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Day Six: Free Day: Shop, Shop, Shop Dash!

Posted by Trejkaz Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:29:00 GMT

Day six was the free day for the set tour, and even though there were many other options open to me, I decided to go and look for stuff to buy again.

The day went well, details are within. Actually, I’m writing this entry on the evening of day six as I’m catching up on my backlog. But you probably won’t have seen it until a day or two later, because I first need to (a) find some Internet access that doesn’t suck in a country which is allegedly well-connected, and (b) get all the previous entries checked and put up first.

I found the wifi hotspot in the hotel, but my laptop can’t connect to it so it’s as good as broken. Why can’t they just give us an ethernet jack and be done with it? I’d rather pay ¥500 per day for that than the same amount for wifi that doesn’t even connect.

…and as for what happened today…

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Day Five: Fuji, Hakone, Karaoke on the Tour Bus, Gedo Senki

Posted by Trejkaz Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:26:00 GMT

Day five was mostly a scenic tour, to give us a bit of a break from Tokyo.

Actually I’m planning to take another such tour (or two) in the second week, with another tour company (seems they only need 1-2 days notice as long as there are slots, so I’ll organise all that in the gap between check-out and check-in for the two hotels.)

Tags fuji, hakone, holiday, japan | 2 comments

Some Blog Catch-up

Posted by Trejkaz Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:09:00 GMT

This new hotel (Shibuya Excel Hotel Tokyu) has high speed Internet (around 9 megabits when I tested it just now) so I can finally put some time into updating. I won’t put everything up at once though, just a bit to get things going.

I have started to wonder how much this net access is costing me. If it turns out that it’s part of the price of the hotel, then maybe I will get to watch some anime on this trip anyway (because I’ll be damned if I’ve ever seen any on TV so far.)

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Day Four: Shop, Shop, Shop!

Posted by Trejkaz Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:05:00 GMT

The plan for the fourth day of the tour was to visit Shibuya, Harajuku, Ikebukuro and Akihabara, and shop until we drop. However, it was pissing down with rain the entire day. This caused a number of setbacks which weren’t a major issue for me but caused some problems for other people on the tour since they have to leave at a certain time whereas I’m extended my stay for an entire week afterwards.

Tags haruhi, holiday, japan, shopping, tokyo | no comments

Day Three: Anime Mania

Posted by Trejkaz Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:59:00 GMT

I’m a bit behind on my blogging. Lack of decent net access aside, I am sitting here writing this entry on day six of the trip.

So anyway… day three of the tour! This was a set day, where we were to visit Studio Ghibli and the GONZO animation studio.

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Day Two: Old and New

Posted by Trejkaz Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:50:00 GMT

I’m writing these next few entries from the laptop because I get some free time but no decent net access for the time being.

Day two was a culture tour with a few bonuses.

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Day One: Tokyo Game Show

Posted by Trejkaz Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:54:00 GMT

Looks like I have a bit of free time. Not enough time to post photos though, I guess that can come later. I don’t have enough time to properly hyperlink this entry right now, so if you find reference to something you’ve never heard of, JFGI.

Tags gaming, holiday, japan, tokyo | 4 comments

Gorn

Posted by Trejkaz Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:36:00 GMT

Out of the country for a couple of weeks. I don’t know if I’ll get time to post here during that time but we’ll see.

See you all in a couple of weeks.

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Syndicated over on LiveJournal

Posted by Trejkaz Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:11:00 GMT

I used my recently-created OpenID to log into LiveJournal and create an “external user” account over there. LiveJournal even let external users add friends, which is pretty nifty although not quite ideal (mainly because the friends list is stored on their end and not my end. XFN would probably be more interesting if everyone used it.)

One of the limitations of external users is that even if they have a blog, that blog isn’t made visible to people who add them as friends.

And so…

glittalogik has done the deed, and created a syndicated feed of this blog over on LiveJournal. Now LiveJournal users can just add this feed and see all the posts I make here.

Here is the feed’s profile page so any of you on LiveJournal can add me.

Thanks!

Of course, the remaining problem is that comments on these entries will end up going to LiveJournal instead of here, but I’ll just have to live with that I suppose.

Tags livejournal, meta, syndication | 3 comments

The "Consistent Identity Project"

Posted by Trejkaz Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:51:00 GMT

Those of you who know me from Jabber-related projects will probably have noticed that I dumped everyone from my main roster and moved you all to my newer, “official business” Jabber ID. I’ve also been routinely moving all semi-work-related mail to the respective email address.

I guess now people will be able to cope with my mail address and Jabber ID as the new ones are much easier to remember. :-)

Next I want to move my Jabber-related software projects over to my other domain, but that’s going to take a little time because I’ll have to tinker with the source files and copyright notices too. No fun… I wonder if there is some way that I can omit copyright notices and have Subversion add them automatically when the files are checked out. That would be grand.

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