What with the about-to-live-in-the-UK thing, I decided I wanted to stop posting in this about-Japan blog - not that I've really written anything in the past couple of years...

Anyway, new blog at this link.

So what with the whole iPad thing, Syan has been thinking about wanting an eBook reader. The problem is that the only e-ink device that's even semi-officially on sale in Japan is the Kindle, and that only supports Japanese text in PDFs, and even then it's a limited subset. It's weird given that all the tech in these devices seems to come from Japan ( Read more... )

So we got some food / drink presents for our wedding ( Read more... )

Finally, I have made a site to hold the translations of my wife's manga blog about us (better than I've just made it sound, I swear)

You can find the site here

Parcel delivery just came.

Managed to prove my suspicions though - Syan got to the door before the guy had had the chance to run away, and he had to admit he hadn't bothered to bring the packages and was just going to do a "we came while you were out" slip

For me, Christmas has now begun ( Read more... )

OK so right now I hate hate HATE Family Mart and Burger King (Japan ( Read more... )

Rather amused by this terrible article in the New York Times about the iPhone and TGS ( Read more... )

Been talking about what we should do for the first dance at our wedding - I'm pushing for having it to Nine Inch Nails' "Closer"

Well, it left me so full of rage that I have to say something about it - the ending to Life On Mars US, what the fuck was that about?