This isn’t a new site of mine but one I recently revamped. It has Japanese TV commercials (ads) I recorded. Originally the ads were in xvid format, which you had to download and then play in a player but now you can view them direct on the site. No downloading, and no [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japan, Japanese, Web Dev/IA | 4 Comments »

Being a parent you experience many wonderful firsts. Michelle has been drawing for a while, but this is her first drawing on a computer.
Michelle’s First Computer Drawing
Note the realistic pencil effect. Makes you proud to be a parent

Posted on February 11th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Michelle, Photos & Photography | 6 Comments »

If you are developing WordPress sites, or themes then this guide from Podz will help you set up a local server using XAMPP. It sure speeds things up.
One problem I did have was that permalinks didn’t work after following the instructions found in the guides. This is a big problem and [...]

Posted on February 9th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Web Dev/IA | No Comments »

I’m thinking of changing mobile phone networks in the future but I am interested in keeping my number. I have heard that number portability will be introduced in Japan sometime this year. When I did a search I could only find vague references to it being implemented in 2006 (dated 2004). Further [...]

Posted on February 8th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japan, Tech | 1 Comment »

We visited Stargazer tonight, and enjoyed ourselves immensely. So did Michelle, who enjoyed dancing to Yamasaki-san’s guitar play. Here’s a quick video of the performance (Flash-powered)

Posted on February 6th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Friends, Michelle, Videos | 3 Comments »