What's Happening at Sipadan?
Summary: Huge barge carrying construction materials “accidentally” destroys a patch (about the size of 3 tennis courts ) of precious coral reef off Sipadan Island – Malaysia’s best diving spot.
Read more:
- Sipadan – Tragic Accident First report on the senseless man-made disaster in Sipadan.
I cannot see how it is an accident that the barge is somehow carrying construction materials – “thousands of tonnes of coarse gravel, sand, steel tubes, iron mesh, prime movers, a large bulldozer and a gigantic crane” (see link 1) – just happens to accidentally be anchored offloading it’s cargo at Sipadan Island.
Recall that, just less than 2 years ago, the government kicked all dive operators and hotels off the island for “conservation”.
The destruction of the corals is really disheartening, but that’s done and nothing in the next thousand years or so can bring the corals back.
The saddest part is seeing the government – MY government – go back on it’s word like that. Truly disappointing.
Extremely frustrated at the moment, but will be digging deeper into this.
Wikipedia Suggest on Bon Echo
Been using Bon Echo on OSX for a couple hours now. One thing that’s really needed is a Google Suggest-like feature for Wikipedia in the search box.
While I’m not so keen on Google Suggest (too many results, mostly irrelevant to me), I think it’s a much needed feature for Wikipedia.
Unlike Google, Wikipedia has a finite keyword index. Wikipedia also struggles when you don’t enter the exact keyword. Put these two together, and it’s quite obvious that Wikipedia needs a Wikipedia Suggest, and Firefox should pick that up and put it in Bon Echo.
This being the LazyWeb, here are some resources for whomever is more desperate than I am ;-)
http://www.wikiwax.com/ A Wikipedia Suggest that functions similarly to Google Suggest.
Search and Suggest has a bit of info on how suggest works on Bon Echo.