Day 386 : Ritual of Mouse

Hahaha, here is another shot of my daughter's rituals. :)

I'm wondering when I should give hear a PC and show her the Internet world...

Day 377 : Ritual of Cellphone

This is another version of the Ritual of Cellphone. :)

Last time, she did the first version of cellphone ritual when we visited her granma's house.
It's was actually a toy cellphone (precisely speaking, her granma's old one) at that time. But, this time, she found her father's live one which means the cellphone emits lights responding various operations.

Thus, she looked happy like the below. :)

BTW, her father was anxious looking at the ritual of course. :o

Nishi-Dori Pudding

Today, I met old friends about 5 years interval and had a drink with them in Tachikawa.

On my way back home, I found a nice pudding shop within JR Tachikawa station.
Nishi-Dori Pudding ('西通りプリン') seems to be a Fukuoka based hand made pudding shop. It looks like the shop I saw does not regularly open there but now they are placing a limited time branch shop in various areas around Tokyo.
So, I was lucky. :)

Day 371 : Studio Alice

Today, we went to Studio Alice with our daughter and took commemorative photos.
The below is a sample shot.

Ha ha, 1 year old! :)



BTW, today was a good day for taking pictures of the Shichi-Go-San festival, and there were lots of families at the studio. Of course, my daughter wept copiously because of fear for strangers, and the above smile is a lucky snapshot. :o

Day 369 : Ritual of News Paper

As I wrote before, our daughter does a kind of rituals (or dances?) when she gets something intersting. :)

In the below picture, she performs the Ritual of News Paper. :)


I'm wondering when we should begin to teach her how to reading and writing. :)

Day 367 : Happy Birthday!

Finally, my daugher reached the first birthday. :)
Today, her granma (my mother) visited our house, and celebrated her together.

Guin Saga 123

Signs of Storms
Guin Saga 123
Kaoru Kurimoto
ISBN 978-4-15-030938-1

Summer Festival 2008

Ha ha ha, it's the Summer Festival Season again!
Finally, my daughter saw the festival. :)

Day 339 : Pulled Herself Up!

Finally, my daughter pulled herself up. :)

BTW, it happened during our stay at her grandpa's house.
I guess one reason would be that there are more flat furniture which she can use to pull herself up compared to our house. Now, I'm wondering if she would do it again in Tokyo...

Pomegranate Soup

Pomegranate Soup
Marsha Mehran
ISBN 4-560-02746-3

Day 320 : A Duck

Recently, my daughter loves playing with toys of ducks when she takes a bath (with me). :)

In Japan, there is a famous duck.
It's not Donald duck but 'アヒル隊長' (Ahiru-Taicho) which roughly means the Captain Duck.
The duck appeared in a TV show, 'ザ! 鉄腕! DASH!' (Tetsu-wan DASH). Literally, the title means the Iron-Arm DASH. But anyway, it's one of popular varaiety showｓ in Japan, and the duck appears there. I like the show, and I'm wondering if I can enjoy it with my daughter someday.
Well, one reason why I'm worrying is that the show features TOKIO, a Japanese idol band and their leader is almost 40 years old now. :o

Java World Day 2008

Today, I went to Java World Day 2008 held in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
Actually, I wanted to listen to a talk by Gregor Hohpe of Google, which is titled "Programming the Cloud : Internet as a Platform."

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/gregor-hohpe-conversations

Basically, he talked about fundamental technologies constructing Google
those of Google File System, MapReduce, sawzall and so on. He introduced also
Google App Engine and furthermore gave us a small live demo using that.

Among his presentation, what was impressive for me was new ACID idea.
(Ha ha, I knew the new ACID thing for the first time at the conference at this time of day...)

• NewACID
• A - Associative
• C - Commutative
• I - Idempotent
• D - Distributed
• OLD ACID
• A - Atomic
• C - Consistent
• I - Isolated
• D - Durable

Under the Internet environment where unpredictable amount of transactions
arrive at a web site, I can understand that application must have the new
ACID property in order to scale out. But, I'm wondering what we can do to run classical multi-tier web systems with RDBMS on cloud computing environment...
Maybe it's an open question...

TOEIC '08 Summer

I had a TOEIC test again about two weeks ago, and today I found the result notification in my mail box.
Last time I had the test I got the best score and this time 45 points down.
But anyway, the score matches well with my expectation which I had after finishing the test.

BTW, above graph says that my Listening/Reading scores ratio again goes down below 1.0 which means my reading section score was better than listening section one. One reason would be that I didn't speak English almost at all except the business trip to New York in June. I'm wondering what my employers want me to do...

Day 312 : A Cell Phone

In Japan, mid August is the season of lantern festival.
Of course, I took this year's summer vacation in this season and stayed at my home town.

The above is a snapshot when my daughter got a (toy) cell phone from her grand mother and was doing some kind of ritual(dance?) to express her pleasure. :o

BTW, in the lantern season, it's believed that ancestors visit their homes and stay there several days. The altar behind her is her (late) grand father's one, and I hope that he enjoyed the stay of this year well. :)

Day 308 : Tachikawa

Today, we took our daughter to Tachikawa. It's her first trip by train except the one when she got back to Tokyo from my wife's home town.



The above is a snapshot when we had dinner at Din Tai Fung, a Chinese restaurant there.
She looked like enjoying the small trip, but her mother was enjoying window shopping at department stores more. :o

A Small Everyday Innovation Goes a Long way!

A Small Everyday Innovation Goes a Long Way! (なぜシリコンバレーではゴミを分別しないのか)
Noriko Takiguchi
ISBN 978-4-8334-1874-4

This book is a collection of columns on Nikkei BP, PC Online.
To tell the truth, I'm not sure if "A Small Everyday Innovation Goes a Long Way!" is really the correct English title or not, but anyway it's on the cover page.

BTW, the Japanese (original) title can be translated (literally) like "Why they don't separate the trashes in Silicon Valley?", and I like the reason. :)

Ichiro Ramen

Today, I went to Menya Tenho after a long interval.

My choice of today is Ichiro Ramen, a pork bones soup with sliced roasted pork ramen.
But, I'm not sure if the name comes from Ichiro. :o

Day 306 : A Swing

Today, my daughter got on a swing for the first time.
Of course, precisely speaking, I got on the swing holding her, but anyway she looks like she loves it. :)

BTW, there were only I and my daughter, thus unfortunately I couldn't take a picture of her first ride. :(

Day 304 : Melon

Today would be a memorial day for my daughter.
She had a piece of sliced melon for the first time today. :o



Well, she looks like eating something strange in the picture above, but anyway she seemed to enjoy melon. I'm wondering what she would say looking at the picture years later. :)

Guin Saga 122

Panther-King In Pain
Guin Saga 122
Kaoru Kurimoto
ISBN 978-4-15-030931-2