Yahoo! News: Myanmar survivors emerge desperate for help

Where is the international appeal for help for Myanmar? When the tsunamis hit in December 2004, the media attention was huge and instant, and the international aid was just as big. I remember Apple's home page had a big Red Cross symbol on it appealing for its customers to donate. Amazon.com was also helping collect donations. Right now neither company's site has any reference to this event.

Now there are 60,000, maybe 100,000 dead in Myanmar and nobody is talking about it. Have we become so desensitized to human tragedy that even something of this scale can cause the world to shrug its shoulders and carry on with whatever they were doing?

Do I have to say it... this is at least twenty 9/11s, in terms of death-toll?

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I woke up with a resurgent head/chest cold this morning. That's what I get for going on the ice four times with a cold I kept telling myself was 'finished'.

Today I installed the other software I needed on my MBP and restored my data from the backup. The new drive is extremely fast, I'm really happy with it.

I think I'm going to set up rsync backups again. That's what I used for backups before Leopard. I'll probably do Time Machine backups too, because I like the simplicity of its interface for restoring particular files, but based on what I've heard from friends, I don't trust it for a full system restore.

It's nice to have my environment back up and running: Mail, iCal, Address Book, Firefox, and at the moment, Eclipse.

I haven't re-installed all the apps I use regularly yet, I'll install those on an as-needed basis.

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