Alan Hargreaves' WeblogThe ramblings of an Australian STSC* Staff EngineerAnd the Earthquake news only gets worse- May 24, 2008 I went down to breakfast this morning on my last day in Beijing before flying home this afternoon. When I sat down to read the paper, the following table leapt right off the page. 55,740 killed24,960 missing 292,481 injured11.36m evacuated $3.55b received in donations The really distressing thing on top of the number of people killed is that nearly two weeks after the quake, the chances of those still missing cannot be good. On page 4 of The China Daily brought me to tears. I won't...http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta/entry/and_the_earthquake_news_only Yay for Sun Ray- May 23, 2008 As anyone who reads what I write here probably knows, I've spent the last 2 weeks in China, in two different offices in Beijing and one on Shanghai. Some months back I installed Sun Ray server on my workstation in Sydney (as I prefer to run on relatively current nevada builds, rather than the Solaris 10 builds that IT Ops provides) and moved over to using a Sun Ray appliance both on my desk and at home. I've been very happy with the ease of use of being able to transfer my work session...http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta/entry/yay_for_sun_ray 2:28pm today in Beijing- May 19, 2008 I have just had a unique experience. At 2:28pm today outside the Beijing Office I am currently in, the city stopped. It was exactly one week since the earthquake. The streets were filled with people simply standing respectfully. For three minutes all that could be heard were car horns and sirens, and (I am told later on) an air raid siren also was sounded. I had known from the paper this morning this was going to happen, but nothing prepared me for just how touching this was. I had shivers..http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta/entry/2_28pm_today_in_beijing China Earthquake: Oh my god!- May 13, 2008 I'm supposed to be putting the finishin touches on another customer presentation this morning (in the light of one I gave yesterday). I simply had to stop doing that and get my thoughts down as I was finding it hard to focus. Yesterday I made a comment on a colleague's blog about the earthquake, as I am also travelling in the region. I noted that I was giving a presentation to a customer at the time and actually didn't notice. I had it pointed out to me that we had had a tremor or a 'quake...http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta/entry/china_earthquake_oh_my_god |