Well, I made it back last night. I've been too exhausted to think about posting, but over the next few days I will be posting entries from the journal I kept over the last week as well as the pictures that I took.

My sister will be arriving tomorrow morning, so I will be updating the blog some time after we return. These entries will be backdated, so just look at the entries from the start of January to read them.

Since we are at about 8°N latitude, we are smack dab in the tropics here, and life in the tropics is quite different…

We boarded a ferry and set out for adventure. The ferry was really full, to the level of being downright bursting. Fortunately the ride is only about 5 minutes.

We first went to the Swami Vivekananda Memorial. It's really a beautiful memorial to someone who is so important to many Indians' spirituality. I plan to add a photo album with more pictures. However photography was not allowed inside the buildings, so I don't have that many.

The statue was a wonderful sight, and we climbed the stairs all the way up the observation tower. This statue is 133 feet, in recognition of 133 short poems that Tiruvalluvar wrote Read More...

Today was a day largely devoted to travel, like most of the days were on this all-to-brief trip.

We visited the tourism office today, and were helped by a very nice Madrasi woman named Uma Devi. Read More...

Our South Indian adventure begins with a torrent of confusion. Our flight to Chennai was scheduled to depart at 10:30, so we left home a little after 8:30; plenty of time to get there, check in, and board the pane. Of course, things are never so simple, especially not where airports are concerned. Read More...

Happy New Year! At this point almost everyone on the planet has entered 2007, with some stragglers in Alaska and the Pacific Islands.

Sorry for not writing anything for such a long time, but I had a very good reason. Read More...

Plasq's Comic Life ($24.95) is one of those applications that got a lot of publicity for a little while, and has now sort of faded into the background. If you weren't paying attention to the Macintosh shareware community a few years ago you would have missed it entirely and wouldn't know about this really cool little application.
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