Did that title grab your attention? Well, it was mostly meant as a joke but read on.
I think open source is great (well, except I think GPL is evil but that's another topic). But, lately I've been trying to figure out a way to fix the comment spam problem. Comment spam is generally when someone writes a script to automatically scan the web, find blogs and post ads for crap. Various ways have been tried to stop it but like e−mail, the spam still gets through.
Via Slashdot.jp, according to some poll the Japanese get the least sleep of any country. More than 31% of Australians get more than 9 hours of sleep a day.
Paper constructions seem a lot bigger in Japan. You can find all kinds of sites around the net with free patterns to print out and build. Recently I ran across this fairly intricate one being promoted by Misia. Build it!
My ISP moved my site to a different server for the 3rd time since I signed up with them so the site's been a little messed up for the last day or so. Hopefully everything will be back to normal soon. 😊
My friend Yuki posted on her blog about some TV program she watched all about the ability to concentrate.
One thing that stuck out was that according to the program if you don't concentrate on something very often your ability to concentrate at all gets less and less.
She also said the program said that to concentrate you needed Alpha 2 brainwaves. Alpha 1 being for relaxing and Alpha 3 being when you are nervous. They then gave out 4 things to help you produce Alpha 2 brainwaves.
My friend Gen recently wrote on his blog about Shuji Nakamura, the guy the invented the Blue LED and who didn't get anything for it.
It reminds me of Japanese school. In one class we would watch "Project X", a program about Japanese corporate history. I think it was corporate although it might have covered more. They would make it super dramatic.
One episode was about the formation of Sony. They really concentrated on the fact that one sentence out of the entire page of their mission statement was "To rebuild Japan". Anyway, that one was a pretty interesting story over all.
The new Mac Mini is all the news today. While I wouldn't hesitate to recommend one it's funny to me that Mac people think $499 is cheap. They are so used to Apple's high prices. What do I mean?
Well, just last month I was out computer shopping for my 90yr old grandmother. I thought about a Mac but she only uses E−mail, she's already used to Outlook Express and the cheapest Mac was more than I could effort. Even at $499 it's more than I could afford.
I thought about giving her one of my old PCs but getting it back to the USA would have been a pain in the ass so I went on line checking for prices.
I was in some electronics store last week and stumbled on the Olympus M:ROBE series of music+ gadgets.
