More Tokyo pictures
Just added some more pictures to the Tokyo gallery, including some that are not at night, or not of plastic food displays. It’s no wonder that Toshiba and SanDisk have…
Tokyo gallery
Just started putting a few pictures in my Tokyo gallery, after an amazing evening at the top of the Sunshine City building. The picture (left) is of a strange device…
If you knew sushi like I know sushi…
My second day in Tokyo, and I’m still like a kid in a toyshop. If it weren’t for the fact that these plates are standing on end, and that gravity-resistant…
The Rain-mate revisited
Little did I know, when Christopher Hampson and I went in search of the rain-mate 8 years ago (see this old entry), that of all the blog topics that might…
Soft-soaping the pope
For a bit of balance on the whole Pope issue, try Hans K?ng’s Hoffnungskrise am Ende eines allzu langen Pontifikats. The article is hosted on the website of ‘we-are-church’ ,…
Musipedia – name that tune!
Possibly the most amazing discovery I ever made on the web – Musipedia. I needed to find the name of a folk song that I know by ear, but couldn’t…