Tokyo 1999 - 2001Learned a bit HTML, PHP and SQL by myself when I was in junior highschool, then Delphi, SQL (along with those relational theory stuff) during my education as software developer. I've been doing web development since I started working, mostly in PHP....
Mobile WallpaperMy girlfriend on my iphone
http://dustylittlecorner.com/misc/cthulhu-640.jpg on my computers (well... I've padded it with the background color to make it fit my screen)
National ServiceWe have compulsory military service here in Switzerland, too. You have to serve 300 days until you're retired from the army (at the age of 30, if I remember correctly), with a basic training of 17 or 21 weeks (depends on your function). Afterward, yo...
BerlinI've been in Berlin last year for the 24C3 (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007). I didn't see much of it in daylight though. Spend most of the daytime either sleeping (resting from going out the night before) or in the congress center. :) But I liked...
Greetings From GermanyI usually don't get any jet lag when travelling westwards, especially on flights in the night (for example Hong Kong -> Zurich departs 23:00 in HKG and arrives 06:00 in ZRH), provided that you can get some sleep on the plane. For me, it just feels li...
A Week in Tokyo 10I usually eat my Lunch outside (well... with a 45 minutes commute, going home isn't really an option :) but sometimes, I take along leftover from dinner or a microwave menu.
Too bad that I don't have much choices here for food where I work (it's a s...
Hourly Wage in JapanThe first and only part time job I had was at the Archeology Department. A friend of mine got me the job and we went there together. Our work was cleaning up the mud from stuff they dug up and helping out a civil defense guy. I had an hourly wage of...
Akihabara ShoppingMy Macbook Pro runs with 2GB of RAM (I bought a 2GB module to upgrade it to 3GB but I discovered AFTER I bought it that my first generation MBP only supports 2GB of RAM, so I pretty much wasted the money :( ). It's mostly used for work (PHP coding, e...
MacBook AirWhile I desperately want a light, compact Mac (carrying a Macbook Pro around for a 4 day congress is no fun), the Macbook Air is just isn't very appealing.
I can live without an optical drive (I never needed it except for OS installation) and Ethern...
Broadband in Japanhttp://www.speedtest.net/result/222041057.png
Here's mine, on cable connection. 9Mbit/s down / 900kbit/s up (it's advertised as 10Mbit/1Mbit). I pay 65 CHF (that's around 58 USD/39 EUR) a month for it
Waste disposal in JapanWell... Garbage disposal is quite expensive here in Switzerland so people are motivated by money to recycle. Paper are collected once every two weeks and carboard once a month. There are many collection points for PET bottles (every supermarket has o...
Pocket Money in JapanIn junior high school, I got something around CHF 10 a week but after that, I got CHF 70 a week since I had to have lunch outside (the school was around 20km from home, so getting home for lunch wasn't really a realistic option) and it had to cover f...
Japanese TrainsAt workdays, the public transport here in Zurich runs until around midnight. But on friday and saturday evening, there are night busses/trains (one every hour on most lines after 1am).
Comes in quite handy when you want to have some drinks :)
