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Happy birthday to me :-)

16 March 2007 By Avinash Meetoo 20 Comments

Today, I am celebrating my three years of blogging :-)

It all started on 16 March 2004 when I announced the creation of my blog powered at that time by Movabletype.

Since then a lot of things has happened. I’ve written 276 posts and received 1,367 comments. Thanks to all who have contributed to the discussions! Since then I have moved to WordPress which is a much better blogging software.

I like to reread some of the things I have written because they are not that bad… Here are some of my posts which have generated a lot of passion:

there-is-no-1gb-limit-on-myt-now (201 comments)
what-about-using-french-or-creole-for-teaching (28 comments)
announcing-the-cse-programming-contest (27 comments)
wanadoo-livebox-to-be-launched-in-mauritius (27 comments)
programming-at-google-and-in-class (26 comments)
what-does-it-mean-to-be-mauritian (23 comments)
kids-are-less-intelligent-now (21 comments)
the-d-programming-language (21 comments)
livebox-wi-fi-kubuntu-linux-amd64-bliss (20 comments)

Have fun (re)reading them ;-)

Moving to Gmail

16 March 2007 By Avinash Meetoo 15 Comments

“A toute chose, malheur est bon…”

While my MacBook is being repaired, I have decided to use my Gmail account temporarily to read and write emails. My initial intention was to forward all my email (from avinash AT noulakaz DOT net and avinash AT uom DOT ac DOT mu) there.

But then I discovered this screen…

… and I realised that I could use Gmail like a normal desktop email client. If you look closely, you’ll see that I can send emails from all the addresses I commonly use (notice the “reply from the same address the message was sent to” option – this is a killer feature!) and you’ll also see that I can fetch emails from my two usual POP3 accounts directly from Gmail.

In simpler terms, Gmail is now perfect! Bye bye desktop email clients… Now, if only I could import my old mails to Gmail! Maybe I’ll have to setup a POP3 server and ask Gmail to fetch all emails from it. Any idea?

My Apple MacBook is faulty!

13 March 2007 By Avinash Meetoo 38 Comments

Yep!

My Apple MacBook which I bought around October last year has developed some chronic diseases. It suffers from discolouration, an erratic trackpad button, an erratic P key and cerise sur le gateau a crashed hard disk.

Yes, you have correctly read the above. My 80Gb inside the MacBook has crashed. But, for once, I was lucky (?) because I had backuped everything on an external Firewire hard drive, a Macway Minipartner.

As you can guess, I use my MacBook professionally everyday. I use it at home and at work. It has become an essential part of my work flow.

I went to LCI today and the after sales service personnel told me that they are going to replace the hard disk and they will replace the entire top case of the MacBook hence solving the discolouration problem, the erratic keyboard and the erratic trackpad button!

(Someone told me once that you should never ever buy a generation 1 product. Now I know why! :-) )

It seems that everything will be covered by the 1-year warranty :-)

Meanwhile, I’m back to Linux. And it’s cool. In fact, I’m busy upgrading my Kubuntu to Edgy Eft right now :-)