Month: June 2003

This is just unbelievable. An LDP lawmaker, Seiichi Ota, said the following during a debate: Gang rape shows the people who do it are still virile, and that is okay. I think that might make them close to normal. At least Prime Minister Koizumi is freely expressing his disgust (from Japan Today): Prime Minister Junichiro…

Check out the new Apple Store opening in Chicago tonight. Beautiful. Can’t wait for the Ginza store to open, sometime early next year I think. It’ll be the first international Apple Store.

Here’s the trailer for a new post-apocalyptic Japanese flick called DRAGONHEAD. Here’s a description in French of the original Mochizuki Minetaro manga. I don’t think it’s been released anywhere in English yet.

The great ramen adventure continues, this time in Chiba, which is where I was teaching today. My assistant brought me and two of her daughters (the third one was attending juku, Japanese cram school) to a ramen shop after we were done with classes. I can’t remember the name of the place, but there were…

Well, it looks like everything is OK now. The site is now hosted on a new server, which should mean no more problems like I’ve been experiencing in the past few weeks. I’m also using a newer version of Movabletype (would you believe that I always typed it with an “e”, as in Moveabletype). The…

I’m presently in the process of changing everything over to the new server, which includes installing MT again. Also, the domain nameservers have been changed, and it will take effect within 1 or 2 days. All this means that things might get weird in the next day or so, but everything should be back to…

It’s rainy season, right. So I’m walking to work today, umbrella in one hand, talking to Yuko on my mobile phone, and as I finish the conversation and try to fold it with one hand to slide back in my pocket, I drop it and it gets scratched up. This makes me sad. I really…

I’m obviously very excited by all the Apple announcements from yesterday’s keynote by Steve Jobs, and one of the coolest things to come out of it (and that I can play with right now) is the new iChat AV. I unfortunately don’t know many people with Macs that run iChat, but I just tested it…

Well, lots happening in the past few days, including another downed site. Here’s what’s up with what. First, yes, the site was down again, and this time I will be moving severs, and getting a better service package upgrade. My host offered the same thing last time there were problems, but I didn’t take it…