Me and the president Originally uploaded by Durf Martti Ahtisaari is a former Finnish president and the recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He came to Japan to speak on conflict resolution and then toured the tsunami-stricken areas near Sendai. I got to tag along and interview him for around a half-hour in the [...]
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Still Moving
This blog tends to fall by the wayside (on the grassier verge) for weeks or months at a spell. Been busy. Japan Echo is a foundation now, not a company—although the company is still there in name for a handful of clients with whom we’ve already entered contracts. I have a big post planned to [...]
iPhone fixed
So the iOS 4 update solved the number one problem I had with my phone (an iPhone 3GS). In previous OS versions, if you had ever saved a photo to your photo roll (one attached to an email you received, say) it would make your iPhone invisible to the computer as a camera when you [...]
Girl in the snow
Sakura slides Originally uploaded by Durf A quick, content-free post to stick this photo up on the site. I have a batch to go up on Flickr soon from our trip to Yuzawa a few weekends ago. Sakura’s first time in the real snow! She didn’t mind the chair-lift ride on my lap at all, [...]
Happy New Year
Happy 2009 Originally uploaded by Durf Taken a minute or so into the year 2009 . . . Just a quick post to show that the website isn’t dead. May this year see more posts from me.
