Archive for November, 2008

Shane from The Nihon Sun has recently asked people living in Japan to take a picture of what’s outside their window in an attempt to get a look at “real Japan,” rather than just the temples and tourist hot-spots that
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It’s interesting how something seems so simple at first, and then baloons into a seemingly-impossible task within hours. Take, for example, my recent decision to make some database modifications to the core WordPress tables. While this seemed relatively straight-forward, it
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For the sake of expediency I’ll keep this post short and sweet. Over the last few days I’ve been working pretty heavily with the back-end of WordPress in an effort to relieve some of the bloating that I’ve seen take
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“The city is to blame,” he said through the tears. “How could they build a bridge over that river knowing that people would just use it to commit suicide? They should have guards on duty to make sure people don’t
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Evolution is an interesting thing. Not only can we talk about the evolution of living species, but we can also talk about the evolution of man-made objects. Take for example the chain letter. The first instances of the infamous chain
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I just came across this deal on the Dell website. They’re offering a basic netbook for 100円 as a package deal with EMobile. Considering how I’ve been chomping at the bit to get my hands on both a netbook and
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I paid 320,000 Yen for this? Sitting in a small room, a foreign person across from him, Kenji Yamamoto sighed as he weighed his options yet again. Kenji had come to the language school in order to earn the skills
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A crisp breeze and a clear sky signaled the start of another beautiful Monday morning in this part of Japan. Making my way to the garbage bin, I spotted several small insects making their long trek across the parking lot
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People everywhere will tell you that moving to another country for any length of time is one of the most difficult things that someone can do in their life. While this may be true for some people, many others can
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“Japan 1877. The Meiji era is in full swing as Japan transforms from a feudalistic land of warlords into an industrialized global powerhouse. However, many are angry about what is happening to their proud country – among them, former daimyo
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“Today is the day!” the young enthusiast proclaimed as he made his way to Palm’s website to read about the next series of models to be released. He had been an avid fan of the super-portable computing devices for well
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A young couple walked down the sidewalk during the night, laughing at some private joke that only they could understand. Upon seeing a large orange construction cone the young man, no more than 19 years old, knocked it over. For
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“I guess I can’t go back,” he said to me as we walked down the crowded street. Curiosity piqued, I asked for clarification. “The wrong guy won, which means that there’s no point going back.” “You supported McCain, then?” “I
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