However, sometimes real things happen that day, as on April 1, 1946, when a tsunami killed 165 people in Hawaii and Alaska. And this is no joke: there is a computer worm today called Conflicker C. Microsoft (guess which type of software and computers will get hit, again) has a quarter million dollar bounty to catch the villains. Go to this windows update if you fear you're infected. I'm sending this out through my iMac.
My latest two Huffington Post articles were published yesterday:
1. A Solution for the American Auto Industry
2. Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
No, all the above actually happened, and so, too, my roots search, so I'm switching stories to reality. Pearl and I are on our way to Japan to gather information about my grandfather’s grandmothers. Background was provided yesterday.
This is also cherry blossom season (and in case you were wondering why that AFP photo above, no, it is not an April Fool's joke: the Sakura is in full bloom in Tokyo and Washington, D.C.), so we will be Shinkansening (bullet training) across Japan, starting first in Tokyo, then on to Fukuoka, Miyajima, Kyoto, Takayama, back to Tokyo, then to Sapporo, Otaru and Akita, before returning to Tokyo.
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At this writing, the Dow Jones Industrials jumped 153 to 7762 and there are no major ocean storms on Planet Earth. There seems, though, to be a disturbance in London protesting the G20 gathering. The DJI day started at minus 112, then climbed 300 points. However, it is still nearly 12% lower for the year. Auto sales plunged around the globe, with GM being worst at a 45% drop from the previous February. Hummer crashed 76%. Most world markets were up.
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