After reading lots of impassioned accounts of the slick writing and general goodness of the Pilot G2 gel ink pen, I was passing by the stationary shop at work and decided on impulse to pop in and see if they had any. I bought one for ¥168, looking forward to seeing how much those American [...]
Last weekend I went into my local bookstore after work and found a great new magazine there called Baburu Kenchiku Go! It’s all about architecture made around the time of the Japanese Bubble years, from the mid-80s to the early 90s. The buildings built then show a great optimism and willingness to experiment, but also [...]
Using Google Maps to do geocoding of addresses in Japan and the US gives back much different results. Geocoding is when you ask Google Maps for information about an address. For example, you could search for “Empire State Building” and get back the address “Empire State Building, New York, NY 10001, USA” along with it’s [...]
I’ve been concerned about how my map of japan wasn’t showing up properly in google, so I decided to do some Search Engine Optimization. Some of the changes are things I should have done from the start, but it’s nice to finally get them out of the way.
The first change was to add a meta [...]
After installing the beautiful but needing more massaging than usual Wordpress theme, DePo Clean theme, I noticed that my error log was bigger than usual. Somebody was snoozing when they wrote the stylesheet for this theme.
A rogue entry in the DePo stylesheet was causing a lot of 404s. At line 98 of style.css there’s a [...]
When my keyboard died, a few years ago, from a glass of wine spilled on it, I decided that it was time to get a nice feeling board that would let me type fast and accurately. At that stage, my main computer was a PC I had built myself from parts bought in Akihabara. I [...]
Once Upon a Time, A Long Time Ago, I was standing in Inage-Kaigan station waiting for a train. It takes a long time there for a train to come, and all there is to entertain you is the pi-pong noise telling blind people where the stairs are. Japanese train stations are special places, where the [...]
Along with DePo Clean Theme and FlickrRSS, I installed the Flickr Photo Gallery as an easy way to add flickr photos to posts. I never got into the Wordpress way of doing images and Flickr Photo Gallery was much smarter. I wasn’t looking for the photo album functionality, just the ability to easily add photos [...]
I started using the very elegant wordpress theme DePo Clean from yesterday. It’s a nice sparse spartan theme with not too much busyness and I liked it the minute I saw it. There were a few teething problems with it which it took a while to fix. Here’s some of the bugs I found.
The first [...]
I uploaded some photos I took at the Prada store in Aoyama, Tokyo on the weekend and I wanted an easy way to display them here. For the last post, I went to each photo on Flickr and grabbed the link text it gave me. It was OK for 5 photos, but I could [...]
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