Archive for November, 2006

Passionate disgust

« 28 November 2006 | 3:26 | humour, sonystyle | No Comments »

Someone is so passionately disgusted with Microsoft’s hardware entry into the digital media player market, they’ve voiced their opinion loud and clear.  At least someone care’s enough to be upset and spend time expressing it.  For Sony, however …

A Rhyme for oDesk

« 15 November 2006 | 1:02 | biznomics, diary, geekery, web2.0 | 3 Comments »

Inspired was I, one night in San Fran
while visiting family and friends,
to create a website for those in Japan,
that was fun and followed pop trends.
I whipped up the spec as oDesk requests,
and posted one night to hire.
Next mornin’ I woke, and to my delight,
The response put my Inbox on fire!
Coders from Russia, India, China,
even a [...]

Akiba Trends: Stack up, then stack up some more

« 2 November 2006 | 1:43 | Japan, geekery, scitech, tokyo life | No Comments »

I’ve been doing a lot of errand runs to Akihabara lately for two clients, and after a few consecutive trips I’ve noticed two interesting trends in the hard-disk market.  First, now that SATA and SATA-II are pretty well adopted in the desktop market, a “portable version” to rival USB and Firewire is picking up steam.  [...]