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I might have mentioned it before, but back in Sanda there was a bakery I used to visit. I could never work it out, but somehow by buying just two items, I ended up with four bags. It turns out bakery’s aren’t the only places in Japan who have an obsession with packaging.
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Sakura blossoms should be popping out soon! The pink color of the cherry blossoms is already showing. From far away, you can already see pink in the trees. Up close, the blossoms are showing their colors, but none of the blossoms in southern Kyoto have opened…yet. They should open in a few days though.
Here are […]

Current Song: “Tengo Un Amor (feat. Toby Love)” by R.K.M & Ken-Y
Hot off the presses! Newtype’s August issue announced that a second season of Haruhi is going to be made. The official announcement will be made this July 7th on Haruhi’s official website. July 7th, huh? Better look into that date. Isn’t something special happening […]

Just a few more days until my 4th annual trip to Otakon!^^ This year I’m feeling a bit more relaxed. Last year was my first year cosplaying at Otakon and I was pretty nervous, not to mention what turned out to be some really serious problems with one of my costumes. This year, I’m not […]

Japan is known for being a safe place to live and visit. It still is. However, crime is on the rise, mosly theft. The majority of the victims are elderly and the perpetrators are young adults.
Most of the cases involving elderly are cases where someone poses as a family member over the phone asking for […]

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Today, there was an announcement about Dreamhost, having the new Passenger (mod_rails) feature ready for use with Ruby on Rails applications.
The full announcement is here.
It should be changing the way Rails applications are deployed, making it much easier.

Problem
To get used to the new ways of working with Rails 2.
Solution
Here are some of the new ways of doing things in Rails 2.

Create a scaffold and migration on one step:
./script/generate scaffold product fied1_name:string field2_name:string field3_name:float
Make sure that you don’t have any previous migration(ie manually created) for the same model, as the generator […]

A 21-year-old Japanese man was arrested today after posting a message on an online message board where he threatened to kill voice actress and singer Nana Mizuki and her fans at a planned concert. This might have not gotten him in as much trouble had he not described how he was going to kill everyone–by […]

Kotaku is reporting that there is an easter egg in Metroid Prime 3 with the voice of Satoru Iwata (President of Nintendo). I understood about 50% of this without the translation. Yay!

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Translation according to Kotaku:
Hello, this is Iwata from Nintendo. You may not know from an outsiders point of view, […]