Neil Hopcroft

NOW ALL I GOT TO DO IS FIGURE OUT HOW TO POST IN LITTLE LETTERS TO EXTREME LJ

TODAYS OUTING IS ANOTHER OF THOSE GET ON A TRAIN AND SEE WHERE I END UP TRIPS. NOTHING VERY EXCITING TO REPORT SO FAR. I FOUND A LONG AND WINDING MALL AND A PICTURE OF SANTA CLAUS RELAXING ON A NEW YORK BEACH.

Can anyone recommend any *good* SD card playlist management software? The Panasonic SDJukebox program is awful, I’ve just spent about an hour and a half putting together three playlists only to have it forget once I’d finished because I pressed the wrong button:

– the main playlist management screen doesn’t display any track names (you can click where the tracks should be to get more details)
– the selected items get cleared if you change the device they’re targetted at
– the selected items get cleared if you accidentally double press ‘transfer’ because you weren’t sure you pressed it first time (‘cancel’ replaces transfer once its working)
– the selected items get cleared if you sort differently
– it breaks all of the windows applications menu, layout and minimising rules
– it is entirely impossible to drive from the keyboard alone

This is not the Blyth you were looking for…

As if the original wasn’t confusing enough…Stoner Fluxx, a themed version of the unruly card game.

…todays surreal imperative is brought to you as a fine example of Engrish shop naming and a displacement activity while I avoid doing my washing up.

Today I have been mostly context switching. Tomorrow I shall be leaving work at a sensible time and will put my life in order. Now, I kill things…the dishes can wait.

Its now been a few days since I got back to Tokyo, and the jetlag is abating enough for me to be able to think about what it was like being back home, and my feelings about coming back here again….

More self indulgent introspection

Somehow Christmas seems to have leaked over into the Japanese celebrations – this has got to be blatant commercialism. They seem to have taken a whole collection of bad bits and wrapped it up into their own festival.

Theres the screaming kids, the rush of people through the shops, the cheap tat, the irritating songs, the acapella festivals with pop-open christmas trees containing singing fish.

But at least there is flashing lights. As seems to be the way over the last couple of months, I bought a USB christmas tree. Thats gonna have to do for decorations this year. Sadly I didn’t get the driver disk so it just flashes in its preprogrammed sequence – not sure you can actually do much even with the drivers though.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/33974.html

“The nTAG is something you hang round your neck like a conference badge. The devices talk to each other by infrared and are connected to a central server via radio.”

Another wearable computing device destined for the dustbin when the only people wearing them realise that the only other people wearing them are just like themselves.

Yeah, I know, enough of the memes already, but I couldn’t resist this one:

You are VERY antisocial! You do have friends–
probably one to five close friends– whom you
spend a lot of time with, but other than that
you do not spend much time with people your
age! However, this is not necessarily a bad
thing! Since you enjoy spending time alone, you
probably have a good idea who you are, and your
self esteem is probably good too! No need to
worry; you do not have to be a social butterfly
to be successful and living a rewarding life!

HOW ANTISOCIAL ARE YOU?? (rate please)
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