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Looking for an extra portion of adrenaline while enjoying your stay in Mauritius? Checkout the one and only skydiving facility here on the island: Skydive Austral Mauritius

With a positive surprise I realized today that Google's Webmaster Tools had some minor overhauling and provide some more details than before. Most obvious are the changes on the dashboard where the Top Search Queries now provide information about impressions and click-troughs instead of the rankings before.

World Map of Visitors One of the interesting aspects for a blogger might be to know where her/his readers are from. At least, this is something that I would like to know. Technically, it is not a real problem as every visitor offers its IP address while accessing a website

Plans for the end of the year... Hm, not yet.Well, we already know that members of my family come to stay at our place (for five and two weeks) but aside of this, we do not have any detailed plans on how to spend Christmas and New Year's Eve. But

Family affairs Since a couple of days part of my family is here in Mauritius for holidays. Well, they stay for about four weeks and based on the fact that our next generation keeps us quite busy, it is really welcoming to have some members of the family around.It is

Some more articles migrated Finally, I got access to one of my local SQL databases with a couple of more articles from my previous blog. It's really interesting to see what I've written throughout the past. Well, today I was able to migrate about 50 more articles from that database.

Re-Blogged Another sleepless evening or better said sleepless night gave me some time to work on the visual presentation of this blog. During the last weekend I was looking for some ideas on web site templates. Well, there are a lot of free (as in beer) resources out there but

Emoticons re-activated Some articles, especially the old and transferred ones, had some 'cryptic' content like 'icon _ wink' (without spaces) in the text. Well, that were some placeholders to provide icons on the position. Meanwhile I added those content filters to the current blog system and hopefully you should get

Transfer of articles re-loaded Thanks to my reader's feedback I modified the conversion routine of the article transfer from the MySQL database to XML. As the content of this blog is now UTF-8 encoded my article content has to fullfil this as well. So, using VFP this takes just another

Kung Shee Fat Choy - Happy New Year in chinese language. Today is Chinese Spring Festival and we are celebrating the start of a new chinese year.