BDBO has been experiencing server problems.
With holidays upon us, it is difficult getting tech support.
Part of the difficulty is loading sites from Southeast Asia as the infrastructures that are remaining bow under the weight of people seeking information.
I encourage you to follow the links below, and listen to the voices, the grief, and cries for [...]

There will be time for countries leaders and bureacrats to sit down at a table and discuss tsunami warning systems. There will be time for politics to play out and for human nature to lay blame.
The news will have it’s analysis, the talking heads will pontificate.
Now is not the time.
In a province of Indonesia that [...]

The strongest earthquake since 1964 has left an untold number dead.
Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Somalia, Burma, Maldives and Malaysia were hit with the tremors, aftershocks and the tsunami from the Indian Ocean and Andaman Sea. Countries along the Southern coast of Africa issued alerts and began evacuations.
The US Geological Survey says about 1000 [...]

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:14

Ohhh, the weather outside…

I rarely go back in the archives.
I was looking for a picture - the second largest number of hits I’ve gotten kind of picture, when I noticed there had been a 6.5 earthquake in California this time last year.
An 8.1 quake rattled Tasmania today. The epicentre was between Australia and Antartica. No one was hurt.
Oh, [...]

The big news in Canada today is the weather.
It’s one of the busiest travel days of the year, and major air hubs like Calgary, Montreal, Toronto and Halifax are jammed with passengers waiting out flight delays.
Major roads like the Trans Canada and highways in the central section of Canada are partially closed as an army [...]

The USS Clueless (Steven Den Beste) was one of the “A” listers. His blog was huge, and had about 10 thousand hits a day when blogging was fairly new to the web.
Then suddenly Steven signed off. Rishon Rishon was inspired to blog because of the USS Clueless. And he found out why Den Beste [...]