Congratulations to my dearest Rie who got a much deserved promotion this month. It is great that her company acknowledged her contributions and work effort in her department (Information Systems) and how important the department is in keeping the whole company running smoothly.

Posted on December 22nd, 2005 by Ian Cheung
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Went geocaching last week, the first day we took a trip to Mie-ken where, according to the weather forecast, it was the warmest place in Japan outside of Okinawa. Of course it snowed on the way back so you can guess how cold Japan is at the moment.
We managed to find the [...]

Posted on December 22nd, 2005 by Ian Cheung
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If you are doing some programming in PHP and SQL these couple of libraries will save you a lot of time and work.
The first one is called VDaemon and is a PHP form validation library. Very powerful and there is lots of useful documentation on the site.
The second one is [...]

Posted on December 5th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
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It’s coming up to Christmas. Christmas takes a back seat to New Year’s in Japan, I remember watching in shock when Christmas decorations were being pulled down before midnight on Christmas Day!
Anyway, as some friends have said I am a hard person to buy a present for, I thought I’d make it [...]

Posted on December 5th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Books, Personal | 1 Comment »