Another wedding this weekend. I guess that's part of life, people gettin married, huh. Congrats to Andy & Stephanie Pan. I don't think either of them would ever see this page, but congrats anyway! ... I've been learning how to play Blackbird (by the Beatles, covered by Sarah McLachlan) on the guitar. It's pretty easy to play and it sounds good! ... A cry for compassion and a call to action Nineteen years ago, a British television crew shot footage that shocked the world. The pictures of starving children, their bellies distended from hunger and their eyes lifeless from malnutrition, alerted the world to the tragic famine then unfolding in Ethiopia. The response was almost immediate. Musician Bob Geldof, previously known for a song about a schoolgirl who shoots her classmates, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his relief efforts. His "Live Aid" concerts were viewed by a huge worldwide audience. They raised millions of dollars to help eight million people in danger of starvation and signaled a determination that something like this would never happen again. But it has. Only this time, it's not eight million, but twenty million people facing death from disease and starvation. For the past year, word has been coming out of East Africa about a looming humanitarian catastrophe. ... When will people pay attention? But today, between the coverage of the war and such reality shows as "Joe Millionaire" and "The Bachelor," getting the networks -- or any media outlet for that matter -- to focus on the crisis is next to impossible. While America tries to satisfy its insatiable appetite for reality shows, the starving people of Africa are today's reality in the most raw and stark and grim terms.