I had work in Ginza today. Passed right in front of ITOCiA, which opened last weekend to much buzz, so I spontaneously snapped a photo.

Tonight’s dinner was potato salad and hamburger patties. Both made from scratch. A little tiring, honestly.

Finally bought wireless surround headphones — Sony MDR-DS6000, ¥21,800 in Akihabara. Now I can binge 24 at night without bothering the neighbors.

24: Twenty-Four Season 5 is airing in the Kanto area — ten consecutive nights starting last Monday.

An 8 km autumn ride from Kamata to Kawasaki, noticing how Tokyo’s sidewalks are full of people in a way Nagoya never is — then home to attempt nikujaga.

XP reinstall overwrote the MBR and killed my Vista dual boot. Restoring it meant learning BCD and Bootsect.exe — notes from the trenches of 2007 troubleshooting.

Work has picked up — a meaty assignment landed on my desk. Good news, but my motto stands: overtime in moderation, enjoy the after-hours.

Found this at LOFT recently: A massage tool. There’s one at the office back in Nagoya, and I thought it’d be nice to have one in Tokyo too — so I bought it.

Autumn arrived overnight — 25°C to 16°C. Shopping for warm clothes at LAZONA Kawasaki’s first-anniversary sale, where I found something dangerous at Bic Camera.

First impressions of Tokyo life: people everywhere, everything within walking distance, no car — and a home server left behind in Nagoya, managed over VPN.

Transferred from Aichi to Tokyo in September — and the biggest headache wasn’t the move itself, but parting with my car when parking alone costs ¥28,000 a month.

I installed Movable Type 4. I’d been running MT3 for a while, but finally found some time to upgrade.

Kingsoft Office 2007 launches at ¥4,980 with Microsoft Office compatibility — thoughts from someone whose anti-Windows professor made him present a thesis without PowerPoint.

Picked up a ¥1,500 balance ball over the long weekend. For someone who sits at a desk all day, lying back over it stretches everything — the catch is it’s a 65cm ball in a small apartment.

A typhoon wrecked my five-day break’s travel plans — but lazing around at home while everyone else is back at work has its own kind of luxury.

I installed Fedora 5. Used “ Fedora Core 5 Personal Installation Notes ” as a reference. As you can see from the screenshots, the polish level is impressive.

As noted on Plala’s page , the view has emerged that complete P2P traffic blocking likely violates “the secrecy of communications” provisions.

After six years with Plala, sudden slowdowns right after their P2P throttling announcement pushed me to switch ISPs — with forum evidence and a technical take on why filtering misfires.

One week into the job, I haven’t written much, but last Friday all 30 new hires went out to an izakaya together.

I’m heading to Hokkaido next week. A 1,600 km drive one way from Nagoya. If a cold front hits, it’s over.