It’s the start of the summer season here in Japan. Toasty 36C days and 30-31C nights. It’s a bit too hot to sleep without air-conditioning but for some reason when we set it to 28C it is too cold, and when we set it to 29C it is too hot. Jamie caught a cold maybe [...]
I have a mini-project called oboeyasui.com. In Japanesese “oboeyasui ” means easy to remember. I registered the domain so that I could create a personal portal linking all the blogs/sites and other places you can find me on the net. For my Japanese speaking friends http://oboeyasui.com/ian should be easy to remember. I’m still trying to [...]
I’ve been meaning to and forgetting to tell everyone about the great program that is Launchy. I hope Josh doesn’t mind but Launchy is like QuickSilver but for the PC. That is to say that it is a keyboard based program launcher. Hit a hotkey combination ( I use Control-Space) and then the first few [...]
I picked up a new life skill today. I learnt to tie my shoelaces. That’s right, at the age of 31 and thanks to the Internet I learnt to tie my shoelaces properly. I have always wondered why my laces never seemed symmetrical and why they came undone more often than other people’s. It turns [...]
One of the most popular posts (at least from search engine led) visitors on this site is the Japanese Postal Codes in English one. Unfortuantely it only covers 6 major cities. People looking for Okinawan postal codes are out of luck. But here’s something that everyone who can type Japanese on their computer can use. [...]
