Archive for January, 2008

No smoking

Kin’en Style is a site that lets you search for smoke-free restaurants. There’s an English section up as well, although its list contains zero establishments, making it somewhat less useful than the Japanese version. (Time for the obligatory plug for Enchanté, my in-laws’ restaurant in Yotsuya San-chome. Lunch hours are smoke-free there as well.) (Via [...]

Twitter: 2008-01-21

Updating Leopard and Office 2008 on the work machine; blogging for once in my life # ????? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Old Tokyo; or, back online in the new Tokyo

Some very interesting historical material up at Old Tokyo – Vintage Tinted Images of the Japanese Capital City. The Department of Foreign Affairs (on the Kasumigaseki page) was a very stately building. So I haven’t done a thing with this place in months. In recent weeks I’ve had an excuse, which was that my hosting [...]