My legs hurt whenever I see Mt Fuji now :( 8 hours up, 6 hours down. I was an unprepared idiot and did it all in one go (no nap in a lodge like a lot of people did), and brought only a few onigiri to eat and no money to buy food. 600 yen paper cup of...
I tried having both a desktop and a laptop, and keeping things in sync between them was just too much of a pain, so I went laptop-only. Right now I have a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro 15" with the quad-core CPU, a big fast SSD and gobs of RAM, and per...
Getting a working visa in Japan is sadly a huge barrier to entry for someone who isn't from an English-speaking country and can't just hop onto the JET program or something similar :(
This stuff makes me really regret dropping out of Uni (Comp Sci) to do work instead (PHP/Javascript stuff, a perfect fit). Visa requirements are a bitch :(
Sweden here: In my apartment complex we have the following bins in the basement: Unsorted garbage, newspapers, cardboard, metal (cans/tins), solid plastic, uncolored glass, colored glass. Most people sort their garbage. Where my parents lived in a ho...
Oh, and personally I much prefer the Mac OS Finder to Windows' explorer, no doubt because I've been a Mac user since birth. I could never live without Mac Finder features such as spring loaded folders, columns view, Labels, the sidebar, etc.
You can sort in open/save dialogs in Snow Leopard. Switch to list mode instead of column, thenr ight-click on the column headers to add new columns, and click them to sort.
