Japanese Startups 22 Aug 2013 | 11:24 am

I happened to run into the conversation about Japanese startups on Hacker News and on the BBC. A few stream of thought notes. While it is great to see South Korea has come a long way, it has hardly “...

Every year.. 17 Jun 2013 | 11:12 am

Every year, I find my way back to this blog and figure out what the password is.

Angry rant about Akihabara that I posted on TLUG 8 Jun 2012 | 10:13 am

Sitting on the train, it is hard not to be inundated by desperate Yodobashi camera signs that tell you about the benefits of buying from a brick-and-mortar store.  #3 on the list is a knowledgable sta...

The iPad as a High-Latency Second Monitor with Air Display 31 May 2012 | 02:46 pm

At work, I’ve been experimenting with standing while coding.  I do find it far more effective than the alternative, and as an added side-bonus, I don’t feel crippling exhaustion when I get home.  Unfo...

Amusing IE8 / PHPmyFAQ bug 29 May 2012 | 01:53 pm

An amusing bug, if only because it took a few minutes to debug as opposed to a few hours. If users navigated to the newly updated PHPMyFAQ server by name, they layout was broken – but going to it by ...

Ouch 25 May 2012 | 02:11 pm

My Procedure to Learn Kanji 20 May 2012 | 01:29 am

My Japanese level is incredibly uneven. I can understand fairly dense newspapers but I can’t confidentally hand write Kanji characters. The gap might sound shocking, but it is a common problem nowaday...

Impoverishing the Japanese-language web through treacherous chains 19 May 2012 | 05:23 am

When I first met my Japanese in-laws, I realized I had to toe a fine line in order to win acceptance. To that end, I paid attention to my father-in-law’s habits; while I am not much of a gardener, I d...

Flickr CLI in Python 13 May 2012 | 05:36 am

I am probably not the first, nor the last person to have to deal with uploading a large number of photos. Watching the computer attempt to futilely put every single image in memory before uploading th...

Graphviz Python Bindings on the Mac Brews install are missing. 10 May 2012 | 09:37 pm

If you want to install graphviz on Mac and you can’t find the python hooks, you are in luck – as I was in the same place. Download the source code (not the mac installer, it has the same problem) and...