http://www.mattromaine.com Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:57:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In one of the fastest deals I've ever closed, myGengo and JapanProbe have partnered up as a first step in the development of some new services we'll be launching over the next few months. You can view the JapanProbe announcement here. This is an exciting partnership for myGengo, as it ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/10/09/mygengo-giving-japanprobe-a-hand/ Joseph Tame graciously interviewed Rob and I for a podcast piece on myGengo. I think this is my first podcast interview, evah. We had a lot of fun - those of you who have visited Co-lab know about the nice roof-top terrace, which is where we did the ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/10/04/mygengo-discussed-on-pokya-podcast/ Hot off Gen's tweet, here's a quick collection of posts as the ripple begins: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124882265902988289.html (the original article - behind a pay-wall) http://dealbreaker.com/2009/07/nomura-finding-lehman-employee.php http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11762 (for comments) http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=3133 Being most familiar with this exact pair of cultures - American and Japanese - I find this clash fascinating. It's sad and depressing no doubt, and I ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/07/30/nomura-teaching-harvard-grads-to-serve-tea/ myGengo is hiring Interns! We are looking to hire one or two amazing, multilingual individuals who fit the following. You are: • A college student or recent graduate • Fluent in either Chinese or Japanese • Punctual, reliable, confident, positive, proactive and organized • Excited about a career in ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/07/20/intern-at-mygengo/ One of our very talented Interns has been hard at work on both myGengo Talk and the myGengo Blog - a repository of resources for translators, and news summaries on the translation industry, respectively. There is so much valuable and interesting information for polyglots and multicultural personalities alike, it's ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/07/16/mygengo-talk-resources-on-translation/ Quick tip if you were unsuccessful in convincing a client it's not worth supporting Safari 2.0, and you want to use jQuery but it's not working (crashes, etc.): check for any .hide() / .show() in your Javascript code, and replace with .css('display','none'). Particularly if you're calling hide / show on ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/05/20/safari-20-and-jquery/ Rather good op-ed in the NYT on genius, from which the following quote is pulled: By practicing in this way, performers delay the automatizing process. The mind wants to turn deliberate, newly learned skills into unconscious, automatically performed skills. But the mind is sloppy and will settle for good ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/05/03/on-creating-the-genius/ Interesting read I'm posting more for me reference than anything else, but thought it might be of interest to my Asian and European readers :) Asian regionalism: How does it compare to Europe's? (h/t to Gen) http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/04/24/asian-vs-european-regionalism-how-do-they-compare/ Most people start their year on the 1st of January. In keeping with Japanese custom, this year I've decided to start a fresh look on April 1st. My wonderful girlfriend, business partner, and personal sanity-checker whipped together this new design in an afternoon after being fed-up with the bland previous ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/04/01/look-new/ I'm still scratching my a head a bit on this one, but figured I'd at least post my solution to an issue I came across parsing PHP on CentOS 5.2. (If you know the reason for the below, do post in the comments!) The main problem was that PHP files weren't ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2009/03/06/php-on-centos-plesk-vps/