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New internet connection

Lemon Soju — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:51:04 +0000

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.

Panchira – Up skirt Japanese

Lemon Soju — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:38:57 +0000

For some reason, “up skirt Japanese”, “upskirt Japanese”, and “up-skirt Japanese” are the most popular search terms for my blog from Google. I didn’t intend it to be that way – it just happened like that. I’ve never understood why anyone would search for that.

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.

Aaarrrrrgghhh GOOGLE!

Lemon Soju — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:32:45 +0000

A very pissed off letter I want to send to Google Adsense but can’t because there’s no contact option:

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.

Suicide

Lemon Soju — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:38:07 +0000

I just found out one of the bloggers I used to read religiously about Korea committed Suicide in 2006. Yeah, it took me a long time to find out – but after he left Korea, I stopped reading his blog.

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.

Yaeba

Lemon Soju — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:13:40 +0000

A new search term suddenly became popular on my blog yesterday – Yaeba. I mentioned Yaeba before on my post “The blog for Japanese girls with bad teeth“. Why the term should suddenly become popular now, I don’t know.

A reasonably pleasant examlpe of Yaeba - it can get very bad

Cute Japanese Girl

Lemon Soju — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:02:35 +0000

For comparison, the search terms that bring people to this blog:

Today
cute japanese girl
canon eos 5d mark ii nikon d700 comparis
finepix real 3d w1 sample
panasonic gf1 raw samples
louis vuitton men wallet
hanging knickers
shin okubo sex
them windows 7 tokyo
popcorn hour upscaling
canon eos-1d mark iv compared to nikon d

Yesterday
japanese girls
panasonic gh1 focus points
nikon d90 purple fringe
japan girl
tamron 17-50mm vc
g1 lightroom 2 sharpening setting
tamron 17-50mm vc review
difference between d700 and mark 3d
nikon d3s vs canon 1d mark iv
lumix gh1 14-45

Sex, cameras, and Japan. You bunch of camera wielding perverts :)

Byron Dorgan?

Lemon Soju — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:43:51 +0000

I stumbled up Google trends “hot searches” page. The most searched phrases in the states at the moment are:

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.

40+ days later

Lemon Soju — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:20:45 +0000

After 40+ days, Google has restored my gmail account. No mail to say it was restored. No explanation as to why it was taken offline.

Logging in, there is no mail or spam from Oct 31st to Nov 4th and from Nov 12th until Dec 9th. The gap with some mail in the middle would suggest that my account was restored in that time, though I have never been able to login anytime I tried, and if it was restored, why would they ban it again Nov 12th?

In any case, I’ve lost any mail sent to me between the dates above – with no mail and no explanation – and since it looks like they suddenly banned it again mid Nov, who is to say it wont happen again?

I’ve lost all trust in Google’s “cloud”. No way I’m trusting my docs and stuff to them.

Black Friday

Lemon Soju — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:30:21 +0000

Does anyone else see the irony in “Black Friday Deals All Week“?

Somebody please tell me how to erase this!!

Lemon Soju — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:45:53 +0000

“Thank you too, Michael, I had a great time as well. I’m glad you enjoyed my OTHER pussy ;). I must admit, I haven’t had sex in a while, so getting mounted by such a strong and powerful man was a pleasant surprise after so many long months of abstinence. I hope this message doesn’t scare you off…”

“Oh no! Somebody please tell me how to erase this!! I wrote inside the wrong box! How embarrassing :(“

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