Archive for October, 2003

Cell Chip Manufacturing

« 10 October 2003 | 10:41 | salaryman, scitech, sonystyle | No Comments »

Sony to begin ‘Cell’ chip manufacturing in 2005
In typical Gen fashion, “no comment”.
Except to point out this perspective.

Skip CDDJs completely

« 9 October 2003 | 14:35 | geekery, media, music, scitech | 2 Comments »

Just as you can’t convince a die-hard, vacuum tube loving audio enthusiast to switch to CDs, you won’t convince LP-loving DJs to convert to CDDJing, but you might convince prospective CDDJs to skip the boat and go directly to using their computer with something like this. I just tried it out, and though there [...]

Tokyo Designers Block 2003

« 9 October 2003 | 13:58 | Japan, design, tokyo life | No Comments »

Forgot to mention that it’s happening this weekend (starts today!) Check out the map — looks to be quite a scavenger hunt for expressions of modern ideas. Lucky me, much of it is in my neighborhood :)

Places I would live

« 9 October 2003 | 13:07 | design, diary, macnuttery, tokyo life | No Comments »

Any building by these guys. They’re also doing the Tokyo Apple Store in Ginza. My dream complex will be done by them :)

Now I miss Cali…

« 9 October 2003 | 10:38 | America, politics | No Comments »

An interesting take on what Arnie’s win means, with some serious comment activity. Oh how I miss California, the 5th largest economy in the world. And I helped be a part of that for a year and two summers :)
There was an article a few years back, I think by Asia Week, that [...]

Is Design King?

« 9 October 2003 | 8:41 | Japan, design, macnuttery, salaryman, sonystyle, tokyo life | 1 Comment »

Short blogging hiatus due to a server move; things should be up and running now though. What I missed posting about:
William Gurley writes about a “digital hand” in reference to Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”. This has been an incredible nuisance challenge for Sony, but I think if Apple is any proof, a strong [...]

Halloooweeeen

« 6 October 2003 | 15:18 | Japan, tokyo life | 1 Comment »

Just like Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Thanksgiving, the Japanese will be celebrating Halloween this season for profits and lack of understanding and meaning. Not that I really care, as long as I can pillage good candy. Maybe it’s time to give a few homes a taste of some real American Halloween spirit [...]

Mari Matsunaga

« 6 October 2003 | 14:34 | diary, events, language, salaryman, sonystyle, worklife | 4 Comments »

Last Friday evening I had the wonderful opportunity to hear 2.5 hours of Mari Matsunaga (松永真理氏) at a lecture hosted by Sony University. Matsunaga-san is one of the three muskateers who helped build Docomo and the iMode empire (BW article), and has been named many things, not the least as Fortune’s “Most Powerful Woman [...]

Music, metadata, and ebay

« 2 October 2003 | 11:11 | Internet, biznomics, media, music, scitech | No Comments »

Due Diligence (Tim Orens’ blog) has been fairly active recently. There’s a discourse between Kevin Kelly and Kevin Laws on the state of the music industry and its future. That’s where I found Kevin Kelly’s NYT article written a few years back. Very good read; here’s a quote I liked:
But the moment [...]

We love to party

« 1 October 2003 | 16:01 | Japan, diary, salaryman, sonystyle, tokyo life | No Comments »

Last night was my (now ex) group’s 解散会 (kai san kai), or “disbanding party”. Yes, you read that correctly. In Japan, we all celebrate when a group gets disbanded. In America, it’s not uncommon to throw a farewell party but that’s usually for one or two people leaving a group. However, [...]