I used to have a mantra: never travel outside Tokyo during Golden Week [GW]. There’s a reason for this. Everyone travels to ‘tourist’ spots during […] Read More
Like many, I use RSS a lot. Really. Not as much as some, but more than most. It means I can browse the headlines of […] Read More
One thing Japan is blessed with is an insane amount of national holidays, which is great really. Currently, we’re part way through ‘Golden Week’ [GW], […] Read More
Just an addendum that yesterday morning, the strongest quake to hit Tokyo for a while struck at 7:22am (news here). At 6.1, just off the […] Read More
Anyone who has looked at the Flickr pictures I just mentioned, may have noticed that the ‘camera’ used to take the more recent ones is […] Read More
Yesterday saw the second Tokyo Pimp Daddies [TPD] LAN party of 2005. It was held at my apartment, and we managed a new high of […] Read More
I saw the below picture last week, and thought perhaps it was part of Tokyo and Japan’s drive to get more tourists to Tokyo, maybe […] Read More
There’s been a huge business story here in Japan for the last month or so to do with a company called Livedoor. It’s an ISP, […] Read More
As I mentioned before, this was the second trip to Niseko this year, and as usual, the 3 sides of the mountain all proved to […] Read More
I think many were saddened today to hear that firebrand journalist and pundit Hunter S. Thompson took his own life on Sunday at his ranch […] Read More