I asked the priest (in casual Japanese Shizuoka dialect, Ossan) to have
a small funeral ceremony for my daughther together with the anniversary.
She got her posthumous Buddhist name, Shin-So-Sei Musoh-Gai-Shi.
In Japapanese Kanji, it's spelled like the following:
I hope she will have happy time with her granpa.
2006/12/09
Today we went to Aeon Akishima Shopping Center and found (encountered?)
a strange object. :o
What my wife holds is an extra jumbo size Kappa Ebisen.
Kappa Ebisen is one of very popular snack food in Japan.
I like it very much. :)
BTW, she is 151cm tall. Please guess the size. :o
2006/12/03
and finally, I changed my mind.
Today is the sale date of SO903i, and got it! :)
Here are pics before and after :)
Finally, my daughter, Yume, got back home today.
She was only 24 centimeters tall and 281 grams, but we could see
her strong resemblance to me at a glance, especially her eyebrow and
bridge of her nose.
I believe my grandpa up there will also find out the baby is his grandchild
instantly.
The Capital of Corruption
ISBN 4-15-030863-2
The 110 th book.
Found that at Maruno-uchi Maruzen, and finished it within the day.
I didn't know my baby was a boy or a girl yet, but the baby past away.
I hope he (or she) meets with his (or her) granpa up there.
My Office is in this building.
The only smoking area is its under ground level open space.
So, actually the building is a very huge chimney.
BTW, in that sense this building could be the most famous chimney in the world. :o
Now, my baby is 9 weeks and seems to be 24.5mm tall(?) now.
BTW, I thought I can say 'due date of birth', but
the correct saying seems to be EDC (expected date of confinement).
I didn't know...
Well, anyway I seem to be a papa on February 18, 2007. :)
Today, I got an unreadable message.
Well, it's not garbled but almost encrypted for me cause it's
written in Polish. :o
Of course, I asked a Polish friend of mine to help me.
After all, the message turned out to be a kind of reminders from an
SNS service, a birthday alert. In addition, reminding me of the friend's
birthday. :o
I should have consulted dictionaries at least once. :(
Anyway, Happy Birthday, 'k'!
Now, our baby is 7 weeks old and 4.3mm tall(?).
Finally, he (or she?) got the heart.
My wife saw it's pulsing by an ultrasonic imaging.
So, we were happy today. :)
This is cool!
Especially, I didn't know 6th point of perspective described here.
I'm wonderling the world of chameleons look like termspheres. :)
BTW, at a first glance of the creator, I thought of professor Dumbledore. :o
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
ISBN 4-314-00556-4
Finally, I finished this book after several years since I bought it.
The primary reason I thought to work on this book again is that
there was interesting discussion on the Yokohama Linux Users Group ML
about Windows dominance in the share of operating systems.
There, a guy mentioned if it's possible to achieve a breakthrough
in challanging the Windows dominance if each of us got more cleverer and
shoot for the collective optimization of the society.
The essetntial point of the opinion is that it assumes hehavior
of us orienting toward NOT oneself BUT society.
In a sense, it's altruism.
Another point is that it's an idea about activities of open source software
development and promotion of them.
Then, another guy pointed out that's against the theory of evolution
by Dawkins. The point of the opposition is that altruism cannot survive.
In other word, a gene which drives its carrier into altruism cannot
compete with selfish genes and will be culled.
At first, I felt their points are somehow crossed. But, I couldn't figure out
the idea which explains the gap.
After reading the book, I came to "Meme."
At this moment, I'm not sure if there are established theories
of memes evolution, but anyway I got some more books and online articles to read . :)
In Thailand a very sweet green tea, named Oishi, seems to be
polular on TV. The green tea seems to be twice as sweet as Japanese
black a popular English tea drink.
It's not green tea anymore!
Among colleagues of mine, there is a guy who got love Thailand and Thai foods.
I'm going to ask him if he loves the sweeeeeeeeet green tea tomorrow. :)
Seems to become a dad. :o
I'm not sure if the baby is a boy or a girl, anyway the baby
will be born in the next February.
I and my wife was talking about that issue for a week recently, but
I couldn't feel it is real. Today, after seeing a sonography photo of
our 4.8mm tall(?) baby, finally I realized....
Oh, my gooooood!
I got an account of a Polish SNS service like Mixi.
It's completely written in Polish and I'm straying in the
unknown world consulting an online Polish-Japanese dictionary and a Polish Language Course.
It took me more than 30 minutes for just the initial sign-up procedure. :o
BTW, surfing in the Polish world reminded me of Mamoru Oshii, a famous
animation director. He also loves sound of Polish language, and one of
his films, "Avalon" was taken and spoken in Polish.
It's very difficult to understand like "INNOCENCE" as was expected. :o
NICT, a Japanese governmental organization launched a new public NTP service.
According to this article, their new server can handle one million NTP
requests per second and its precision seems to be less than 10 nano seconds.
What impressive for me was that they made a special hardware accelerator
card specialized in NTP. That reminded me of GRAPE and PhysX,
and I'm wondering if it's possible to construct a kind of general purpose
meta hardware accelerator card using reconfigurable chips.
Self-contradiction?
So what? :o
Guin Saga 108: The Path to the Perpetual Parros
Kaoru Kurimoto
ISBN4-15-030851-9
108!
Chapter 2 and 3 are interesting.
They give us a new perspective of its huge background world.
Today, I was surprised on my way home.
It's an elementary school Japanese girl who sat next to me in a train.
At first glance, she looked like 8 or 9 years old or so.
She was reading The Da Vinci Code of Dan Brown "in English". :o
I also read that book in English. It took me about two weeks and
I think that at least for us, Japanse, we need to study background
issues especially knowledge about Christianity.
Of course, it's possible that she spent some years abroad and speaks
English as bilingual. But, still it's amazing such a small girl enojoy
the story.
She was with a friend and the other girl was also reading a book.
But, it's a common book for children.
I'm wondering if it will be a common situation in the near future also here,
Japan.
In those days, there seemed to be some changes of their editorial plan
and my article didn't appear.
But, on the last Friday, I got a notification from the editor and
they seemed to have re-used my draft. Thus, I got some money and upgraded my PC. :)
This time, I wanted to play with Xen and needed a VT enabled machine. As for highend graphics cards or up-to-date CPU, I don't need them and
all I need is a cheap and stable system.
So, my choice was like the following:
PentiumD 930
Gigabyte GA81945G Pro
DDR2-667 1GB (Transcend) x 2
As all of GbE, USB, IEEE and sound are on-board, now inside of the case is very simplified. :)
Here is a picture of BIOS setup screen. VT Enabled!
To be continued. :)
Today, I was waiting for departure of train at Tokyo station and
writing a report with my laptop on my way home.
I knew there are many un-protected Wireless LAN access points, but
I never tried to connect to them so far. Today, although I'm not sure why, I
pressed "connect" button and succeeded. :o
It's about 2 minutes or so, but I became curious about WILLCOM.
Why not public wireless lan?
That reminds me Ghost in the Shell rather than my real life. :o
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/9/25
Interesting...
But I'm not sure if Linus accepts this.
After moving here, I'm wondering why Blogger doesn't have a mechanism
to classify users posts such as "label" of GMail.
Classification of web contents is a central idea of Semantic Web, I think.
My guess is that Google is against Semantic Web philosophy.
Of course, I can understand "label" of GMail is a way of classification for each user,
not general readers. But, still I feel it convenient if we have "label", "caterogy" or
something like that. Furthermore, it could be interesting if both Blog authors
and (possibly registerd) readers have "labels" independently and
there is a mechanism which allows them interact each other.
I'm wondering what other people on the Net are thinking about...
Finally, I finished to migrate my blog contents from Livedoor Blog to Blogger.
I don't care about Horie-mon issues which was one of the hottest
issues in Japan, but Livedoor Blog has several critical (at least for me)
problems.
First of all, I wanted a completely English blog system.
Second, Livedoor Blog gets too heavy when I want to post new entries,
I mean night time in Japan.
Third, we cannot change timestamps of entries there.
As I often write entries asynchronously, I need the feature.
As for Blogger, I'm still feeling some inconvenience at this moment.
For example, Google Blog Search doesn't seem to be working correctly
at this moment. But anyway they would be resolved soon,
and basically I like the system. :)
BTW, this is the second move of my blog location.
Formerly, I used Doblog because of a special reason which I cannot
disclose here. :o
It's a really inconvenient and poor system.
For example, Doblog seemed to have stopped for 4 days(!) two weeks ago or so
because of their regular and planned maintainance.
I cannot believe what they are thinking about important IT industry
terms such as SLA or CS. :(
Debian/GNU kFreeBSD
I tried 'debian-20060402-kfreebsd-i386-install.iso' on my VMWare box.
But, the only thing I got after installation was
"F1 FreeBSD" and beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
Indeed Debian is a unique distribution becase multiple kernels are available,
they need more man power.
Me? :o
I want spare time.....
