Well, it’s been a long 4 months but I finished my project. I was lead for the network implementation of one of japan’s largest currency exchange companies. The project started from the ground up, all new hardware and lines, including the build out of two data centers and upgrade of the office location and the implementation of a VoIP phone system. Then the migration of their current services from foreign hosted data centers to ones local to japan.
These types of projects are normally 9 to 12 month projects. We had basically 5 months, with a 4 month early completion bonus. So from initial planning, ordering and implementation… we made the 4 month mark!
I spent the last month doing config cleanup, training and documentation. Now, from tomorrow, I am spending my bonus on a vacation. Off to go camping in Nagano for 3 days, then to Okinawa’s Iruomotejima and Ishigakijima for beach bumming and more camping for a week and finally back to kyoto for a 3 day camping/music festival.
After that, I come back to a new project as a PM/Manager for Asian Operations for large financial company.. in Roppongi…
cya on the flip
This is really a fabulous idea. Once this is marketed, I hope they bring it to japan. This “room in a box” idea is just great!
Room in a box. There is a video of the “de-boxing” here.
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.
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..
This is by far one of the coolest dish driers that I have ever seen. Great design even though it resembles a spinal column..
Shimmying master locks..
Takes me back to middle school and high school when I would change the locks of the kids I hated. I think I found out how to do this in an old episode of phrack or 2600 from the bbs days.. Once you do this a few times, you can shimmy it open in about 5 seconds..
Interesting reading about current botnets and storming..
Coincidentally, I have been playing with some passive honeypots, just to see what kind of attacks I am seeing on the fibre connect I have at my apartment. Not much to my surprise, most attacks are originating from chinese and russian ip addresses. I am still trying to fingerprint the probes and see what the trojan being used is or if it is in fact a trojan versus someone just probing for holes. Fun times.
SOCOM for the PSP is fun. 2 kyu study is not.