Is anyone else getting this happy message from Google? It seems that every site I try to visit after a search results in this page … even if I’m querying something from my own site!
Hopefully this is just something new that’s been rolled out and not fully implemented yet….
What were you doing three years ago today? Do you remember? Was it something that would ultimately change the course of your life forever? Odds are that you have very little idea what you were doing on January 28th, 2006 aside from the fact that it was a Saturday, which probably means [...]
01.28.09 | Home, Internet, Living in Japan | Jason
What is the single biggest annoyance you face on Twitter? Is it the number of people that post links without saying anything about them? Is it the number of people who write seven or eight back-to-back tweets to tell a full story rather than blogging about it and later posting a link? Is it the [...]
01.24.09 | Internet, Technology | Jason
There comes a time in everybody’s career when they decide that the current position just isn’t rewarding enough and they begin to look for something better. Occasionally this means finding employment at another company, but it doesn’t have to be this way. In my case, I’ve been working pretty hard at a job that doesn’t [...]
01.18.09 | Technology | Jason
This past week has been one I hope to never repeat again as it seems that once again, what I thought was a good deed, has come back to punish me. However, unlike the last few times I’ve helped others in need; this one has affected my credibility within some social media circles. [...]
I had originally written a full article about the first snowfall of the season here in Kakamigahara, but I decided instead just to post the pictures and let them speak for themselves.
I love snow … it’s a shame that it often completely disappears by mid-afternoon.
The first picture is from yesterday, and the ones below are [...]
01.13.09 | Home, Japan, Living in Japan | Jason
For the better part of the past decade, we’ve heard a number of cries for attention throughout the various forms of media. If it wasn’t Iraq and WMDs it was Iran or North Korea. If the annual summer temperatures melted more than 5% of any particular ice sheet, environmentalists would scream about Global [...]
It’s cold. This seems to be the sole thought every single time the train’s doors open to let passengers on and off. Perhaps it’s time to start paying 350円 for the reserved cars that have a double set of doors to prevent the cold from seeping too far into the car ….
The temperature has dropped [...]
01.9.09 | Living in Japan | Jason
With many homes now employing some type of networked storage server, it’s incredibly easy for us to backup our everyday computers and share much of the data and computer peripherals we’ve come to enjoy. But, as with everything in life, too much of anything is not a good thing.
In my case, I have one [...]
01.5.09 | Technology | Jason
Imagine, if you will, this situation. You’re a man in a public washroom in Japan when, out the corner of your eye, you see that the person next to you is not some other guy who’s going to make the distinct sound of collecting mucus only to spit it into the urinal before using it, [...]
01.4.09 | Japan, Living in Japan | Jason
There’s been an incredible amount of spam running throughout the Blogosphere recently and, judging from the IPs of the messages getting through Akismet, over 90% of these messages are coming through anonymous or open proxy servers. These very same servers are also one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of content theives, scammers, [...]
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