Happy New Year 2009 Mauritius and the World!!!

January 2008 – Trying to get the word with the alphabets ETAH

February 2008 – Birthday + I succeed to form the word and implement it

March 2008 – Seven Seas and the Independance Day

April 2008 – Tension! Exams Approaching

May 2008 – Met a wonderful and magic blogger and also became a real blogger

June 2008 – The best month – Cinema – KFC – Wandering

July 2008 – Having Fun and Extra Fun – Thank you miss blogger

August 2008 – University Start

September 2008 – Became really addicted to blogging

October 2008 – Uhhh????

November 2008 – Priscus Birthday

December 2008 – Festive Season – Holiday ending too

In brief this was one of my most wonderful year after an horrible year 2007!! Thanks to Yush for the priceless support and to have show me what I am. That I can be what I want and not be what other people want me to be when I didnt want to be that.

Happy New Year 2009 to everyone and I hope this coming year brings the best of everything for you all.

Alle…al sonn petard ban zenfoot….hahahaha

Google Page Rank Update December 2008

Good news guys and girls! I just learned that google updated their pagerank yesterday! So time to check your’s too buddies. I was expecting the pagerank update to be by mid January 2009 however they did it yesterday itself.

Island Crisis jumped from a Not Available page rank value to a page rank of 1 after 28 days of existence. Thanks to all of you who link back to me. So go on and have a look at your new pagerank. Is this the shortest post I have ever written? lol. Be right back soon with amother hot post.

That’s 3 Questions I Want To Ask You About A Blog

We all have so many questions in our mind. At time I think if the human mind is some sort of biological machine which is indeed trying to figure out how a second god can be created. What if one day some scientists create a God clone in the labs? Ok but that ridiculous and not the questions that I want to ask you today.

While setting up this blog on wordpress and transferring to my new top level domain, some questions came to my mind and I want to share this with you and see what is your opinion.

WWW or no WWW

Is it important to have the www infront of your web url or not? That a question on which I thought a lot while migrating to this new domain. As you know it does not matter whether you add the www infront of islandcrisis.net to come here.

You can access a site by adding the www and also by not adding the www. From the whole list of articles I read on this topic, having a www infront of the domain name does not matter much. However its advisable to use only one type when it comes to search engine optimisation. Why?

Search engines consider www.name.com and name.com as two different listing. Therefore assume that 5 friends link back to you using www.yoursite.com and 5 other friends link back to you using yoursite.com only, then these will divide your chance to increase your pagerank as it will not be counted as 10 backlinks but more like 5 backlinks for each.

So the best is to use only one type and when you comment on other blogs, always use the same type of address. I decided to add the www infront of the islandcrisis.net as it seem more…uhh.. it look cooler lol and more professional. I always get the feeling that a site address missing the www is like a man not having a shirt to wear.

What do you think?

PNG or JPG?

While setting up expliknu.com some days ago I encounter a problem with the image type. I was using a template where the images of the template was in png format. When I tested it on my localhost all seemed fine. However when I had uploaded the theme to the server, I kept having a very annoying problem! The blog structure would load but its after some seconds…or minute that the whole images used in the blog theme would load completely. At time some part of the blog would show image not found.

Those on high speed connections will not experience this. However for those on slow connection as me (64 Kbps) will experience a very annoying situation. The solution to this is to use jpeg image or gif in your blog template. I prefer progressive jpg as all images of the site appear in blur at first then they become sharp as the full images load. So meanwhile the reader can have an idea of how the blog is and read while the images load.

News Site or Blogs?

Hah.. thats my hot question. What is your prefered source of daily news? A news website or a network of blogs? If you ask me to choose between a crappy news site like the not-so-famous one we all know about here and a list of blogs for Mauritian news… Of course I select the list of blogs.

News and content on blogs are always more original and more intesting to read. Well as for international news thats a different case. There are some information that we get only on news site such as BBC and NDTV. However let’s have an example of the recent Mumbai Terorrist attacks. Even many blogs covered that event very well that I found myself spending more time on Digg and Technorati looking for news.

What do you think?

Tamasa.mu Hacked to Create Tension Among Mauritian Bloggers!

I woke up and switch on my lappy and was thinking of what to blog today. Hellbound frak I got a real topic which I think everyone will have to talk about today! Tamasa.mu has been hacked by some son of b*tches! And the reason why they did that is really a shame. So here are the details.

As soon as I woke up, I switched on the laptop and login to my dashboard to check if there are any comments to approve and I noticed one comment in spam folder in creole. Below is a screenshot of it with some rude words blurred.

The comment is from a certain ‘Kav’ which was posted at 3:36 in the morning from the IP address 193.200.150.23 – I heard of the site Tamasa.mu before but didnt know it was for our buddy Yashvin. The site is actually for a client but Yashvin worked on that. So I went on google and did a little search for this site name and found a post of 2007 from there. I contacted Yashvin to see what is the matter and we were discussing about it. He send me a copy of the email that the hacker send to many Mauritians last night. Here is an extract.

Thats ridiculous! Someone did that and even use a fake email address that resemble mine to mass email all members of that site to promote the Petite Annonces service of a certain newspaper. Are they a possible culprit in this attack? Time and police inquiry will tell. This is a pure bullshit strategy to hack a website and try to create tension among bloggers! Maybe someone who feel insecure by the rise of blogging in the country!

We had an msn urgent meeting this morning lol to discuss that. Yashvin already got some ‘trace’ as the hacker made a little mistake somewhere and I will not talk about this as this issue will most probably be reported to the IT unit of the police.

Yashvin will blog on this thing today as he got all the detailed information about this attack. However all I just want to say is that some assholes evil plans will not be able to break the unity among Mauritian bloggers!

Out Of My House For A Rainy Sunday

Sunday….Rainday. It was rainy for almost 3 long hours today and heavy rain i mean! So due to my ghostly instinct  I automatically found this bad weather like a blessing. Infact yesterday the temperature reached 35 degree celcius on my home thermometer!! Not hot for a devil you will say? But I am not a devil. I am just another type of creature which does not like light and the ugly sun!!

So as soon as the rain stopped I went out in the nature surrounding my house to have a look at the real beauty of nature.

Yea I realised that even those things that I normally don’t even look at are so beautiful. Endangered species of plants?? I am not sure if they are endangered but surely they are beautiful in their simplicity. So let me present to you some of the citizens of nature that I decided to admire today.

We start with “Brede Chouchou” lol. No its not about “radio chouchou” here and surely I don’t place a huge “chouchou” on billboards to advertise lol. Here its about the beauty of a leaf of the famous Mauritian “brede chouchou” that we like to eat. Just look at the freshness of this little…uhh… big leaf.

I walked some meter and reached by rock garden! So I was admiring the little green spices that I planted…. More precisely my mom planted lol as I am too lazy to plant. So here is a sample of the thym and “mentol leaves”… coumsa mem dir sa???

Some distance away….As I walk and try to look for a frog… Yes I was looking for a frog so that I could take a snapshot. However both frog which I found ran away as I approached with the camera. So damn sad. They would have been stars frogs if they had not run away.

So I approach my chilly tree and decided to make her the hot babe of this movie lol. So here is my chilly tree and some inch away is my Strawberry tree.

I now present to you all the real citizens of my garden. They are the sailing ships of the little green planet out there. Here is one special sailing ship navigating toward toward the external base lol.

Hey…its already night… I need to sleep now. 22:30 already… yea some of you will say its too early… but damn! Its late for me as I need to sleep. So happy Sunday ending and keep in touch for a wonderful blogging upcoming week.

Saving memory….  Dumping excess data….  Hibernating myself…. Entering Dream World….  Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Creole Microsoft Windows XP SP2

Nothing! Just read it! Microsoft recently announced that onwards Microsoft Windows XP creole version will be available. So I got a very secret document which was on the computer of a mad developer. Here is a copy of what he received from another dangerous software developer!

A real translation of XP in creole words!

Download the image to view it. Thats all for today as today is Sunday and luckily their is no sun today so I am going for a nap.

Thanks for WDB for this little joke lol.

Blog of the Year 2008 Awards

That the A day! Welcome to the Island Crisis Mauritius Blog of the Year Award 2008. Welcome…? Ok let the word…it’s just a word. I think Blogcome would have been the right word.

What a hot and also agitating competition we had! Real obsession to be the winner but however its really good this competitive reaction. Competition is really good. The competition was supposed to end on the 29th of December. I made a change in the ending due to the high level of cheating that were occurring in the votes! I contacted some of the bloggers and they all agreed for it to end on 26th December when I proposed that idea.

Yesterday while changing the automatic closing date, I guess i selected 25 instead of 26 and as a result the poll was closed last night… Yea technical errors happend! Even on big competitions it happens. Just to illustrate it, even in the competition of Daily Blog Tips which I participated, the feed system was down for one whole day due to very small mistakes. By the I forgot to announce the result at DBT competition as I was so held up with the migration process at the start if December.

Island Crisis ended with a rank of 28 on more than 125 international blog who participated in the Blogging Idol Competition. I thank everyone for their votes there. I think 28 is a very nice rank as there was lots of high SEO ranked blogs participating and the competition was just too good.

So I decided to allow the votes to be open today till noon but since some bloggers were against it so I had to ask some opinion and the majority said its ok if we continue till noon but so that there are no “manifest” from some, then its better to end it at 10:00 itself. So it ends….and now its time for the real award ceremony.

Here are the details of the awards. The awards consists of awards that have been allocated based on public votes from the poll and aslo 12 other awards based on type of content, popularity of field, seo values and also on dedication to blogging. Why? The competition aim to be fair to all the bloggers and mostly encourage them to blog rather than making them rivals! The public voting poll surely shows the total amount of votes a blog got but however to determine who is the best blog does not depend only on friends votes. So awards will be given to different blogs based on what they really did this year and about many factors which I will talk about below.

Each award has a badge made specially for that respective blogger and you can put that on your blog sidebar as a proof of your winning here. The badges are at a size of over 300 px however you can resize it to 160 x 140 while posting it to your blog. The details on the logo will still be clearly visible. I have already tested them on my browser. Just download it and upload to your server and resize. For those who need help to set this up, just contact me and I will set it for you on your blogs. Lets start!!

Blog of the Year 2008 and Blog of the Year 2008 Runner-Up awards.

These two awards have been allocated based on the total number of votes that these blogs got on the voting poll. The top 3 based on voting poll votes are shown below:

www.yashvinblogs.com – 136 votes – 30%
www.dakshinee.net – 105 votes – 23%
priscus.wordpress.com – 103 votes – 22%

So the Blog of the Year Award goes to Yashvin Blogs for 30% of votes with a total of 136 votes in the voting poll form.

And the Blog of the Year 2008 – Runner Up goes to www.dakshinee.net for 23% of votes with 105 total votes in the public voting poll.

Female Blogger of the Year 2008

Now its time for the Female Blog of the Year 2008 Award. As I said in the voting poll post, the Female Blog of the Year award is here because there are really a minority of active girl bloggers here in Mauritius. There are some but most of them are not so active and some have even stop to blog. This award is based on the most active female blogger and who has also been doing blog actions to encourage other girl bloggers and who has been very active for the past 12 months. The award for Female Blogger of the Year 2008 goes to priscus.wordpress.com

Most Promising Blogger 2008

This category consist of two section namely the Most Promising Male Blogger 2008 and the Most Promising Female Blogger 2008. This section concern those new bloggers who join the blog network of Mauritius this year and who has really some good chance of being popular blogs by the end of next year. Some of the factors taken into consideration are:

• Comment ratio
• Quality and Realism of content
• Interaction level on other blogs
• Ethical ways of replying to comments

These are just a few. So I award the Most Promising Male Blog 2008 to S4ndeep.wordpress.com – The decision has been a bit hard as I had two blogs for this one namely, S4ndeep and also pramodrt.wordpress.com. However after much thinking and fighting with my mind lol.. I award it to S4ndeep for his “kass pake dan comments lol” on the HSC leakage topic.

The Most Promising Female Blog 2008 goes to www.chaya.fowdar.com. Again on this one I had to choose between Chaya and Dhaneesha who is also a very good new blogger. However finally I choosed Chaya based on the activity rate and interaction on other blogs and also for helping a lot on field works such as the Debate we organised at university.

Most Promising Young Blogger 2008

This award is eligible only for young bloggers. This award concern Young blogger under the age of 20 who has some good chance of being a popular blog in Mauritius by the end of next year based on their determination to blog and succeed in what they are doing. The award for this category goes to www.metalikacrew.com .

Now its time to award our blogger buddies based on categories and topic that they are the best to blog for. This section consist of the Blog of the Year 2008 for the following categories:

1. Technology
2. Web and SEO
3. Media Attention
4. Real Life
5. Politics
6. Graphic and Originality
7. Micro Blogging

So the Blog of the Year 2008 – Technology niche goes to www.themediaguru.co.cc for his very professional reviews of mobile phones, gadgets and related topics. So below is your own badge Carrot.

The Blog of the Year 2008 – Web and SEO niche goes to www.webdesign-bureau-of-mauritius.com for his very nice post about seo, web reviews and wordpress related.

The Blog of the Year 2008 – Media Attention category goes to lovvy.wordpress.com for his very well supported attack on a certain newspaper when they had published unverified news about the guy.

The Blog of the Year 2008 – Politic niche goes to priscus.wordpress.com for the very professional coverage of the Student Union Election 2008 and the Minister of Education chaos of March 2008.

The Blog of the Year 2008 – Micro Blogging award goes to… I would have given this award to Shah but since shah is no more blogging, I’ll give this award to www.tushal.net who is really becoming addicted to micro blogging these days.

The Blog of the Year 2008 – Real Life niche goes to www.tushal.net for his very detailed happenings in his life lol, how he met his girlfriend, how he left her, how his heart was broken….well the list is long. You got to have a look. Its always interesting to check Tushal’s blog every morning as there is always something new. Btw Tushal…. prepare yourself for another lab session for IC Love soon

The Blog of the Year 2008 – Graphic and Originality is awarded to www.saileshdesigns.com for his always original templates and nice graphic layouts. Pff…you should check that guy 404 page if you have not…lol.

So these were the awards for the Mauritius Blog of the Year 2008. I will not forget those who didnt win any award as all participants managed to get over 10 votes which is very good. So I made a special badge for all the participant.. That’s the Top 25 Blogs of Mauritius 2008. Don’t hesitate to use it. Its your’s…and I took 2 hours to make this post lol.

So here ends the award ceremony… hey no one awarded ME an award??? Damn!! That’s horrible! I should have been awarded atleast the Blog of the Island 2008 lol

So guys and girls…i spent so much time doing these badge for you..so please use it and let me feel i didnt waste my time lol. If anyone got some problem to place them in mini format on their blog, contact me and I’ll help you.

Bon ale zot lakaz aster…pena gato pena boir nanrien dan sa award la lol. The awards are here, the reactions are too… Enjoy the preparation of the New Year festivals. Hey Tushal…. Any seven seas plan??

Merry Christmas To You All

Each Christmas I remember
The ones of long ago;
I see our mantelpiece adorned
With stockings in a row.

Each Christmas finds me dreaming
Of days that used to be,
When we hid presents here and there,
For all the family.

Each Christmas I remember
The fragrance in the air,
Of roasting turkey and mince pies
And cookies everywhere.

Each Christmas finds me longing
For Christmases now past,
And I am back in childhood
As long as memories last.

I wish all readers of Island Crisis a Merry Christmas. Enjoy yourselves well and don’t abuse of the sexy bottle of vodka lol. If only Santa Clause really existed…. The world would have been so magical.

 

 

Vote for the Mauritius Blog of the Year 2008!

Just 4 days before Christmas and only 10 days before the New Year festivals. Time goes by so quickly, isn’t it? In only one year, so many things can change… Where were you on this date last year? Do you still remember? I was outside and watching the Flic en Flac sea view some minutes ago. Its so far… yet the view is so beautiful. It’s so beautiful to try to see the details of the distance.

I was listening to the radio and heard the famous yearly selection of “Disque de L’annee” and I got an idea. Why don’t we do a small Mauritian Blog of the year award? Its the end of year and during this year 2008, there has been many new blogs here in the Mauritian blogsphere. So lets have some fun and do the Mauritian Blog of the Year 2008 competition. Here is the little concept. The award consist of 3 main awards.

1. Mauritian Blog of the Year 2008
2. Mauritian Blog of the Year 2008 Runner up.
3. Mauritian Blog of the Year 2008 – Female category only

So I will put the voting poll below and the results will be announced on the 26th of December at 15:00. Below are the 24 nominates for the award. If you know any other Mauritian blogs have been active for the past 30 days and is not in the list, just tell me in the comment section and I will add them.

So what are the rules? Nothing except that you must vote only once and have to vote for 5 blogs. That is each person must vote for his 5 favourite blogs of Mauritius which he thinks must be the blog of the year 2008. A blogger can give one vote to his own blog but must vote 4 other blogs in the list. Voting is open to all readers (local and international…. even on alien planets lol).

The blog having the biggest amount of votes will be awarded the Mauritius Blog of the Year 2008 Award and he will be given a honor badge to put on his blog sidebar as a sign that he won the blog of the year 2008 award in Mauritius. Hey if only we could have got a sponsor for THIS one lol. No problem, we will do it just for fun. So time to vote buddies! The voting poll will be closed on the 26 of December at 9:00! Vote and invite your friends to vote for you.

Below is the voting poll! Time to vote! Remember you can vote only once and vote for 5 blogs!

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By the way, our friend Sachin is also organising a small end of year contest on his blog where you can win a free account for free premium wordpress templates. Check it out here. So happy votings buddies….!

UPDATE:

Sailesh will be sponsoring this competition. So he is offering a Rs50 Emtel or Orange Credits to the winner or a free one month rapidshare account. The winner will be able to choose what gift he/she want from the list.

Ashesh on Blogshot With Kurt!!

Put your party mode on standby as we shoot our next victim on Blogshot! Hey yeah its been more than one month since the last blogshot episode. The work got delayed due to the migration of the blog to wordpress. A small resume for those who are new here.. Blogshot is a special series here on Island Crisis to promote bloggers of Mauritius in a funny and entertaining way. Uhh… the definition is ok? Ok..Blogshot camera on!

So for today on this 11th episode of Blogshot I have Mr Ashesh who is going to bear the Blogshot traumas! Lets start with the small introduction.

• Name: Ashesh Ramjeeawon
• Nickname: Ashesh
• Blog: http://asheshr.wordpress.com
• Intel: His secret job! We learned about it and think it’s our duty to warn you all! He is a sea pirate!! Look at one of his victim ship below!!

You have been warned! So lets start blogshooting this dude before he becomes a real danger for all of us here! Ashesh.. take out your shields and be prepared! I am coming to shoot you with my evil questions! Here we go…

BLOGSHOOTING ASHESH!!!

• She said you are stupid and dumb and useless!! You say?
• So is my computer machine

• Christmas gifts you want?
• iPhone 3G

• The old dumb Santa Clause gives you four hot super babes on your bed as gift! You say what to him?
• Grant me endurance

• If you were a reptile… which one would you be?
• chai pa (Don’t know)

• Island Crisis in just one word?
• SmellsLikeTeenSpirit – (Kurt says: Lol. Kurt Cobain. Its one of his top song)

• Do you think Navin Ramgoolam know what is blogging?
• No

• What would be the Slogan of Rama Valayden if ever he had a blog?
• chai pa

• Are you a geek? And why?
• Well, I have partly the spirit of a Computer Scientist and I have a passion for Computing. No. I am not a geek though. I have better aspirations in dealing with people and my people-handling skills don’t make me feel good in the shoes of a geek.

• Would you buy the domain difemedia?? I mean DIfe here.. Not ****.
• No

• Ever got high and kissed a girl you never talked to before?
• Tried but ended sadly

• The best press agency asshole award goes to ********a or L’Express or Le Mauricien or 5Plus?
• *********a

• Your top 5 favourite blogs?
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
• http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog
• http://www.themediaguru.co.cc/
• http://hostintruder.wordpress.com/
• http://pramodrt.wordpress.com/

• Did you betrayed your girlfriend? Please be sincere!
• Yes. She said she could not get enough of me (there was less to love with me) given I was dieting

• If you were to meet Angelina Jolie and she want to give you anything you want, you ask what? Only one!
• Her credit card which will expire after 2012

• No really…do you know that the blogger Daks who recommended you often eat raw cat meat covered with tomato sauce? You knew that? We can prove it!
• Abon didn’t knew that. Well Daks is someone I admire a lot. She’s at the same time hypercool, funny and innocent. But now about her ‘carnivorous’ instinct, am discovering a new side of her

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SHOT DOWN!!!!

Great! It was real fun torturing this guy. So that was the blogshot of Ashesh. Before we end this very torturing episode, here is a little preview of Ashesh’s blog. Have a look buddies. Ashesh website is temporarily under re-construction and that’s why I am not putting a snapshot of his website. For now thats his blogging world snapshot…

And who will Ashesh recommend as the next forthcoming victim of Blogshot??? Thats…. Pramod Teewaree! So Pramod if you happen to be here…then get secured! You will most probably be shot before the end of January 2009!!

So that was the 11th episode of Blogshot with Kurt – Thank you Ashesh for participating and again…thank you all readers who encourage me to continue this series. Ok ok….get back to party and festive mode now!

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