mamachari

I have been perplexed by some people’s assumptive comments that I am an Obama fan or, worse, a Democrat sympathizer. I am not an American citizen and do not support any particular political party or figure in that country. I am aware that the result of the election will inevitably affect me one way [...]

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Just came back from the iSummit ‘08 in Sapporo. We had a great week up in the north. The weather was great and the temperature there was about 10℃ cooler than it is in Tokyo. I slept well too.
This is how I felt when I got off the plane this afternoon…

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I am in Sapporo attending this year’s iSummit. I guess I am supposed to liveblog but I have never done it and don’t even know how so decided not to even try and waste time.
I caught some interesting speeches during the keynote session. The highlight of Day 1 for was an intriguing keynote speech given [...]

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Haven’t got around to updating this blog for quite a while…
While I was away for two weeks last month, my little niwa was backhacked by miscellaneous biological organisms…
Here is the evidential photo↓

What can I say… I think it’s a little too late to do anything. There is a 2 metre tall bamboo right in the [...]

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I went down to a nearby grocery store, Seiyu, to grab some food for lunch, and I found sliced Nile perch in the seafood section. This is the first time I ever saw Nile perch sold in a store. They were selling it for 97 yen a piece. It’s less than a dollar (US or [...]

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When Chris left for Hong Kong in March last year when he met Oiwan by fluky chance, we had no idea where the outcome of this trip would lead us to. Even when we met Boris for the first time for a nice and spicy lunch, we had no clue what we were getting into. [...]

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今気づいたのだけど、さっき投稿したエントリの日付が6月28日になってました。サーバの問題？Wordpressの日付が10日遅れてるみたいで、タイムスタンプを今日の日付に直そうとしたら、「投稿予約」となってしまいました。と言うわけで、この一つ前のエントリは7月8日に投稿したものです。
Just noticed now that the clock on my WordPress is screwed up. It’s 10 days behind. After I posted my previous entry I noticed that it was timestamped June 28, 2008. Haven’t figured out how to fix it. Maybe the server? Anyway, my previous entry was posted on July 8, 2008.

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I know it has been two months since I last updated my blog. But I was madly trying to get all my work done and clean the apartment and pack before I left for Budapest to attend GVO Summit (June 27 - 30) and I really had not time for anything else. Lots of things [...]

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今日、明日は毎年恒例行事となったアースデー東京が開催されています。昨日までは雨と風が強くて心配でしたが、何とか持ちこたえた感じです。人出も多く、賑やかで楽しげです。忙しかったので、あまりブースを見て回ることができなかったのがちょっと残念。出展していたお店で、三つ葉の苗を購入しました。有機野菜というものを買うことにはいろいろな理由から個人的に疑問があるのですが、自分で育てることを広めようという動きには共感します。自分の食べ物を自分で育てるということの方が「オーガニック」のような気がします。もちろん、みんなができるとはかぎりませんが。苗と一緒にいただいた紙には、薬を使わないでできる虫よけの方法（牛乳を直接ふきかけるとか！）などがいろいろと書いてあり参考になります。
I went to Earth Day Tokyo 2008 today in Yoyogi. It was raining hard and windy all day yesterday and it stopped this morning (although it started to sprinkle around 4pm) Too bad I didn’t have much time to look around different booths as I was busy doing other things. I dropped by one [...]

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いま日本テレビのZEROをつけながら仕事をしていたら「ハッカーとは企業のサイトなどを攻撃する犯罪者です」と言っているのが耳に飛び込んできた。うそでしょ…　日本のITリテラシーが低いのは周知のことだけど、マスコミの知識がそこまで低くて、しかも自分たちの無知を全国にさらけだし、それでも分かってないところがあほらしいというか可哀想というか…　
このニュースで取り上げていたのは、クラッキングのような不正アクセスのことでしょ？ハッキングが全て犯罪のように思い込んでるみたいだけど、こういうのネクタイしめて知ったかぶりして「大変です」などど眉間にしわをよせて放送する前に、ハッキングが何かということをちょこっとググってみようとは考えないのかしらね。馬鹿丸出し。。。ハッカーを一派一絡げにして犯罪者扱いするなんて、あいた口がふさがりません。ハッカーが何であるか知らないひとは、手軽な所でここら辺りを見てください。

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