Haven’t seen it for ages. This years summer still continues to be rather pants… in fact for a lot of people, it’s quite awful.

Today is the first day for quite a while, where it hasn’t rained (… well, yet, the day is still young). Saturday wasn’t too bad, and it was a shame I was stuck in the office. Not so bad for Yuko and she came into Bath too, and did some window shopping.

Evening wasn’t so bad as we ate in one of our old favourite curry houses, from when we used to live in Bath. At last, 1 year after a kitchen fire, the Bengal Brassiere is finally open again. Hurrahhh!!! :)

Many years ago, I used to enjoy reading a satirical website called The Onion. This week, there I ended up there again reading this amusing story regarding the earthquakes Japan has just had. Ahhh, the stereotype that Japan is some kind of super advanced nation.
Whilst the website story was a pretty good joke, it does make me think about the stereotype. It seems to be quite common in the West, especially in the US it seems. I suppose if mobile phone networks are to go by, then Japan is decades (well, maybe not quite that much ;) ) ahead of the US, and a little way ahead of Europe.
But some things in Japan are quite antiquated, such as housing design.
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Meanwhile, in Gavin’s obsessive Peak Oil news watch, here’s a couple of links. Sorry, couldn’t resist. Linky here and here.