Strange feeling tonight as while I was watching news about current rescue operation in Peru, the earth started to shake and lights to dance for about 10 seconds.

No damage at all, just the everlasting question..do I stay in or do I rush outside. 

Busy week in Philippines, experiencing a typhoon alert last Thursday and a quake 4 days later. 

According GDACS earthquake details are the following:

Magnitude : 6.5
Depth : 10 km
Epicenter : 200 km East of Davao
No Tsunami alert

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In Geneva, Switzerland, there are several projects more or less on tracks with a unique goal…providing Wireless Internet Access city-wide:

• Pour une capitale des télécommunications à la pointe du sans-fil . Under discussion at the City Council. Answer expected during Summer 07.

• Swisswifi is awaiting a political green light to go ahead with a commercial version providing access to up to 90% of the canton's population by installing 3500 antennas on public transports & traffic lights infrastructures.
• L'Esprit de Genève an association created on July 1, 2004 has for objective to give a new image and redynamise the relationship between Geneva and its citizens, which has already mapped Geneva's Wifi Free Access points has launched a project named GEspot that develops a free communication infrastructure in order to offer to Geneva's citizens and visitors free wireless access to the Internet.

  Unlike FON (a semi-open internet community), access to GESpots' wireless access points is totally free. Owners of GESpot access points can turn them on/off as they wish (keeping access point ON 24/24h is a mandatory requirement with FON).On their side, GEspot sells ready to connect Wifi Terminals (Linksys WRT54GL at 105.- USD) and ensures the automatic referencing of all the terminals in free access. Visitors using the WiFi access will find this facility as soon as they are connected to www.gespot.ch

If none of these projects work, the historical telecom operator, Swisscom, still proposes Internet access through its WLAN Hotspots (check prices first !) and of course its GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA network (check prices first). 

As I'm not anymore a resident, but a Geneva's visitor, I hope to see such projects to become reality soon.   

 

Sources : Largeur.com &  Dubuc's blog

 

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Do you feel like Indiana Jones ? Yes, so Beng Melea is a must see if you go to Angkor. Far from mass-tourism circuit, this temple was one of the highlight of our trip.

Nomadcom's Gallery : Beng Melea

From Cambodia Online
With the decline was she slowly abandoned until it was forgotten by all.  A canopy of green closed over and only villagers existed.  Hundreds of years silently passed with the outside world finally returning in the late 1800s.  During the 20th century Beng Mealea was once again a stop-off point for travelers on their way to the Great Preah Khan.  By 1958 the diligent French had cleared away the undergrowth, too late, for the years of conflict were coming.  Few dared to venture afar and again did Beng Mealea sink back to the forest.

Reports of Beng Melea began circulating in the late 1990s.  A few intrepid souls brought back tales of being escorted by villagers to a lost temple buried under the vegetation.  Credible tales, but photos brought back as evidence were murky and difficult to verify.  Little light passed through the canopy and vegetation covered it all.  Still, more visitors made the effort and once what was a journey out of David Livingston became a day-trip from he town.

Today itself Beng Mealea itself has been demined although the surrounding area is clearly marked off-limits.  The local villagers are very kind and friendly however.  Beng Mealea lies 2 hours from Siem Reap by a rutted road and most difficult to get to in the monsoon season.

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