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Free Japanese prefecture icons

December 3rd, 2009 post by ianc

Here are some icons I created of some prefectures in Japan. The prefectures are Tokyo, Aomori, Hyogo, Kyoto, Okinawa and Shimane . They are in png format (256×256) and you are free to reuse them, but a link back to here would be appreciated. To download, just right click and select Save As.

If anyone has a request for one of the other 41 prefectures, just leave a comment and I’ll make one when I have time. I chose these prefectures for various random reasons. For example, Shimane is the home to the Ruby language which is what we do most of our web development on, and Okinawa is my favourite place in Japan.

Tokyo

Aomori

Hyogo

Kyoto

Okinawa

Shimane

Tags: aomori, free, hyogo, icons, kyoto, okinawa, ruby, shimane, tokyo
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WordCamp Kansai 2009

April 12th, 2009 post by ianc

We attended the WordCamp Kansai event (Hiro, Asami, Chapp and I) on Friday and had a fantastic time. It was a mini-WordCamp, more of a get together and dinner than the one in Tokyo but all the same it was a success. The food was great too, I loved the lobster!

Matt came and gave a presentation, we got to ask him a few questions and he was gracious enough to have a chat with almost everyone, even though you could see he was tired. We met some really interesting people who were involved with WordPress, and some who weren’t but were part of the web design and development community in the Kansai area. It was great meeting Oli and Naoko. I really think that we need more events like these, where we can meet up, share and chat. I heard that CSS-Nite will become a regular event in Kansai, which is encouraging news.

I hope there more WordCamps for the Kansai area in the future. Maybe in the future we can have hulorcamps too :) Thank-you Matt, Naoko and all the organisers.

Tags: event, matt, photos, wordpress
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If they made ticket vending machines at stations like

February 21st, 2009 post by hiro

Ticket Gate at Osaka by JanneM

Ticket vending machines at stations are really important for our life in Japan. A few days ago I found an interesting blog post called “If they made ticket vending machines at stations like…” I’ve translated it below.

If they made ticket vending machines like…

Nintendo: You can buy a ticket if you trace the path from departure to arrival
Sony: High end machines with their self made CPU (But tickets cost a bit)
Microsoft: Input a departure station, a destination station, departure time, arrival time, which route you prefer, and choose grade of a train then you can buy it
Apple (more…)

Tags: culture, japanese, misc
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Debugger in nature

January 22nd, 2009 post by ice

Gecko 2008-11-10

I met a debugger in nature at our office balcony on November 7th, 2008.
She(or he) was hiding at the balcony and keeping debugging for our office.
From that time, she joined us for a debugger.
She debuged everyday(…. sorry not everyday…, I often forgot to feed her….).
I debbuged everyday.
Debug! Debug!! Debug!!!

Tags: debug, gecko
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Ancient dishes in new office

January 10th, 2009 post by ice

dishes

woodboxes

woodbox-showa2

I stayed at parents’ home while new year holidays.
There is an old public hall, and it’ll be rebuild.
Before break it, a lot of it’s fixtures are threw away.
In the hall, there were a lot of things that we can take out for free too.

I got dishes, and old wood boxes.
The dishes and boxes are very old.
Wrote ‘January, Showa 2′ on the wood box.
Showa is japanese era name. Showa 2 is 1927.
So ‘January, Showa 2′ is ‘January, 1927′.
It’s very old.

Ancient dishes in new office.

Tags: dish, old
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