| Title |
Excerpt |
Author |
Date |
Total Comments |
Recent Comment |
| 世界一幸せな男 |
私です。 |
UltraBob |
04/26/08 |
0 |
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| Total Snowboot Existence Failure |
Stuart regales us with his epic tale of loss and new love. |
UltraBob |
02/06/08 |
0 |
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| Getting Stuffit et all without giving out them your e-mail address |
This is probably something that everyone else in the world thought of a long time ago, but I just stumbled upon it recently, and since it was useful once again for getting the bento trial I thought I’d post it up here. Every time there is an update to stuffit,… |
UltraBob |
11/16/07 |
0 |
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| 大阪、神戸の旅 |
今月、妻と一周間か一週間半ぐらい、大阪、神戸旅行に行くつもり。おすすめのレストランとか見た方がいいところの情報、募集中です。宜しくお願い致します。 |
UltraBob |
11/07/07 |
0 |
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| A Quick Warning |
A quick warning to keep listeners from downloading a big video file accidentally. |
UltraBob |
10/31/07 |
0 |
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| Halo School a retry for ipod compatibility |
The first try seemed not to be ipod video compatible so here’s another try. A little smaller in size too. |
UltraBob |
10/31/07 |
0 |
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| Changes in the podcast |
I am currently working on the presentation of the AMPPcast podcast portion of this website so things are likely to break and/or look very plain or strange at times. Also, doing an enhanced podcast seemed a little silly since it took extra time with very little benefit and limited our… |
UltraBob |
09/15/07 |
0 |
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| can’t execute code from a freed script - FIXED |
This is a placeholder for further information on a javascript problem I know I’m going to have to figure out in the near future. Internet Explorers 6 and 7 (is there ever another browser that gives me problems?) throw the somewhat cryptic “can’t execute code from a freed script” when… |
UltraBob |
09/14/07 |
5 |
11/22/07 |
| The Pineapple Chunks Man Vs. The Pony People |
Intro Music to this podcast was The Idiots are Taking Over from NOFX via http://music.podshow.com. We dove right in with Stuart throwing in a U2 reference letting out a somewhat tentative “Rock and Roll Doggy.” After a bit of waffling around about whether we have anything to talk about UB… |
UltraBob |
09/05/07 |
0 |
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| Akatombo Media Presents… a bit otaku |
00:00 Introduction. What is the name of this podcast? 00:30 Firefox Developers Conference in Tokyo 00:60 Using a journey planner phone app to A plan a journey 01:45 Features of EzNavi 02:30 Back to Conference 02:45 Details about the Tepia Building 03:17 Back to the Conference 03:40 Details of the… |
UltraBob |
07/16/07 |
6 |
01/04/08 |
| Akatombo Media Presents Episode 2 - Eric Meyer |
An announcement of the winner of last weeks contest, followed by a recording of Web Standards: They’re not just for purists anymore a presentation by Eric Meyer at a meeting of the Tokyo PC Users Group on May 12th, 2005. Apologies for the typing during the presentation, I was recording… |
UltraBob |
10/30/06 |
0 |
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| When Good Disks Go Bad |
Apologies to anyone who tried to access the site in the last 24 hours or so. The hard disk on our database server pooped out, and though we had a good backup, it was a very time consuming process to get back up and going, mostly because the disk that… |
UltraBob |
10/06/06 |
0 |
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| Podcasting! |
Though the audio quality and many other aspects of the first episode leave a lot to be desired, I hereby proudly announce Episode 1 of the new podcast that will be hosted on the Akatombo Media website. The hosts are yours truly, and Stuart Woodward. Topics will likely include Japan,… |
UltraBob |
10/04/06 |
0 |
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| The NatCast (Episode 1) |
Yeehaw! Finally we release Episode one of the highly anticipated as yet unnamed podcast by my friend Stuart and I. Akatombo Media will be hosting this podcast and we hope to make it a fairly regularly updated addition to the Akatombo Media site. Topics haven't been completely nailed down, and… |
UltraBob |
10/02/06 |
4 |
10/23/06 |
| Setting Default encoding in Mail.app |
Since my menus are in English, Mail.app defaults to sending UTF-8 e-mails, but whenever people using Outlook Express(?) reply to my Japanese language mails it comes back as garbage unless they explicitly set the encoding. This has been a big problem for me, so with some research I figured out… |
UltraBob |
09/11/06 |
4 |
10/09/06 |
| Entering Japanese in TextMate |
One of the big problems with TextMate for me is the lack of ability to handle Japanese text correctly. Anyone who uses it with Japanese will know what I’m talking about. Japanese text entry can pretty much cause the application to freeze, though I find that tapping a combination of… |
UltraBob |
08/17/06 |
13 |
12/16/06 |
| I’m going to start with this today |
Warm, Partly Cloudy, 100% Chance of Brain Rain via 43Folders Keys to catching the brain rain: set aside 10 minutes, each and every day have pen and paper handy allow yourself the freedom to think crazy thoughts don’t worry if nothing really productive springs to mind right away periodically scan… |
UltraBob |
07/26/06 |
0 |
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| cross browser mime type list |
I’m looking for a list of the mime type provided by a browser on upload of different file types to use in some quick preliminary upload validation, but haven’t been able to find any. I may end up having to make the list myself, but since I don’t have a… |
UltraBob |
07/01/06 |
2 |
01/28/08 |
| The hazards of self-taught Dom Scripting |
I just had one of the epiphanies so common in the life of a self-taught programmer. These types of epiphanies seem to be much more common for me in Javascript than in other programming languages. I’m talking, of course, of those moments when you realize that there is a much… |
UltraBob |
06/22/06 |
5 |
09/22/07 |
| 大好きな表現 |
今、私の大好きな洋書の日本語版を読んでいます。やっと、原文で一番覚えている部分まで読み終えました： 『船が空中に浮かんでいるさまは、レンガが絶対に浮かばないさまにそっくりだった。』 詩的ではないですか？ 誰か、本の名前が分かりますか？ 最初に分かった人に、汎銀河ガラガラドッカンをあげたいという気持ちを差し上げます。 Darren wins! 銀河ヒッチハイク・ガイドでした。 |
UltraBob |
05/01/06 |
2 |
05/25/06 |
| Ignore whitespace in a Subversion diff |
Doing some work on a software project, in which part of the modifications I’m doing involve changing the indents on the code to make it conform to the coding conventions I follow and make it easier to easily read the code at a glance. When I have finished doing that… |
UltraBob |
04/27/06 |
8 |
05/29/08 |
| TextMate Find in Project Extremely Slow |
I was having some extremely aggravating problems with Find in Project in TextMate where the program would suck up to 750Mb of RAM and take over 20 minutes to return a search result. Allan, and a couple other people whose names escape me at the moment, helped me to debug… |
UltraBob |
04/27/06 |
2 |
12/13/06 |
| Using PHPfi with TextMate |
<UPDATE> This bundle has been included with the latest version of phpfi (2.1). I’m thrilled that this code will now automatically be available to the group of people who need it. If you code in PHP on the mac, check out phpfi whether you use textmate or not, it truly… |
UltraBob |
04/19/06 |
23 |
11/29/07 |
| Blog translation packages - brainstorming session |
We have been working on ideas for a few new services to offer here at Akatombo Media, and one of the things I’m considering rolling out in the very near future is a service for translating an English blog into Japanese (with the reverse possible should I find a market… |
UltraBob |
04/17/06 |
4 |
06/13/07 |
| test |
This is just a test to see whether my feed shows up in a service when I post to it. |
UltraBob |
04/14/06 |
0 |
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| CSS Nite 6 |
昨日初めてCSS Niteに行きました。会場を見渡すと沢山の人（立ち見も大勢）が来ていて、意外だったのと同時にすごく嬉しかったです。日本でスタンダードを考える人が増えてるのは分かっていたけれど、昨日の来場者数は感動的でした。ずっとスタンダードを基本的に使う日本人デザイナーを捜していたのですが、ここ最近いきなり爆発的に増えたような感じがします。 境 祐司氏の「仕事に役立つ“CSSプランブック”のススメ」は９０％はイントロ、１０％のコンテンツだったので、特にコメントはありませんが、将来インターネットがどうなるかについての予測を語ったところは興味深かったです。 鷹野雅弘氏の「みんな大好き、角丸」は、かなり速いペースでのプレゼンでしたが、結構分かりやすかったと思います。一緒に出席した、CSSについてはビギナーである会社員もほとんど理解できたようです。 トータル的に良いイベントでしたが、最後にジャンケンで『WEBライティングの実践テクニックセミナー』の無料招待券を勝ち取り、最高の夜になりました。ただ私はアメリカ人ということもあって、その券は友人に譲ります。 Thanks to the event organizers! |
UltraBob |
03/17/06 |
1 |
03/18/06 |
| Quick Note to Self |
[22:29] use rsync [09:33] OK, I can do that, I used scp this time, but I still don’t understand how that is going to maintain user settings for non-me users [10:27] run it as root [10:27] use the -a flag [10:27] it will maintain permissions [10:34] ok, but since bender… |
UltraBob |
03/15/06 |
0 |
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| Note to Self - SVN |
Just a quick note to myself as I study up on Subversion and prepare to replace CVS: From the Subversion book: NOTE While your working copy is “just like any other collection of files and directories on your system”, you need to let Subversion know if you’re going to be… |
UltraBob |
03/15/06 |
0 |
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| Paypal Certificate Expired |
Did Paypal let their secure certificate lapse? I’m guessing somebody is in trouble. |
UltraBob |
03/05/06 |
2 |
03/06/06 |
| Change Multiple Text Layers in Photoshop |
A long time ago (like over a year) I sent a photoshop tip to Corrie Haffly (sic?) who, at least at the time, was running the Sitepoint design blog. She published it, and I forgot about it, but a referrer in my logs reminded me of it. Since I use… |
UltraBob |
03/03/06 |
0 |
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| Efficiency Tips |
Reprint from my personal blog: One of the hardest things about running a small business based on providing (mostly) one-time services to clients is that you generally tend to either have way too much or nothing to do. This can make it really hard to get into a good work… |
UltraBob |
03/03/06 |
1 |
04/09/06 |
| mysql socket error with php and pear DB |
This Article helped me to get connected to my mysql db via php on my powerbook for a development project I am working on. By default php was looking for the mysql socket in /var/tmp/mysql.sock, but mysql was putting the socket at /private/tmp/mysql.sock Just a note in case I see… |
UltraBob |
02/10/06 |
0 |
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| Google翻訳のFirefox bookmarklet |
たまにウェブ上で英語のニュースなどを読んでいる時に、「これは日本語でなんて言うかな？」と思う時があります。そこで、簡単に調べるためにGoogleの翻訳機能を使うbookmarkletを作りました。このリンク：[ 英»日 ] をブークマークツールバーにドラッグして、日訳を見たい英語ページを開いている時にそのブークマークをクリックして下さい。 日»英のbookmarkletは英語のブログにあります。 アップデート：サファリでテストしてみましたが、ちゃんと機能するようです。エクスプローラーではどうでしょうか？ |
UltraBob |
01/06/06 |
0 |
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| Google Translate Bookmarklet for Firefox |
I was just messing around on my personalized Google news page which contains items in both English and Japanese, and it occurred to me that it would be really nice to have google’s machine translation available at the click of a button for Japanese news stories I was viewing. I… |
UltraBob |
01/06/06 |
0 |
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| Japanese blogging and stuff |
I’m on the train to Tokyo to meet with a client, give a brief training session on how to operate their new system and hand over the project. We’ve set up their site so that they can easily update most of the content, and there are four pages (two in… |
UltraBob |
12/09/05 |
3 |
09/16/07 |
| Tip Monkies |
I’ve missed quite a few days recently, but none of you care so I’ll stop talking about it. I just wanted to leave a link to Tip Monkies here because it looks like it’s got a lot of great content, I want to go back and read it, and don’t… |
UltraBob |
12/05/05 |
0 |
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| Missing Days |
I missed yesterday, and don’t want to miss today too, but I just got back from a meeting in Tokyo and need to go to bed, so this sorry excuse for a post will have to suffice. |
UltraBob |
12/02/05 |
0 |
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| Incremental Progress on many fronts |
My decision to cut down the amount of media I take in yesterday only translated into a partial shift in actual practice today. I spent very little time surfing the Internet today, and almost no time in my RSS reader, but I spent a lot of time with podcast playing… |
UltraBob |
11/30/05 |
0 |
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| Input Overload |
I’ve come to the conclusion recently that I take in too much stuff. Through RSS, podcasts, television news, video games, Internet surfing, and the constant feeling of need to research more information on whatever it is I’m currently working on; I’ve been leaving myself with way too little time to… |
UltraBob |
11/28/05 |
2 |
04/10/06 |
| Trying my hand at Applescript |
Well, I technically already missed a day since it is 2A.M. as I sit down to write this, but I think we’ll count it. I have to get into bed soon so I’ll be brief. I decided today to try my hand at writing some Applescript for the first time. … |
UltraBob |
11/24/05 |
0 |
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| Back in the Saddle Again (hopefully for real this time) |
It has been entirely too long since I’ve written anything here, or anywhere really. A combination of being extraordinarily busy all the time (I guess if it is a constant situation it isn’t really extraordinary is it?) and just not having inspiration to write anything that I thought visitors to… |
UltraBob |
11/22/05 |
0 |
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| Server to be down briefly |
Our servers will be down briefly this evening, in an effort to reduce the chance of potential future downtime. UPDATE: This has been postponed and will happen sometime in the next couple of days. |
UltraBob |
04/22/05 |
0 |
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| Server Downtime |
Just a quick announcement. Our server was down for a few days due to the, apparently somewhat rare, power supply to our server going bad. We had all of the data backed up, but didn’t have a backup machine waiting in the wings to quickly swap to for circumstances like… |
UltraBob |
04/14/05 |
0 |
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| Prevent the Theft of your Domain |
ICANN, the regulatory body controlling domain name (yourwebaddress.com) has made a (we think) rather stupid change to their Policy on Transfer of Registrations between Registrars. This may sound complicated, but we think it makes it easier for people to steal your domain name. We’ll lay out the details in simple… |
UltraBob |
11/12/04 |
0 |
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| Working with Web Designers - Part I - Preparation |
I have been on both sides of the "hiring a designer" experience. Before I started working as a web guy I was a marketing guy, and during that time I had occasion to hire web designers for various projects I was involved in. That experience was absolutely NOT what made… |
UltraBob |
10/26/04 |
0 |
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| A change in focus |
I was looking back over the articles we have put up on this site, and realized that most of them are targeted at other web professionals. Writing for that target is fine, but this section was originally created to cater to the people we can most help (clients/potential clients). I… |
UltraBob |
10/26/04 |
0 |
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| Server Upgrade |
Our server will be down for a few minutes (knock on wood) later today for an upgrade. UPDATE: All went smoothly, and the server is back up and running like a charm. Sorry for any inconvenience. |
UltraBob |
10/25/04 |
0 |
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| AWS Zone |
Nice little site for people using the new version of Amazon's "AWS." via Daring Fireball Linked List |
UltraBob |
10/20/04 |
0 |
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| CEATEC JAPAN 2004 Wraps Up |
CEATEC JAPAN 2004 has come to an end for another year. Once again it was an interesting and challenging project, and we would like to thank everyone involved. This year's CEATEC had to be finished early due to the arrival of a typhoon, so it closed on the last day… |
UltraBob |
10/10/04 |
0 |
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| Spread Firefox |
Some of you may have noticed the Get Firefox banner in the sidebar on the top page of this site. Firefox is such a superior browser to Internet Explorer that we are participating in the Spread Firefox campaign to try to spread Firefox to new users. The campaign has had… |
UltraBob |
10/06/04 |
0 |
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