Friday, February 15, 2008

The Alamanda flower

source:here

Here in Mauritius, since these last few years you can see yellow alamanda shrubs everywhere, as in the picture above..on the sides of roads..the centre thing of round-abouts..almost everywhere i go i seem to see yellow alamandas these days..

But today i saw a red alamanda for the first time..wanna have a look? :) here it is..

Do you know of other colours of alamanda? Do let me know if yes.. :)

Yet another new type of piercing?

source : http://piercedglasses.com/

Yeah you read it right..it seems James Sooy has invented this new type of piercing. Well at first glance, what exactly is the picture about may not be too obvious.. But then if you look clearly you'll notice that the glasses has been pierced through the cartilage at the top of the nose, and when you don't want to use it you just flip it 90 degrees upwards.. Does that mean you can't remove it when you wish??..like any normal piercing?

When I first saw that, i was like 'what the hell are people going to invent?' and 'who will ever wear those?'.. i mean i won't. Will YOU?.. But it seems it is aimed for 'piercing addicts'..people who are cool about piercings..

Well let's wait and see what happens.. :)

D Programming language..



Despite being a computer science student for soon 4 years it is only about one month ago that i came across this programing language. I had heard of C, C++ and C# but D..not at all.. I even asked a friend..well boyfriend :) if HE knows about that language, since he's usually got more knowledge than me about things, but i got a negative answer.

So i decided to do some searches on Google and try to find out what exactly is D, the programming language.. and.. Tada! :) this is what i found out (a short summary) :

  • D is a superset of C
  • It was designed by Walter Bright.
  • D has been highly (not entirely) influenced by C/C++ but it also has some concepts used in other programming languages such as Java, C# and Eiffel.
  • It is a general purpose systems and applications programming languages.
  • Despite it being a higher level language than C++, it retains the ability to write code for operating systems.
I think not many people are aware of this programming language as it is quite new. The first stable version 1.0 was released on the 2nd January 2007. A version 2.0 has also been released.

Also it seems experts(computer programmers etc) are saying that the next big language might be D..that is to take over C++.

Read more here and here.

I still have a lot to read myself..and why not?..even try D when i have some free time.. :)
Have fun! :)