There is a time for everything,
a season for every activity under heaven.
2 A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
3 A time to kill and a time to heal.
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Message boards have been set up like this one in Phuket for those of you looking for missing relatives and friends.
Here is a list of message boards set up by the BBC for families and friends.
CNN has also set up a Tsunami appeal site for relatives.
The Tsunami Blog has an extensive section with links, hospital [...]

Watching Bill Graham, the federal minister of Defense squirm on CBC’s The National tonight was, er, interesting.
Brian Stewart is subbing at the anchor desk and his beat is politics. Usually his questions are way too long and he talks over people. But tonight, he put a couple of hard questions to Graham and sat back [...]

An interesting and informative real time interactive Seismic Monitor map.

80,000 and counting…
500,000 injured…
Relief agencies have finally been able to reach areas that were inaccessible.
In the midst of despair and devestation there is hope.
I’m not going to link to this blogger in Sinapore, he has enough anger and lostness in him, he doesn’t need more thrown at him.
Believe that everyone has heard of the [...]

Many people are unaware that Amateur Radio (or ham radio operators) aren’t hampered by many of the communication infrastructure breakdowns – phone lines, cell towers etc.
Every licenced Amateur Radio operator follows a code of ethics – and do not receive money for what they do. They are kind of like the Salvation Army of communication [...]

The Canadian government has decided not to send out the DART team, a group of 200 military that are equipped to provide emergency response for about 40 days. DART members provide basic medical care, water purification systems, communications and rebuilding of basic infrastructures.
The federal logic is that the team hasn’t been requested by any [...]

55 thousand dead and counting….

I went through a god-blog aggregator today.
127 god-blogs – 9 have posted on the immense human tragedy in Southeast Asia.
In the face of such enormous human loss, we fall silent. Our brains are not hard-wired to grasp such shocking information. Then grief sets in and we all cope in our own [...]