rtega said...

rtega at 06:40 AM JST - 29th December

Ok, let's try again: economists are slowly recognizing that the rising oil price was one of the triggering factors of the 2008 almost crash. Oil price suddenly went down when the demand went down because of the economy going down the drain. It went down to about 40$. Now it…

Posted in Good riddance to 2009 at 06:40 AM JST - 29th December
rtega at 05:16 PM JST - 13th December

Oh, and those Japanese who do know about it accuse the chinese for starting to go sushi.

Posted in Global body to restrict bluefin tuna catch in Pacific for 1st time at 05:16 PM JST - 13th December
rtega at 05:15 PM JST - 13th December

People seem to think that aquaculture will solve everything. Remember that most aquaculture is a heavy burden on the ecology around the farm. It would be better to simply stop eating the fish altogether and make people in Japan sensible to the problem as most have never even heard about…

Posted in Global body to restrict bluefin tuna catch in Pacific for 1st time at 05:15 PM JST - 13th December
rtega at 08:13 AM JST - 11th December

Now get one down to Fukuoka too so I can have a decent cup of coffee next summer when I visit my family there. Starbucks s*cks seriously!

Posted in Bringing Italian cafe culture to Japan at 08:13 AM JST - 11th December
rtega at 02:31 PM JST - 19th September

passingthrough, you most probably meant "multi-tasking on Windows" not "multi-tasking on a netbook"...

Posted in Netbook craze pushes PC industry to rethink game plan at 02:31 PM JST - 19th September
rtega at 05:25 PM JST - 11th September

sf2k, most people simply don't dare to understand it as the implications are to grave.

Posted in Global air travel may not recover until 2011 at 05:25 PM JST - 11th September
rtega at 06:30 AM JST - 11th September

Thanks sf2k, you got there earlier than me. Indeed, it's probably never going to recover much. Most probably it's going to go down the drain unless some genius finds some alternate source of cheap energy damn quick. Even the IEA now seems to come to terms with the reality of…

Posted in Global air travel may not recover until 2011 at 06:30 AM JST - 11th September
rtega at 06:15 AM JST - 11th September

Damn these cool summers! Everybody likes a real steamy hot greenhoused summer... NOT!

Posted in Daiei expands full-year net loss projection at 06:15 AM JST - 11th September
rtega at 10:27 AM JST - 16th August

apsara, maybe on the well known beaches but certainly not on all but one of the beaches I know here in Kyushu.

Posted in 3 die in river as accidents claim 13 lives in Japan at 10:27 AM JST - 16th August
rtega at 08:35 AM JST - 16th August

This really does not surprise me. I wish Japan would do more to protect it's swimmers at sea. Maybe there is just too much shoreline but almost nowhere there is somebody posted to watch out over swimmers. The shoreline can be particularly tricky to swimmers here in Japan with abrupt…

Posted in 3 die in river as accidents claim 13 lives in Japan at 08:35 AM JST - 16th August