I am trying to figure out the best solution for calendaring for my wife and myself. Often she’ll make plans, and tell me and well I won’t put it in a calendar. I’ll just forget about it. I don’t make plans weeks in advance, I make them a few days in advance. I thought fine, I’ll set up a google calendar we can share via iCal. I can set up my iPhone to read the calendar and I’ll know when stuff is planned. Right? Well guess what it isn’t so easy. When you set up your gmail account on your iDevice it will set you up with 1 calendar. This is not what I want. I want more than 1 calendar. I want 2 or 3 maybe even 4 or 5. The solution is quite easy turn off Javascript and go to . Select the calendars you want to use…

I currently live in Japan. Most of my friends are back in the USA. Luckily I have the internet. If not for the Internet I think I’d go stir crazy, plus I have no idea what I’d do for work. Anyway, many of my friends and family back home have the latest iPhones. I too have the latest iPhone here in Japan, and as long as we are connected to local wifi networks it is possible to do video chat with Facetime. It all started a few weeks ago. My brother wanted to do Facetime, I personally didn’t care. I had tried a couple times to instantiate the call, and gave up. My brother though was adamant about getting it to work. When making a normal phone call to Japan from the United States you do as follows: 011 + 81 + phone number. Most Japanese phone numbers start with…

I am writing this because I am illiterate. You probably think I’m insane, since no illiterate person would know how to write an article. I am however not insane. I may be literate when it comes to reading and writing english, but when it comes to the language of Japan where I am currently living I am not very literate at all. The Japanese language is comprised of 3 character sets. Kana makes up 2 of them (hiragana and katakana) and Kanji the chinese language set makes up a majority of the language. See kana most used in 2 different ways. “katakana” is mostly used for foreign words with a few exceptions. “hiragana” is used for changing the tense on a word, and for linking words together via particles. There are thousands of kanji characters and to be able to read most news papers you need to know the first…

This post has taken a while to come to a head. I try not to get into political conversations because when I do I get emotional. 20 years ago it was easy enough to stay away from but with the spawning of the internet age and social media it has been harder and harder not to be able to just get away from it. Before the internet age it was easy. Didn’t want to hear the rhetoric from the liberals or the conservatives you had to do 2 things. Turn off the TV and not buy a news paper. You may have to endure a little at work or school, but put on a set of headphones or walk away from the conversation and it was over. Now however with the internet and social media it’s becoming harder to get away from. You read a forum somewhere, and someone is…

Tonight my wife asked me about pilates in the US, and some other thing called gyrotonics. She wanted to try them in the US. The reasoning being she felt that pilates and gyrotonic in Japan were not the same as in the US. She had seen this with ballet in Japan. I went onto google and searched for gyrotonic and pilates in Boston to find out what the rates were. I went to at least 6 different websites that all had links for ‘rates’. Guess what? No rates! Just a message saying to call the studio for more information. I don’t understand this? You have a website, the purpose is to get information out to the general public. You give them a teaser link that gets their hopes up about finding rates, and you dash their dreams by giving them a boat load of crap, and forcing them to call…