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w00kie's ramblings

w00kie's ramblings

Living the good life in Japan

  • About me
    My name is Francois, I’m a french guy living in Japan, working for a big french company as an System Analyst/Engineer somewhere deep in Saitama. Here are a few facts about me: I’m a co-founder of the successful french website MacBidouille.com It has spawned an english version at HardMac.com I’m bilingual in french and english thanks to studying at EABJM in Paris as a kid There, I also studied japanese for 9 years, but I could barely make a sentence before coming to Japan I graduated with an Engineering degree (major in Information Systems) in September 2004 After that I worked as a freelance web application developer to pay for my numerous travels around the world, all the while looking for a good job in Japan I finally found it and moved to Japan in November 2005 with a 2 year contract I was hired in Nov. 2007 in that same big French company, working on R&D Information Systems Other links of interest: My web presence portal (fancy word for “links to my profiles around the web”) A post I made describing my job as of February 2009
  • My Web Portal
  • Some of my photos

Important Events

  • Arrival in Japan:
    18 years, 0 months, 27 days ago

Time Machine

Japan Blogs

  • UnknownGenius

Other Websites

  • Chuchulu
  • Imagine Science Film NYC
  • MacBidouille

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Posts transcribed from twitter

tiny earthquake just shook my …

tiny earthquake just shook my office up in Saitama

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Terminator’s season finale jus…

Terminator’s season finale just blew my mind and melted my face, I wonder if it ties in somehow with the T4 feature film

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cron support for #appengine, Y…

cron support for #appengine, YAY! http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html

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1h30 after the accident, every…

1h30 after the accident, everything was cleaned up and the trains started running again, I’m finally back home -> time to hit the showers

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trying to find way home: no bu…

trying to find way home: no bus, taxi out of question w/ snowboard.. no choice but to wait ’til they pick up the bits&pieces from the tracks

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coming back from snowboarding …

coming back from snowboarding my train hit a suicide jumper – I saw the body, covered by newspapers, and shopping bags he left on the home

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6am in the train to snowboard,…

6am in the train to snowboard, late start but then it’s the middle of the week so it’s not like it’ll be crowded

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off from work today, making

off from work today, making キーマカレー for the girlfriend http://tinyurl.com/df7ab6

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getting a lot colder since the…

getting a lot colder since the start of the week… I wonder if we are still on track for cherry blossom this weekend

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nothing to eat, drinking AQUAR…

nothing to eat, drinking AQUARIUS from a vending machine for the calories

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arrived in karuizawa at midnig…

arrived in karuizawa at midnight, not a single shop open, not even 7eleven… my kingdom for a beer!

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someone fed my N+2 “whale brai…

someone fed my N+2 “whale brains” last night… there is no such thing, probably was 白子 which is fish sperm – he was not amused… (^O^)/

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karuizawa road trip tonight, Y…

karuizawa road trip tonight, YAY!… but have to finish house-cleaning first (-.-;)

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trying to find a nice onsen ry…

trying to find a nice onsen ryokan for 4 in Hakone the weekend after next… i am not a good travel agent

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