Archive for January, 2009

Is anyone else getting this happy message from Google?  It seems that every site I try to visit after a search results in this page … even if I’m querying something from my own site! Hopefully this is just something
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What were you doing three years ago today? Do you remember? Was it something that would ultimately change the course of your life forever? Odds are that you have very little idea what you were doing on January 28th, 2006
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What is the single biggest annoyance you face on Twitter?  Is it the number of people that post links without saying anything about them? Is it the number of people who write seven or eight back-to-back tweets to tell a
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There comes a time in everybody’s career when they decide that the current position just isn’t rewarding enough and they begin to look for something better.  Occasionally this means finding employment at another company, but it doesn’t have to be
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This past week has been one I hope to never repeat again as it seems that once again, what I thought was a good deed, has come back to punish me. However, unlike the last few times I’ve helped others
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I had originally written a full article about the first snowfall of the season here in Kakamigahara, but I decided instead just to post the pictures and let them speak for themselves. I love snow … it’s a shame that
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For the better part of the past decade, we’ve heard a number of cries for attention throughout the various forms of media. If it wasn’t Iraq and WMDs it was Iran or North Korea. If the annual summer temperatures melted
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It’s cold. This seems to be the sole thought every single time the train’s doors open to let passengers on and off.  Perhaps it’s time to start paying 350円 for the reserved cars that have a double set of doors
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With many homes now employing some type of networked storage server, it’s incredibly easy for us to backup our everyday computers and share much of the data and computer peripherals we’ve come to enjoy. But, as with everything in life,
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Imagine, if you will, this situation.  You’re a man in a public washroom in Japan when, out the corner of your eye, you see that the person next to you is not some other guy who’s going to make the
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There’s been an incredible amount of spam running throughout the Blogosphere recently and, judging from the IPs of the messages getting through Akismet, over 90% of these messages are coming through anonymous or open proxy servers.  These very same servers
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There seems to be a growing trend among computer manufacturers regarding the initial hard drive configuration on newly-sold desktops and notebooks. It seems that rather than delivering systems with a single data partition on the system, manufacturers are instead sending
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In the final weeks of 2008, Japan’s government put quite a bit of legislation through the house, one of which involves billions of tax dollars in the form of subsidies for solar panel installation in the coming year. This “Solar
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