Month: January 2005
Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found
What, this is a surprise? Have you been living under a rock? Some vulnerabilities have been discovered…
I made my own Super Hero!
I am easily amused.
Sambodhi shelter – Disabled lay in their beds as waters engulfed them
Taken from here. —–Begin Quote GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) – Screaming with fear, paralysed children at a…
Tsunami Scams in the News
No one should be surprised that there are tsunami relief scams. I know I’m not. But then,…
Sri Lanka bans tsunami adoptions
Read more here. —— The Sri Lankan authorities have banned the adoption of children affected by the…
Thailand ignored tsunami alert: report
Taken from here. —– Bangkok felt tremors of the Indonesia quake at 8:05 am and the Bureau…
Typhoon forming off the south east coast of Sri Lanka
Given the amount of damage already caused by the tsunami, this could cause more serious damage than…
Google exposes web surveillance cams
Enter the following search term into your Google search, and what do you get? inurl:"view/index.shtml" As of…
Why does the tsunami garner so much attention while the starving in Africa are ignored?
This was brought up on a forum I frequent. There are, at any given point, people suffering…
Animal Planet has a program called “Cell Dogs”
http://animalplanet.discoveryeurope.com/ontv_celldogs/feature1.shtml So. Apparently, dogs behind bars isn’t totally unique. —– Cell Dogs follows the remarkable and intriguing…
Slashdot trolling phenomena
Ya learn something new every day. And in my case, it was about the whole trolling phenomenon….
Al-Gebra makes headlines
Pick a link! Breaking News! At New York’s Kennedy airport today an individual, later discovered to be…
Puppies behind bars
This is an interesting concept. Short version – dogs are being raised and trained in a prison…
Our fishmonger is back
He came by today – he’s still alive! – and while he didn’t have seer fish or…
Tsunami warning system not manned on boxing day
Smart thing to do? Or dumb thing to do? This report indicates that there was a system…
Body count in Sri Lanka increased again
30,860 Dead. More bodies located under rubble in ravage area.
Tsunami News
Geological experts have declared that Sri Lanka has not been affected the island’s geological location. The geological…
Fishmonger Day Two
The same fishmonger from yesterday was here again today. This begins to bode well. Our regular fishmonger,…
Beggars in Sri Lanka
We get people all the time looking for donations. Some ring our doorbell asking for food, clothing,…
Red Ants Have Taken Over Laptop
Not mine, not even Fahim’s regular one, but the one he uses mainly for downloads. Yep, we…
Geek Break-Up Lines
Check it out. My favorite has to be "So long and thanks for all the fish." But…
Joint Action to ensure safety of tsunami affected children
Reported here. —-Begin Quote The Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and Save…
The telephone system in Sri Lanka
Because I wander around the internet, I come occasionally come across interesting – at least to me…
Clean water in Sri Lanka
While browsing around for info on electricity in Sri Lanka, I came across a website called The…
SMS via cell phone to be backbone of alert system?
There’s been talk on several sites of using SMS, or text messaging, via cellular phones as a…