http://eroku.com/happy Living the so called life in the Tokyo sabaku.. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:51:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en RANT: Working in a international company in Tokyo, I am afforded the opportunity to work with people not only from Japan and American, but from all over the world. I recently had a discussion with both a partner of the company and my girlfriend in regards to the way people approach ... http://eroku.com/happy/2008/08/09/logical-vs-illogical-reasoning-native-vs-nonnative-english-speakers/ graded. http://eroku.com/happy/2008/08/08/up/ These past two months have been extremely busy for me. Between managing the network design and implementation of this project and the people working under me and being involved in various other projects, I just haven't had time to blog. So a quick update.. It's hot as hell here. Summer ... http://eroku.com/happy/2008/07/13/so-busy/ At the Enterprise 2.0 conference (which I didn’t attend), Don Burke and Sean Dennehey from the CIA gave a talk on Intellipedia, the CIA’s internal wikipedia. As part of their talk, they cited a manual, including, this from page 28: (1) Insist on doing everything through ... http://eroku.com/happy/2008/06/12/how-to-sabotage-a-business-from-1944/ Or something like that. Things have been busy lately.. Busy with work and back to enjoying Tokyo. Having moved to a more clean and green area of Tokyo, I have to say it is quite refreshing. I have two huge parks within 10 minutes bike ride from my apartment, fabulous ... http://eroku.com/happy/2008/06/05/up-up-and-away/ I had my first embassy party last weekend. It was a event at the Canadian embassy in support of Hope International. A charity that builds wells and lends cows to families in need. Right now they are doing a lot in cambodia. It was an interesting time, a lot of ... http://eroku.com/happy/2008/05/12/first-embassy-party/ ehhhhhh! banana phone. Caught on the first day of work as I was leaving my apartment. Well it's been around a month, give or take, since I have posted any updates. If for any reason, because I have been busy. Between trying to recover from jetlag and family induced stress, to starting ... http://eroku.com/happy/2008/05/12/a-month-of-updates/ Sitting at the hospital, waiting for my mom to come out of heart surgery... In the waiting room, there are 19 other people ranging in age from 17 to 70. The 17 year old kid is the only one in here that could be considered a good normal weight. Everyone ... http://eroku.com/happy/2008/04/15/wholy-crapola/ Back in St. Louis for a few weeks.. hit me up if you want to meet up. On a side note.. things here are now as expensive as they are in Tokyo. It blows my mind. Recession anyone? http://eroku.com/happy/2008/04/09/back-in-town/ Since I am sitting at work on my last day, with nothing to do.. I upgraded the ole blogaroo and a few other things. I went to the embassy this morning to have more pages added to my passport. I have to say I was impressed with the efficiency of ... http://eroku.com/happy/2008/03/31/erokudotcom-now-with-wp25-goodness/