Month: August 2004

Posted in Sri Lanka

The Continuing Saga . . .

Back to the saga of no internet in Sri Lanka.  They finally found the other end of…

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Later . . .

They found the cable, and it’s been brought up onto the deck of the ship where repairs…

Posted in Sri Lanka

No internet

The update on the whole undersea cable thing and no Internet in Sri Lanka is pretty interesting. …

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Has it been fixed yet? Has it? Huh? Huh?

And today, in the news, it was announced that repairs finally began Tuesday evening, but they could…

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More later . . .

It just gets better and better. Oh seriously. Wait until you read this. Unless this is breaking…

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Undersea Telephone Cable Repairs Set to Begin Today

Oh yeah. We’re only on day 4. Why hurry? I mean, why stress over rushing these things?…

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that pesky undersea cable problem

It was on the news – finally – but not in much detail. They (who is "they"?…

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Sri Lanka. The only country in the world NOT on the internet.

On Sunday, SLTNet, the country’s largest ISP, sent out an email to all their customers saying, simply,…

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Internet is Down

For Fahim and I? Oh, no. That would be just too simple. No, no, no. Internet is…

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Writing Incentives

Fahim is great about supporting my writing. He’s great at negotiating incentives for me. This week, I…

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Anniversary Year One

We made it! Neither of us has killed the other, or seriously maimed, or brutalized, or beaten…

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Dehiwela Zoo and McDonalds

I don’t mention them because McDonalds is located at the Dehiwela Zoo, or because the Zoo is…

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McDonalds. In Borella.

It really is pretty much the same no matter where. The one major difference is that here,…

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Dehiwela Zoo. Officially called “The National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka”

One thing I find interesting here is how they have one price for foreigners and another for…

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School holidays?

The part of the world I’m in has alternating school holidays, or so I’m told.  Basically, some…

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Knox’s Words is launched at the British Council

And Fahim and I got to go. We received official invitations in the mail and everything. At…

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BIW is over for this month

I’ve talked about BIW before. Writing challenge to write as many pages as you can in a…

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Monsoon Seasons End Eventually. Right?

I say this only because it seems like we’re still in monsoon season, and, well, I’ve been…

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Yep, definitely monsoon

It rained all night last night. I would know. I was awake. ") Okay, I wasn’t awake…

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Anniversaries and Presents and Thundersticks, Oh My!

We’re on the countdown here, folks. In 11 days, I’ll have been in Sri Lanka for one…

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Monsoon Weather. Still.

It’s been raining for the last hour, and the sky’s so dark that I had to turn…