Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Have a Wii, some design skills, and a little spare time? MiiStation is hiring!

Never in our wildest dreams did we think this would happen, but MiiStation is “looking to hire”.  To date, approximately 40% of orders on MiiStation are by non-Wii owners who want a Mii-like avatar for other digital contexts.  Now almost two weeks after a 100% price hike, the number of Mii orders continues to rise, [...]

Search Success!

Less than a month after trying my hand at a little SEO action, a search for my name puts my blog at the top of the heap.  Right on.  Thanks Allan!

Welcome, Allan Wan!

I hope that title doesn’t cripple your quest for #1 :)  Friend and entrepreneur-at-heart Allan Wan is getting back in the game with a weblog redesign and host of new projects to mark his territory on this vast web we weave daily.  His early start for 10 month old daughter Ima should make her a [...]

MiiStation in the Wall Street Journal

You may have already heard that one of our projects, MiiStation (where we offer to make a Mii avatar on Nintendo’s Wii console), was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal.  The article discusses businesses sprouting up around the Mii concept and brought in a wave of orders this weekend, helping us make one particularly [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]