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The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.

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Announcing Elections.mu

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In two weeks, all adults of Mauritius will have to go and vote for those who will have the responsibility to run our country for the next five years. Over the years, many bloggers (including Christina and myself) have written posts on politics but we didn’t really have a political blog in Mauritius where anyone (if serious enough) might become a contributor in the spirit of citizen journalism.

This is why I am very happy to launch Elections.mu today: the first political blog in Mauritius. Visit

http://www.elections.mu/

and spread the word. If you want to become a contributor, just send me an email at avinash AT noulakaz DOT net. Thank you!

Guru Meditation

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When I was an adolescent circa end of the 80’s / beginning of the 90’s, I owned the best computer available at that time: the mighty Commodore Amiga 500.

It was powered by a 16/32 bits processor (the Motorola 68000) at 7.14MHz and four coprocessors (Gary, Agnus, Paula, Denise), had 1Mb of RAM, had 4096 colours on screen at once, had stereo sound, ran a powerful operating system featuring a graphical windowing environment and was very well technically documented. As a result, I spent many nights learning programming (BASIC, C and 68000 Assembly) on my Amiga 500.

My new Amiga

Twenty years later and I still like using the Amiga. But now it’s in software form. I run E-UAE which is a Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator. I run it on my Linux Mint PC and performance is fine (the PC is only 1000 times quicker…) I even love getting a Guru Meditation from time to time. This brings back a lot of memories.

Vote!

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We, Mauritians, will elect the people who will represent us in the Parliament for the next five years. I know politics might seem bizarre for young people as our politicians are so disconnect to (and somewhat clueless of) the kind of life the new generation has now. Heck, even I don’t relate to most of them, even though I’m 36…

But, and this is a major but, voting is a right and a duty. Our votes count.

So don’t forget to vote on 5 May 2010. Who knows? Maybe we’ll discover our own Mauritian Barack Obama in the process.