On the map!
You learn something every day. Today I found out that the Shinkansen travels through Okazaki (岡崎市) — there’s tracks and all – I even saw them travelling along the tracks at the... Read More
She’s got this to say.
Seems like Maia like bashing things, keyboards, tables, people etc, she was on my knee this morning and was in a “bashing” kind of mood so here’s her first message: jj... Read More
What I really want.
Casinos, gambling, porn – if this doesn’t get me higher in google’s page rankings I don’t know what will 😉 — and various other unmentionables are pumped into blogs and... Read More
Why won’t you let me?
Time to take the plunge and buy ourselves a DVD burner. Now was the time as prices had been getting lower and lower and a unit with ALL the features we wanted was now pretty cheap we decided to do it.... Read More
To and from two places.
Good news, Maia has now got her Australian and Japanese passports. Well done. Now she can enter and leave Australia and Japan without having to buggerise around with visas, entry permits etc.. much ea... Read More
Getting it together.
I see today that Samsung is planning on releasing a dual DVD player (See: Samsung plans dual DVD player) which’ll not only play BluRay Discs but HD-DVD ones too. While it’s good that (some... Read More
5 differences.
Hanabi (fireworks) this year is now over. It’s usually a time for the whole city to dress up in traditional style summer clothing and head down to the river and watch the fireworks. Generally it... Read More
In the wet.
Since we started working for ourselves at the start of the year, we’ve removed a few trees in order to make room for a small student car park and replanted a few others in slightly different pla... Read More