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  07.11.02
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I've been thinking for a while that I'd like
to study a Japanese instrument. However,
this is highly unlikely considering how busy
I am with my family, work, and Hunkabutta,
but I like to think about it now and then
anyway.
If I could choose just one Japanese instrument
to study it would probably be taiko drums. Next I'd choose the shamisen, a kind of miniature three-string banjo.
Luckily for me I can now play the koto online.
 07.09.02
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Things are finally starting to get busy at
work. It's been slow for quite some time.
Because I don't have much time today
I'm
going to point you in the direction
of two
very interesting photo sites that I
came
across recently:
www.digitalphotocontest.com
and
www.masters-of-photography.com
Enjoy.
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I want to put some of the movies that
I take
on my digital camera up on Hunkabutta.
The
problem is that they're too big --
They're
in .avi format.
Does anyone know of a good way to convert
these movies so that I can put them up online?
 07.07.02
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My fellow photo-blogger David Gallagher of lightningfield.com is a journalist, and
he recently posed the interesting question,
'Why hasn't the Internet made anyone famous
yet?'
He opened up a threaded discussion on the topic and got a lot of interesting
input. I was going to post my thoughts on
the subject too, but then I thought that
I would like to hold back for a bit and see
what some of you Hunkabutta readers have
to say about it.
So tell me, why do you think the Internet
hasn't made anyone really famous yet?
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Today's pictures are all of people on dates.
I took them yesterday when Karen, Jack and
I went to Ueno Park (one of the largest parks
in Tokyo) to try and find some grass for
Jack to play on. Unfortunately there was
no grass to be found, but there we plenty
of good photo opportunities.
07.04.02
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Japan is a curious mixture of the ancient
and the modern.
For example, you can get on an airplane-like
bullet train that feels like something out
of a Buck Rogers movie and end up sitting
next to a woman in a kimono whose style hasn't
changed much over the past 500 years.
You can watch a movie on your mobile phone
while squatting on a floor toilet in a bathroom
that has holes in the walls covered with
mesh for ventilation.
Today's photos are intended to highlight
this contrast. The top two photos are from
Meiji Jingu Shrine in downtown Tokyo, and
the bottom two are from The Embedded Systems
conference that I went to at the Tokyo Big
Site conference center.
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