"So many years since nineteen thirty three, When I came here from Northern Male' atoll,
I dug trenches with strong work hardened men, And I was only barely nineteen then
A migrant half a world away from home, The loneliness of the exile I have known.
At twenty years I met my wife to be, A dark haired rose of Himmafushi
Marie was seven months older than me, When we settled down to start a family.
The happiest years of life that I did know, She bore me children Hassan and Hawwa
Two healthy children and a loving wife, What more could any one man ask of life? .
I worked as contract drainer 'by the yard, The money quite good though the work was hard, A young migrant in a great and new Country, I made good use of opportunity.
Though that was years and years and years ago, On looking back those years did quickly flow, My shoulders drooped, my legs grown weak and slow
And look at me now my hair as white as snow.
The loneliest I have been for years and years, Marie is dead 'his eyes filled up with tears'
She was good wife and she meant so much to me"
'I pitied him that son of Maldives'. I pitied him for his great sense of loss
In his twilight years his was a heavy cross, An old man he must face the end alone
Without the greatest friend he'd ever known.
Bill's Hard Drive - perfect timing
Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned.
While Microsoft and Yahoo! have held informal deal talks over the years, sources say the latest approach signals an urgency on Microsoft's part that has up until now been lacking.
The new approach follows an offer Microsoft made to acquire Yahoo! a few months ago, sources said. But Yahoo! spurned the advances of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!.
"They're getting tired of being left at the altar," said one banking source who has recently had talks with Microsoft. "They now seem more willing to extend themselves via a transaction to get into the game." --read more
While Microsoft and Yahoo! have held informal deal talks over the years, sources say the latest approach signals an urgency on Microsoft's part that has up until now been lacking.
The new approach follows an offer Microsoft made to acquire Yahoo! a few months ago, sources said. But Yahoo! spurned the advances of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!.
"They're getting tired of being left at the altar," said one banking source who has recently had talks with Microsoft. "They now seem more willing to extend themselves via a transaction to get into the game." --read more
We Are Microsoft
Now that the initial shock and awe around Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo has subsided somewhat, some of the user groups on each side are weighing in with their opinions of how the merger could affect them.
One thing's for sure: A lot of Flickr users don't like it.
A recently formed group of Flickr users is showing their abject disdain for the notion of their favorite online photo sharing community, which is owned by Yahoo, falling under the control of the evil empire.
The group, entitled 'Microsoft: Keep Your Evil Grubby Hands Off Of Our Flickr' had attracted nearly 2000 members as of Tuesday afternoon Pacific time.
Users have so far posted more than 200 Photoshopped images and hundreds of comments expressing their disgust for Microsoft. While many of the images are juvenile and uninspired, some exhibit an impressive level of forethought and creativity.
Some are even likely to make you laugh out loud. Like this one and this one and, especially, this one.
One thing's for sure: A lot of Flickr users don't like it.
A recently formed group of Flickr users is showing their abject disdain for the notion of their favorite online photo sharing community, which is owned by Yahoo, falling under the control of the evil empire.
The group, entitled 'Microsoft: Keep Your Evil Grubby Hands Off Of Our Flickr' had attracted nearly 2000 members as of Tuesday afternoon Pacific time.
Users have so far posted more than 200 Photoshopped images and hundreds of comments expressing their disgust for Microsoft. While many of the images are juvenile and uninspired, some exhibit an impressive level of forethought and creativity.
Some are even likely to make you laugh out loud. Like this one and this one and, especially, this one.
Hooooorey!! My photo's selecteted VFXY weekly photo award photoblog
As winter wears on and snow and ice continue to permeate the ground here in the northern hemisphere, what better to take our minds off of the relentless cold than to dream of an island paradise full of bright colors, warm scenes, and sun and surf? Ibrahim Mohamed's photography fits that order to perfection and introduces us to the beautiful world of the Maldives at the same time.If gorgeous sunsets and broad vistas give Ibrahim a signature foundation for his photography, his human subjects build it to new heights. Joie de vivre is really the theme. Everything is filled with joy, brings joy, and shows joy. Nothing else warms a cold winter morning like an injection of joy.
Written by Dawn M. Armfield
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