The Chinese witnessed mother nature's fury on may 12th.The official death toll from the in Sichuan province is 67,183. Many schools were destroyed, including one that had at least 900 students in it. This earthquake is the worst natural disaster to hit China in 30 years. Two further aftershocks have destroyed more than 420,000 houses in the Chinese region hit by the massive earthquake. You can find the facts, figures and more details on the net...and so please do.
Another recent incident was the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. This was even worse, and even more unfortunately, most of foreign aid to Myanmar are blocked. The death toll is believed to be around 1,00,000.
For a little perspective in death tolls, both are about 10 times worse than either 9/11 or Katrina.
These are a few sites where you can donate and help the victims.
1. Mercycorps
2. America Red Cross
3. International Federation of Red Cross
4. Canada red cross
5. Americares
6. Salvation Army
7 . Foundation Burma
8. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
9. International Rescue Committee
10.Exotissimo
Do read about the two tragedies, discuss with our firends, write in your blog if you have time, and help them if you can.
References:
BBC news, Red Cross .org, An article on digg( i dont remember d name, but that inspired me to write this post)
When mother nature loses her temper...
Foxit reader
Recently i had to reinstall windows xp into my computer because of some problems...but since then i was having difficulty installin some softwares...especially those of adobe...flash, photoshop, dreamweaver, and others. I dont use these softwares a lot, but theres one which for me ( and i'm sure for many of u too) is the basic necessity in windows!! and thats adobe acrobat reader...
There again was some error installing it...tried different versions...the latest one, old ones...reinstalling different copies of each version 2-3 times...but didnt succeed...
I couldnt just stop and say that the grapes were sour.
Could have used linux, but i prefer working on windows.
So I started searching the net for pdf readers...and then i came across foxit reader. I got it as a suite with a pdf reader, page organiser and a pdf editor. Its really cool, and i feel is much better than adobe reader. You can edit the pages very easily, add comments, add bookmarks and do a lot of stuff!! If you havent used it yet, you've got to check it out!!
Some of you perhaps knew about it earlier...but Im sure there are many who didnt.
If there was some easier way out...lemme know..
Links:
Download foxit from
1. Download.com
2. Softonic.com
Weird world
Have you noticed the news that appears just above your gmail inbox? Today i saw
an odd news - a court orderin car makers volvo to pay a man compensation for
he complained that his foot was too bid for the accelerator of his new car!! lol
After reading that article, i googled for 'odd news'...and to my surprise i found
that almost every news website has a section dedicated for odd and weird news!!
Lot of weird n funny things happenin in the world - young kid jumps off a 2 storey
building emulating spiderman, a cow swallows gold chain, croc eats shark for
dinner, lost parrot tells vet his address, donkey goes to jail for acting
like an ass!! and lots more...rofl
Trust me...I didnt cook them up just now...click on the links to read the whole article.
You can google and find many more. Its fun..
As shankers blog suggests, this indeed is a really weird world!
Quit Smoking!!
I just hate smokers...especially if the person is smoking when i'm around.
Just can't bear the smell.
I can't understand why they do it. I know once you are used to
it, its not tough to keep smoking. But i'm sure it would have been
very difficult taking the first puff.
Then why take the pain, when you know about its ill effects?
Just to show that you can do it??!!
It kills! Everyone knows that..wanna sacrifice your life??then be it...
This video shows how smoking harms you. You'll find millions of them on the net.
Non-smokers watch this video and avoid the cigarette. Smokers watch it and try to quit.
I call it sucking death out of a roll of paper !!
Agree??
How much is your blog worth??!
I came across a small picture at the side of a guy's blog
saying that his blog was worth a few dollars ( around 500)..
so out of curiosity i clicked on the pic; which took me to this site
where i could calculate my blog's worth by enterin the blog url...so i did..
and trust me it showed a four digit number!
It said my blog was worth $1129.08...dats around
50k Rs. !!
So whom do I have to sell it to?? ;)
Links:
Check your blog's worth
Tristan Louis's research
Another long vacation
At home after a really long n hectic sem...any previous sem was much better than dis one...bad things happenin everywhere; lab,class,hostel...everywhere...
but its all over now... :)
back home its very much like d prev summer vactn...lots of movies...lots of sleep
The only difference is that this time im not disappointin d tv too..
With the ipl (d team i support always ends fightin a losin battle), epl and champions league (chelsea's chances still very much alive in both the leagues) going on, my schedule has become really hectic... ;)
Our placements will start after dis vacation...actually durin d vacation...in the last week of june So will have to leave for college a month earlier this time...
Eagerly waiting for the next sem to start next year to start... we are gonna be the final years now.. gonna be 'THE seniors'...most of us(guys in my batch) have been idle drifters even in the most hectic of semesters...wonder hw it'll be when we are really jobless...
Will miss many of my seniors in the next sem...there were some really cool guys...really helpful seniors...their absence will linger around for some time for sure...but then, our batch is not bad at all ;)
have lots of plans for gaming...have already kept some cash aside for my gaming mouse and mouse pad...gonna snipe everyone down next sem...
dats for the next semester...got to worry about the placements before that...not chasing rainbows but still will have to start preparing after a few days...
k gtg ...its almost 2 now..
coz this time its unlimited download for me here only from 2 am to 8am...so got some work to do ;)
hf
