Three million unused Expo advance tickets, 30 days left — Aichi Expo announces uniform admission caps for September. Reservation or not, once it’s full, it’s full.

The K-Net Electric auction fraud made Asahi Shimbun: over 1,000 cases, tens of millions of yen, the operator missing. One of the biggest auction frauds on record.

The K-Net Electric auction fraud, dissected: build feedback with a month of honest sales, then list everything at once and vanish. Even auction stores aren’t safe.

Recent spam comes in story form — serialized messages from ‘Kaho’ about bumping her husband’s left-hand-drive car. Annoyingly well-crafted, still spam.

While driving today near the Kusunoki interchange on the Nagoya Expressway, I spotted a sign like this: “CONSTRUCTION SITE — DO NOT APPROACH!!!

‘I’m in the hospital — come visit!’ A friend I’d assumed had a traffic accident turned out to have a heart condition. Health really is the first happiness.

Drinks with friends two years into their working lives — settled, different, certain that students have it easy. Grad school says otherwise.

I’ve mentioned before that I work part-time in Sakae, Nagoya. Going on about three years now — at this point I practically live there.

The server keeps hanging since I restricted CGI access — and the router logs show port scans. Worst of all, email stops when it goes down. Auction season panic.

Spam is flooding the address I give to friends — not a throwaway. The headers suggest one operation rotating through domains. How do you fight that in 2005?

Last seminar before Obon — and the server logs show visits from a mobile carrier, two electronics makers, and a distribution giant. Yahoo registration is paying off.

Six days a week at school, an open campus, and a part-time job that’s getting harder to balance with research. If I survive tomorrow, summer break begins.

Tried various things on it. Confirmed it can handle internet browsing, email, and messaging. Installed this software separately for the messenger.

Today a friend let me have a PDA at a good price. Writing by hand here, and I’ve found that it doesn’t always recognize what I write — tricky.

The professor’s logic: 24 hours minus a 5-hour shift leaves 19 hours — plenty for an impossible report. He knows about the job, too. I fail to follow.

Postal privatization heads to the Upper House: pass, and Koizumi wins; fail, and the Lower House dissolves. My prediction for what happens to the DPJ either way.

SECOM installed a new device at the part-time job site. An emergency alert remote control… and its receiver.