Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from the area
devastated by the quake, the tsunami and the nuclear accident.

Japan consists of several regions.

The quake, aftershocks and the tsunami hit East Japan which consists
of Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto and Chubu regions.

Some interim figures of evacuation centers and people evacuated.

Tohoku region
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Miyagi-ken, 166229 people in 1005 evacuation centers.
Fukushima-ken, 48300 people in 432 evacuation centers.
Iwate-ken, 47006 people in 357 evacuation centers.
Yamagata-ken, 3304 people in 48 evacuation centers.
Aomori-ken, 437 people in 12 evacuation centers.
Akita-ken, 188 people in 28 evacuation centers.

Kanto region
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Ibaraki-ken, 6586 people in 170 evacuation centers.
Chiba-ken, 1189 people in 170 evacuation centers.
Tochigi-ken, 1813 people in 33 evacuation centers.
Gumma-ken, 627 people in 16 evacuation centers.
Saitama-ken, 778 people in 16 evacuation centers.
Tokyo-to, 364 people in 3 evacuation centers.
Kanagawa-ken, 33 people in 1 evacuation center.

Chubu region
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Niigata-ken, 7343 people in 38 evacuation centers.
Nagano-ken, 1600 people in 10 evacuation centers.

Many of these evacuation centers are overcrowded.
We've got short of evacuation centers.

Many people evacuated from the devastated areas in East Japan start
getting out of East Japan and moving to West Japan.

I feel aftershocks several times today.
Now I have to go out to make a line at a gas station to get gas for my car.

We have to move around by car to save the people, help the people,
support the people, transport what they really need to people who
really need them.
http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12287305/

Tohoku, which means east-north of Japan, has five ken (prefectures)
such as Aomori-ken, Iwate-ken, Akita-ken, Yamagata-ken and
Fukushima-ken.

When the quake hit Tohoku, northern part of Japan main island, I was
working in my school in Ichinoseki, Iwate-ken.

Bookshelves fell down and broke the glass.

I have to clean up the mess.
My students suffered from the quake.
I will clean it up, and be prepared to receive them when they get
relief and time to learn English.
http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12284537/

There have been aftershocks following the magnitude-9.0 earthquake on
March 11th. Aftershocks night and day, everyday, every night.

The quake and the tsunami killed thousands of people.
Many villages were washed away or submerged.
Tens of thousands people are missing.

The quake cracked some reactors in Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant
which has 6 reactors. No.3 and No.4 reactors can't be cooled down
enough so far. Fukushima No.2 Nuclear Power Plant has 4 reactors.

People who live in 20km round from the No.1 Plant had to leave their homes.
People who live in 10km round from the No.2 Plant had to leave their homes.

Nearly 500,000 people are evacuated from areas devastated by the
quake, the tsunami and the nuclear accident.

I live in Ichinoseki next to Rikuzentakada and Ofunato, the coast area
devastated by the tsunami. I and Ichinoseki citizens who also suffer
from the quake would like to help and support people who are evacuated
from the area.

World people, neighbor countries and all on the earth, please help!
Please help us to cool down the nuclear reactors.
Please support people from the devastated areas.

We need your help.
http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12284384/

Fuel and Heaters are urgently needed and have to be transported to
people evacuated from the devastated areas and people isolated in the
devastated areas.
http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12278002/

World people, neighbour countries, U.S. bases and U.S. ships! Please
use all your helicopters and fighters to bring water and cool down the
nuclear power.

http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12277971/

World people! We need your help!

Without gas we can't transport necessities to people isolated in the
devastated areas and to people evacuated from the devastated areas.

Without heating oil we can't warm them.

We need your help.
Please help us to support them.
http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12274818/

World Peaple! Help!.Thousands people are isolated. Babies,kids,elders
and all want Water,Food and Heater! Fuel and many heaters need to be
transported by air to the isolated people. Please help! Powder milk
and Hot water for babies!

http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12273886/

But thousands of lives were lost, another thousands are missing and
feared dead in Tohoku, northern part of Japan main island.
http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12266867/

Try installing Ubuntu on your netbook computer. See it up and running, and have Firefox, OpenOffice, Skype, running on top of it. These will keep you online, connected and productive, in no time.

With such, productivity soar, while at the same time: you'll also relatively be freed from viruses that typically spreads around in Windows computers.

You can download the Ubuntu Netbook Remix here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook and you can also check list of compatible netbook computers here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks

Enjoy!

Cloud Computing: Initially people would (experimenting) using cloud computing for storage, sharing and stuff. Eventually we will use it for work, in the truest collaborative sense.
How would OpenOffice (the next version) fits into this equation? Perhaps this is something exciting that we could (and need) to improve about, and work on. Starting now.