This speed rocks!

Damn, I’m not getting the full 200Mb/s download speed… hehe…

NTT East Hikari Next High Speed Family Plan (ie, for a house rather than apartment block) with Livedoor as internet provider. 200Mb/s down, 100Mb/s up (that’s megabits rather than megabytes). Total cost about 7000 yen/month, including static IP address.

It’s really interesting having such a fast connection. Until I upgraded my LAN to Gigabit, my speed was maxing out at 70Mb/s over 100Mb/s LAN – ie, my internet speed was being bound by my local network rather than the connection to the internet itself. Even now, when I use wireless I “only” get 15Mb/s over g and 30-35Mb/s over n – I’m actually hitting the max of what is possible over my wireless setup.

Well imagine my surprise when I was glancing at a book called “Otaku Encyclopedia” and I came across this:

Would you like to take a photo of my panties?

There is a word in Japanese for taking photos up skirts of Japanese girls! It’s called Panchira パンチラ.

If you squint at the photo, you’ll see there’s a phrase for Panty Thief also – Shitagi dorobo.

This country never fails to amaze me.

Dear Google,

I have been an Adsense user for a long time.

Suddenly you have decided that my earnings must be shown in Japanese yen because I live in Japan. It’s not something I want, but I have to do it to continue with adsense – fine.

However, you tell me I must accept new terms and conditions and these are only shown in Japanese. I don’t speak Japanese. Just because I live in Japan, it doesn’t mean I speak Japanese.

My computer is set to English. My browser is set to English. My account is set to English. But you insist that terms and conditions are shown to me in a language I don’t understand? Ridiculous.

There is no way in Adsense support to contact you about this. No way to get help about the terms and conditions. What am I supposed to do?

It’s bad enough that every time I go to http://www.google.com/ you ignore my PC OS language, browser language setting, Google account language setting, the fact I’ve clicked on “Show Google in English” millions of times, and you redirect me to http://www.google.co.jp/ – but presenting Japanese terms and conditions to me and forcing me to accept them without giving the option of a different language or even be able to contact you about them is just taking the biscuit.

Repeat: PC has English OS. Web browser has English as the primary encoding language. Google account is set to English. Stop thinking that what I really want is Japanese!

Arrrrggghhh!

Of course this letter will have zero effect and I’ll be forced to accept terms and conditions I don’t understand, but writing it made me feel a whole lot better.

One of the reasons I stopped blogging about personal stuff is that people read your blog and think they know everything that is going on in your life. People who read Shawn’s blog had no idea of what the guy was really feeling behind the scenes, and Shawn’s suicide illustrates that.

I actually bought Shawn’s original book when I saw it on sale in a bookshop in Korea. He inspired many people with his blogging and humour.

• Bonnie Beaver
• Chip Munk
• Dick Face
• Dr Slaughter
• Sharon Fillerup

Don’t miss the “Longer submissions” at the end:

Meg Boner sent me this: “This one is real – it’s mine. My maiden name was Meg Ann Childress. Nothing exciting. Well, I married Alan Boner, and now I am Meg A. Boner!”

Today
cute japanese girl
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panasonic gf1 raw samples
louis vuitton men wallet
hanging knickers
shin okubo sex
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Yesterday
japanese girls
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japan girl
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g1 lightroom 2 sharpening setting
tamron 17-50mm vc review
difference between d700 and mark 3d
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Sex, cameras, and Japan. You bunch of camera wielding perverts :)

1. byron dorgan
2. eclipse script leaked
3. randy johnson
4. chicago executive airport
5. angelyne
6. rory markas
7. royal air freight
8. upillar
9. chicago plane crash
10. matt holliday
11. orange bowl kickoff time
12. bill hall
13. nexus one vs droid
14. casey kotchman
15. ye li
16. jet crash
17. new google phone nexus one
18. jon reep
19. dahn yoga
20. minneapolis airport

What is the implication of Byron Dorgan being the #1? Is it that Americans are seeing news about him and don’t really know who he is? I certainly didn’t. But after seeing news about him, I wouldn’t be inspired particularly to search for him – so there must be more going on than that.

Randy Johnson. Snigger.

What happened to the days when free, sex, porn, and mp3 were in the top 5?

Looking at the UK hot topics:

1. google nexus phone
2. mike shanahan redskins
3. casey johnson and tila tequila
4. toyota
5. body scanners
6. sam mendes
7. tna
8. ces
9. american idol
10. dorgan

I can’t believe an American sport is #2 hot topic in the UK. That’s just wrong.

Watching the film in 3D definitely added “depth”, but it was also strange. The way we normally “see”, at any given instant we can switch our focus from something close to something far and it’s the item we’re looking at that is in focus. With 3D film, the object in focus is the one that the camera chooses – even if we look at the background, it doesn’t snap into focus.

Seems obvious but it’s a bit weird having to search for the point in focus each time the scene changes. Some point in the future, we will have the technology where the entire depth of the scene can be recorded in focus and our eyes can switch between the item in focus. People will look back and think this 3D is primitive – but it’s still cool, for 2010. Cool enough to hold me back from getting an LCD TV until 3D TV is out.