Links I really find interesting

Went through my bookmarks instead and here is what I got:

Eyemaze - Grow games. Before you ran off - those games takes logic to solve them. Pick correct order to find interesting endings. I find them really enjoyable and keep going back to see if the he has made new ones.

Political Cartoons - About USA. Good to see what is happening inside USA and how people there see it. Some are quite amusing and some are quite harsh and straight to the point.

Monitor test - A perfect site to adjust your monitor settings. Lot of options available and easy to use. I love it, though have used it only few times.

Wallcoo (wallpapers) - probably a page with most wallpapers. It has wallpapers about all possible things. Just a small "but" - site is in chinese. They have english version, but I think it much easier to find wallpapers fit to my size in chinese version much easier. Though I don't speak chinese at all.

World Digital Library - A huge site about different historical books, maps, letters, documents and so on. Can browse them by time, location, topic, institution... pretty awesome, I might say!

European Library - Another digital library project. But this involves also pieces of art and exhibitions.

That's it for today - I will add more some other day :) Those aren't all my bookmarks after all

More links

[updated] Never mind... I can't force myself post links like that. Can't look for them just to post :P Better share those which I really do feel like sharing

Voice from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan

Reposted from -http://naokokiyama.blogspot.com/2011/03/voice-from-nuclear-power-plant-in.html

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This morning, I was forced to be evacuated from the nuclear power plant and finally saw my family at my relative's house. Anyway I am safe now.

"At least you should be in the safe place..." I was told. Then I left the plant crying...

I am really sorry how things went. I know TEPCO (the company name of the plant) bashing but it is also TEPCO that has been working hard without escaping from the radiation and risking the lives. So, please please stop blaming us...

Until yesterday, I had been there in the scene as a TEPCO employee and as a member of the second nuclear power plant. Under the Tsunami warning, we have been working for the recovery in the dark in front of the sea with being prepared to die... The cooling system at the sea side was damaged due to the Tsunami but we all tried to recover it desperately even though we were totally exhausted and barely could walk. If we could not recover the cooling system, the second plant would have exploded as the first one. But we, TEPCO could manage to prevent it.

If we abandoned the plant and escaped, the situation could be much much worse. But we face up to it without running away. The damage by Tsunami was far beyond than everybody could ever think of. If there is only the earthquake, the explosion of the first plant should not have happened.

All of us have been working hard without thinking of their own lives. There are so many rumours but there is little chance to have the radiation to harm your health if you are out of the evacuation area.

The people, who have a chance to harm their health, are the all workers in the plant. They could hardly eat and sleep and back to the scene. Please do not listen to the rumours. Please stay out of the evacuation area. Please do not go out if not needed.

My boyfriend is still working in the plant. All I can do now is just pray for everyone... The workers in the plant must have the most fear. Yet they, TEPCO and related companies are confronting it. Many of them do not even know if their own family is safe but they are still back to the scene and working.

Please do not forget what we are doing. I just want everyone to know how we are doing. Please disclose URL instead of copying the text. All of us in the plant is still fighting. I am really sorry to let you feel anxiety. I am prepared for defamation so I will mention my name. There are people, who work to protect someone else in exchange for their lives.

Even under this situation, seeing these people and working together with them, I am so proud of being an employee of TEPCO, being a member of the second plant.

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Global incidents

Yesterday I was shown an interesting web page Global Incident Map. Pretty awesome map if you like to follow incidents happening all over the world. There are shown border issues, diseases, forest fires, earthquakes, terrorism, presidental threat and many other. But I guess that the most hot page there would be about earthquakes. It shows not only big ones, but even small ones of 2.0 or so. Easy to track :)

One blow after another

More I hear about it, more sorry I feel for Japan...

First, an earthquake came which was 5th strongest in this century. It wouldn't be that bad as no other country is as well prepared to earthquakes as Japan. I think here it would be enough with 6.0 or even less to make all buildings to collapse like dominoe. There wasn't even one death from earthquake alone in Japan. Sure, roads and few other places got damaged, but they would get fixed fast.

Second, 15 min after earthquake a tsunami came... Now that caused the most of damage. That was to be blamed for 10,000 deaths (final count is still unknown). That caused huge destruction. That cleaned up shores from houses and any sign of civilization. I was feeling sad about seeing the destruction there, but I knew for sure, that Japan will be fine. They are tough, little people with great spirit and willpower. They are hardworking. They survived WWII and managed to get out of pit to become 3rd biggest economy in the world. Tsunami did a huge blow, but didnt destroy them. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!

Third, tsunami caused some problems in nuclear power station. They said that they automatically shuts down when earthquake starts. But soon there were the first announcements made that there are slight problems at Fukushima nuclear plant. And then 1st reactors roof got blown away... People got evacuated... and everything was "under control"... Same problems at next reactor... then another... Radiation levels rising... radiation clouds getting close to Tokyo... people fleeing... fire at Fukushima plant... radiation levels even up... and it is raining too...

Isn't it enough yet? They have learned the lesson - Now they know where their weak place is! That they are kinda prepared for natural disasters, but have to work harder to prevent human caused disasters. It is enough already! They deserve to have a peaceful sleep at nights already!

Now I can't tell for sure that they will be alright anymore. I can just hope that soon it will turn into bad memory. That soon they will build a monument to remember this and give respects to those who died. That next time they will be prepared to face even 20m high tsunami wave... that next time... there will be no next time when they have to suffer like this never ever again...

What is this all about?

My bro went through some Latvian blogs to see what they are about, about what they are writting. He on purpose avoided to comment on mine as I am one of his followers... so I started to think about what is my blog...

It kinda seems it is about everything and nothing at the same time. Let see... jewelery, me, music, morning, me, some quotes, more me complaining... and the entries arent that interesting to read... I wouldnt follow myself...

I need to decide what I am writting about...

Could leave music part there... maybe add some opinion about what is happening around me and world... could leave something what I found interesting too... hmm... will have to think about it...

though other idea was to write short storylines lol seems like I am good at it.

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life...

Today I am feeling it like I am having a fresh start. Don't know why it is like that and I don't care!

There was lot of new things today:

1. took out of my spring/autumn coat out of shelf. It was time to say goodbye to my fluffy creamy coat

2. wore skirts outside for the first time this year. And I usually don't wear skirt this early yet...

3. got a new and different haircut. I have never had this short hair.

So I was walking down the street on high heels, short skirt, semi long coat, bright blue scarf, new haircut... and I was feeling damn good! Like I had dropping the weight of winter, like I had gotten rid of all winter problems... scratched it all over... to get to things with fresh head, fresh look and new strength!

So sing along!

Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good...

Japanese shows

My interest about them started when I was little and they were airing Takeshi's Castle on TV. I liked that show a lot and I watched most of series. Funny, this show let me distinguish Japanese from other asians. As a kid I knew about one child policy in China, but didn't really know how many asian countries are there, so when I saw one mother showing picture of her two kids, I thought "Oh, they can have multiple kids and they live on island, so they are different from others"

When that show ended, I didn't get to see any of them for really long time as TV wasn't airing any of them. Only few years ago I started get back to them - watched Downtown's Baku Games, some comedy skits, some variety shows, few talk shows. And after a while I started to notice few things:
1. Competition there is fierce, so new entertainers are actually trying hard to get in center of attention. If it is TV show, then they keep trying to get moved to "Golden Time" just to be noticed by more people. Many of their reactions are overreacted. Cause of this struggle even quite weird characters gets made, some people struggle to get famous for decades!
2. Entertainers are made to be role models. There have been quite many times when if some entertainer does something against law or high morals (drinking before 18, adultery, getting some charges pressed) they get forbidden to show up on shows/TV for a certain time period. Sometimes even gets kicked out.
3. Taking into account those two points and Japanese habit of "keeping face" shows turns out to be pretty interesting and quite silly. How to attract more attention and support, still trying to keep their face?