TOEIC '12 Winter

Today, I received the result of TOEIC test which I had just after getting back from
a business trip to USA. As you can see, my score has been decreasing
for these two years, but this time it looks like I did well. :)

  

Day 1483 : Bicycle

My daughter got a bicycle finally! :)

Day 1462 : Happy Birthday!

4 Years Old!

Day 1303 : the Youngest Stacker!?

Haha, my daughter could be the youngest stacker! :o

Day 1301 : Portrait !?

Seems to be my portrait...drew by my daughter. :o

Day 1097 : Happy Birthday!

3 Years Old! :)

TOEIC '10 Summer

Again, I had a TOEIC test on August 1, and today I found the score report in my mail box after summer vacation in my home town.

At first, I thought that the score was better than the last time slightly, but it turned out I got 10 points down. :(
Actually, from this year, I decided to have TOEIC exam once a year, not biannually, and this time I could make no spare when I took the exam. In short, it's important how one is used to answering the questions. So, it's better taking it as a reasonable result anyway.

Day 1007 : No Thank You!?

Now, my daughter is staying at her grandma's house with my wife.

Today, I asked my wife sending some pictures of my daughter, and I got the following:



Well, my wife said, "Let's take a picture for papa!", and my daughter looked like that she didn't like it...orz :ob

Day 972 : Rock'n Roll !

This evening, we went to Ito Yokado @ Musashi Koganei, and the above is a snapshot there.
I think there is no need to explain. :)

De'Longhi

Recently, my wife bought a dehumidifier.
I didn't know which manufacturer she chose, but today I recognized she loves brand things.
It's a De'Longhi, DC125ECO, and here my point is that it's huge and noisy. :(

日本人の英語

日本人の英語 (English of Japanese People)
マーク・ピーターセン(Mark Petersen)
ISBN 4-00-430018-5

Well, I thought I should write about this book in Japanese, my mother tongue.

この本は初版が1988年、まだ僕が大学生の頃に出版されている。
なんで出た当時に、せめて大学院の頃に気づいて読まなかったのだろう。
このblogも、思うところあって英語で書いているわけだけれど、この本を読んでいて、正直、冷や汗が出たというのが正直なところだ。
マーク・ピーターセンの本は、他にも「続日本人の英語」「心にとどく英語」とあるのでどちらも順次読んでみよう。

しかし、それにしても、見事な「日本語」だとしかいいようがない。
最近は日本語の通じない／書けない日本人も多いことだし…

Day 958 : Pretending to be asleep

Recently our daughter pretends to be asleep when we say something she does not like.
I'm not sure whom she learned it from, but anyway the above picture is an example. :o

Twitter 503

Ha ha, I see this screen for the first time.
There must be a storm of tweets in the world. :)

Cloud Computing Expo #1

Today, I went to the 1st Cloud Computing Expo (Cloud Japan) to listen to a talk given by Yuji Chino of NicoNico Video(ニコニコ動画).
Actually, it was the keynote speech of the Data Storage Expo which was joint hosted with that.
That's why, his talk was mainly focusing on storage subsystem perspective of their system.

Here are my notes:
- Nico Video has about 140TB of data in total. Individual video file has 2 or 3 copies including the original.
- At this moment, Nico Video supports only 2 levels of resolution. This is one trade off decision.
- At this moment, Nico Video does not preserve the original uploaded data. This is another trade off decision.
- Nico Video's system uses 3-tier model, edge servers(400), origin servers(100) and storage subsystem(3).
- I'm not sure what is the origin server, but it looks like a kind of cache server.
- Because of their load balancing and multi-tier cache architecture, there is no significant I/O traffic for the storage subsystem even they are using NFS, not FC fabric.
- The edge servers utilizes fast I/O throughput of SSD, for other servers capacity is primarily important.

Sun Intel Net !?

I've been interested in a company named "SUN INTELNET" Corporation which has a big building by the wayside of Tomei Express Way close to Atsugi Interchange.
Today, I succeeded to take a photo of their building finally. :)

Of course, it's because I felt funny the combination of words Sun and Intel, but anyway they look like a logistic related company...

Day 938 : Funny Face?

Haha, recently my daughter wears a funny face when we say something she doesn't like.
The above is a snapshot which my little brother took today. :)

A Business Meeting

Today, I had a meeting with a former colleague of mine.

Actually, he was my boss about 3 years ago, and both of us are now working for different companies from the one which we both worked for together.
Actually, it's often said that my employer and his employer are competing each other, but I think today we had very much constructive discussion. Granted that it's not clear the business could be put into practice at this moment, but I'm looking forward to working together with him. :)

Anyway, I have to hurry up my current work improving quality of a software related to cloud computing. That's the key factor, actually. :o

RFC 5841

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5841.txt

This RFC proposes a new TCP option to denote packet mood. :o

I like it. :)

Cherry blossoms and a farewell

My wife's grand father past away in Izumo today, and I'll be there tomorrow to attend at the funeral ceremony. If I remember correctly, he was 95 years old.

Spring is the season of cherry blossoms as well as the farewell season.
The cousin of mine whose one year anniversary ceremony I attended at last week also left this life in this season of cherry blossoms. As a typical Japanese, I'm feeling something from the fact they departed in the season...

Anyway, I wanted to take my daughter to Izumo to see him before hearing the news...

Day 905 : Grandpa

Ha ha, my daughter enjoyed 2 days with her grandpa about 8 months interval!
Unfortunately, we have very cold days in Japan, but it looks like they had happy time anyway. :)