Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
As a follow-up to my last post, I ran across this interesting article on how a family cut the cable (literally) ties and lived off of watching the Internet. Things are moving away from commercial off the air or cable TV to view on demand internet connection. Interesting ...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
I often go to Japan and one of the places I stay is in Fujinomiya. It is a "small" town of 121000+ in Shizuoka prefecture. Tonight perusing the web, I ran across this article that sums it up about Fujinomiya. In fact, my last trip to there ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
It has been awhile since I last posted. I finally found a cool reason to post. Stumbling around the internet I find many cool things. One thing that I knew about but really hadn't taken advantage of was Google's Docs and Spreadsheets. I am most ...
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
I returned last Sunday from two weeks in Japan. This is my annual trip there. It is the furthest place away from Los Angeles, in terms of feeling, attitude, and geography for me. When I go, I usually spend a few days in Tokyo and the rest ...
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Saturday, August 5th, 2006
After a long internal discussion with myself, it was finally decided, by me, that I would upgrade my Wordpress installation to the 2.0 version. So I downloaded the latest version and followed the steps:
1. Backup your .htaccess file
2. Backup all your files
3. Backup your database
4. Shutdown all plugins
5. Upload ...
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
After Seibu passed, the house was very empty.
The amazing thing was that there was a definite sense of something missing. After a couple of weeks of feeling this, we decided to go ahead and get a new dog. We had decided years ago that our next dog would ...
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
After about 14 years on Earth, Seibu, our Dalmation departed for the next life on this past Sunday. Her suffering is at an end.
When we were living in Hong Kong, a Japanese department store called Seibu was running an ad on TV showing dalmation puppies running through the aisles. ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
One tool that I use and have found interesting, but have yet to find a definate value for is Linked In. This is a new way of networking. Instead of going to networking meetings, you can now do it online. I have called it the "Myspace for ...
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Saturday, June 10th, 2006
About two years ago I ran across a concept called web tags. At the time I didn't understand, appreciate, nor use them. I dismissed it as something new and fairly useless. Was I wrong. As you can see from the sidebar, I have added a Del.icio.us ...
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