My first impression was, “It’s cooler than the old one.” The keyboard is pretty easy to type on, and the layout is decent.

People are people; I am me. On being compared — by teachers then, by professors now — and why a painful childhood left me with firm reasons for the path I chose.

I went to Robocup Osaka 2005. A member of our lab told about automatical map creation in Rescue Simlation System.

I went to Osaka. My main purpose was to help out at the RoboCup World Championship held at Intex Osaka.

The auction ticket sold in two hours at the buyout price, a 260 km drive to RoboCup in Osaka ahead, and Yahoo! directory traffic up 4x — a busy week in 2005.

A friend asked me to auction a KOTOKO live ticket — an artist I know nothing about. Listed below face value, learning about registered mail along the way.

Here and here With this, I can tell how many people visited in a day. I already have access analytics in place, though… Alright, come on over and check it out!

‘The page you recommended has been listed on Yahoo! JAPAN’ — third application, finally accepted, supposedly harder than getting into Tokyo University. Traffic experiment begins.

Take a look at the post time. 6:03 AM. Normally, this is the time I’d be deep in sleep, just having started. But today, I woke up naturally.

Set up a hand-me-down computer for my mother to browse the internet, then gave her a one-hour lesson — startup, shutdown, romaji typing. By the end she’d forgotten the beginning. Slow and steady.

In Japan contact lenses need a prescription; overseas they don’t. I’ve used a Singapore-based personal-import shop for over a year — Focus Dailies cheaper even with shipping.

I’m talking about Samba, for Windows file sharing on Linux. I gave version 3.0 a try. http://h.keikun.info/~kei/linux_jisaba/topic03/index.html Hmm.

Actually, I was starting to get a bit tired of oolong tea, so I stopped drinking it for about a week to prevent that.

I expected the 16-port hub to be fanless — instead it roared to life. So I opened it up, found a single 4cm fan, and pulled its power cable in the name of silence.

Oh, it’s pure, pure love. Such pure love that it makes your heart ache.

…That being said, this might be my first long holiday since becoming a graduate student.

I’m sure that people using file-sharing software aren’t very aware that they’re creating a situation where others can download files.

Now, let’s talk about my home server. Since I rarely travel abroad, I configured it to only accept access from Japan.

I have six email addresses — provider, home server, school — all funneled to the home server. The internet-facing ones are the spam magnets, and it’s getting worse.

An apartment building in Kakuozan opposes new construction to its south — while standing 10 stories tall itself. Every banner I pass reads as pure self-interest.