Settling into the office, drinking iced coffee. It’s FREAKING HOT in Tokyo today # leaving office, walking to Ginza to see the Apple Store # Playing with a 17″ MBP in Ginza. This 1920×1200 screen is nice but text is murder to read without a lot of magnification. # Just bought a black MacBook. Doh! [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Twitter: 2007-07-23
Got a summer bonus. Do I buy a MacBook Pro, or a MacBook and a Nikon D80? # Hmm, or just the Nikon, and then wait for a new MB later this year? # Playing with WordPress: http://durf.org/translation/ # Outta here. Going home. # Home! Now waiting for some soup to finish cooking. Baby being [...]
Playing around
I stuck this WordPress install into a “translation” folder because I started out thinking it might be a work-focused thing. But then I played with the MT importer and filled it up with randomness from my main blog, and then I stuck the Del.icio.us and Twitter links over there. Now it doesn’t look so professional. [...]
Twitter: 2007-07-22
Finishing up a translation for a friend. A weekly gig I do to earn beer money. At the end of the year I add it up and find I drank too much. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Rewriting the government’s tourist lit
INCENTIVE DESTINATION JAPAN is a nice, informative site if you’re looking for tourism info on this country, but man, I wish they’d left the tired old middle-school-English-textbook junk out of it. Needs a rewrite: DRAFT: Japan is one of a small number of countries that have four distinctive seasons. Throughout history, the Japanese have learned [...]
