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One bottle of water brightened my day… and 643 homes
Remarkable ingenuity, and so simple! 643 Philippine homes brightened. Without electricity! No hi-tech. What a bright idea. Mouse-tip to Lenz for the link.
Autumn twilight
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Made by hand – story of a man who discovered his creative talent
Very cool video about a man who belatedly, but not too late, discovers his creative talent. Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo. I like the b/w and the music. They add depth: watching a man discover and then work to develop his creative talent is a [...]
Congratulations! You are this site’s 10,000th visitor!!!
Well, not quite. And I can’t tell exactly who or when. A milestone, and I know all you 10,000 readers are really happy for me! Thank you all for dropping by. While I’m at it, here’s another glimpse from the visitors’ log. Most visitors are from the U.S., then Japan, then a long way third, [...]
40 years on…
I first saw this film when I was about 12 years old. I was already fascinated by birds, then – the feathered kind, I mean – and that was the main draw for me. It had a powerful impact. I don’t think I’ve seen it more than once or twice since then. There is, as [...]
Too big memory
My NEC computer is 5 years old. It has 2 x 512MB of memory. As performance was slowing down, and my computer wasn’t running too fast, either, I thought I’d increase the memory, if possible. I looked on the NEC shopping website, but couldn’t identify which type of memory was compatible with my computer, so [...]
Thoreau-ly alone, or not?
My wife and I recently visited a place near where this picture was taken, in the mountains of Nagano. Some friends have a cabin here. They built it themselves. They visit sometimes on weekends. They were not here this past weekend, but someone else was staying in their cabin: their daughter. My wife popped in [...]
2011/09/02 02:00 – Tepco, Tohoku Elec To Revive Idle Fossil-Fuel Plants
Tepco and Tohoku Power companies are re-starting idled coal-fired power stations in Fukushima prefecture. There is no mention in this article of the costs or the possible effects on price. Nuclear is cheaper than coal, after all. TOKYO Nikkei–Tokyo Electric Power Co. 9501, known as Tepco, and Tohoku Electric Power Co. 9506 plan to restart [...]
Email, maps and travel guides most wanted on foreign trips | 世論 What Japan Thinks
let’s have a look at this timely survey from goo Ranking into what uses Japanese would like to make of their mobile phones overseas. via Email, maps and travel guides most wanted on foreign trips | 世論 What Japan Thinks. No. 2 was “using maps to look up routes”. Can you guess what #1 was? [...]
US envoy: Tokyo didn’t take charge when crisis hit – Yahoo! News
“There was nobody in charge. Nobody in the Japanese political system was willing to say, ‘I’m going to take responsibility and make decisions,’” said Maher, who coordinated U.S. offers to help Tokyo deal with the crisis. “Nothing was taking place at Fukushima Dai-ichi in terms of the government solving the problem” until about a week [...]
