Archive for December, 2004
Zai Chengdu
Now in Chengdu, cold here, numb fingers. I spent some time at one of my favorite airports - Bangkok’s Don Muang on the way here,. Flights heading out were all full, there were people waiting there with bandages and slings huddled around the TV screens. Here in China, it all seems far away, though here also the tsunami takes up a lead place in the TV news.
At Bangkok Airport, all flights out were full.
It is been a while since I was in China last. Blogger.com is still banned but I can still read some of sites hosted on that service via Bloglines RSS reader. A friend has invited me next week to take a class for her middle school students. They are in a small town near Chengdu. Should be fun.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Estonia: "If It Works, You Can Break It"
Forbes Magazine has a story on the land of Skype and Kazaa.
Forbes.com: “If It Works, You Can Break It”
There are only 1.4 million Estonians in a country a little bigger than Holland. Half of it is covered in forest. But beneath the trees Estonia hums. With virtually no outmoded infrastructure to weigh them down, the resourceful Estonians have constructed a kind of e-republic that has already outpaced many of its new, much richer European neighbors.
A poem for the elephant god
Found myself in a hookah smoke filled cafe, talking about the elephant god.
Talking since dusk,
of my one and half tusk.
Yes, I am a God,
though I look a bit odd.
Lets have the party
