Happy 20th anniversary Mario!
yeah, I know I’m one day late, but gimme a break….. Super Mario is celebrating its 20th anniversary. (Thanks to Mari for reminding me through her blog.) Yes, the first version of Super Mario Brothers...
View ArticleA&V Festa 2005 in Yokohama
The A&V Festa 2005 will be held this week (Wednesday 21st until Saturday 24th) at the Yokohama Pacifico Exhibition Center. (A&V stands for, if you didn’t guess it, Audio & Video) Entrance...
View ArticleA note about fonts….
Well, it took me about a month (since I transferred my blog to WordPress) to figure out that the default font that it’s setup to use (at least with the Kubrick template) does not exist by default in...
View ArticleReport from A&V Festa 2005
As noted below, there was an Audio & Video exhibition in Yokohama this past week. I promised a report from it, and here it is. First of all, it was not such a big exhibition. It was divided into...
View ArticleReport from A&V Festa 2005, part 2
Moving on with the report from the A&V Festa 2005 in Yokohama, Japan. (First part of the review is in the previous post.) The most exquisite sound I’ve heard in a long time was encountered in the...
View ArticleReport from A&V Festa 2005, part 3
OK, moving along. This last part I will dedicate to some of the smaller, lesser known products which I found kind of exciting. First off is the Mini 2004 Stereo Integrated Amplifier (2 x 12 W...
View ArticleWell that’s Fark for you…..
So CNET announced their Blog100-list and a lot of good blogs and pesudo-blogs ended up being among the coveted 100. And… even though CNET themselves state that it’s hard to define what a blog is; Of...
View ArticleNew cell phones from au
Japanese cell phone operator au (KDDI) presented their “Spring Lineup” of new phones yesterday, and there are a few quite interesting models! The link goes to the au page presenting the seven new...
View ArticleToday is MNP-day
Today is MNP-day in Japan. MNP stands for Mobile Number Portability (Japanese Wikipedia, English Wikipedia) and basically means that you can switch mobile phone provider without changing your phone...
View ArticleiPhone losing market share in Japan
For someone working in the mobile phone industry (oh wait, that’s not the hip way to call it anymore – we’re in the Information Communication Technology industry) it seems I’ve not kept up with trends...
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