文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for January, 2007Kyoto is a photogenic town, but it's not all shrines and cherry blossoms. Not far from where I live, somewhat hidden from the civilized world, is the saddest, most dilapidated, most forsaken place I have ever been in my life: Kyoto University's Kumano Dorm (熊野寮). Last fall, on the same day I took the vine & bamboo photos in yesterday's post, as well as the photos that went into the awesome (if I do say so myself) fall-foliage desktop, I made a visit to Kumano Dorm to get a picture of a scene that I'd seen from the street while [...] 
View full post » A few days after I posted a photo of a vine on a bamboo fence (see the image at the lower left), I went back to see it in a different light. I was surprised to see how much the vine had withered away in just four days (image lower right). Original (in 10am shade) Four Days Later (in 3pm sun)You can also see how harsh the direct sun of the second is, compared with the morning shade of the first. Harsh sun or not, I thought some of the other shots I got that day might make a [...] 
View full post » I thought I'd share this picture that I ran across today (that I shot last fall) of a gardener mowing the lawn. 
View full post » I commented yesterday about the apparently great usability of Apple's just-announced iPhone, and now I have to ask "Apple, are you idiots?" Someone else has had tha "iPhone" name trademarked for six years: Of course, that someone sued Apple over it. Apple, splitting the most infinitesimal hairs, said that because Apple's product is for a cellular phone and the current "iPhone" offerings from Cisco are VoIP (i.e. "internet phones"), Apple is not in violation because "they're different products." I'm not a lawyer, blah blah blah, but isn't this exactly what trademark law is designed for? Quoting from [...] 
View full post » I've never had a cell phone that didn't totally suck. This is as true for you as it is for me, because they are all horrible. The only metric in which a cell phone can't rate "abysmal" is when compared against other cell phones, because there are different levels of abysmal. For example, every phone number in America is 10 digits and of the form "(123) 456-7890", so when you type in 10 digits on an American-market phone (or bring up numbers in your phone book, or receive a call with caller id), why do most of them display a [...] 
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