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.)
Read more...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.)
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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:29:00 GMT
It’s been about a month since my last post, and some of you were probably wondering what happened.
Well, to sum things up, our company’s office moved. A week or two were spent packing lots of things into small and large boxes.
The week between Xmas and New Year was the office break, the three days in-between being paid for by the company as special paid leave (meaning that it didn’t come out our annual leave, WOOHOO!) The week was largely spent at home, sweating from extreme temperatures. New Year’s Day was 44°C, and unfortunately being in Sydney for so long has made me a bit uncomfortable with that sort of temperature, whereas in SA it was quite common to have temperatures over 40°C. As our computer room insulation sucks, I was unable to do anything on the computer, so most of the time was spent in the lounge room in front of the fan, playing Animal Crossing: Wild World and watching videos.
The week after coming back from the break was spent unpacking a bunch of stuff from all the boxes, and leaving about half of it still packed since it will probably be thrown out. Telstra and the company wiring up our exchange have been going back and forth, laying the blame on each other for things not working. Telstra were finally twisted into at least wiring our four lines up to the IDF, but they refuse to go the rest of the way even though the technician was booked to do exactly that. The delays meant that last week was spent without any net access at all, and we didn’t even have desks to put our computers on until last Friday.
This week, I discovered that my work computer just crapped itself over the weekend. I guess it’s the motherboard as it won’t get past the initial VGA BIOS message and I already tested it with a different video card. There is a silver lining, though… this hardware failure serves to accelerate our acquisition of the new desktop hardware, which will be some nice Athlon 64 X2 dual core systems. These systems will be rather interesting, because our software isn’t even tested on 64-bit hardware at present, and isn’t particularly efficient on dual-CPU systems either. I hope to get some interesting changes done to our loading process to make it get better usage out of this kind of hardware.
So that’s what’s been going on. Things are largely back to normal now, although the office isn’t set up properly (cables running over the floor still and the firewall machine randomly dying every now and then) it’s enough to work for now. And, you know, enough to post weblog entries. ;-)
Posted by Trejkaz Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:16:00 GMT
One of the wonderful things about having a public holiday right in the middle of the week, is that I’m still in work mode, but I don’t actually have to do real work.
So today I finally nailed the last major bit of CSS tweaking for a while, and this site is more or less ready to be advertised to friends. :-D
Ideally I would still make a logo for the header, but I don’t actually need one at all. Replacing the site icon (favicon.ico) should probably be a priority too, but I really don’t care right now.
But the main thing stalling me is that at present, I have no way to accept anonymous comments. It does look like SnipSnap are implementing something like this in CVS though, as I checked it out a while ago and found myself locked into the Guest account with no way to login. But at least it’s proof that something is at least happening over there. This was before the holidays, too, so maybe now that the holidays are over, work will resume.
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