The Digital Globe has a tsunami gallery of satellite imagery from various coastlines in Asia affected by the tsunami. Many are truely breathtaking. These shots below are from the Sri Lanka coast.

In other news, Apple’s website [png] has also become a tsunami relief page.

With the death toll for Asia Tsunami at or above 80,000, I can only be glad that the Tsunami didn’t hit a month later. My first destination is Thailand.

On the other hand, I wish that I was there. Google has a page describing the ways you can help with tsunami relief and one of the organizations listed is my old mainstay, Habitat for Humanity. Habitat is going to be playing an important role as efforts in Asia begin the shift from recovery to reconstruction.

The allure of helping peoples affected by this tsunami by rebuilding their homes is greater than my desire to see the world. If I wasn’t already committed to my trip, I would be giving serious thought about rearranging my activities in the next four months. Personally, I think that it’d be fun to sling hammers with the locals for a few months.

Alas, perhaps the best I can hope for is a trip to affected coastal regions. I’m considering a flight to Phuket Island from Bangkok to see recovery first hand and even maybe even help out during the time I’m there.

The Fourth Version. The long-anticipated and long-desired redesign that’s finally arrived.

For those of you just joining this program, I’ve recently completed my undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and landed in the cozy transition between academics and industry. In other words, this is my last chance to live the carefree life before I’m strapped down by the cords of liability.

As such, I’ve made the decision to replace coziness with adventure and go gallivanting around the world. I’ll be going around the world across a period of four months time, touching the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe. If I take the countdown on the right to be accurate (and I must, since I wrote it), I take off 29 days from now.

The Fourth Version was born of a desire to keep you informed of my adventures, cultural misunderstandings, brushes with death, &c. It’s also the much-needed replacement of The Third Version, which I outgrew some ages ago.

I’ve christened this site Adventures of a Vagabond, as I will have no such thing as Home in the places I walk. And although I am no ‘Half-Cocked’ Jack Shaftoe, L’Emmerdeur, King of the Vagabonds, I shall be endeavoring to make some legends of my own.

Adventures of a Vagabond - In Brief

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Credits

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• Thanks to Elliott Back for additional design inspiration.
• Special thanks to Lisa Dittmar, for putting up with my perfectionism and coming up with brilliant ideas when I found myself embroiled in a web of Photoshop, DHTML, and CSS.