Samurai Coder

After eating curry at Indian Oven, I’m feeling sick. Hoping this is not food poisoning, and I will be okay by Monday. I feel the same way the lady in the video does.

I’m on a diet.

I really want to lose weight. What are some good tips for dieting? Is there any desktop app or web app for that?

Update: Thanks for your comments. I don’t need to hire a writing teacher.

If you are related to iKnow!, please send me an email. I’m looking forward to it.

Update: An email is received. Thank you.

Update 2: Don’t ask me about this mysterious blog post. I’m just enjoying this website.

I’ve adopted OmniFocus as my “trusted system”. The problem I’m having is that the app is still crashy.

I want to keep my trusted system to be stable and reliable.

I have spent the last 3 days with Leopard-only. I upgraded to Leopard after making a bootable copy of my Tiger system. Everything went without a hitch. Before making the back up copy, I made sure that my apps were up-to-date at the moment because many developers released their updates to be compatible with the last Leopard beta seed. I also took notes of plug-ins that may use some hacks. Mail plug-ins and Safari plug-ins. I didn’t uninstall them, but just made the note of the names.

I did a default upgrade, not “archive and install”.

Most of the apps without difficulty, though there are some minor issues.

• SuperDuper!, the app I use to make a backup is not fully compatible yet. The developer has a blog on Leopard compatibility.
• Soramoyo, the widget I use to check weather in Japan doesn’t work. I replaced the widget with my home-made Web Clip.

• Safari plug-ins and Mail plug-ins don’t work although I was expecting this to happen. I’m very much optimistic as long as I read many articles that mention solutions for Safari plug-in developers. One problem I can’t forget to mention is that Spamsieve didn’t work for the first time. Following the developer’s instruction, it now works.
• My emobile device works perfectly. No reinstallation was needed.
• 1Passwd, which I thought the most skeptical about its Leopard compatibility, works fine on Leopard.
• My Logitech mouse works without Logitech driver on Leopard.

The biggest problems are Unix-related. But I don’t hurry myself with making every Unix stuff work fine on Leopard. I’m reading a lot of other users’ experiments on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP mailing lists.

So far, my upgrade experience is marvelous. I look forward to see

• More complete and concrete instructions on Unix-related installs,
• Leopard-only apps such as Delicious Library 2, TextMate 2 and the next generation of FlySketch,
• and replacement and enhancement options on Finder appearance and (awful) Dock by CandyBar 3 and DragThing.

As a Mac nerd, I decided to show my thanks to donationware developers.

• Adium
• Growl
• iStat menu
• MacTracker
• Renamer4Mac
• Witch

I spent $10 or €10 for each application. Of course, I still have more apps I’d like to show my thanks for. Not only Apple and shareware developers, many freeware/donationware developers are part of the Mac development community.

I did. Now it’s your turn.

I’ve been calulating how much I spend on technology a year.

• O’reilly Safari Books Library $439.99/year
• Joyent (hosting and backup) Startup plan $99/year
• Backpack Plus plan $9/month
• Japanese magazine yearly subscription
  • WEB+DB PRESS — ¥9324/year (approximately $80/year)
  • Web Site expert — ¥9324/year (approximately $80/year)
  • Web Designing — ¥15369/year (approximately $130/year)
  • MacPeople — ¥8580/year (approximately $74/year)

I also buy iWork and iLife almost yearly, although their production cycle is no longer one release a year. I’m thinking about starting .mac if it gets interesting. That’s $99.95/year. Needless to say, I spend $129 for a new OS biyearly.

Reading Japanese magazines is very important to know what’s on among Japanese web users and web engineers. Spending $440 for the online bookshelf is, eventally, a cut back since getting Engligh books in Japan via Amazon is often more expensive than in US.

Time and money is a trade-off. A lot of resorce I get from books are likely avaiable free on the web, but not with the same quality and ease-of-avaiablity.

This is a lot. Do I need to cut back? How much does average Joe spend a year?

Disclaimer: The reason why so many Japanese boxing game videos are in top videos in YouTube this weekend is not the scope of this website.

Now and then, I feel knowing two languages is disadvantageous. I don’t know much about what’s on in the Japanese web. Neither do I about the English-speaking world. Not so many people around me have a Facebook account. Perhaps I have a personal identity issue. If I try to keep up with both worlds, I need to read way more RSS feeds, watch more YouTube videos and listen to more podcasts. Namely, unfeasible. This website would lose a focus then. This website is specifically designed for me, not you. It’s up to me with respect to what to write.

What’s interesting is YouTube is now multilingual. It seems www.youtube.com is international and the Japanese-translated is on jp.youtube.com. They are not the identical in terms of which videos are shown. I’m not quite sure how YouTube guys and gals filter which one is for Japanese. There should be some needs for non-Japanese nerds who love Japanese videos (i.e., latest TV shows, video games and music videos) How do such geeks feel about this filtering?

How does the filtering work? I went through Help, but can’t find the answer. What about other languages?

I can’t find many videos on Al Gore’s recent achievement there. Didn’t he show up on TV a a lot yesterday or these few days? Most likely this is simply because he knows what YouTube is doing to the environment. The main cause of the global warming is, in my theory, sizzling Intel processors striving for displaying YouTube videos. I’m 100% sure, by the end of the next year, YouTube will be banned in Alaska and Canada.

It’s been hectic. I got a job at Tokyo, and move to Tokyo very soon. I’ve got so many errands I gotta run before and after the moving.

Hoping everything goes well with my new job.

This is a series of artciles. Check Step 1 if interested.

Still finding out a useful way to configure global hotkeys. Here are screenshots of FastScripts menu, showing global and Finder-specific shortcuts.

Finder-specific scripts:

• Open Package Contents — Opens up a bundle like .app. The script is available here.
• Open Projects Folder — My custom AppleScript to open up ~/Projects, where I work a lot.
• Open Terminal Here — Opens up Terminal and move to the directory where I’m currently in Finder. The script is available from here.
• Open TextMate Here — Open up TextMate and opens the directory/file with it. The script is available here.
• Select Regular Expression — Recently found. Seems useful. Daniel’s script.
• Show or Hide Invisibles — Show/Hide the dot files which are hidden by default in Finder. There are many scripts that does this on the net.
• SVN folder — AppleScripts from here. Testing if these are handy or not.

General scripts:

• Change Adium Status — My custom AppleScript that switches Adium Status between Available and Away.
• iPhoto Browser — An automator plug-in that shows iPhoto library. Available from here.
• Kill Dock and Dashboard — An AppleScript to save my life when Dock is dysfunctional. A simple script (i.e., do shell script "killall Dock").
• Open .. folder — the title says it all.
• Resize_Front Window — I’m not using this script as often as I expected. Just resizes the size of the window. For example, I need to my window I’m working on to the centre of the screen with specific width. My custom script.
• Restart Quicksilver — Another simple script does the following do shell script "killall Quicksilver /usr/bin/open -a Quicksilver".
• Update … folder — Two scripts: one for updating iTunes podcasts and the other for updating RSS feeds in NetNewsWire.