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Mirror Mirror
I watched Mirror Mirror yesterday together with Christina, Anya and Kyan and we all loved it. Mirror Mirror is basically a modern view on Snow White but where the frail princess is not frail at all...
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I want my kids to be hackers
I have just stumbled upon a nice article on how kids don’t really understand how computers work. As the author writes in his conclusion, “I want the people who will help shape our society in the...
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Vint Cerf interview on Knowledge7.TV
Engineering is the art of turning science fiction into reality says Dr Vinton (Vint) Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. In September 2013, Christina...
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TV is dead. The Internet is alive.
TV is dead. This whole conversation about whether we should have local content on hypothetical local TV channels is quite irrelevant. The Internet, and YouTube in particular, has replaced TV. Young...
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A nugget of wisdom on how to be successful in life
During an IAmA (I Am A) on Reddit, Colonel Peter Mansoor, former executive officer to General David Petraeus during the surge in Iraq and now a professor of military history at the Ohio State...
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Valentine’s Day
On Friday, our kids, Anya and Kyan, prepared dinner for Christina and I for Valentine’s Day. They did almost everything including setting up the table, preparing starters (pâté de campagne), a big...
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Hello Java 8
Java 8 has been released! The Oracle build is available online while the OpenJDK variant will be available very soon. I have just downloaded the Oracle JDK on my Fedora Linux laptop and, lo and...
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Fixing Bittorrent clients crashing on Ubuntu
There are many Bittorrent client in Linux and, under Ubuntu (and this is surely true for other Linux distributions too), most of them depend on a library called libtorrent. Under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,...
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The five biggest problems in Mauritius
According to a survey done by L’Express and DCDM Research in October 2014, here the five biggest problems in Mauritius right now:Unemployment (58.2% of respondents)Poverty (42.7%)Lack of purchasing...
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My nomination as Chairperson of the ICT Advisory Council
On Friday 6 March, the Government announced my nomination as Chairperson of the ICT Advisory Council. As specified in Part VII of the ICT Act 2001:The Information and Communication Technologies...
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