Archive for March, 2008

Google Checkout now in Japan!

« 26 March 2008 | 2:33 | Internet, Japan, google | No Comments »

Hey cool - looks like Google Checkout is now available in Japanese!
I’m clapping my hands and lickin’ my chops!

Music Industry First - Major Label releases tracks under Creative Commons!

« 24 March 2008 | 20:11 | Japan, entrepreneurship, music, worklife | 2 Comments »

My current project, Otorevo, which I’ve written about before here, here, and here, has decided to release the winning band’s vocal tracks under a Creative Commons license. You can read the Japanese introduction and download the tracks. We’re running a remix contest for the next 6 weeks, so be sure to submit your work!
Supposedly this [...]

My buddy Jun

« 19 March 2008 | 9:46 | Internet, travel | No Comments »

He’s back! w00t!

UTF-8, PHP headers, and BOMs

« 14 March 2008 | 4:02 | Internet, geekery | 2 Comments »

BOMs in a php file just killed 5 hours of my time. Ugh.
The gist of it is, if you call PHP’s header() and you have a BOM in a file that was loaded by PHP (in my case, a language file; the BOM was <feff>), the BOM will actually trigger a header call before *your* [...]

Converse or be cast aside

« 6 March 2008 | 12:59 | Internet, biznomics, entrepreneurship | No Comments »

A little bit of Craigslist history and some food for thought on the importance of engaging your audience. Thanks Gen.