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The first mail I received this new year from my friend read: WISH YOU H ours of happy times with friends and family A bundant time for relaxation P rosperity P lenty of love when you need it the most Y outhful excitement at lifes simple pleasures N ights of restful slumber (dont' worry be happy) E verything you need W ishing you love and light Y ears and years of good health E njoyment and mirth A ngels to watch over you R embrances of a happy years! Happy New Year 2005

The Adblock project has all it takes to be crowned the "Revenue Killer" on the web for the sole reason that it has the ability to filter elements at the source address. So everytime a page loads, Adblock intervenes and then disables the items that have been added to your filter. Now, that should make the whole process of a page load slightly faster, and it relieves us of a LOT of ADs. And yes, if you decide to block out 'certain elements', then the big-G begins to lose money too, for a major revenue for the big-G comes now through it's AdSense program. I decided to install this extension and give it a try. The filter that I added was /http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js/ The results are here: Screenshot of the page with Adblock DISABLED Screenshot of the page with Adblock ENABLED I have uninstalled Adblock, for the Google Adsense has never been any botheration to me, but ... What NOW?

The devastation that has been caused by this Tsunami is heart-gripping. The death toll just keeps on mounting and in force is one of the world's largest relief effort. If there's any way you can help, please do. India: Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (Tamil Nadu State, India) Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund Association for Indian Development The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami HOPE - NDTV's trust fund

It is true that India has not witnessed a Tsunami for over a hundred years, and this Black Sunday it took all by a shock. But still, how will they explain this ? ‘‘Tsunamis are never recorded in Indian history, so it did not occur to us,’’ said R S Dattatrayam, director seismology at IMD, who arrived after 8.30 am to the station after being informed. ‘‘I don’t recall the exact sequence of events.’’

I am on Page # 49 and am yet to make any sense out of this reading so far.

Recently came across this comic strip: Foxtrot from Bill Amend Source: uComics website featuring Foxtrot

The number of casualties just keeps rising, in thousands. These numbers are just shuddering. Please, take a moment to pray for all who couldn't survive this terrible disaster and also for all those who are still missing.