Forbidden Colours

I really love this tune.
Lyrics here.

BTW, someone might say, "You just wanted to test an embedded object from YouTube!"
So what? :o

SONY SO903i

Until now, I've used a straight style 2G cell, NTT DoCoMo Panasonic P503i about 6 years.

Although I wanted new one with camera for a long time,
I love the track point of P503i whick is like ThinkPad's one.
But recently I've been attracted by SONY's new cell phone, SO903i,

http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/docomo/so903i/index.html

and finally, I changed my mind.

Today is the sale date of SO903i, and got it! :)

2006/11/25

La Fete Tama

La Fete Tama, Minami Osawa

La Fete Tama is one of shopping malls in western Tokyo.
It's my wife's choice as the first trip via my new Impreza, but
compared to Gotemba Premium Outlets, La Fete Tama was not so interesting for her. :o



2006/11/12

Cars

I bought a new car, SUBARU Impreza again, and
it's delivered today!

Here are pics before and after :)

Gotemba Premium Outlets

Gotemba Premium Outlets is the largest outlet mall in Japan.
It was the last drive via my old Impreza.



There, my wife bought a plenty of expensive things, BALLY, LOEWE, etc. :o

As for me, Lego Store was my best favorite. I was about to buy a Lego Mind Storm box,
but the price was about 40K yen and that brought me back to reality. :o
Actually, the only a thing I bought was a cell phone strap at the Lego store...

2006/11/04

Ashes

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.

Guin Saga 110

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.

20 weeks and a great loss

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.

Guin Saga 109

Guin Saga 109: Playacting the Panther-King

Ho-ho, 109!

ISBN 4-15-030857-8

Chimney

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

9 Weeks and EDC

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. :)

Birthday Alert

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'!

7 Weeks

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. :)

Termsphere

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

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 . :)

Green Tea in Thailand

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. :)

Got a baby!?

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!

Oops, loop(s)?

Recently, I was thinking about writing a new Linux device driver
which enables us using a file as a HDD, not a partition.

But, I was stupid.
Use losetup(8) , and that's all.
One more stupid thing is that I was reading KENREL_SRC/drivers/block/loop.c
and thought it perfect. After wondering why there is not any utility to use
its features two days or so, I got to know that just I was ignorant. :(

BTW, the reason I wanted such a driver is that I wanted to manipulate
disk image files of QEMU and VMWare on the host servers as normal
block devices. In this sense, as loop device has a pluggable filter
mechanism of (mainly encyription) kernel modules, still there could be some
room for my hacking. :)

Polish SNS

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

World Fastest NTP!?

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