you 2 more ways to do your social bookmarking activities painlessly and effortlessly to earn traffic the quick way.
Painless and quick bookmarking
Why lose your precious time by getting on each and every bookmarking sites and filling the loads of details to submit your posts? OnlyWire allows you to submit to all of them at once. You fill the details once, you click and your post is sent to all the bookmarking sites.
You create a free account with OnlyWire and fill the respective username and password for each of the bookmarking sites you have an account with.
Then you drag their bookmarklet - choose Save Page (std) (No Frames), to your browser’s toolbar and when you’re on your post, just click the button, fill in the details like tit
Ultimate blogging rule : Don’t work for free on the net! 2007-03-11 14:00:39 Rule #50 : Don’t ever lie to me. Ever….and what if the person who wrote this threw a bunch of lies to make herself appear like a victim who got herself saved from an evil designer. All this scandal so that people could sympathy with her and fall into her cute trap :
ok I would be the one to help you for FREE with your theme design because you suffered so much with that evil fuckward
….and what if that evil fuckward everyone is criticising and me own bro is trying to know who he might be to flame his ass is just ME….after a journey on the blogosphere learning the ultimate lesson : don’t work for free on the net. Want to know why? Read on….
Rule #1 Don’t work for free on the web for people you don’t know
Helping newbies out there for free with any issues they have got was like my own hobby and I was happy to do it with my heart so that people(specially teenagers) could love this blogging.I know I’m here today just because some guys o Read more:Ultimate
Reverting to me old theme : MyJournal 2007-03-13 07:14:58 I recently changed my theme to a 2 Column one which I called Fusion with the thought of emphasing on the different section/pages I have on this blog. I also came up with the idea of incorporating the RSS icon directly into the banner so that it can be easily noticed.
My previous one which I called MyJournal
and which most people did like and still prefer was listing those pages only at the sidebar. There was another reason that I did change to a new theme. It was just because I thought releasing MyJournal to the public in some days and make it available for download.
Today I’ve decided to revert to me previous theme MyJournal and welcome all feedbacks and suggestions that you would like to make it a better theme so that people who would download it would really enjoy it. The live and demo version is my blog itself with the changes you suggested and improvements as they come in. The theme is for the time being:
3 Columns with the 2 sidebars at the right
Widget friendly(drag an
Use software from the net with precaution! 2007-03-14 09:35:24 I just installed a fresh copy of Windows XP and as the usual routine goes after installation : downloading and installing me favourite software. But before actually getting on the net, I armoured my pc with the BitDefender 8 Free Edition Antivirus software with firewall protection that comes with the Service Pack 2 of Windows XP. And they surely did good work when time asked for it.
I use Ares as my P2P software, went to the official download site and took myself the latest fresh copy. But something struck me mind before I installed it : scan the software! I don’t rely on the background scanner that most antivirus use to scan for things when you’re using your computer so I decided to run a manual scan.
What the heck? Ares is infected with some malware. I don’t have specific information about the pest but it seems that BitDefender classifies it as such.
So beware of Ares(even previous versions have been reported to have such anamoly)
Here are some vital stuffs to
Download the latest famous TV series for free 2007-03-15 12:11:59 You heard me right so I’m not going to make you wait for the best part. Surely there are in this post : Prison Break,Desperate Housewive,Invasion,Heroes,Weeds,Les Sauvages,Band Of Brothers,Charmed,Kaamelott,Malcolm,Psych,24h and more to come. I’m not talking about P2P,occasional broken links or other slow sources : I’m shouting about fast direct download links to get you the latest episodes of your favourite TV series
. You can of course browse the repertoire to get you previous ones if you have missed any of them. Read on, subscribe to my feeds or get it on your mail for more great goodies like this.
All this fun and sharing take place at a single spot : Series4Ever. It’s a forum and the episodes of the latest series get uploaded on it so as to keep you off from broken links. All you have to do as in any forum to view the content and therefore the downloads is to Register yourself with them.
After registering you’ll then be able to access the forum as a Read more:Download
Adopt the blog-zen-titude 2007-03-19 07:18:41 Are you tired of blogging,surfing,replying to comments and mails? Take a break and relax yourself through some blog-zen therapy. Bring yourself a cup of tea and turn the pages of the web zen magazine out each week with new zen stuffs to keep you zen. Here are my favourites for this week’s edition :
Tree model of your blog’s link structure including those linking to you - I’ve got a whole amazon forest for mine :
Montage-a-google allows you to search pictures according to a keyword and turn the resulting image results in a montage. Just click the launch button on the page. See the one it has made using the Naruto keyword.
Ball image of major events in science or culture. Kinda relaxing and resourceful at the same time :
Here are some from past issues you might as well enjoy :
How to drink vodka and stay sober and for fans of Transformer - See real robots fighting :
Of course there are tons and tons of those goodies out there. So don’t forget to make a
Quick shooting stats of your Wordpress blog 2007-03-29 22:02:49 Here’s a quick way to get and show some useful stats on your wordpress blog. This will show the number of posts,comments and categories you have to allow your visitors and yourself a broad view of your blog’s current state updated as these criteria change. By the end of this how-to, you would be displaying something like this:
So let’s start. Open either sidebar.php or footer.php from your current Wordpress
theme’s folder depending on whether you want to display your quick stats in the sidebar thus sidebar.php or footer then footer.php. At the beginning of your sidebar/footer.php copy and paste the following lines of code :
< ? php /* Counts the posts, comments and categories on your blog */
$numposts = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’”);
if (0 < $numposts) $numposts = number_format($numposts);
$numcomms = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved Read more:Quick
, shooting
My blog honour pledge 2007-03-29 14:00:25 Starting from today itself, I decided to abide by these resolutions to help you my readers get along with what I would be doing and sticking to for the following 2 months. I created a button/image in my sidebar linking to this post and whenever a new major resolution gets in the list, I shall link to the new list from the sidebar.
Confused state
I came up with this idea because I change too many things in here and sometimes new readers can’t follow or more get pissed off which I fully understand and assume the fault. One day you could see a theme/design, the next morning something different moving everything somewhere else! Sometimes a new event emerge requiring me to put on the ads mask and somehow later I just feel I’m not the ads guy and remove them all for an ad-free blog.
Click picture to form part of those against ads on blogs.
So for the sake of myself knowing what I want and to stabilise things here, this is my blog honour
pledge for the following 2 months. If yo
Download MyJournal : a light,white,3Columns minimal theme 2007-03-31 16:04:27 MyJournal ethereal is a 3columns, white minimalist,seo optimised,light
ning fast and highly customisable theme coming out of the box widget friendly,built-in sitemap and archives page topped with a navigation bar appearing sitewide offering greater usability and ease of browsing. There are lots more features you can see below if you’re still not convinced else the demo blog is my blog itself and you can download MyJournal below :
Download
myJournal ethereal
Features list:
Works perfectly in Firefox, Internet Explorer and any major browser
1.Lightning fast, light minimalist and highly customisable
2.widget ready
3.left navigation bar appearing sitewide for easy navigation and greater usability
4.built-in sitemap offering higher seo capabilities
5.ability to instantly add to favourites on technorati, bookmark on del.icio.us or on digg
6.built-in archives page to ease navigation through past posts
7.flexible blogroll listing blog name and description in an easy to browse fashion Read more:MyJournal
Squarelinkers - my link love round 2007-03-30 09:18:43 Here’s my link leak round
. I haven’t been linking to good resources for I don’t know how many ages and thought starting it right now on in the Squarelinkers round. That’s just a list(single links fall in the Crispy bits category) of things to try out,posts,resources and goodies I’ve stumbled upon and thought sharing since they deserve people knowing about them.
Home : PS3’s XBOX Live version, would it?
infinitely more exciting than anything on other consoles(XBOX??) and more to come…
Let me have your views on it.
Cool icons and wallpapers from Iconfactory’s garage
Iconfactory do often take out new cool things from its freeware gallery so make sure to have a frequent tour to get yourself some rocking icons and wallpapers.
For Battlestar Galactica fans…
Sticker version of a bunch of icons.
Icons version of Naruto characters for Naruto fans…
Some great CSS tips
From coding the right CSS to resources that will allo
Squarelinkers link love round for 02 April 2007 2007-04-02 08:54:46 Welcome back to my link love round
on this great day after the April
fool. So let’s check out my favs stumbles!
April fool’s collection
All the April fools around the blogosphere collected in this great list by Elliott Back. My favourite being Matt Cutts site being hacked, Avalonstar being down, the fake services of Google like Google Gmail paper and Tisp , Engadget amazing plug and all of them infact. They are so hilarious but they seem so real by the same time like Avalonstar being down or Matt Cutts hacked.
via Elliott Back.com
Is weight all that matters?
I don’t know whether you’re on diet be you a boy or a girl but weight seems to be a serious topics among us teenagers even if we don’t tend to speak about it openly or with others around us since we’re embarassed.
I’m not in favour or encouraging you to eat big fat hamburger to end like big mamma but I think we should start thinking of it. After watching this clip, you would know that a
BlogoSquare themes/templates design competition 2007-04-03 20:26:46 If you like to designthemes
and templates for your favourite platform : Blogger,Wordpress,BlogSome or Hi5 and want to win these fabulous prizes :
1.1 year hosting+domain name in .com. Help and support is provided if you would like to move to Wordpress
2.Flickr Pro account allowing you all the unlimited goodies like unlimited storage on your Flickr account.
3.The marvelous Mint Stats to track your visitors on your site
+ Winning design gets reviewed by TechZonline.
Then just follow on to know how to participate and get home with one of the above.
how to participate
Send me the details of your design/themes/templates in the following format : theme name,author name,link to live demo,platform(Wordpress,Blogger,Hi5) with a screenshot of your design at my mail address . The design can be for any platform be it Blogger,Wordpress,Hi5,BlogSome or others. If you ever happen to tweak or change it, just send me a new screenshot and I’ll update accordingly. You can send in as many desig Read more:competition
The simplest way to earn more feeds subscribers 2007-04-07 13:35:18 If you’ve got a blog for some time and the number shown for acual feeds’ subscribers from Feedburner is very low, I’ll here show you how to boost this up with a simple trick.
Be you on Blogger or Wordpress, your blog is provided in different feeds version like the RSS or the Atom format and add to this your Feedburner’s burnt feed. What gets you a small number shown through Feedburner is that it isn’t your Feedburner’s burnt feed version that is provided and used when people subscribe to your blog but the other ones provided by your blog thus reducing the actual true number of subscribers shown.
When somebody types in your blog’s URL in a Feed Reader like Google Reader or Bloglines, depending on the service one of those versions may be given and added. Here’s an example I’ve taken from my friend Kyu’s blog. He burns his feed through Feedburner but what he doesn’t know is that if someone subscribe through a service like
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