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Stevie Ray must have wrote "couldn't stand the weather" on his summer Tokyo tour.. damn it's sweltering - concrete melting - HOT out there folks! Just a quick update with a few funnies saved over the last while to drop below here. I've been usually busy hanging out at cool places underground with interesting people you might not bring home for turkey dinner.. unless you do thanksgiving at Jolly Pasta which btw seems to have a somewhat confusing smoking policy in place, depending on which room you're in..?!? Otherwise, we've been pretty much keeping out of trouble here with our "eyes on the road & hands on the wheel".. looking for good times!

Meanwhile, here are a few Japan Video Links fer ya


Sigh, I've been back for a month and not found the time post here WTF's up with that. Here I sit now thinking "Ok update the Video Link Japan section or write my little Bro an e-mail". Being a problem solver on the fly I decide to write both.. here. So, since coming back we ran a pretty cool Mobile Monday event with Microsoft and Double Click, and Stella of course, making presentations. I also spent 3 days out at Tokyo Big Site for the Wireless Japan trade-show.. did I mention getting set-up on Brightcoves Flash video trial?!?. We also helped organize the annual NetTokyo event again and raised about $8,000 for charity. Also making arrangements for yet another study-tour coming to Tokyo 3rd week of August and we'll do another MoMo event then plus provide logistics and private presentations.

Otherwise, I spent a few hours learning that it takes more than just a few hours to learn Flash (grrr) but have figured-out how to get what I need out of it and we are working like idiots now in the slow season to update a few of the main company properties. That's all can say for now. 

I have a pretty decent collection of pix on my cameraphone but no time to Photoshop them for this post. However at least I have managed to collect a few groovy links from the last while and will pass them along instead. I have not been to FG since who knows when so was cool to see they've update the site theme.. Sweet. Found this classic Evil Pongi video [.mov] there, if you're interested in "Japanese Women Seeking Foreign Men" it's a howler. It's just slightly more bizarre than these crop circles and alot more entertaining (imho) than ANN. However if you're looking for some certified Whack Japanese video (try searching with English words Here) then this GEL TV site should give a nice liittle dose of our typical cable offerings. To round-out this little adventure I thought these LED artshows were whicked and if you have a softspot for kitties (or know someone who does) then there must be a photo here that floats the boat. Maybe this remote control plane video [.wmv] is the best way to sign-off.. 8-) 


Back in the saddle here again after a great trip back to Kona.. posted a few photos but have been pretty much swamped with playing catch-up. It was really good just to defrag a bit and get a little sand, surf and sunshine. Aside from those predictable observations was surprised the U.S. Customs didn't take my photo and fingerprints, like they did to everyone else on our JAL flight, guess that means they already have them shared from the ever graceful Canadian govt.!?! Also, we could not believe how much their property values have risen since we visited in 2001.. basically doubled and doubled again.. the more we save the more (and more) it costs.. <sigh>

I have a quick Japan video news update here on Gyao IPTV and given how things are shaping up out there in the web streaming world.. I should have many more clipped for next time.. meanwhile back into the miso mines! btw: Not Japan related but pretty cool - Spin DJ is a God


As usual I've been running around Tokyo on the Cattle Car trying to keep up with various projects. We're headed into rainy season here which could best be described as somewhat better than what's coming next.. Yessiree kids it will be Natsu Batte time again here before you know it. That would be a perfect excuse to get away for a few days and count our blessings. Holy Snickies.. where did that 5 years go already?!?

Looking around the mainstream web is finally catching up to my mindset of 2001 with so many web video stories and services out there and video-link seems to have become the go-to term of choice. I have tons of content in the can but never seem to find the time to edit and always seem too busy with running the company to slack-off and have some fun. Considering some of the things going on here lately it looks possible that I could get a better set-up in the home office to do a little VJ action - ala AskaNinja - looking forward to toying with something 'like' that.

I have a few cool links collected along the way.. can you believe that this Puppies vs. Cat has almost 1 million views!?! I mean it's cute but that's insane. Of course I know you're actually looking for Japan video so here are a couple more cool magic trinks from Cyril who can put the cream in your coffee and can always find a free burger. I'm really liking his ketai card-trick as well. Otherwise, you might dig this Wi-Fi TV channel or maybe you'd prefer to read the LostBlogs of Christ and Jim Morrison (etc.) to pass the time on (my favorite pick) your all day long CubeBreak


Looking back over the last few weeks I'm not sure where to start, guess that my flashback bingo contest win for tickets to Tokyo Disney would be a simple example of highlights that leap to mind. We were at a nijikai after Mike & Hiromi's beautiful wedding reception in Yokohama, great food and wonderful people. As mentioned below the lasted Mobikyo project finally made it out the door and we are growing pretty well in the first couple of weeks, Wireless-Watch.com is basically an automated RSS feed system pulling articles from about 2 dozen contracted contributors dedicated to covering the business of mobile on a global scale. Many thanks to all involved to get the ball rolling. I spent the better part of a week in total on the road to Helsinki (via Denmark) for the Mobile Monday Global Summit and I've already posted my review (w/pix) of that on the MoMo Tokyo site.

Otherwise, just getting back into the swing of things here.. plenty piled up while I was away and we're looking down the barrel of yet another long hot and humid summer season. I've been collecting 1,000 yen notes and with any luck I just might get enough to (not) do some serious shopping!

Check-out the new Video-Link.tv site for streaming updates.. 8-) 


Jerry Garcia said it best; "what a long strange trip it's been". I'm at a total loss to make up anymore lame excuses as to why it's taken over a month to find a few spare minutes for doing an update here.. but I could give it a shot just for kicks anyway.. 8-)

Aside from my typical tasks of keeping up on (ideally ahead of) Mobikyo projects with Mobile Monday, Wireless Watch and Mobile Intelligence we have been building on a new offering that will launch soon that I am really excited about. It has been a real hands-on learning experience for me, in many ways, and I look forward to see how it develops over the next year.

On the personal side.. not taking much time for food, shower and sleep these days. I managed to shoot some nice pix of the mrs. Ohina Sama dolls and we did sneak out to the Odawara castle for a cool Hanami and great pasta dinner too. Otherwise, I've been messing with WordPress a bit on the Video-Link.tv site and getting ready for a quick trip to Helsinki in May. Meanwhile, just pounding keys and riding trains here in the shadows of Mt. Fuji requires a certain amount of Oha motivation.

Please be patient if you're waiting for me to reply to e-mail.. #_#

 


Where to begin.. it's been a hell bent for bento rush here.. but all things considered everything is zooming all quite nicely thank-you very much for asking! We finally took down this hand-made Okazari just in time for Setsubun the other day an out with the bad luck and in with the good luck bean throwing party to welcome spring and held our MoMo Shinnenkai on the 30th, it was packed with good folks from the Tokyo mobile community. Otherwise, I've generally been Mr. Good-Smoker.. but that's a long story. BTW: did I mention the Fugu Sake? nevermind, it didn't kill me.. 8-)

Meanwhile, here's a few cool Japan video's for everyone collected over the last little while. If you've never visited Japan, this video will give you an idea of what it's like here. Kintaro Walks Japan looked interesting if you have an hour to kill.. speaking of killing time, the George & Eiko Show has an extensive collection for the less sleep deprived and to round out the Google video thriple-header here's an awesome custom manga DJ mix and match clip titled The Star Trek Bohemian Rhapsody Spoof. If all that's not enough here's a bizarre one via ODK and MTV Japan.. Yikes! Finally this IPTV channel for those of you who just can't get enough. Enjoy!


Quick post to Launch 2006.. I have a very strong feeling that we will be running like Aismo this year so gonna have to pull some kind of VooDoo Magic to keep it all together. We had a super holiday season with a couple of private parties and super Bonen-kai with the MoonShots, plus our usual trip to *Hakone Shrine* [.wmv 56k 300k], where I managed to draw yet another good-luck fortune envelope for the year.. whew! I know I've said it a dozen times.. but really do have to move this site to a WordPress style cms in order to keep-up with all the other tasks on tap ahead.. Yikes! Meanwhile, thought I would past a Japan Video link-list below for your pleasure. BTW: if you're looking for this sparkley FOMA handset.. it was last seen - sitting quietly by itself - on a bench at Harajuku station. 

Jogger Falls for the Ol' Toyota Bait & Switch Scam [Win. Media 300kb]

This Documentary On Japanese Sushi was popular [Embedded Flash]

Not Japan but still Great Real Life Redneck Surfing [Embedded Flash]

Canada Tourism Promo clip - Who's Your Nanny [Win. Media 300kb]

*Past Hakone Shrine Videos* from 2002 & 2003  [Win. Media 200k]

Last but not least.. and better late than never the Santa Claus animation game e-card. After the 'Now Loading' and opening flash sequence, you will be prompted with a Big Red Button. Click to play and then use your mouse to move Santa so that he bounces the falling stars into the xmas tree.

Merry Christmas
http://www.ynot.co.jp/view/ynot/0574926721978677657


Hey.. Santa Claus is coming to town so thought I would use that classic soundtrack for this year-end 'special holiday video program' on Wireless Watch. If you didn't get the season shopping done yet I know where you could have bought a great Santa Suit for your sweetheart but pretty sure that this was the last one - hoping my honey will like it as much as I do!

Guessing everyone a blast at this Christmas Party last night with plenty of Cream Soda to go around by the looks of it. One of the (many) things I love about being in Japan at this time of year is Real Mandarin oranges, we have bags full fresh from my father-in-laws garden so swing by here anytime for a tasty treat, they make for a refreshing bath too!!! It's been a busy year here and we're really looking forward to taking some time to catch our breath & get ready for next year.. Seasons Greetings everyone!


Another whicked week on the run here.. seems the silly season is officially upon us now without a doubt.. and I have bonenkai's almost every night next week as well.. Wooo-Hooo! Now I can drown my sorrow in the news that, as they say easy come - easy go, $20 Billion in my Blogshares cash was wiped-out in the blink of a click. The upside? as a Featured Member of Tokyo's Entrepreneur Assoc. I will get it all back (in yen to boot) over the next few years.. at least according to my diabolical plan..!!!   


I just love/hate the multi-browser web sometimes.. I mean 'damn' you do something kinda cool and it looks just fine in IE but then pukes in FireFox. <Sigh>, no time to mess more with my vblog feed today. We did manage to get our Mobikyo press release section all fluffed out with the public news from last 6 months or so and I came across this pretty bizarre Magic Trick shot in Roppongi as well. Note: If you're using FireFox it apparently doesn't know or just doesn't care about video files that end with .wmv Go Figure. So Right-Click/Save Link, IE folks just click & enjoy! [Win.Media 9.1mb]


Whew, that was a pretty wild ride - where to begin? hmm.. scrub that, let's just say that it's great to be back! As you might have noticed we were knocked off-line for about a week (long story) and have now finally settled into a new hosting home. Most of our content made the transition and with any luck at all I will finally get a real cms running here sometime soon so that updating should be less painful and therefore more frequent.. I know.. said that before.. you'll see! Meanwhile here's a couple of quick pix from the old and new Japan and check-out of Blinkx.tv - vblogs galore 8-) 


Ok.. I know it's been way too long between updates when the "where are you" type e-mail from folks wondering if I'm dead, starts to pile-up. We've launched three new web properties in the last 30 days; Mobikyo is the new company corporate site - Mobile Intelligence for in-bound executive guided tours and Mobile Monday Tokyo for our local networking events.. so I have been going full blast getting things in some kind of order here. Otherwise, the Mrs. and I just celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary - Whew - time flies when you're going Wako on the Ginza.. It made me think about how lucky I was to find her and while hard to sum up simply.. this much is true. She has the uncanny skill of squeezing tooth-paste out of the tube 5 more times after I've given up on it, and can always find room in the suitcase to pack a few extra things I'd have forgotten left behind. In So Many Ways.. she gets more out of life and puts more into it on any given day!! xoxox


Damn it sucks somehow not having the time to keep up with the personal fun & games here on this site. I had been going full tilt boogie coming up to Golden Week and Kodomo Matsuri (Boys Day) then we got a little break taking 4 day tour up to finally see Nikko Shrine. Just posted a few pix here [not suitable for 56k] & shot about 40mins of raw video to edit.. someday. Then got back to the drivers seat here with 300 e-mail and more days on the road, never get a chance to just write.. ahhh.. Who set this pace..?!?

Meanwhile came across a couple of interesting Japan video sites to post here at least: This cell phone camera blogger using cool Flash lay-out and Duogate TV has a live streaming channel that seems pretty funky too!!



Lions (ok not really), Tigers (who like happy music) and Bears.. Yikes! These are a few of the cam-phone pics piling up on my memory stick from recent adventures. We ran another guided tour through Tokyo last week and, as always, had fun while learning alot more about the business of mobile in Japan. Also was a great MobileMonday event at Zest with almost 200 folks coming out, and YES the new K.K paperwork cleared all hurdles so now we're a legal Inc. entity..!! So bring on the Super h2o 'cause we're gonna need all the Jesus Juice we can get to hit the next level.. Is it just me or does Jesus look just like Michael Jackson all of a sudden.. Oh My.  

Happy 50 Pappy.. Wish I was there to help give ya the bumps


So it was my graduation day in Japan here last week.. I finally got my own official (and totally custom) Hanko personal seals. Registered with city hall and now I'm ready to stamp everything in sight..!!! Actually, had a 90min. lecture from Oji-san about how important that is to keep under lock & key and only use for the most important contracts I'd ever sign, like getting a mortage or registering our first born baby, he basically said that I should consider it like my passport - birth certificate - the Visa Gold err ATM card (and a handgun registered in my name) all rolled in to one.. and yet even more important than that..!! You would think that since I have arrived now that maybe it's time to stop eating at greasy spoon cafe's like this one. The place might have made for another good clip to have included with my collection for VideoBloggersWeek, I'm a bit behind on keeping up.. +_+ 

Speaking of babies, here's a chip off the old block..!! [1.4mb .mpg movie]


Plenty going on behind the scenes here web boy & girls.. starting with a holiday (for the salari-man at least) Monday this week, great time to kick-back and smell the hibiscus. The big news that I can share with you is that Odakyu-sen commuters are about to start riding a new chariot too and from work everyday and if they are really good little workers maybe they will even get a great little treat like this after Sunday dinner. In other not so top secret news, I decided to make a Video-Link Japan collection TV channel style page, for [win. media] & [Real] so it will auto-play about a dozen of the clips on the left nav bar one after another.. pretty sweet I thought. Even announced that to the video bloggers group with a brief introduction as well.. however it seems they are a little more interested in talking about Sony's new PSP?!? What that has to do w/video blogging is beyond me,  I understand somewhat since shooting it back in Sept. last year at the Tokyo game show.. it is a very cool little unit. Please don't ask me to send you one from here though since I've already done that once and will not go through whole process again.. btw: hope you're enjoying the personal shopper favor?!? Otherwise, what I will tell you is that over the next month or so there will be some 'real news' about the various projects that we've been working on here so pls. do stay tuned..!!


If what they say "No rest for the Whicked" is true, then I must have been Attila the Hun in a past life. So, it's great every once in awhile to get away and visit a peaceful place in the mountains. Every year, sometime after the seasons rush my wife and I visit Shimo Sha which is not far from home by car. I did manage to take some decent pix on the digi-cam. this time and got the most lucky fortune charm for my next business year, starting April. So.. guess maybe I could have sprung the 100yen to get a nice foot massage from this custom DIY vending machine at the tram station on the way back.. but saved the cash for beer instead. This page has 7 images on it so might take a 'moment' for 56k folks to enjoy it. Ganbatte..!!!


The in-laws must have wondered why I was laughing quietly to myself over pancake breakfast this weekend and then had to get a shot of this engrish on their milk carton with my camera phone.  How to explain?


I had the most unreal nightmare and just had to share that with you, I was looking for a file on my 120GB storage hdd and with shock and horror saw that ALL folders (& all files therein) had been re-named to something weird like old_banana or green_sun etc. So, for something like 50,000+ files in 2,500 folders, ALL with some strange title that made no sense to me at all. Yikes.. do ya think maybe it's a sign that I should unplug for a few days?!?

Meanwhile, I also came across a couple new cool video links to pass along Awakening of Conciousness via: ODK is great animation short feature and I found this direct link for JAL TV [for win. media with broadband]. Enjoy! 


Another quick & dirty post here this morning.. came across 2 photos from a recent walkabout in Shibuya killing time before a meeting and thought should get 'em posted online finally. This first one makes me wonder about how used to sex in advertising for 'kids' games we've become in Japan.. a manga style cross-over maybe? This other shot is for my little bro. whois the ultimate neon freak (btw: Hey Dude.. check your e-mail sometime!!)


Another quick Sunday night update here fresh back from my hell ride in a 'Tokyo Taxi'..!!! I realized that there are a few photo's kicking around that should get finally posted, and want to send out public congrats to Jay & Mo on the recent stork delivery.. and belated but no less equal best wishes to Freedom & Aya-chan on their little bundle of joy! Meanwhile here's a great photoshop special of me via 3yen.com, and I figured some folks out there might get a kick out of this Tokyo inspired story from Joel at Gizmodo too. 


I'm quite sure you all missed me over the last few weeks.. it's been a long strange trip here through the big old wild web I'd say. Started to migrate all of my digital world collection from 2 old towers into the new screaming gear that was collecting and had got assembled.. with modest success until one motherboard & CPU combo decided they don't get along.. flashing the schoolgirls Bios did not help either. So I was (am still) somewhat stuck in hardware hell. However, for now I will have to make do with what works. 

Otherwise, finally got my brand-spanking-new 3G phone and am in serious lust with that these days, the 2 mega-pix camera is pretty damn sweet and I'm going to be making use of it (and the full English menu too) plenty..!!! As a shooter, the first frame on any new camera is always somewhat of a ritual with me and so decided to take this shot of the garden warrior that was the subject of my first photo in Japan on the trusty old Nikon.

An interesting little note in my digital video blog adventures here lately revolves around Yahoo's new Video Search project. I joined the rss-media group and messed around with some .xml code to make a video feed that seems to work Ok here. But I doubt it would pass their cryptic enclosures spec. in that present form. Gosh at some point I really should get a decent cms 'ware set-up, maybe (grrrr) after I figure out this P4 brain freeze.


There sure is something mystic about the Hakone Shrine, I've gone there every new years that I've been in Japan. They have this huge sign posted announcing activities planned for their upcoming 1,250th anniversary, wow talk about history..!!! My lucky charm for 2005, Daikokuten-sama, was the best one yet.. so now I'm pretty stoked for the year. Otherwise the game is pretty much the same.. plenty on my plate and not much time to blog. I have a few tricks up my sleeve here tho. and look forward to seeing how they'll turn-out. Meanwhile, a few pix from the nearly retired cam-phone (yes, it's time to trade-up), you gotta love a pigeon with a sense of humor and another whacky product shot that didn't make it off the shelf and into some honey's stocking this year..? Finally here's a quick video clip from the Olympus digi-cam of Kin-Sake Gold Tastes Good..!! [WinMedia - DSL]


Well, that's a wrap for the Monkey Year.. while it's not easy to sum up for gainers over losers, but overall it was pretty decent. Notice now that I only posted 5 original video clips here, meanwhile pumped out just over 60 for all my other combined projects!!! Now it's the usual year-end Oosoji rush to literally do the 'Big Clean' on every single thing, and finish off the year just like it started, drinking amasake at Hakone Shrine [.wmv 56k 300k]. One of the surprise highlights from 2004 has to be our new addition to the family: Na-chan.. who saw snow for the first time today - she's truly a little monkey girl, just like her Mom. To All: Akemashte Omedetou Gozaimasu!!


In the imortal words of Bill & Ted.. "We're Not Worthy"..!!! A funny thing happened while going through the http referers file for WWJ the other day, I noticed a incoming request for 'Video of Japan' and wondered how we ranked for those keywords.. when I checked out Google and Yahoo they both showed Video-Link Japan in top spot out of 20 Million hits..!!! Sweet.

Meanwhile I have a few odd tidbits to offer here; including a very weird TechTv story about how Tokyo's concrete must be harder than anywhere else in the world, happy.women at Excite's video index page - and they call it puppy-love - finally this Japan webcams page link's pretty cool too.


It's always fun to see Tokyo again through fresh eyes, and being a guide for incoming groups tends to give me a recharge on the weird, wonder and whacky feeling that most people have when they come to Tokyo for the first time. We made about 20 meetings over the week and checked out some cool technology, had a few late nites and over-all did our very best to make the clients trip fun and worthwhile. Markcus and Mike.. Kanpai..!!!

I finally spent a little time today on the video I shot back in September at the Tobacco Matsuri captured and edited and posted. Like Jamie said here it's always a challenge to keep this video blog updated, with all our other priorities, I can relate. When we finally do refresh, makes it all worthwhile.


Back in the saddle after a whirlwind trip to the homeland, how nice of them to lay-out a nice white blanket - and the odd red carpet - for our arrival. Some quality visit time with family & friends, swung by to see the old digs, put together parts for a new speedy video capture machine and we talked to the animals. The hilite would have to be our Halloween party down at the studio.. it was really a blast to see all the great costumes and play a little Rock & Roll with the n2o crew. Another Tokyo Tour week is coming up here now and maybe one more shaping up for end of Nov. too. Five out of the last six weeks on the road, I'm gonna need another vacation..!!!


The last 2 weeks have flown by, we ran another mobile guided tour here with a great bunch of folks and I've been out to Chiba for the Tokyo Game Show, CEATEC and WPC Expo trade-show events as well. Plenty of other bits happening and I still gotta get packed yet for our flight in the morning. Meanwhile there's a new video clip up I just slapped together for the boyz doing Tokyo Exposed exhibit in Omote-Sando.. was really cool to see that run on wall-sized LCD screens on their opening nite.. and I grabbed a new little digi-cam that takes pretty sweet pix.. wish I had it all along..!!


All this shooting, networking, meeting, planning, proposing and invoicing makes Jack a dull boy. The upside of course is that after one of the hottest summers on record in Tokyo, today is the official first day of fall.. and it is pleasantly 'cool' here in the jungle. With so many things on my plate over the next couple weeks I thought it might be a good the only time to update with a few snaps from the tired old cam-phone. I saw my next phone tho. yesterday at Vodafone's presser..!!

We were on a oba-san bus tour out to Nagoya recently and got a nice shot of this Budda statue from Tibet, and I finally managed to pull some of the other images from our recent Pure Fun shopping adventures in Akihabara, followed by a nice dinner cooked by a man with a very tall hat, guess he would really have to watch-out walking around in the rain. Meanwhile, I've been trying to find one of these cool Disco Jackets that we keep seeing on the streets at night.. any suggestions..?!?


What a wild weekend..!!! I was on the run for 3 full days with a visiting media group from Austria, while exhausting, it was a total blast.. and I don't just mean because of the typhoon #16 blowing through. We ate an awesome teppanyaki dinner in Roppongi on Friday nite, had another great meal on Saturday on the 41st floor in Shiodome and then finished off the tour with dinner & drinks back in Shibuya. I even managed to shoot a few frames using my trusty old Nikon FA and love the difference in quality compared to my tired old camera-phone. So I posted a couple 'low-res' shots Here, Here and Here. Wish I had a chance to squeeze some frames at the Harajuku Matsuri too though.. next year I'm there for sure. Over-all they seemed to enjoy the trip & it was a real pleasure to meet everyone... Thanks again for everything Markus... 8-)

Now it's back to the grind playing catch-up on all the e-mail I missed and get ready for another busy 'net season, best batten down the hatches..!!!  


Finally got some digital house cleaning here in the last while. Noticed that several of the link swaps that I had established with other Japan blogs are no longer active, thinking that it's way past overdue to get a Movable Type blogware up and running here.. a total refit is in order.

Also dumped all the photos that have been piling up on my camera-phone SD Memory card, so heres a few random shots from days gone by. Now I have a whole bunch of room on that to fill up again. Its gonna to be a challenge to come up with a photo essay here for them.. but here goes.

It was a tough choice to decide which bike I'd rather ride out to Odiaba and take a photo of this weird space-craft that landed near the harbour. The rumor going around this Shinagawa Hanami was if you brought those illegal aliens 10 litres of sake they would'nt release these Hitachi monsters in your backyard. It might have been better to give them a super-can and some shaved ice snacks instead, good thing I picked up a dictionaly here not long ago to study speaking their language..!!


Well.. I lost about 5kgs of bodily fluids over the last little while, and its not from lack of time and effort (let alone $$) spent at various beer gardens. So in this drained state of mind I can only offer a few interesting links to other peoples stuff that you might like. From traditional art of Japanese tattos and the zen buddists habit of keeping small trees as house pets, to a pretty decent page about video game arcades, just for you bro.

For those who insist that there must be some 'cool video' here, this is a great clip from local tv game show of playing Rock - Scissors - Paper. If you want to practice Janken on-line then here's the place to go.

My special thanks to Rob and Jamie for digging up those classic links..!!!


Here I was gonna complain about the "damn its been so freakin hot" Japan summer weather - I don't care if you don't care - then e-mails start coming from family and friends in Alberta that made me think twice about whining too much. It seems they just had a once in 1,000 year (as if your keeping track) rain and golf ball size hail storm extravaganza; its a good thing these folks were wearing shorts.. although it is July.. you never know when you'll have to swim for your life..!! Brr.. I miss Canadian Summers.


Hey - long time no post - Wazzup up with that..?!? Yes, the Mrs. and I had a great trip up into Kiyosato country and we have been playing catch-up ever since. The Old Age Inn was perfect get-away and their food was truly 5 Star calibre. We did manage to go on this Plum Picking and Jam making adventure as well.. our group of 12 people managed to haul over 120 Kgs of Ume & the nice farmer family gave all gathered the full inside story on their secret recipe. It included a tasty soba lunch with lots of Sake for the boyz.. and some for the jam. Before I knew it they were finishing up with a fresh batch that we got - along with 10Kgs of plums - to take home...!!!


'What a long strange trip it's been'.. like crawling through broken glass we finally managed to get a real credit card shopping cart up and running on the Wireless Watch website, and whaddya know.. people are using it..!! Its been about a year now since Scuka-Sensei packed out of Japan for a new life in Germany and soon will be 1 year since we launched that PHP-Nuke site on a paid subscription basis. Life here since then here has been like a roller-coaster and while I've really got a (better) handle on getting around town, I still miss the big lug. Otherwise, I have been hard at work here on the machine, and looking forward to a little get-away with the Mrs. for our 3rd anniversary (& her birthday) thats coming up in June. She takes such good care of me.. check-out this bento box lunch 'Canadian Style'.

Also, thought folks would get a kick out of this cool video at MediaTinker of Tracey making Ume Shu. Good job Kristen..!!!


I had the greatest idea the other day - "Telepathic E-mail" -  Say you were stuck in the john or taking 5 for dinner and realize 'oh, I should remember to send so-and-so a note..' Jeez, imagine how much more efficient the IT world could be..!!!  If only someone else had thought of it sooner, and got to work making it so, then I'd be right up to date (you know who you are) with all the folks I should be writing now instead of typing about it here..!!!

Since I have blinding insight to the future of e-mail, it seemed worthy to consider just what to do about spam. Well, how about maps..!!! In effect a nifty little software patch which could trace a route right back to the actual senders terminal and blast them 100x the bulk crap they sent you..?!?!!

What does this all have to do with Japan anyway you might ask.. hmmm, nothing I guess.. except maybe theres some kind of weird chemical in the sushi (or sake) that gives you super-natural idea powers. Then what does all this have to do with Video.. Damn.. here I am creating solutions to the global crisis in digital communication and you want even more..?!?!! 

Ok, try this bizzare news video clip (Win. Media: 200k) via: F*cked Gaijin

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