Noulakaz
The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.
Christina and I (and Anya of course) are seriously thinking of buying a brand new Renault Mégane II.
The car has great handling, an excellent motor, a good level of equipment and lots of gadgets ! The design is somewhat peculiar (especially the rear) but we happen to like it :-)
What do you think of our choice ?
(Photo courtesy of Patrick Sautelet and media.renault.com)
We’ve just spent 5 days in Reunion Island and more specifically in the town of Saint Pierre. I had some teaching to do with degree-level students at the IUT.
Saint Pierre is exactly like in the picture : the roads are steep and full of cars :-) The food is rather excellent and we really love the carri ti-jacques boucané and the rougaille saucisses.
By the way, we laughed a lot yesterday when we realised that Anya’s first experience of public transportation is in fact the ATR-42 she took on Sunday !
(Photo courtesy of Daniel Lacouture)
I’ve been using Gentoo Linux for about a week now and I can say that I’m rather impressed.
In fact, Gentoo is a breath of fresh air for me, a (previously) die-hard Redhat (and then Fedora) fan.
Having to build your own system from scratch and then install exactly what you want is great. Compiling everything from source also gives a great sense of satisfaction except that you must be patient… but you get optimal performance in the end. Another nice aspect of Gentoo is that the downloadable ebuilds (sources + build scripts) are very up to date : Linux kernel 2.6, Gnome 2.6, KDE 3.2, Mozilla 1.6 etc.
So, for me, Gentoo is a winner ! I give it 10/10 :-)