Month: October 2002

For those wondering, I’m still putting up daily pics on the site, it’s just that they won’t be on the front page anymore. To view the pic, click on the “daily pics” icon to the right. The picture should appear in a separate window, just like my GEISHA e-zine does. I was thinking of making…

As you’ll also notice, I’ve been playing around a bit with the positioning of the weblog on the page, in order to better take advantage of the new Moveable Type features. The biggest difference you’ll notice is the fact that the daily pic is no longer on the main page as you arrive, but rather…

Welcome to this, the restart of the jeansnow.net weblog using the Moveable Type System. The advantage with this system is that it gives you the chance to give feedback on the various posts, and it gives me more control over the look of everything, including the archives (which gave me problems in Blogger). Everything is…

Last night I spent a lot time looking into the Movable Type system. Similar to what Blogger does, the nice thing about MT is that it’s openware, meaning it’s not a big company controlling everything (and that ultimately has the option to shut you down anytime it wants). With MT, you install all the cgi…

Today is my wife’s birthday, as well as our 3rd year wedding anniversary. Oh, how time flies. It was in 1997 that I went to China as a student, where I met her. A year later we were both moving to Tokyo, and a year after that, married. Yuko, I love you, and here’s to…

I just posted TB.26 at The OPi8 Forum. This is probably one of the last logs that will be posted at the forum, since the “transmitters” have now graduated to the main site. I think the switch will probably take place next week. I’ll post more info, and direct links, as it happens.

Japan’s anything-goes mentality As she wondered what to wear to a recent outdoor festival featuring rock, funk, reggae and rave artists, Ami Ishimatsu found something appropriate, for contemporary Japan at least. She matched funky Converse basketball shoes, blue jeans, and a Thai hill tribe jacket and handbag with her lip ring and a tattoo of…

The artist Tim Biskup has a wonderful site with lots of fun illustrations. I really want the Lucky Stack card set he has for sale, as well as some of the t-shirts at the Gama-Go store. Do check out the “Kaiju” section for his depictions of classic Japanese monsters (of which you see an example…

The Tokyo Record Hunting Service is probably the best damn place on the Net to find amazing deals on used Japanese CDs. Started by my friend Patrick, who is one of the kings of used CD shopping in Tokyo, the site has just seen a huge redesign and now includes an automated shopping cart. You…

It’s the big 25 for today’s TB, which is now up at The OPi8 Forum.