Hideki's Random Stuff

(My intension to this article is meant to complain to whole industry practice, and not meant to call out any particular franchise, so I will withhold its name and location. Also, any names shown on this articles are pseudonyms.)

The story begun when I received a little voucher by the mail -- free gym membership through November. That sounds good, I probably can use some more exercise. But long story short, I ended up wasting 2 hours.

I am now rolling out the project called Hideki Saito OPF. OPF stands for Open Project Funding. The idea of OPF is to giving back to various open projects, such as those licensed under open source license, as well as Creative Commons, and other open licenses, including public domain.

On September 6th, there has been report from Google webmaster's tool that there's something wrong with sitemap.xml -- further inspecting the issue, it was found that there have been some issue in interactive portion of the Drupal website was malfunctioning. As the time goes by, problem started getting worse, once cache expired and contents are dynamically generated, the website eventually starting to melt down, with rather unpleasant error message -- that SQLite database, which was the system was running on was malformed.

Google Chrome OS has built-in shell called crosh, and I have discovered stable release of Chrome OS has built-in SSH subsystem.
Connecting to SSH host is easy part, a little different from typical SSH command line.
Here are steps:

Freenet a "free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship," is now making a move toward censorship resistent social networking system.

I have been observing the issue with Google Chrome mainly on Mac OS X, that in some instance, the browser would show wrong URL and page title.

During Sakura-Con, I had chance listening to Roland Kelts talking about foreigner living in Japan. He said that if foreigners visit Japan, they can't be one of them (Japanese) but they will be able to enjoy benefit of being in Japan without being expected to be Japanese. (and any effort of blending into them will be taken favorably by Japanese.)

Crunchyroll allows me to watch many titles, in fact I'm watching 10 times more than I used to be.
The one I finished recently, is Squid Girl (Ika-Musume). This show certainly isn't the best one I've ever seen, but I enjoyed it a lot. (In fact, Ika-Musume was one of few reasons I signed up for Crunchyroll premium-geso.

Some highlights from this season:

As you probably know by now, North-Eastern part of Japan has suffered major earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which caused devastating damage to the region. They are dealing with many problems still; aftershocks, additional earthquake (yes you heard it right…Shizuoka region got hit by another — not as strong, but still major one) as well as continuing problem with nuclear power plants.