Archive for January, 2005

Well Named

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

A Boy Named Tsunami:Six-day-old Tsunami Roy doesn’t know what all the fuss about him is, as he hungrily suckles at his mother’s breast before dropping off for a contented nap.Sitting in a classroom in the capital of India’s tsunami-ravaged Andaman and Nicobar islands, his 34-year-old father, Lakshmi Narain Roy, recounted Saturday the dramatic events leading to Tsunami’s birth, three weeks ahead of time.

Bad Timing

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

Well, my internet connection at home died on New Year’s Day when my daughter accidentally unplugged the power to the computer. Somehow, and I have no idea how, this seemed to have fried my connection…As it is a national holiday here there is nobody home at my ISP’s customer service center, so I am without a connection for the time being.