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Indiana Jones played on Electronic Organ

レイダースマーチ（インディジョーンズ）　を弾いてみました

Wow.

Friday I'm in Love

Enjoyed this�trailer just�because of the tune. (Yeah, the aspect ratio of the embed is wrong. Get the HD version from here)

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震度0 (朝日文庫 よ 15-1) (朝日文庫 よ 15-1)

横山 秀夫

NRT->SFO のフライトから読み始めて2/3 ぐらいまで読了。

１ページ目から警察の内部で反目し合うキャリア組・ノンキャリア組みたいな横山節全開で、読んでてつい笑ってしまうぐらい。

展開は面白いんだけどそういうディテールがくどくて若干おなかいっぱい気味。阪神大震災とからめているけどあんまりそれはどうでもいい感じで、不破課長失踪のあたりをどうまとめていくのかなぁ。。

ドラマ化したら面白そうとおもったら、やっぱりWOWOWでドラマ化、DVDにもなってるすね。

YAPC::Asia ending roll

The official, but unpublished YAPC::Asia ending movie is here. We planned to play this at the closing ceremony but we couldn't because of Takesako-san's hard drive trouble.

創聖のアクエリオン ver高音質

YAPC::Asia 2008 Tokyo - Photos slideshow 【高画質】

Click play these two at the same time synced, and mute the second one, to get the original intention of the video. JASRAC-- (no fair use)

Japan to consider Daylight Saving Time

asahi.com：首相、サマータイムに前向き　「やってない日本が異例」 - 政治

http://www.asahi....

　福田首相は２６日、夏季に時計の針を１時間進めるサマータイム（夏時間）制度の導入について、記者団に「やっていない日本が異例。我が国も制度を入れるべきだとの意見が強くなってきている。特に環境の問題があり、私もサマータイムをやってもいいのではないかと思っている」と述べ、前向きな姿勢を示した。 　首相は「かつて日本も戦後一時期（制度を導入）したことがあったが、やめてしまった。今は大体どの国もやっている。党の方でも検討をお願いしている」と語った。 　サマータイム制は、日中の明るい時間を有効活用し、エネルギー消費量を抑えるとされる。北海道洞爺湖サミットを控え、自民、民主、公明、国民新各党議員...

Japanese PM wants to enable DST, starting as soon as 2009.

I personally like Daylight Saving Time (I know most people hate it!) because it's great that it's still sunny when you leave your office.

But I'm sure it doesn't work that way in Japan, because they usually work from 9am to 10pm. It doesn't matter if your clock goes 1 hour earlier in that situation.

All you get with the daylight saving time is that you'll be in the office more hours under the sun, which means more air conditioning is necessary. Hence more energy consumption. Obvious.

In addition, that'll make the whole software industory in panic.Most software in Japan just assume that the UTC offset is +9, probably hard-coded. So, I'd say bury the idea.

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Hakodate-night

This time with the great night view in Hakodate. Original photo is on Flickr.

Relaxed in Hakodate

Was a bit cold (but not too cold) and had awesome 3 days with full of beer, sushi, ramen, crab, hotspring, soft ice cream, great night view and historical buildings. I really enjoyed it! The full set of photos are available on Flickr.

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japanese old style tea house

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church view

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Relaxing

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Life Hack with stopover

As a frequent flyer I always have been wondering how useful this "stopover" thing is and how you can abuse it. Originally I was thinking that it's just to stay over 24 hours on the airports en route, so it's like stopping by Chicago for a day if you fly to Paris. Actually it is, but you can do more by abusing it.

The first thing that come to my mind is that when I fly from San Francisco to Japan and then to Taiwan to attend to a conference or hacking in Taipei city. If you book separately SFO-NRT and NRT-TPE like I always do, it's like $1400 + $500 in this season. However, if you book SFO-TPE on ANA and ask for a stopover in NRT (because the flight stops via NRT anyway), it's just $1400 + $100 (ANA charges $100 per stopover). You can stop by Tokyo as long as you want, up to 3 months.

Another advanced technique is to use stopover is to combine that with your mileage awards and purchase the air ticket issued in Taipei/Seoul. For instance, I can get the round-trip NRT-TPE economy award, valid for 1 year with 15,000 miles (ticket A). You can then book a flight TPE-HNL (via NRT) 1 year open, with stopover at NRT, for $850 (ticket B). Now you can do things like this (dates are made up randomly):

• June 15: NRT -> TPE (A)
• (tourism in Taipei city)
• June 18: TPE -> HNL via NRT (B)
• (relaxed in Honolulu for 4 days)
• June 22: HNL -> NRT (B)
• (4 months stop over at Narita. Maybe back and forth to San Francisco for business trip)
• Oct 10: NRT -> TPE (B)
• (another tourism in Taipei)
• Oct 13: TPE -> NRT (A)

So you get two Taipei trips and one Hawaii trip for $850 and 15,000 miles (obviously not including fees for hotels). The point is that 1) Use your mileage award because it gives you 1 year valid ticket which is very expensive usually and 2) Buy tickets from Taiwan or Seoul because it's extra cheap with 1 year open dates.

And yes, I can do this while I go to Japan with my business/private trip (paid by the company, Yay). Maybe I'll try next time... This time the schedule is a bit tight so I'm thinking of going to somewhere in Japan. And actually flying to anywhere in Japan is $110 if you fly from USA, which is still a good deal as well.