Archive for August, 2007

Surprise! ATRAC on its way out!

« 31 August 2007 | 18:33 | Japan, diary, sonystyle, tokyo life, worklife | 1 Comment »

Sony’s Connect service, which saw its writing on the wall even before it was officially launched, is now officially shutting down.  And Sony’s longtime controversial proprietary audio codec ATRAC is headed to the trash.  Surprise, surprise :)
Readers of M@Blog may recall a few entries I posted while working in Sony’s Audio Codec Development Group - [...]



２くらべのうちわがきました！

« 27 August 2007 | 17:08 | Internet, Japan, diary, geekery, web2.0, worklife, 日本語 | 1 Comment »

２くらべのうちわが今朝２００枚届きました！渋谷近辺で配る予定です。欲しい方はメールでご連絡ください！



富士山爆発 vs. 関東大地震

« 21 August 2007 | 1:25 | diary | No Comments »

ちょっと暗すぎるかな？
でも準備しないと、、、



Tweaking Google Analytics for widgets and blog parts

« 17 August 2007 | 3:11 | Internet, geekery, google, web2.0 | No Comments »

Blog-widget coders (blog-parts in Japanese parlance) who use Google Analytics (”GA”) may find that requests for their widget are not being tallied.  The primary reason is because GA does most of its processing, and obtains much information from, client-side with javascript.  But there is a way to add entries to your GA account without javascript, [...]