The death toll in Angola is rising as rapid response medical teams attempt to bring this deadly hemmoraghic fever under control.
It has spread to the capital of Luanda and travel advisories have been issued in the fear travellers could carry the disease out of the country. It can take 5 to 7 days for symptoms [...]

An 8.5 earthquake has occurred near Northern Sumatera Indonesia.
A tsunami bulletin has been issued.
The quake occurred in the same region as December 26th. That 9 on the Richter scale devastated parts of 11 countries in Southeast Asia, killed 174 thousand people and left 106 thousand missing. 15. million people were left homeless.
Today’s quake originated [...]

Salvador Dali
1951

I sat down in front of the TV the other day and decided to watch US stations.
It was a purposeful decision, driven by what I’ve been reading on blogs the past few days.
It was eye-opening. I know news is comerce driven, so I decided to flip over to CNN and stay there for a few [...]

The World Health Organization has identified a hemmorrhagic fever outbreak in Angola as Marburg.
There have been 102 cases reported. 95 people have died.
This is the second largest outbreak since the virus was indentified in 1967.
There is no treatment or cure.
WHO’s Africa Regional Office has alerted it’s rapid response team.
Marburg is an extremely severe type of [...]

Canadians often refer to British Columbia as la la land. I can’t imagine why.
It all started with a statue put up in the middle of the traffic circle in Penticton.
The 2 metre high nude statue with a suitcase grandly titled “The Baggage Handler,” was promptly named “Frank” by the locals.
Unfortunately in February “Frank” had a [...]

On December 9th I put up a post expressing my concern about US Special Ops ordering bibles. At the time I outlined why I thought custom bibles weren’t a good thing.
Opinion varied. Many previous military personnel had no issue with the order for 10 thousand custom bibles from the International Bible Society.
Now the order has [...]

Darren Rowse of LivingRoom who has several blogs including Pro-blogger, has some cautionary and realistic advice for people who want to blog for a living.
When I first started blogging I was working two jobs part time. I had no idea that blogging would become an income stream for me - it was purely a hobby.
Six [...]