Idea Mapping : How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More, and Achieve Success in Business Jamie Nast ISBN 978-4484081045
Today, we went to Kokubunji Marui to by clothes of our daughter, and after finishing the main shopping, we stopped around a book store there. The above books is about a kind of Mind Map methods, and it looks like more practical for common people.
Now, I'm thinking about using that in the upcoming R&D project at work. :)
Today, Kaoru Kurimoto, the author of Guin Saga, past away because of cancer. She was only 56 years old, and her biggest work Guin Saga was left incompleted.
It's almost 25 years ago when I began to read the Guin Saga series and since then I was always waiting for her new book. Originally, the series was scheduled to complete at 100 books, but actually it was too optimistic(?) estimate and this year she released 126th book. Furthermore, the story looked like continuing at least 25 more books for me.
She indicated several times that she had already written a note of synopsis of the finale, but I'm not sure if the note will be made public. Maybe, it could be the longest and incompleted novel written by a single author.
Today, I saw a demo of Wakame, a ruby based scale-out engine for Amazon EC2 created by axsh Co. LTD, Japan.
In a sense, it's similar to RightScale, and Wakame is still in very early stage. But the most important point for me is that it's open source. I mean that there is rooms working on it for me. :)
BTW, in Japanese Axsh is pronounced as 'Akushu' (あくしゅ) which means "shaking hand." It's cool, and I like it. :)
Debug Hacks -- Tips & Tools for Removing Bugs Yoshioka et. al. ISBN 978-4-87311-404-0
Finally, I bought the book at this time of day. :(
After skimming the book, I felt that I'm not so behind from the authors compared to the case of Binary Hacks. But, anyway it's a great work for programmers. :)
I didn't know that NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) has been developing a large scale networking testbed, called StarBED, and the StarBED team developed a set of convenient tools to manage/operate StarBED. The set of tools is called "Spring OS."
Here, my point is that why the developers chose the name. At least for me, Spring OS means a SUN's research operating system in the early '90s, and this is common impression for most of engineers working on network or operating system.
But, the tool looks like useful for a massive cluster environment, and I'm going to try it once...
Here are another snapshots I took during the walk today.
I didn't know that recently she climbs a stairway by herself. So, I was really surprised looking at the scene today. Anyway, this is another memorial photo of my daughter. :)
Today, I got a half holiday because of anniversary at work, and I stroll around with my daughter. The above is a snapshot at a flower bed within the lot of our condominium. I'm very happy to see that she began to show interests in various flowers. :)
Wolfram Research seems to begin a new service, Wolfram Alpha.
Here is my first question to Wolfram Alpha. :o
|What kind of girl do you like? |Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
Anyway, I'm thinking about using the system when I will work on mathematical models of various multi-tier web systems on cloud computing environment in near future. :) It's because I was a veeery bad student in Mathematics. :o
Actually, I'm not so interested in watching sky by my own eyes. But, I love seeing photograph of stars taken by professional astronomers. Especially, since the Hubble Telescope began to work, I was surprised many times by seeing amazing structure of various astronomical objects.
This time, NASA added some new features to Hubble, and I'm really looking forwad to seeing new photographs from the upgraded Hubble. :)
Recently, I got a performance trouble uploading files to Amazon S3. Here is a brief summary of the performance results when I tried to upload a 2GB backup file of photos using my ThinkPad X61 with various conditions.
It's better to try Amazon S3 API tools such as s3sync from WindowsXP environment, but still the above difference is strange. I'm wondering who is guilty...
Today, I saw a small demo of S*Plex3 Cloud Storage Service by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation. Their press release published on May 12, 2009 can be found here, but it's only in Japanese. :(
At first, I thought it's an yet another Google File System clone, and indeed their architecture is similar to GFS. But, they focused on satellite broadcasting data, that is, streaming data. Thus, S*Plex3 seems to have achieved a good resilience for multiple faults.
The demo system which I saw seems to consist of a 90 nodes clustered file server and a video access client. The video data is divided into many chunks and stored in the cluster redundantly.
I was impressed seeing that the video play was not affected even 1/4 of the 90 nodes file server were down by unpluging their LAN cables.
I'm wondering why they do not publish the press release in English to all over the world...
Since last month my daughter has been playing with blocks as I wrote recently. Today, she made a big progress. :) The below is the first major work of her, possibly its title is the Tower of Babel... :o
Today, we got back to Tokyo from my home town. Against a traffic jam forecast yesterday, we weren't caught in traffic jams almost at all. But, it was more than 5 hours drive, and anyway we were very much tired. :(
After arriving at home and getting luggage over with my wife, I was doing some PC things such as checking e-mails. I knew that my wife and daughter took a nap together.
But, after a while I was astonished looking at the scene below... :o
Oh, my God... Maybe, it's because my daughter was exhausted...
Finally, I took my daughter to the Shimada Rose Hill Garden in my home town. :) Before going there, I expected that she could be excited looking at bunch of beautiful roses , actually today we had limited time and my daughter looked like a bit sleepy. :( So, I'm not sure if she really enjoyed the garden or not today, but on this summer vacation she might have began to speak, then I'm going to ask her what she feels about looking the flowers. :)
Different from the case of our house, their telephone station is located almost on the floor where my daughter can reach. So, she was very much pleased to find a new thing to play with... :(
Today, one of the greatest rock singers in Japan, Kiyoshiro Imawano (忌野清志郎), past away because of cancer. He was 58 years old.
Although the English page of Wikipedia does not have much information, but as the Japanese page says, Kiyoshiro was not like any other musicians, and in a sense, he established a style of singing rock music in Japanese.
As for me, I loved YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) when I was a junior high school student, and he appeared as the singer of the tune below (い・け・な・いルージュマジック) which is in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto who is, needless to say, a member of YMO. In those days, I felt his song a bit strange, but still I thought that this singer is something special. -
- One more his work I want to refer here is a collaboration session with Akiko Yano singing "Hitotsudake (ひとつだけ)" which means "The Only One Thing." As I wrote several times, I love Yano's songs, and listening to the song especially I'm always moved to the point of tears. Furthermore, Kiyoshiro's voice has something special and appeals to me especially with the lyrics. -
- It was really a great loss of Japan... I prayed for the repose of Kiyoshiro's soul today.
My daughter got a LEGO Zoo Kit from grandpa yesterday.
The below is a work of my daughter using the kit. Wow, it's a double helix, DNA! :o
Ha ha, it's a joke. Not my daughter's but mine. :) I also got LEGO kits when I was a small child from one of my uncles and my parents. I really enjoyed them very much. Anyway, I was really looking forward to Christmas season. :)
