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Because that’s always a good idea. . . Linky. —–Begin Quote TOKYO Mar 8, 2005   Police on Tuesday questioned three siblings…

The room itself was wonderful. A/C worked beautifully, hot water for a shower was heaven, and I slept like a…

So my next assignment for Travel Sri Lanka the magazine is to review the Mt. Lavinia Hotel. Arrangements were made…

Summer’s in full swing here.  Well, except we don’t have summer.  We have the South-East Monsoon season, and then we…

Well, we ordered take away from Tamatje last night, and they’ve gone the way of the typical Sri Lankan restaurant….

Because of the tsunami, there are all sorts of aid agencies here who are trying to help out and many…

Are you at all curious about mosquitoes? There are quite a few varieties. Anopheles carries malaria, another carries dengue.  

Lately, we’ve been having upwards of 4 power outages a day, sometimes lasting as long as a half hour. See,…

And yet, it’s disturbingly cool. In short, it’s a cake partially eaten by rats made from brownies. At least, the…

We watched a movie today called Forgotten with Julianne Moore, Anthony Edwards, Gary Sinise, and, of course, a whole bunch…

Fahim and I have been having internet problems. More lately, but there’s always something going on. Like trying to go…

Last year was a rough year for paprika. First, there was this. —–Begin Quote Paprika recall expanded: possible contamination WASHINGTON…

It’s been like this since early this morning. Well, not early exactly, but . . . Since Fahim doesn’t work…

Is it possible? According to this article, it’s exactly what one organization, MIT’s Media Labs, is trying to do in…

That’s the figure I’ve heard bandied about. Unemployment, and more specifically, underemployment, here are a problem. Like the people in…

I’m told that there is a library in Colombo, about a half hour trishaw ride away, and apparently, they have…

Taken from here. —–Begin Quote BANDA ACEH, Indonesia    The top U.N. tourism official called Asia’s tsunami the worst-ever catastrophe for…

Like this one here. It’s listed as Action Without Borders. Volunteer opportunities listed by continent, then country, then by organization….

I’ve been hunting and hunting, and finally, I’ve found some pretty good maps of Sri Lanka. This one is actually…

On their hands.

This is so handy. Use this to clean your screen. Or, you can always get self-cleaning glass.

Taken from here. —–Begin Quote JIRKATANG, India, Jan. 6, 2005  Members of the ancient Jarawa tribe emerged from their forest…

Is so totally cool! Enter in a url, and it’ll graph what’s linked to what. It’s pretty nifty.

Taken from here. —–Begin Quote January 24, 2005 One of the regions hardest hit by the December 26 tsunami was…