I mean both, just your post was the 1 i hit reply on

Hmm
http://blog.trendmicro.com/most-recent-earthquake-in-japan-searches-lead-to-fakea/

it exploded
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-quake-main-20110313,0,738219.story

nothing like the one in Pripyat but still scary as hell.

Virus writers should have some tact, for fucks sake.

Perhaps this is neither the time nor place but I was annoyed at the general ignorance mixed with a lack of compassion displayed in his original post.

I didn't twist your words, they are there as you wrote them, I just did put them in a different context which I think was useful for making a point.

Perhaps you, your friends or your family recently were laid off? If so you should not be blaming your current government for that.

You don't have to be afraid, the American government is more than big enough to do many things at once!

Perhaps we do agree after all :-) I can assure you that Obama and his friends will just use some of their resources to help Japan.

Well, TEPCO have announced now that they can't meet electricity demands and will most likely be instating a rolling blackout starting tomorrow. This blackout will effect Tokyo, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Yamanashi and part of Shizuoka.

They estimate that around 41 million kilowatts of power will be in demand every work day, yet can only supply 31 million kilowatts per day for at least the next week, perhaps longer.

The direct result of that, for me, is that I can't sleep tonight as I'll have to ensure my translation that is due tomorrow can be delivered before our turn in this rolling blackout. And as TEPCO have yet to announce when each area will actually have their power cut, I can't risk not having this work finished before 6 am. =/

Also having to charge the kids' DSes tonight as if those run out of batteries and they can't be charged up again, they'll be world war 3 in the house.

Such a rolling blackout being used here will be a first for Japan. Even in past years when they've been unable to meet power demands, TEPCO have never needed to make such a move. Personally, I think they should just force all the Pachinko parlous and similar establishments to close for the week as those places simple eat power like nothing else.

Shops today, mind, were already taking an initiative in this area and were running on 20% lighting or less. There's also very little daily supplies of bread, etc., getting through either. And it looks likely that petrol supplies are going to be very problematic -- especially as everyone was out today queuing up to drain petrol stations dry. So if nothing else, prices are going to go sky high here.

So yeah, while the aftershocks may be dying down in frequency (at least here), the longer term effects are starting to kick in.

And at least I still have roof over my head. Looking around today, I see a fair few houses around here that have lost their roofs. We got off lightly all things considered.

Hey bansama

yeah the power outage will be "funny", tomorrow.

Our Place, Sumida is not yet on the roll list, hope it stays that way.

I hope you can finish your work.
so Good luck, and good night.

Has there been any word on the rumor of a partial meltdown?

Have you seen an official list of times, etc.? I can't access the TEPCO site at all. The servers are overloaded.

You'd probably be better off looking for an answer from someone outside of Japan. Rumor has it, the information being given domestically is being "controlled". I can't say whether that's true or the usual conspiracy theory/cover up reaction, but you never know.

Finally got access to the list:

なお、停電時間は表中の数字（グループ）をご覧ください。
　第１グループ　6:20～10:00　16:50～20:30　／　第２グループ　9:20～13:00　18:20～22:00
　第３グループ　12:20～16:00　／　第４グループ　13:50～17:30／　第５グループ　15: 20～19:00

And checking the PDF for my prefecture puts us in groups 3 and 4. So that's pretty much the work day fucked for me =/ And apparently these blackouts will now last until the end of April and will likely be reinstated during the summer -- even when they have enough power =/

Of course, times are only a guideline and they cut the power whenever they want. Ugh.

As I can't go into much detail due to NDAs, etc., I'll just say "it's complicated" and we could lose clients.

Primarily automobile related translations. Can't say anymore than that.