BraveNewClimate has a reassuring account of what happened at the nuclear power reactors in Fukushima and the potential worst-case scenarios will be nowhere near the scale of the Chernobyl disaster. The comments provide interesting discussion and add further details. Some further reassurance by Harvard Kennedy School Associate Professor Matthew Bunn that while the situation is [...]
Fukushima nuclear power plant after the explosions in reactor number 1 and number 3. Reactor 1 is at the bottom left, reactor 4 is top right. Smoke is rising from reactor number 3.
Check out Jeff Shroeder and his trip around the world for free. Skip to 01:45 to see who he meets at Hachiko in Shibuya. Get live updates of Jeffs travels at the site or on twitter.
Went to Naeba in Niigata this weekend for some skiing with the guys from work. The weather was miserable on Saturday, but it warmed up a bit on Sunday. The Noobs were getting pretty good at skiing by Sunday, but not before I got some video of Pats faceplant and Endas wipeout Fortunately we had [...]
Hiroko Mima has won the 2008 Miss Universe Japan. Hiroko, a university student and athlete from Tokushima in Western Japan, was selected from amongst 9 other beautiful ladies to represent Japan at the Miss Universe competition in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 14 later this year. Having had the pleasure of meeting Hiroko, and two of [...]
The Panawave Laboratory cult predicted that the world would end on May 15th. They postponed it until May 22nd when it failed to end on schedule. They’re still travelling around in white vans, wrapping up trees and fences in white cloth while they figure out why the world isn’t cooperating with them.
Episode II started in Japan today. I’ll go see it when the queues to get in are less than 2 hours long.
I passed the Japanese driving test! Thanks to Matt who lent me the text books and sample papers, and Ga-chan who let me use his car on the Samezu test course for a couple of weekends, I passed the infamous Ippatsu Shobu. It only cost about ¥30,000 – not bad compared to the ¥350,000 it [...]
For Yukie’s birthday we planned to take her to an Italian restaurant for a nice quiet meal with just a couple of close friends. Or so she thought…. For months before the actual event, Reiko, Yuka, Junko and Yasuko had planned something completely different. Bugger the small dinner party! Lets invite EVERYONE! To Velfarre, one [...]
Went windsurfing with Itoh-san and Pon-chan after a heavy night out with Quadruple. Even with a Quadruple hangover, I had a great day windsurfing. Itoh “Ku”, Pon and I got the train down to Zushi. Abe-san followed us down a bit later. We jumped into our wetsuits and hit the beach. The teacher showed us [...]