About Me
I work in Japan as a Software Engineer. I love obscure programming languages, open-source, cycling and Japanese culture.
Category Archives: Personal
Valentine's Day
I got Valentine’s day Chocolate from my Girlfriend! I’m so happy. It’s a box from Kobe Morozoff. The company that brought Valentine’s Day to Japan. I need to work double hard now to work off the calories. f^_^;
Opera Mini 4
I Just installed Opera Mini on my Treo 650. It’s pretty amazing. Not exactly a safari but good enough, and much faster than the browser the Treo comes with. It’s pretty amazing that this Java app can out-perform the C-based … Continue reading
Workrave
I learned about this program from Sacha Chua’s blog. Workrave is a cool time-to-take-a-break-reminder program that doesn’t just lock your screen (like the default typing break program in Ubuntu). It has micro-breaks which are great to remind me to get … Continue reading
Hard dance music
I’ve discovered a internet radio station that plays my favorite kind of dance music, hard dance. I would LOVE to go to a night club that plays this kind of music. It’s so full of energy, you can’t help but … Continue reading
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The Power of Nightmares
I’ve learned much more with this 3 hour BBC documentary than 6 years of CNN. Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3
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Ubuntu 06.10 Edgy Eft
I’ve upgraded Chiaki to Ubuntu 06.10. I did a clean install this time because my 06.6 installation was pretty old, and had a good number of custom packages installed. Luckily for me I found out that a lot of people … Continue reading
Miss Universe 2006
This post is all in Japanese this time. 今日ミス ユーニバスというビューティ パーゲント行われた。今度のMiss Japan （知花くらら）がめっちゃ美人です。 結果はMiss Puerto Rico（Zuleyka Rivera)が勝って、二番目が知花さんでした。日本の方がもっときれいで、頭よくて（スペイン語、フランス語，英語も話せる）、ドレスも素敵だと思い ます。 何点でPuerto Ricoが勝ったか分からない。（＞＿＜） でわ春菜からのバトン行きます。英語の言葉使います！ 【Ｑ１】自転車のことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Bike 【Ｑ２】マクドナルドのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ McDonalds (also sometimes Micky Ds) 【Ｑ３】パソコンのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Laptop, PC 【Ｑ４】お父さんのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Papa 【Ｑ５】お母さんのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ … Continue reading
A Japanese update
Well, since I’ve finally found some free time I’ve decided to post some results (of one of those personality tests) that I stumbled upon when I was reading Haruna’s blog. You can take it at Love type check! Here are … Continue reading
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PSP
PlayStation.com – PSP The PSP is like the Ring of Power. At first I bought it saying that I’d sell it after I played a couple of games. Unfortunately every time I try to send the PSP back into the … Continue reading
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