Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Nobi on the ‘net

Friend and freelance journalist Nobi Hayashi is interviewed on O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter.  I did not know that past WWDC gatherings used to have sessions for developers on market entry techniques – valuable information for a significant and difficult market such as Japan’s!  Apple should definitely consider re-introducing a few of these sessions.  The Aozora bank’s adoption [...]

My New Toy

…is the recently released Hitachi W51H.  My new-phone use is adopting a half-life pattern – I started with a Sony/Ericsson phone without a camera almost 5 years ago and which lasted me about 3 years, moved on to a Premini II, and now only a year later I’ve got a new phone.  The other big [...]

Who’s Inconvenient Truth?

My buddy Jun shared a link via email earlier today:
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
What’s really annoying about these sensationalized news bites is that they’re just that – sensationalized.  It talks about energy totals, but there’s no mention about the more important factor – energy source. If even 10kWh is from [...]

Make your Mii at MiiStation!

If you’re coming from Digg and own a Wii, don’t forget to visit

MiiStation.com! :)

I love FireFox, but …

this is just ridiculous:

(Hi Gen! :P) We’re not running Photoshop or Renderman here people!  My browser has been up for only 2 days, and the one plugin (aka “Add-on”) I’ve got going is FireBug (no other plugins, as I try to figure out why FF keeps crashing).  Please tell me these memleaks will be cleaned [...]

flickr flucked?

Is anybody else experiencing weirdness with their flickr account?  Some recently uploaded photos are linking to completely random images of which I have no … idea … what they are.  Strange.

bandwagon is a go!

iTunes storage / backup, for complete mobility of music!  (Well, music stays put; mobility applies to the listener :)  Read more here!

MiiStation Stats or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love it All

It’s now been a little over 48 hours since the launch of miistation.com, and the response has been … active!  A few key news sites and portals picked up on this impulse project (big thank you to those who helped spread the word!), driving traffic and – to our surprise, customers! – to Make Mii.  [...]

Make Mii @ Mii Station

Update: Well, Shin beat me to it :)  Thanks!
Minja and I were slurping spaghetti last Tuesday when talk turned to
Nintendo’s new game console, Wii.  The Wii lets users create their own
little avatar called a Mii.  For some, after the first few hours of
playing their new Wii and trying to make a Mii of some semblance [...]

Code Igniter goes full steam ahead!

(This is for you web-application developers out there)
I remember playing with PHP back in 1998 while interning at The Motley Fool and thinking it was fun to use, but was still quite young.  Microsoft’s ASP was a pretty dominant player, and Open Source Software hadn’t quite gained the respect it has now.
PHP has come a [...]