http://www.mattromaine.com Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:52:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 「２くらべ」ブログパーツフラッシュ版がいよいよ誕生！遊んで、作って、是非お友達と共有して下さい！ A Flash-based widget (aka "blog part") of 2kurabe is now available. Check it out, make some 2kurabes, and spread the word! http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/08/27/2kurabe-flash-widgets-now-live/ Made some Super Mario Mushroom Burgers for my girlfriend's birthday. 1-hour in the kitchen. 7-hours of full stomach (these were big burgers). eternal cuteness. Credit to Instructibles. http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/08/24/super-mario-mushroom-burgers/ Took me a few searches, but finally found a decent explanation on how to duplicate your OS X Leopard DVD. The key is not to choose "New Image" in Disk Utility, but to go through File > New > Disk Image from ... Remember, you'll need to use a Dual Layer ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/08/21/duplicating-aka-backing-up-your-os-x-leopard-dvd/ Picked up one of these on my birthday: My previous mass-storage device took only older IDE disks, which was proving to be a bottleneck. iMacs don't come with eSata yet, so the fastest interconnect is FW800. The Stardom Decktank houses two SATA disks and comes with a FW800, FW400, ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/08/05/stardom-decktank/ Like weddings in any other culture, weddings in Japan put a nice dent in the wallet. But Japanese weddings also put a nice dent in an attendees wallet too - through the customary practice of "money envelopes". It's customary as a guest at Japanese weddings to give a special envelope of ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/08/05/japanese-gifting/ http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/08/01/a-list-apart-survey/ Went to Akihabara yesterday (Saturday) and picked up a cute USB hub: fully 2.0, as should be expected at this point. Found it down one of the side-streets doing a fire-sale of sorts. I also found a bluetooth dongle that claims to reach a 100m range; go to T-zone if you ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/07/20/quick-akiba-jaunt/ Most - if not all - new apartment buildings in Tokyo come with ethernet strung throughout each apartment, but it can be difficult to obtain information about how the setup is configured. The apartment I moved into last year had at least one ethernet tap in each room, all connected ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/07/20/gigabits-away/ My first iTunes bill since purchasing the iPhone arrived today. The long list with company-name details and the final total gave me a chuckle. All this excitement - for free! So far my favorite apps have been Exposure, Bloomberg, and Midomi. Exposure's "Near Me" feature of showing photos taken ... http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/07/20/first-itunes-iphone-app-bill-arrives/ 皆さん、お疲れさまです！いよいよ米国で普及しているExpressionEngine (エクスプレッションエンジン、以下「ee」)のコミュニティーサイトがオープンしました。去年から使いまくっているこのブログとCMSのプラットフォーム、大変お勧めします^^ 次世代のウェブサービス開発や、コンテンツの多いウェブサイトの管理に困っているエンジニアーに向いているプラットフォームだけではありません！コンテンツ作者や、デザインを中心にしている方の人生も楽にしてくれます（笑）。 今回のデザインは Moresided からです。システム設計は（株）マジです、そしてブログやサポートしてくださっているのはもぎゃさん。 まだまだオープンしたばかりですので、これからユーザーガイドやウィキも追加していくつもりです。是非力を合わせてeeを使いこなして行きましょう！ http://www.mattromaine.com/2008/07/10/ee%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%82%b3%e3%83%9f%e3%83%a5%e3%83%8b%e3%83%86%e3%82%a3%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b5%e3%82%a4%e3%83%88%e8%aa%95%e7%94%9f%ef%bc%81/