American Military Intelligence – once again, proved an Oxymoron
What were they thinking? —–Begin Quote The damage wrought by the construction of an American military base in the ruins…
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Lankaweb headlines
Taken from this website. The reason I doubt the previous article – take a look at these headlines from today’s…
“SUN GOD” IS DEAD AND GONE. LET US UNITE AS ONE NATION TO REBUILD OUR COUNTRY.
That how one headline read. It certainly does get your attention, doesn’t it? They’re talking about Prabhakaran, the head of…
9 desperate woman fighting for tsunami-survivor ‘Baby 81’
Because that’s the only way to replace their own dead children. [/sarcasm] People are nuts. To be fair, they’re also…
Prabhakaran dead! Body found!
More info here. And the rest of you are going, "Uh, yeah, so why do we care?" Because Velupillai Prabhakaran…
The History of Chocolate Chip Cookies
Do you wonder where chocolate chip cookies came from? Someone had to be the first person to come up with…
Pictures of the tsunami – before and after
There are now a lot of websites out there that have before and after pics. You can check out DigitalGlobe…
Charity Navigator
I found this. They have a list of over 3,500 charities with ratings in their database, plus they give fairly…
Fahim and I bought a home theatre system
It’s a gift from my grandmother (thanks, gram!). It all started yesterday when we received an envelope from my grandmother…
Attacking poverty in Sri Lanka and other poor countries
Another way to attack poverty here is for longer term residents to hire locals – as maids, gardeners, drivers, cooks,…
After the tsunami: To go or not to go, that is the question.
Go. Or, rather, come. Please. By vacationing in areas that were affected by the tsunami, you can directly help the…
Another letter from my sister in the Maldives
My aunt Anne has asked how the Maldives are currently faring. Well, the most interesting and traumatic parts are all…
Ants REALLY REALLY squick me out
Long brown bugs, roughly the same size, shape, and color of our red rice, invaded the rice container. In an…
Blessed coolness!
We’ve had a couple of torrential downpours the last 24 hours which, thank heavens, has cooled things down to a…
On chain letters and anti-Islamic sentiment
Some people evidently believe everything they read. I know this because I received the following in my email. From a…
Tsunami Snapshot
Country Conf. Dead Est. Dead Missing Injured Displaced Indonesia 113,306 unknown unknown 100,000+ ~517,000 Sri Lanka 30,860 unknown 4,000+ 23,000+…
Arthur C. Clarke writes a news release: Rebuilding after Tsunami
Read it here. Excerpts follow: —– I added: I have always been an optimist, and I still remain optimistic that…
Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found
What, this is a surprise? Have you been living under a rock? Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer,…
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 shelter for the…
Tsunami Scams in the News
No one should be surprised that there are tsunami relief scams. I know I’m not. But then, I’ve been warning…
Sri Lanka bans tsunami adoptions
Read more here. —— The Sri Lankan authorities have banned the adoption of children affected by the tsunami until further…
Thailand ignored tsunami alert: report
Taken from here. —– Bangkok felt tremors of the Indonesia quake at 8:05 am and the Bureau was flooded with…
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 it would otherwise.
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 today, 428 live…