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Big Ones

I think mine is mostly the same with Mena's, because I'm 4 days apart with her. So it's "Best of My Love" ('77) by The Emotions and "I don't wanna miss a thing" ('98) by Aerosmith. I like Aerosmith and don't dislike that song, but it's not the best ballade from them anyway.

People say I look like...

Coincidence. It's exactly the qotd I thought of a couple of days ago.

So people has told me I look like: 小西真奈美 (Manami Konishi), 堂本光一 (Koichi Domoto) and 宮崎哲哉 (Tetsuya Miyazaki). Manami Konishi is an actress but I realize how I look like her.

Weekend Plans

Lots of sleep, World Cup games and dumping stuff inside my head into slides. Actually ...

June 23rd (Fri)

• 9:30 Arrived SFO
• 10:30 Get in the 6A office
• 14:00-16:00 Sleep on the couch
• 19:00-20:30 Had a dinner with clkao and Hachi
• 21:00-5:00 Sleep

June 24th (Sat)

• 8:00-10:00 SWE - GER
• 10:00-12:00 Chatting on IM/IRC
• 12:00-14:00 MEX - ARG
• 14:00-16:00 Lunch (Cut curry!) and read books
• 16:00-20:00 Sleep (Oops, again)

Hmm, jetlag hurts me. Now I start outlining my slides for YAPC and probably finish it on 2am, then sleep to wake up on 5am to get 8am flight at SFO to ORD (Chicago O'Haire).

SWE - GER

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I haven't imagined that I can watch the World Cup football live in the United States, but I can. Thanks to ABC and ESPN for that.

No Fare = Win

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Looks like today is No-Fare-For-Public-Transportations day in San Francisco.

Sushi and Beer

Looks like the food court is shared with the old terminal. Cool.

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New NRT terminal

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Limo Bus to NRT

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Books to go

So I'm leaving my apartment now for Narita with these books to read on the planes. (Of course they're both in Japanese)

 

Norwegian Wood (Vintage International Original)

Haruki Murakami

 

Angels & Demons, Special Illustrated Edition

Dan Brown

Split TV mode

Split TV mode

It's cool that my TV has a split screen mode so that you can stream 2 different channels (if they're on different network, or either of them should be external device like CATV/DVR).

Anyway, on the left: Italy - Czech. On thr right: US - Ghana. Go USA!

Last day in Mikado Bldg.

Today is my last day in Mikado Bldg. I'll devote Yellowcard's nice ballade "One Year, Six Months" to this place. Maybe this should be too dramatic for just an office move, though.

 

Ocean Avenue

Yellowcard

Sew this up with threads of reason and regret
So I will not forget. I will not forget
How this felt one year six months ago
I know I cannot forget. I cannot forget

I'm falling into memories of you,and things we used to do
Follow me there
A beautiful somewhere
A place that I can share with you

I can tell that you don't know me anymore
It's easy to forget, sometimes we just forget
And being on this road is anything but sure
Maybe we'll forget, I hope we don't forget

I'm falling into memories of you,and things we used to do
Follow me there
A beautiful somewhere
A place that I can share with you

So many nights, legs tangled tight
Wrap me up in a dream with you
Close up these eyes, try not to cry
All that I've got to pull me through is memories of you
Memories of you
Memories of you
Memories of you

I'm falling into memories of you ,and things we used to do
Follow me there
A beautiful somewhere
A place that we can share
Falling into memories of you, and things we used to do

Java chip frappucino

This rocks.

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Saying too much "like" sounds er, like stupid

Stop-saying-like

I felt like exactly the same thing like a while ago, maybe a couple of months, when I got like used to the life in the US. I think the same thing applies to Japanese as well. Saying "ていうか (= rather, actually)", "ちょっと (= a little bit)", "まぁその (= you know)" too much makes yourself sound silly.

Go Japan!

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My weekend plans...

My plans for this weekend *were*:

Saturday: Had a nice soba (Japanese buckwheat noodle) in Azabu-Juban, then went to Ginza for a shopping. We went to Uniqlo for new shirts, pants and socks, then moved to MUJI for kitchen matte, soap and bath towels.

Sunday: Woke up a little late (1pm) and now am watching the World Cup US - Italy replay. Now Italy did own goal and lost one player by red card. It's getting exciting, huh.

Hm, and US lost their player by red card as well. This referee really likes to do that.

I'm planning to kill my writing work for 3 magazines, then on 10pm watch the Japan - Croatia on TV.

王様のブランチ

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Masaki is on TV now!

yay for 0.7

This is a great and 素敵な release.

The reason why I typed 素敵 (Japanese for "nice") is that the 3rd byte of 素 is \xa0 and during the dev, our sanitizer had a bug encoding it into HTML <#a0>. Let me see what happens.

Google Maps Tilt

So here's another Hack: Google Maps Tilt. It's too bad I have to wait for a day or so before YouTube indexing recently uploaded video (otherwise I can't embed their video here ...).

If you like it, help spreading the words by digging it or del.icio.us-ing it. Thanks!

Control Google Maps via ThinkPad tilt

Another day, another hack. Here's a demo that controls Google Maps using ThinkPad Hard Drive Active Protection sensor. You tilt your ThinkPad and Google Maps roll over. Pretty cool.

というわけで ThinkPad ハックづいてるこの頃（といっても2日ですが）、また面白いハックを1つ。Google Maps の地図を、ThinkPad を傾けてナビゲートします。まずはデモをどうぞ。

My recommendation is to choose Satellite mode, with the 3rd Zoom level. It makes me feel like flying in the sky, just as birds. Because of Google Maps JS library prefetching images, sometimes you have a delay (latency) moving, but other than that, it is quite fantastic.

サテライトでズームは最大から3つ目ぐらいが最適。空を飛んでいる鳥の気分になれます。ちょっと Gmaps のローディングで遅延があったりしますが、それ以外は快適の一言。

The code is available here in my svn repository. Note that because it uses ActiveX, you need to download the gmaps.html locally and open it with Windows IE. The app is written in JavaScript (using Google Maps API) and ActivePerl's PerlScript inside Windows IE. You need to install Win32API-File CPAN module (use ppm to install) before running it.

コードは こちら からダウンロードできます。ActiveX を使うので、ブラウザ上でそのまま動かすことはできません。gmaps.html をダウンロードして WinIE で開いてください。ドライブプロテクションのついた ThinkPad, ActivePerl (PerlScript が有効になっている必要あり） に Win32API-File が必要です (ppm でインストールできます）。IE で <script language="PerlScript"> の中から ShockMgr を開いて、JavaScript に返して GMaps を pan してます。IE だからできるワザ。

Enjoy!

ThinkPad Saber

ThinkPad Saber

Turns your ThinkPad into a lightsaber. Read More .

Turn your ThinkPad into lightsaber

Recent IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad models have HDAPS (Hard Drive Active Protection System) support. HDAP's ShockMgr API is accessible to developers, by reverse engineering. For scripting languages like Perl, it's pretty straightforward to read the Accelerometer data from ShockMgr device.

So here it comes: ThinkPad Saber. It would be familiar as a ThinkPad clone of MacSaber if you're a Mac Geek.

The code is written in Perl, and is available at my public svn repository. You can also download the self executable package (of course for Win32) from releases directory.

ready for the game

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How many feeds do you subscribe to?

Bloglines-sub

Per sekimura-san's post, here's how my Bloglines Subscription looks like.

Note that I don't read them all on Bloglines. I use Plagger to transfer all the updates to my Gmail box. So it's pretty fast, diff-aware, auto-grouping per feeds, and fulltext searchable.

Well, but seriously, 1051 is too much to manage. I could strip this down to 100 if I'm forced to. Actually, when I was away from my computer for a week in the last September, I marked everything "read" after the trip, and just went to the del.icio.us and Hatena inbox to see what's been happening in a week. That could just work.

But you know I'm too addicted to those information already ...

Germany

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World Cup and Conferences Schedule Conflicts

So FIFA World Cup 2006 is going to start tonight. Japan's 1st match is against Australia and is on Monday night 10pm Japan localtime. We're gonna watch the game in my apartment with a huge HDTV screen. That's gonna be very exciting!

One sad thing, though. If Japan makes it to pass the qualifying round, I have to watch the final tournament games outside of Japan, namely in US (San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York). Looks like YAPC::NA organizers didn't care much about the shcedule overlap with FIFA World Cup, because they're American.

Agh.

today's view

The rainy season has come. Everything's white cos of fog,

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It's such a small world...

A couple of weeks ago, I had a lunch with my cousins of twin, Momo and Ai. They're daughtors of my mom's brother, but i haven't been in touch with them for years, for whatever reasons.

During the conversation in lunch, it turns out that Ai's husband is a fanatic reader of my blog, and Momo is a friend of friend of my girlfriend.

It's a, eh, small world.

View from the Hills

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Upcoming trip to the United States

Here's a brief itinerary of my upcoming trip in US, around YAPC::NA conference.

• June 23: NRT - SFO
• June 25: SFO - ORD (Chicago)
• July 1: ORD - BOS
• July 3: BOS - NYC (Amtrak)
• July 5: JFK - NRT

Wishlist: I want an event asset type on VOX, possibly with hCalendar microfotrmats markup and iCal export.

The Da Vinci Code movie

The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition : A Novel

Dan Brown

I just came back from The Da Vinci Code movie in Virgin Cinemas Roppongi Hills. It was a late show 23:30-26:00 but there was a lot of people watching it.

I found it interesting, maybe 3.5 out of 5. As most of Japanese, I don't follow any religion and that makes it really easy for me to see it as just an entertainment. The movie was pretty fast-forwardish and it should be very difficult to understand if you haven't read the original novel, but that shouldn't be a big problem for this million seller novel. i think It's a good assumption anyway and it's a right thing to do to cut the most of boring code breaking tricks.

And at least, Audrey Tautou is so cute.

Visited Countries meme

Eurasian continent has been hating me. The map actually includes Thailand but I've been to the Phuket island, which is not part of the continent.

Worldmap

Create your own visited countries map.

Bloglines API bug in this 24 hours

Congrats to Bloglines new search stuff. It should have been done 2 years ago, but better late than never. It could be a nice addition to EgoSearch subscriptions and I already did it for Plagger.

I don't know if it's directly related, while it's likely, but their API authentication has been borked for more than 24 hours, since around 8pm PST of May 31st. All API requests end up with errors "401 Authorization Required". Fix that ASAP!

Welcome to Vox

I was trying to be up when Vox was gonna break the ground, but you know that was 4:30 am in Tokyo and I gave up and went to bed.

But hey, when I woke up on 10 everything looks, so far so good. Pretty exciting to make the site available. Vox/Comet is the stuff I've been engaged for, almost for a year.

Enjoy VOX and give us your precious feedback. Looking forward to make it better and better.

As some of you already know, I'm not a type of engineer who likes to code new things but not to improve the existent. It's actually the other way round. I like to improve the existent code rather than creating something from scratch. I love bug scrub. I love writing bugz number in the svn commit log.

BBQ

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