My heart goes out to the thousands who died in the tsunamis...

Hello everyone,

Wow, I remember waking up and seeing the breaking news text message that there were terrible tsunamis in south-east Asia, thousands feared dead and now the death toll just keeps rising.  Then when watching more news this morning, I was taken back when I saw pictures of loved ones posted like that of 9/11/01, family members still hoping their loved ones are alive somewhere.  It's just so incredibly sad that so many lives could have been saved with a warning system that could give hours warning time.

For up to date information on the death toll and other news on Asia's deadly tsunami, go to <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6758619/>.

@Matthew

Update:
1) <http://www.ifrc.org/helpnow/donate/donate_response.asp> [thanks Ben]  Server has been quite slow today, maybe Microsoft can air drop some extra servers lol.
2) Interactive map: <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6763621/>, from NOAA <http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2357.htm>.  More information on the disaster: <http://www.reliefweb.int/> <http://www.cidi.org/incident/tsunami/> <http://www.usaid.gov/>.  More links to donate: <https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp> <http://www.unicefusa.org/tsunami>.
3) A list of charaties is now available at <http://g.microsoft.com/mh_mshp/720>.  Also, if you want to know anything about the tsunami, just visit Ben's blog at <http://spaces.msn.com/members/bbodenmiller/Blog/cns!1pHp6DlZl60Utcbx7Cz492kA!197.entry> [um, wow].