22 Days in Japan, Day 17: Nagano, Rain, and a Scary Bridge
Clear Note Widget (Sticky Note App) Now Available For Android Phones
The Great Snack Food Roundup
You’ve got an HP Touchpad, now what?
| Featured | December 26, 2011 |
22 Days in Japan, Day 17: Nagano, Rain, and a Scary Bridge
Kyoto is now miles away, and I’m on the train to my next destination: Nagano. Yep, the same Nagano that hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics. It lies in the (more) northern part of Japan that’s so far been largely unexplored (by me).
Clear Note Widget (Sticky Note App) Now Available For Android PhonesYes, you heard it here first. I actually released an Android app. To be honest, this isn’t my first foray (and probably won’t be the last) into Android. The first was an attempt to make a fun “game” that consisted of the Android mascot running on top of an infinitely-long office building. Or at least running until he (she? it?) crashed into a conveniently-placed, official US Postal Service mailbox. |
The Great Snack Food RoundupTo put it simply, I am a snack fiend. At my worst I was eating roughly six snack bars a day, plus my normal breakfast/lunch/dinner/after-dinner-dessert/midnight snack routine. It was a rough life. So, I hope that all of that relevant snacking experience gives me some special insight on judging the quality and taste of snack foods. Actually, I really needed a break from my un-lucrative side business of writing apps for Android phones. In Java. Which I have since learned is a gigantic pain in the *Dorito*. |
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You’ve got an HP Touchpad, now what?I jumped on the HP Touchpad fire sale bandwagon last week knowing absolutely zilch about webOS, tablets, and Touchpads. Hell, I didn’t even know what I’d do with it. But $150 for a sweet 32GB tablet that retailed for $600? Sold! Now that I’ve had a chance to mess around with it, I’ve gotten a better handle on what the Touchpad can and can’t do. Inside: a list of hacks, patches, apps, and other assorted fun stuff to kick your Touchpad experience up a notch. |
php.angbox: teaching PHP in a not-so-boring way.In my quest for total Internet domination, I’ve decided to launch a new section of angbox for learning PHP. It’s called: Learning PHP. |
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Final Fantasy XIII’s problem isn’t linearity: it’s everything elseThere are some good ways to spend fifty hours of your life. Watching the first season of Game of Thrones, for example. But playing through Final Fantasy XIII? Nope, that isn’t one of them. |
22 Days in Japan, Day 16: Zen and the Art of Staring at RocksDay 16? Already? Six days left. Normally, my goal each day is just to see as much as possible. But today I’ve got a different goal: to be enlightened. I’m referring to Ryoan-ji, of course. |
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Punk’d: Get your Amazon gift cards – at Best BuyI haven’t been a serious shopper at Best Buy for a long, long time. The last time I went there to buy something (not including the time I stopped by to pick up a free man-shaped USB hub), George Bush was still president. That was the Golden Age of Best Buy, a time when clearance items flowed like cheap wine at rock-bottom prices, and the employees were blissfully ignorant. |
22 Days in Japan, Day 15: NaraI wake up a little after 10 o’clock on Day 15. I’m still in Kyoto, still in a ryokan called IchiEnSou. Unfortunately, it looks like everyone else left already. |
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Dominion is this decade’s Magic: The GatheringI am not, admittedly, a huge board or card gamer. My collection consists of two different versions of Scrabble, a fifteen-year old Jenga set, and a Battle of the Sexes board game that was “left” at my house just before the owner moved to another state. |
Gaming Amazon EC2 to get more web hosting for lessLike countless others, my web sites are running under Amazon EC2, the cloud-based web service. It has been, at least for anything above the free “micro” tier, rock solid. But the costs are certainly not the cheapest cloud hosting around. How do you get around that? |
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 | 22 Days in Japan, Day 17: Nagano, Rain, and a Scary BridgeKyoto is now miles away, and I'm on the train to my next destination: Nagano. Yep, the same Nagano that hosted the 1998 Winter... |
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 | Clear Note Widget (Sticky Note App) Now Available For Android ...Yes, you heard it here first. I actually released an Android app. To be honest, this isn't my first foray (and probably won... |
 | The Great Snack Food RoundupTo put it simply, I am a snack fiend. At my worst I was eating roughly six snack bars a day, plus my normal breakfast/lunch/di... |
 | You've got an HP Touchpad, now what?I jumped on the HP Touchpad fire sale bandwagon last week knowing absolutely zilch about webOS, tablets, and Touchpads. Hell, ... |
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