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It’s the morning of our third day in Tokyo. Yes, I’ve already fallen behind on blogging. I started writing an account of yesterday’s adventures yesterday evening, but we succumbed to fatigue and jet lag and fell asleep at about 7:40.
We spent the day with a tour guide named Tamae. Tamae-san is an engaging young woman [...]

Yes, we have arrived. It’s about 8:00AM local time. We just came back from having breakfast in one of the several hotel restaurants.
Our room is on the 20th floor of the Asakusa View Hotel. It lives up to its name; we have a spectacular view of the city, with Mt. Fuji dimly visible in the [...]

I found out about an interesting service recently called StuffBak. It’s a business that helps people return lost items to their owners–sort of a global 21st-century Lost & Found system. The basic idea is that you put their stickers on valuable things you might lose, like cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, portable electronic games, [...]

People tend to look at me a little strangely when I tell them that I prefer Windows XP to the Mac OS. I think they figure that since I’m a musician, I must prefer Macs because Macs are supposed to appeal to creative folks or something. Here’s just one in a long list of examples [...]

There’s a couple of videos here of a dancing robot built by some fellow at Carnegie Mellon. It’s actually a pretty impressive bit of engineering, although the demo with music is more impressive than the demo with the hand tapping the drum. (Click the “Keepon dancing to Spoon” label on the video player to see [...]

There’s an article on CNN here documenting one of the worst computer mistakes I’ve heard of. It’s one of those tales that kind of makes you wince when you read it, and feel gratitude that you’re not responsible for this kind of data.
I do wonder, however, why nobody sent one of the drives to a [...]

If you can read this, it means I’ve figured out how to use a feature of
Wordpress that I haven’t used previously. You can ignore this posting.

The new issue of Computer Music magazine just arrived in my mailbox. In it is a very positive review of Replicant, Audio Damage’s latest product. The reviewer practically gushes about it, gives it a 10 out of 10 score, and concludes by saying “consider it the first essential purchase of 2007.” It’s a tidy coincidence [...]

I’m fiddling with this site again. Apologies if you happen to be visiting while I’m messing with it.

The temperature broke 70F today, which, frankly, is a bit warm for March. However, in a happy event that may or may not be related, Tracie spotted a butterfly circling in our front yard. I managed to get a fairly good photo of it, despite not being able to get closer than about 10 feet [...]