Another Day in Paradise

Or, not so warm of a paradise. This last day of 2007 presents a very cold high temperature of 8 degrees celsius with a northern wind that makes it seem closer to zero. It was so cold this morning I put off walking the dog (Bo) until he was dancing in the living room and barking in demand for a walk. Also managed to convince the kids that it would be better to stay inside and play instead going to the local department store. But that only lasted so long, so here I am at the local Starbucks sipping on a short coffee while the kids are in the toy department browsing for their next exploit.

Kind of nervous right now since I have an active EUR/USD trade and cannot connect to the internet from here. I wish Starbucks would setup with YahooBB or some other service besides Flet's. Hands down, in Japan Flet's is the worst wireless provider, so if you ever visit, stay away from Flet's. Besides being difficult to register, they only allow two different MAC addresses, which you have to register in advance, and if you want to add more or change, Flet's charges about 3,000 yen for the handling costs - a rip off run by backwards, ignorant, government funded losers. Another way of referring to NTT.

Going out to my friend's house to see in the new year down in Uraga today. Alex and I have been good friends for a long time since Guam days, but recently he moved to Japan, working for yet another friend from Guam. Interesting how all three of us have ended up in Japan. The weather has warmed up since earlier today when I was at Starbucks. It's interesting getting on the Keikyu line and going down toward Yokosuka, because there are so many foreigners - mostly American and military or military contractors.

My Cuties

These are a couple of girls in my life - my daughters - Hannah (above) and Aya (below).

Aya is actually much more nice than this picture portrays, but this is her day in the spotlight at pre-school sports day.

Japanese Keyboards and Leopard

Lately, since upgrading to Leopard, have noticed that after switching between applications sometimes that the keyboard stops working. If I toggle the English key, then the keyboard will suddenly start working. If anybody knows what may be happening here, then please post something.

Blogger Kickstart

Instead of using a hosted domain, setting up the Movable Type, and adding all the links this time around, we decided to use a syndication/blog hosting service. This will probably make blogging a bit more fun, since I will not have to spend so much time locking down and updating to prevent spam attacks. Now all I need to do is get Ecto working with blogger. Every time I try to upload something to blogger, I get some "FUFlickr Failed!!" error. Even after going through the Flickr authorization process, and even when I do not have an image within the blog entry. Interesting.

Now this is an update with Ecto to see if the articles are being updated... testing, testing.... 1, 2, 3...

Cool! Now it works. Here is the solution: before attempting to upload an entry to Blogger, make sure that you have at least one other entry already in the article listing. Or, at least one other posting.