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…must come to and end, including an amazing trip in Colombo. And, hopefully, the trip home from hell. Its early morning in London where I am holed up in a hotel, having missed my connection in Heathrow due to an 8 hour delay departing Colombo (due to the runway accident at Heathrow a few days ago which has shut down a runway). I should be home in 12 hours or so.
A gun emplacement outside the Taj Samudra hotel. Colombo suffered a terror attack upon civilians riding the bus during our stay, which killed 26 and injured hundreds (including children).
A hazy morning, with water in the canal so still that up is down and down is up.
I’m in transit, hopefully no delays…
The view from the Bohra masjid in Colombo, near Bambalapitiya Station, on the shore of the Arabian Sea.
It’s Thursday night here, and our flight leaves on Saturday at 2am, via London. Hope Dave and Razib are keeping you all sufficiently amused in my absence 🙂
I’m going on a little trip to Colombo, Sri Lanka tomorrow and will be gone for a week. I’ve lined up some guest bloggers to fill the void in my absence, Razib Khan of GNXP and Dave Kim, one of my oldest friends. I might check in with some photos of Colombo using my new Canon G9. I’ve also got my other new toy to play with, which is even smaller in real life than I was expecting. Both toys have kept me pretty busy yesterday as you might imagine 🙂
Here’s my UPS booty:
That’s a 2GB memory stick for the EEE, a free 1GB SD card that was bundled with the camera, and a 4GB Corsair flash drive I’ve had my eye on for a while.
Here’s a size comparison of the EEE with a familiar object, just to give you an idea of the scale.
I did manage to upgrade the memory fairly easily, but installing Windows XP has been challenging. I’ll get there. And finish packing, too, sometime today. Hopefully.