Tuesday May 13
 
13:41
 
Please do it at home.

Please refain from snotting in the sink.

Some people are so disgusting. I’ve just seen a (Japanese) guy blow his nose into the sink in our company washroom. Not using a tissue - but leaning over the sink and giving it a damn good heave. Over and over. Gross.

Current Tokyo subway poster: “Please do it at home. Please refrain for putting on make-up in the train.”

Suggested toilet poster: “Please do it at home. Please refain from snotting in the sink.”

Friday March 14
 
18:40
 
Just Kill Me Now

My company suddenly blocked logmein today, which I was using to get around the ban on Gmail, and to get access to my home PC.

It shows that they must be analysing the log traffic in closer detail than I thought they were; I’m pretty sure that no-one else was using logmein, so it couldn’t have shown up in huge amounts. Mind you, with the creation of Lick The Lard, the update of The Korean Blog List, and the movement between hosting companies, I have been using it quite a lot recently.

It reminds me that nothing is private when you use company internet. If they’re looking at that level of detail, who’s to say I wont suddenly find my own websites banned because they find I’ve been logging into Wordpress and posting during the day?  Still, they’ve not blocked blogger or Wordpress.com yet, so hopefully blogs are OK.

Life is going to be mind-numbingly-boring without unrestricted internet access again… <sigh>

I have my own laptop at work, which I used to connect to a free Wifi network before discovering logmein. That free network is now gone. I’m thinking of signing up to EM Mobile broadband for 3.6Mbps or 7.2Mbps mobile internet - but that would involve a 1 or 2 year contract, and I have no idea whether I’ll be in Japan that long. I don’t like commitment ;)