It's slightly concerning that the earthquake that occurred in China over the weekend hardly made any headlines here. I guess most of the world’s attention was so focused on the ‘impending doom’ that was Gustav that a sudden earthquake caught the media off guard.
Then immediately after, it was all about the McCain and Palin-drone saga.
Seems like there’re hardly any ‘slow news day’ stories - aside from maybe Michael Jackson and Pammy Anderson dating. How’s that for a strange mash up?
Speaking of slow news stories – I had the chance to rub shoulders with freedom-fighter turned founding father of Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmao last week. He’s probably the most charismatic head-of-state I’ve ever met. Sort of reminds me of a English-as-a-second-language Sean Connery but without the latent sleaze.
After listening to Xanana being introduced, I think the most impressive part for me was him being visited in jail by Nelson Mandela. If there’s a list of top 10 achievements in life, I would think that’s probably one of the current ones available. Maybe Nelson (yes, I’m on a first name basis with all of them :D) was on his way to Bali and decided to pop by?
I suspect not and in which case, we’re talking about a Nobel laureate and living human rights legend making the journey all the way to a crummy jail cell in a not-much-to-sightsee province of Indonesia to lend support to a freedom fighter.
That’s enough for today. I’ve got too much on my plate to be blogging actively at the moment. But on a parting note, I am posting this via the Google Chrome Browser. It seemed logical that with all their expansion into other verticals (Google Docs, Maps, etc) that they would backward integrate into their own browser. I’d almost be willing to be that there’s a project in their backroom involving a Google-PC.
