After our Evening at Tokyo Disneyland, we awoke the next morning to find this view from the hotel window....

After checking out of the hotel, we headed over to Disneyland to see it for the first time in the daylight. Fumie and Anthony got ear-head-things, Fumie's with a Minny bow, and Anthony's with a Wizard's hat (from Fantasia, the first film my folks ever took me to)....

Lines early on had hour-long wait times, but we'd read about the "fastpass" system that allows you to get a ticket that reserves a spot for later to an expedited line. It doesn't [...]

So, yesterday's post about the start of a short overnight trip to Tokyo Disneyland ended with us arriving at the train station. The station is "right at the entrance", but as with all distances in a Disneyland, things are relative, and it was a fair hike...

I should point out up front that I do realize that the picture quality in today's post is hovering somewhere around "pathetic". We arrived at night and it was quite dark, and I didn't have my good lenses with me (due to our hotel, which was also pathetic; more on that later). I did [...]

So, I'm finally starting to get settled back down after getting a new computer and completely rearranging the physical and electrical layout of my home office and home network (the latter with Apple's AirPort Extreme, the best consumer router I have ever seen, by orders of magnitude). I've still got a ways to go, but at least I'm up with Lightroom and processing photos again.

A week ago we went on a short overnight trip... here are some photos on the way there...

I'll leave it for the next post to reveal our final destination, though I've left subtle clues [...]

So, I'm still getting set up and settled in with my new Mac, and thought I'd share one item I came across. I found that a smattering of web sites were very sluggish -- hanging when trying to resolve their names or fetch pages and such -- with both Firefox and Safari on the new Mac, while at the same time they were fine from my Windows box.

I'm not sure how I figured it out, but I found that in Firefox's about:config manual settings area, if I change network.dns.disableIPv6 from the default false to true, everything was fine in [...]
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Well, I finally got a new computer, though the process itself wasn't particularly smooth. Apple made it difficult for me to give them money, something that neither the consumer nor the Apple shareholder in me appreciates.

As I mentioned the other day, I'm finally going to ditch Windows, an operating system I've lamented having to use ever since, well, having used it. The new quad-core all-in-one iMac with a 27" screen announced recently seems to be an incredible value, both in terms of performance/price and of "tidiness" (since you need just one wire to it, the power cord). It was [...]
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