A few days ago I had mentioned that a client of mine has been considering a rather large career change and had asked me for some advice. I was ill-equipped to act as his career counselor, so opted to ask anyone who wanted to comment for their insight. That said, changing careers is something that [...]
09.7.09 | Business, Japan, Windows Mobile | Jason
Since before the release of Asus’ first EeePC, people have complained about the speed, or lack thereof, experienced on the netbook form factor. Issues such as boot time, lag between clicks, slow application load times, and limited screen resolutions have been the key concerns for many of the people who report on such issues [...]
07.20.09 | Business, Technology, Working in Japan | Jason
I just came across this deal on the Dell website. They’re offering a basic netbook for 100円 as a package deal with EMobile. Considering how I’ve been chomping at the bit to get my hands on both a netbook and some mobile data, this could be the very thing that I need!
Here are [...]
11.20.08 | Business, Technology | Jason
This past weekend has seen a lot of money change hands, and a lot of people lose their jobs. According to every report that’s coming out of CNN and the Wall Street Journal, this isn’t over, either.
Despite the fact that so many financial institutions across America and Europe are posting record losses or going [...]
09.16.08 | Business, Japan, Living in Japan, Working in Japan | Jason
The “Do No Evil” company, Google, is working with some organizations to bring high speed internet access to the three billion humans that live in Africa. The project will cost billions of dollars and they hope that it will be fully operational by 2010. Considering the number of mobile handset users that live [...]
09.14.08 | Business, Internet, Politics, Technology, World | Jason
The use of foreign workers in any nation is often a touchy subject, eliciting a population’s fear of losing jobs to people who will often work for much less money than a regular citizen. However, using foreign workers to the nation’s best interests is an important task and should be handled properly by any [...]
06.1.08 | Business, Japan, Politics, Working in Japan | Jason
Over the last several months I’ve been noticing a growing trend where people are not receiving my emails in a timely fashion, if at all, when the destination is a Hotmail, GMail or Yahoo mail account. At first I had thought this might have just been a case of quick fingers, where someone accidentally [...]
03.20.08 | Business, Internet, Technology | Jason
Ever since the Human Genome Project mapped their first human genome, people have wondered what they could find out about their own genetic history. Unfortunately, it’s been rather expensive, and most of us really don’t worry enough about inherited conditions until our body starts to have some rather serious problems. But there is a company [...]
By now, everyone will have heard about Google’s plans to lay a nice fat multi-terabit optical cable across the Pacific Ocean. Personally, I think this is great for both Google and their target market: us. But rather than discuss Google’s plan to take over the world while making it look like their really our friend [...]
09.23.07 | Business, Internet, Technology | Jason
For the last few years, credit has been pretty cheap. Most people can get that home improvement loan for well under ten percent, or the half-million dollar mortgage for a few points above prime. However, for those that are looking for a few more numbers in their loan agreements, Gary Coleman promotes an option.
Apparently, cashcall.com [...]
Following the lead of countries like Australia, Canada may consider ditching our lowest denomination coin; the penny.
MP Pat Martin is drafting a private member’s bill to kill this seemingly useless coin, and it seems to have a large number of people talking. What I find interesting in the conversations at the neighbourhood coffee house, though, [...]
A few days ago, while telling me how stupid I was for saying that I wanted a notebook computer to last at least 15 years...
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Do you ever wonder about your neighbours? I wrote a few months ago about how one of my neighbours has the same camouflag...
Believe it or not, I had a terrible habit back in Canada. It wasn't one with drugs, alcohol, women, or even excessive ...
Over the last decade or so I've been battling a bunch of minor problems such as insomnia, headaches, chest pain, and blo...