Another coup attempt against Arroyo.. This time it was at the Makati Peninsula Hotel. This is of interest because it is where I stayed when I was in Makati for a few days.. Beautiful hotel, fabulous lobby.. but not anymore!
Archive for November, 2007
It is great being in a country with subsidized health care!! Just received my new insurance package for next year and wow, it’s great! It isn’t even the best available in japan, but it is pretty good, dental and eye coverage (except cost of classes) and general health-care related issues. Plus medicine is cheap and co-pays are cheap. Coverage for dependents is even amazing.. why cannot the US do this.. oh yeah, too much corporate interest.
Sometimes this new age hippy crap works and is beneficial, and some times it is just BS. To each their own.
move on already.
This is no Tag, but it is a pretty solid watch.
Because I have nothing better to do.. say study for the 2nd kyu nihongo nouryoku this sunday, here is a interesting traffic breakdown of this site.
Nov 1st - Nov 27th
116 Visits
83 ABS Unique Visitors
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46.34% Firefox
39.02% IE
7.32% GoogleSpider
4.88% Mozilla (Camino?)
2.44% Safari
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67 US
15 Japan
6 South Africa
4 Canada
4 Mexico
3 Brazil
6 England
2 UAE
2 Ireland
2 Germany
1 Poland
1 Serbia and Montenegro
1 Indonesia
1 India
1 Austrailia
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Obviously, by region, the US is providing the most traffic here. Now regionally where is that from..
27 - CO - { El Paso 1, Arvada 2, Boulder 4, Lakewood 5, Denver 7, Wheat Ridge 8 }
7 - MA - { 1 Alston, 6 Boston }
6 - MO - { 6 St. Ann }
5 - NY - { 1 Malone, 2 Bronx, 2 Bronxville }
3 - NC - { East Spencer 1, Charlotte 2 }
3 - NV - { Reno 1, LV 2 }
2 - CA
2 - GA
2 - TX
2 - TN
2 - VA
1 - WI
1 - IL
1 - AZ
1 - LA
1 - FL
1 - WA
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I don’t feel like breaking this down any further right now. Google Analytics is a easy to use tool for gathering metrics. However, I do not believe this accounts for readers using RSS or feed aggregators, so again, these numbers reflect direct visitors.
w00t for Firefox!
And to the UAE brothers, assalam calaykumm.
Finally had a holiday, in the form of a 3 day weekend. Much needed..
Friday, I went to one of the Hiltons here for a thanksgiving dinner with Momoko at a French(styled) restaurant. I originally made the choice on the basis that they were having a Thanksgiving special course. As it turns out, it was the day before, Thursday, instead of Friday (which makes sense, that is thanksgiving in the US.) Friday is a labor day holiday here, so I didn’t connect the dots. Anyways, they were having a seafood holiday special buffet. Actually, it turned out better then the thanksgiving one, as I am not a big fan of turkey. So I enjoyed a variety of fabulous sushi and cooked dishes including cod, grouper, oysters and a few french dishes that I cannot pronounce yet. The desert was amazing also! A 5 tier chocolate fondue with all the fruits you could eat. However, the highlight of the meal (besides maguro and hamachi..) was the pumpkin and pecan pie.. Perfect! Just like grandmas…
In front of the restaurant there was a chocolate covered vespa. I have yet to figure out why.
Afterwards, we met up with some of Momoko’s friends from Kyoto and partied at my place and then we went to see underworld the next night. More to come on that later.
Doing a little research on BPAs, while there is no definite proof that nalgenes are harmful, why risk it. Especially since some of the studies say that nalgenes are completely safe if you replace them every 6 months. That kind of defeats the purpose, now doesn’t it.
So what are some alternatives if you don’t want to wait till march 2008, when camlebak releases their no-BPA water bottles? Here are a few..
kleankanteen.com- High quality, durable, stainless steel “kanteens..”
sigg.ch- Aluminum canteens, most with ceramic linings for those worried about the possiblity of aluminum related sicknesses.
As for other plastic bottles, the plain white nalgenes do not have BPA in them. Other things to pay attention to when buying a bottle, look at the plastic indicator on it. All type 7 plastics have BPAs in them, so the idea is to avoid those. Or buy a new one every six months..
60 of this years most popular japanese phrases.
My favorite is “Sonna no kankei nee / そんなの関係ねぇ.” Or more colloquially as “Kankeinee.”
Woot! I will be going to see Underworld, the Orb and a handful of others this weekend! Here is the event. Should be fun.. All night long in a convention complex. Should be a lot more enjoyable then a club. Have to love the name too.. Makuhari Messe(hall)…