The Android project keeps moving forward. Recently, the winners of the Developer Challenge have been announced. Of these, there are a number that I think will be great to have. Locale. Automatically changes phone settings based on triggers. What this means is that you can set your phone to automatically go to vibrate at work [...]
Socialization posed an interesting problem while I lived in Japan. I was the only fluent speaker of English in quite a large radius. I interacted socially with some of my adult students, but there was no way to be completely unreserved with them: they were my students; they paid for my livelihood. Almost as important [...]
Last month, I made plans. The first weekend of this month, I was to go skiing. The last weekend of this month, I was to go to an onsen. Skiing was fun but mostly unremarkable; I took a train there, skiied for a day and a half, and took a train back. There was some [...]