Archive for February, 2009

A recurring theme on this site involves an apparent love-affair with excessive amounts of data, and the need to backup that data. Considering the amount of personal and irreplacable information we seem to keep on our digital systems, the idea
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The Guardian recently featured an article by Patrick Wintour on the risks that some social media sites might carry. The article discusses a report done by Lady Greenfield warning us that sites like Facebook, Bebo, and Twitter risk infantilizing the
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How many times have you had the luxury to create a database from scratch?  If you’re like me, the answer is probably “not enough.”  But, regardless of how often we can flex our mental muscles with the complete design and
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Earthquakes are a regular part of life for residents of Japan, but it seems the dragon has been a little more active as of late. Today in Gifu Prefecture, we’ve had a total of three earthquakes measuring under a magnitude
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I think that after today, people will stop answering my impromptu questionnaires. It seems that a growing number of Japanese managers are becoming increasingly tired of non-Japanese people who fail to make an effort at integrating themselves into Japanese society.
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With the incredibly warm weather yesterday, Reiko and I decided to take a trip to the Ogase Pond, nearby our home (click here for a Google Map).  Although we’ve driven by the body of water hundreds of times, this was
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Not happy with your current mail server?  Are you held hostage for your email any time your shared hosting account is suspended for reasons beyond your control?  Want to host your email somewhere else for redundancy purposes?  If you said
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How many phone numbers did you know by heart twenty years ago?  How many now?  How many people did you communicate with on an average day in 1989?  How about now?  Thinking about the incredible changes that have occurred in
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Why is it that so many people feel that science and religion are mutually exclusive? While there is ample evidence of religion outright rejecting the findings of many of the world’s most formidable scientists, there is no solid reason to
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Time flies when you’re having fun.  Over the last 100 days, over 100,000 unique people have come to j2fi.net.  Not too bad for a site that has only seen a limited number of updates in that time, but it does
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