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…
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 and dying anywhere…
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 story of the…
Slashdot trolling phenomena
Ya learn something new every day. And in my case, it was about the whole trolling phenomenon. I knew trolls…
Al-Gebra makes headlines
Pick a link! Breaking News! At New York’s Kennedy airport today an individual, later discovered to be a public school…
Puppies behind bars
This is an interesting concept. Short version – dogs are being raised and trained in a prison to become guide…
Our fishmonger is back
He came by today – he’s still alive! – and while he didn’t have seer fish or shrimp, he did…
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 in place that…