w00kie's ramblings

Category: Random

  • FON Anniversary Campaign in Japan

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    If you’re in Japan and you want a free (or almost free) WiFi router, here’s your chance. One year after its introduction in Japan, the FON network gives away their Fonera routers for free this weekend only: Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th December. These cool little boxes let you share your connection safely with the…

  • Google UI genius with suggestions

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    I was just using Google as a calculator this morning as usual when I noticed something new, at least to me: if you type a simple operation in Firefox’s Google Search box, the result will pop out as a suggestion without having to hit enter and going to the results page. I love to stumble…

  • Dating guide TV show

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    Yesterday I was watching TV pretty late as I was backing up my laptop to prepare for installing Leopard, and I found a pretty cool program called 恋愛百景 on TV Asahi. The name translates to “The 100 views of Love” referring to the famous series of artist Hokusai. The concept of the show is to…

  • Moving Preparations

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    Today, I took 2 hours out of my not so busy schedule and called all the utility companies to cancel and/or open the gas/electricity/water/internet contracts for my moving next week. To help with the process, I found this cool webservice by TEPCO, Tokyo’s main electricity provider. You enter your old and new address and it…

  • How to print without a printer in Japan?

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    Living in Japan, we are often faced with tough quandaries, for example: in a typical closet sized Tokyo apartment, having a printer at home can take up a valuable portion of your living space. But then without a printer, you’re often stuck in problematic situations, like last weekend when my girlfriend had some last minute…

  • Web2.0 interview

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    Last week I received a flickr mail from a woman of Nokia Japan who wanted to have me come over to their headquarters to talk about my usage of flickr, my keitai and other web2.0 apps. I wanted to take a day-off from work anyway so I said “why not” and accepted the invitation. Friday…

  • Playing with Twitter

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    I’ve started using Twitter today and implemented it on my blog’s sidebar with the cool Twitter Tools plugin. You can see my latest entries to the right, under the search on the main page of the blog. I’ll use that to post all the one-liner updates that I never bother to post here for fear…

  • Not to be mistaken

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    Vocabulary lesson in a bar of Shibuya yesterday: 合コン and 強姦 The first one is pronounced goukon and is a kind of group blind-date dinner very popular with the young japanese. The second one is pronounced goukan and means rape…

  • Chinese sex medicine

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    So when I got to my hotel room finally (after a ghastly 10 hours of travel), I checked out the bathroom and found the following room extras. Very Arduous, Very Long Haul Sexy liquid medicine for lovers This product is the pure Chinese medicinal preparation, refined many times and exquisite productive. It could enhance sexuality…

  • The wonders of mashups

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    Not much to talk about this week. Working a lot, preparing some business trips for next months. So I thought I should show you a little gadget that I’ve been playing with for almost a year now. I’ve been geotagging as many as possible of my photos on flickr and with this great mashup by…

  • New blog headers

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    I updated my blog template so that the header displays a random photo selected from my Tokyo by night set. I’m not sure yet if I like it, so I’ll leave it on for the next few days and then decide if it stays or it goes. If you have any suggestions, I’ll be glad…

  • Lightopia around Tokyo Station

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    This Saturday I went to 丸の内 around Tokyo station to see the Christmas lights and, much to my girlfriend’s dismay, I took a bunch of maniac photos with my trusty Ricoh GR Digital. I had seen an advertisement for the Christmas lightings in the train. It’s an event called Lightopia. They lit up the 2…

  • Still no Wii

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    This morning they had a raffle for 30 units at my local 7eleven Holdings’ Itoyokado (that’s a department store). I got there at 9:45, grabbed a ticket and came back at 10:30 for the results. They had distributed 74 tickets that were supposed to count only for 42 units since families were supposed to have…

  • Steamy night at the plant

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    A photo I took yesterday outside my office. There are huge condensers for the aircons that cool/heat the big factory under my office, they make plumes of water vapor that catch the lights at night and give the whole place an eerie feeling.

  • No Wii for me

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    So I went to Shinjuku’s BicCamera at 5am on Saturday morning (btw, it’s incredible the number of puke puddles you can find around Koenji in the early morning…) hoping to score a Wii. Here is a map of the line I found there: quickmap The line was closed, BicCamera people were watching it every 15…