• And now what?
• Thu. Mar, 24 2011

Water seems to be contaminated in 東京. Or at least, the level of radioactivity has reached twice the acceptable level set by the Japanese authorities for infants... As a result, all the bottled water has gone from the shops within a few hours...

So, let's summarise:
- the nuclear plant is still spitting out radioactivity but it seems fair to consider that Tepco will get it back under control soon (Kyodo news). Does that mean that the breach in the pr... [Read]

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• Flying home
• Mon. Mar, 21^st 2011

Our trip outside of 関東 started on Wednesday for what should only be a few days in 京都 to see how things were going on before taking further actions.

Preparations started the day before with hunt for diapers in the emptied stores and 新幹線 tickets purchase but the trip started with an unexpected guest. A nice high-fever killing me in the train. Train packed with wiv... [Read]

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• ソール
• Fri. Mar, 18 2011

Transiting by Songdo, an interesting city... Completely new, completely out of nowhere and trying to hide behind that strange fog...... [Read]

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• Where are we?
• Tue. Mar, 15 2011

Days pass by and don't really look alike. We woke up with a very bad news (quite common these days) but the different versions of the events start being quite interesting. Or maybe it is the nerve-breaking hundreds of aftershocks (or other earthquake like tonight) but they start succeeding in making things really unclear and fishy.
Who? well between the French embassy (first one to recommend people to leave Tokyo and now repeating that there is no danger in Tokyo), the overseas media, the Japan... [Read]

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• Blackout
• Mon. Mar, 14 2011

With the dismiss of 10 of its power plants, Tepco (the most famous utility company in the World these days) has informed that blackouts would be required in order to prevent unplanned shortage. To do so, they went a very Japanese way:
- apologised
- wrote everything in excel sheet
- organised by zone
- delivered a complete schedule
- took time to do so while everybody was getting worried
- and apologised again.

But that worked as well as it could. Everybody is involved and trying to low... [Read]

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• Apocalypse now
• Sun. Mar, 13 2011

This is now D+2 and things get a bit more clear on the impact of that shake on Friday.
No need to comment the apocalyptic images that are now available everywhere nor comment on the tragedy that Miyagi and Fukushima are enduring.
For those who I haven't talked to (well the phone is finally back here) everything is fine for us. Tokyo has been immune to the quake and although the building have been incredibly shaking (see the first video below) and that for incredibly long, the infrastructures h... [Read]

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• High-tech
• Fri. Mar, 4 2011

When the latest technology meets with the oldest work in the World.
We hear a lot of things (sometimes good sometimes awfully wrong, inaccurate or simply outdated) about mobile business and its constellation of vague words like cloud or mobile applications which offer the convenience to include all different sorts of things. That Friday I could witness the SaaS (or Sex as a Service) in the train.

That mid-40s salaryman who apparently wanted to unwind after a stressful week but did not have t... [Read]

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