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June 22, 2006

Sushi and Beer

Looks like the food court is shared with the old terminal. Cool.

June 22, 2006

Books to go

So I’m leaving my apartment now for Narita with these books to read on the planes. (Of course they’re both in Japanese)

June 22, 2006

Split TV mode

Split TV modeIt’s cool that my TV has a split screen mode so that you can stream 2 different channels (if they’re on different network, or either of them should be external device like CATV/DVR).

June 21, 2006

Last day in Mikado Bldg.

Today is my last day in Mikado Bldg. I’ll devote Yellowcard’s nice ballade “One Year, Six Months” to this place. Maybe this should be too dramatic for just an office move, though.

June 21, 2006

Saying too much "like" sounds er, like stupid

Stop-saying-likeI felt like exactly the same thing like a while ago, maybe a couple of months, when I got like used to the life in the US. I think the same thing applies to Japanese as well. Saying “ていうか (= rather, actually)”, “ちょっと (= a little bit)”, “まぁその (= you know)” too much makes yourself sound silly.

June 18, 2006

Go Japan!

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June 15, 2006

yay for 0.7

This is a great and 素敵な release.

June 15, 2006

Google Maps Tilt

So here’s another Hack: Google Maps Tilt. It’s too bad I have to wait for a day or so before YouTube indexing recently uploaded video (otherwise I can’t embed their video here …).

June 14, 2006

Control Google Maps via MacBook

Another day, another hack. Here’s a demo that controls Google Maps using ThinkPad Hard Drive Active Protection sensor. You tilt your ThinkPad and Google Maps roll over. Pretty cool.

June 13, 2006

みやーんが「ThinkPad Saber」に挑戦

Recent IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad models have HDAPS (Hard Drive Active Protection System) support. HDAP’s ShockMgr API is accessible to developers, by reverse engineering. For scripting languages like Perl, it’s pretty straightforward to read the Accelerometer data from ShockMgr device.

June 13, 2006

ThinkPad Saber

ThinkPad Saber Turns your ThinkPad into a lightsaber. Read More .

June 09, 2006

Germany

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