Katrina Update
I just put up a big update on Gizmodo. It's sort of a combo of tech info and personal info, and I probably should have made it here, but I felt like I owed it to those guys to post something because I said I would, and I figured anyone reading from here wouldn't mind a link.
Anyway, it's all crazy and I'm about half-nuts, but I'm going to stay another two weeks and see if we get hit by this next hurricane. I don't think we will, and hopefully after this current wave of fear passes, I'll be able to get more of my work done.
Seems like it might be worth building a little MS Access database to gather info needed for all the missing-relatives web sites, then head out and gather info from folks where they are. It's a pain for you guys to then move that data to the missing-relatives sites, but there are smart monkeys (me) who can help with such things either automatically or manually.
I wonder if there's an XML format defined for those sites to use? Seems like a worthwhile endeavor.
-glenn