Archive for the ‘Murmur’ Category
Yesterday was the day of TEDxVienna 2011. It was more than 12 hours conference in total. While my memory is still fresh and while I’m feeling my excitement, I’ll try to write down what I thought.
As stated in the previous post, this was my first face-to-face TED conference. Unlike watching individual movies on digital [...]
It’s been a while since I got to know about TED, Technology, Entertainment, Design. While I was working in Japan, a friend of mine introduced me one translation project in the TED, called TED Open Translation Project. I started taking part as a translator, and by creating a www-based service for translation.
Having seen the available [...]
It was a breaking news in an early morning, shortly after I woke up and checked my RSS. The god of the Apple Inc. has pasted away.
On logical layer, I understood what happened. He’s been ill for quite a while, and as he told us himself, every one of us has to die. It [...]
It’s been more than 1.5 years since I came to Austria for my job. Things have been great, and I like both my work and the city. There is, however, one small issue in this. Every Friday afternoon, shortly before I finish my work for the week, I had to ask myself the same question [...]
Recently I realized how complicated my life has become, despite the efforts I’ve been making to keep it as simple as I could. I usually carry iPad, iPhone, and iPod. That’s fine, as long I’m on the move. The trouble becomes present, when I come back home and start plunging them in.
For the sake [...]
In the TechCrunch, which is an online tech magazine, I got to know about the massive crash down of Amazon EC2 service. A while before that, one of my friends in Japan wrote his qualm about his information being on the GMail service.
He wasn’t exactly talking about infrastructure blackouts, but about its safety. What [...]
A while ago, I read a book with the following quote (I think it’s written by Hiroshi Morisu, who is my favorite) : “What is the average number of Japanese people’s legs?”
If you think for more than 5 seconds, you would probably reach the answer, “less than 2″. A person with 3 legs in itself [...]
A friend of mine, who is originally from Japan (and is Japanese) and currently staying outside of Japan, contacted me to talk about things one can do for the sake of current situation in Japan from outside. My thoughts and answers are simple :
(1) Donate those organizations (such as Red Cross) who help [...]
My answer is very simple : a person who holds a Japanese passport or eligible to do so. Is there anything else to add / subtract?
Sometimes it turns out to be a discussion that some people think there is more than just “a passport” in the nationality.
A culture? I’d then like to ask [...]
Recently, I kept receiving friends’ requests from person who do not seem to be know to me at all. Some are from places where I have never been and using language which I don’t even understand which. As I asked few of them why they sent me a friend request in the first place, their [...]