Tag Archives: Technology
All Hail Japan – a go go
There is a new Podcast on the block for you Japan enthusiasts to listen to. I have teamed up with Jamipanese on a new podcast which is about Japan. We aren’t just focusing on one aspect, but a lot of different things. Here are a few of the things we will discuss. I was going [...]
The Technology Matsuri
Here are the entries for this December Blog Matsuri. This was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. I definitely think you should check each of them out.
Joshua Zimmerman
Entry: Robot School Girl Horror
Description: This one creeped me out and got me excited, not that way, at the same time. I love robots and [...]
How to Make Your Own Camera Bag Cheaply
I want to get better at photography, but to do that I need to actually carry around a Camera with me. Currently I have a Point and Shoot camera that is a little pocket sized camera it is a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS. Solid camera for a quick photography, and the camera I used to [...]
TV Asahi and TBS Now on YouTube
Yesterday, there was announcement that TV Asahi and TBS are going to YouTube to stream their video content to users. They are wanting to use the popularity and the backbone of YouTube to offer quality service to viewers. However, I am not sure if something is getting lost in translation or not because what I [...]
My Custom Made Desk
I have gone through several desks, but none have I ever truly liked completely because they never seemed to fulfill my needs fully. It seemed like all the desks would fulfill 1 or 2 things but never all of them. So finally I decided to make my own. While it isn’t pretty [...]
Honda U3-X or The Ultimate in Unicycle Technology
Not much of a unicyclist, but this is really cool. Would be very interesting to see this mass produced, though I don’t actually think it would be to very viable as even in the video demonstration it is a bit odd to use and not very predictable without a good amount of practice.
What seems [...]
Dell Mini 9 Running Ubuntu
A while back my tablet died. However, I was getting by with my work laptop, but the thing is huge and long ago realized I liked how small my 12″ tablet was. One of the limiting factors to what I could get was cost. So i started looking and found that netbooks would probably fit [...]
A Primer on RSS
There are still a lot of people that have no idea what RSS is or why this little orange box image keeps showing up on most blogs.
This image: (or some variation of it)
What is RSS?
Essentially what most people really need to know is it is a “page” for people add to some reader so the [...]
Japanese Schools From Above
So I was leisurely flying around Tokyo area and decided to snap some picture that were kind of interesting. One thing that I ended up getting images of are schools. There are A LOT of schools so I snapped a few of them to show. I think they are kind of interesting. Also, when I [...]
Why Anki is Best of Breed for SRS
There are many SRS applications people can use to memorize things, but Anki is the best for a variety of reasons. Before, I do a list of reasons some other alternatives for SRS are Mnemosyne, SuperMemo, Surusu, Smart.FM, and even ReadTheKanji.com. I have used all these besides supermemo, and anki is really the [...]
