Year: 2012
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The Japanese Friendship Gate in Salmon Arm
The Japanese Friendship Gate （友情の門） in Salmon Arm. On our cruise around the Shuswap region today we spotted this Japanese-style gate from the road and had to take some pictures. It is located in MacGuire Park in Salmon Arm, BC and was built in 1997, the year I went to Japan. Here are a few…
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Replacing Flickr
Chad on www.flickr.com Yahoo’s lack of innovation is one thing, but what really drives me bonkers about Flickr is the terrible video support. Maybe 1 in 10 of my video uploads are successful. I take a lot of short vids on my iPhone and even on my 60D I think they should be viewed within…
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Tawara-ya: Famous ryokan in Kyoto. As it was our last day in Japan, we spent the day running around town. My wife got a massage at a place right near Tawara-ya, the ryokan that Steve used to stay at as mentioned in the Isaacson biography. I had a few minutes and a camera so I…
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Tawara-ya: Famous ryokan in Kyoto. As it was our last day in Japan, we spent the day running around town. My wife got a massage at a place right near Tawara-ya, the ryokan that Steve used to stay at as mentioned in the Isaacson biography. I had a few minutes and a camera so I…
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Family complete #achievementunlocked
This is where it all started. Above is my completed family of four, standing in front of the college dorm where I met my wife in 1999. As we only have a couple days left in Japan, we decided to take a photo. Unfortunately the weather didn’t cooperate and it was pouring down, so we…
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Paternity Leave Lessons Learned (in Japanese)
Next month an article of mine will be published in an Osaka-based newsletter. The article is based on a blog post from a few years ago: End of paternity leave and a lesson on negative support. It is all in Japanese (edited by my lovely wife), but for those interested, click on the more link…
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Social Network Audit
After posting my Google+ rant on Google+ I thought more about what kinds of social networking services I use, and how many I have abandoned in the past. I put them all together in the graphic above, separated into three groups (from top to bottom): Currently using (frequency from Left to Right); Infrastructure and Deadpool.…
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My Google+ rant on Google+
My Google+ rant on Google+
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There’s birth there’s maturity there’s independence there’s success there’s empire and then after that there’s decline and then there’s death. You want to jump off that bus at the point of empire. Andy Ihnatko on IA23
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367Nd07eF9E?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Game of Thrones Themed Opening to The Simpsons (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)