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1404 140th PL NE, Bellevue, WA 98007, USA
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Did you do something new today?
How about this week?
You must have done something new this month.
Surly you did something new this year.
Is you company doing something new?
How do you stay in business if you don't?
If I don't do anything new, I have no job at PSPINC.
2 Cup Soba Powder (I brought back from Japan)
2 Cup All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Water
Mixed and went into Kitchen Aid pasta maker. It was slow but soba noodle looking thing came out. I will try cooking it for lunch.
日本から買ってきたそば粉を使ってそばを作ってみました。どんな味か、お昼に食べてみます。
We are staring to build a web server using Raspberry PI one board computer. For the cost of less than $40 and the cost of Compact Flash Card, we have a working computer. The question is, can we build ultra low cost web server using Raspberry PI.
If we can and it provides good enough performance, we can com up with vert low cost dedicated server hosting using Raspberry PI. This is one of the many fun project that we try at PSPINC.
http://www.raspberrypi.org
What is Raspberry PI?
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a capable little computer which can be used in electronics projects, and for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn how computers work, how to manipulate the electronic world around them, and how to program.
Many small business IT support Companies are starting to sell Microsoft Office 365 as an alternative to Microsoft Small Business Server running Microsoft Exchange. Office 365 starts at $5.00 per month per person.
How much do you make a month selling this?
Microsoft is not going to give you all the money they get. You are lucky if you get $1 a month. Are you making enough money or you are selling it because there is nothing else.
http://office.microsoft.com
Consider becoming PSPINC's business partner. You all receive recurring income you are looking for with better reseller and customer support than Microsoft. Give us a call and let us show you what we have for you. You will be surprised.
Clock on the URL below to see the list of cameras around the mountain. You can click on each camera and get the image of the mountain.
http://gsi-cyberjapan.github.io/ontake/#11/35.8765/137.4784
It's only $5.95 per month …
Is that cheap.
Our DreamersI service costs $250 per year including 10 Email Accounts, 10GB Web and Domain Name Registration for 1 year. That is only $2 per month per email account and there is no additional charge for Web and Domain name.
I hink we have a better deal. Besides, we host all our services using the software that built from the ground zero. We do not use third party software like other hosting company.
Try us out at http://www.dreamersi.com
Oh, we help you migrate your email too.
If you are an iPhone/iPad user, you might want to get this App … it is free.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/post-it-plus/id920127738?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
It has been a while since iI have seen any Apple Products at Costco. I've seen them in Costco stores in Japan but not in the US. Costco dropped Apple (or Apple stop whole selling to Costco) products when Steve Jobs was still around. It it a significant changes to Apple strategy because we have never associate the word discount with Apple products. Jobs maybe very mad.
i Played golf today. I shot 44 / 52 = 96. I played bad on back nine. I was out of energy.
They give additional 20% discount from the listed price and if you have a coupon you can get additional 10%. Items are not wrapped and they are out of box but their prices are way less than 1/2 off the regular price, way cheaper than the outlets.
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This is one of the last images of tokyo I took on this trip. This is a image of Tokyo Bay from the Rainbow Bridge. I was on a bus on my way to Narita Airport.
A New Sony Action Camera got smaller but still missing the target.
I am sure it is a good good camera but it still missing a very important feature. Think about it, this type of camera will bet beaten up, wet, dropped, go thru mud an so on. This camera does not look well protected. It should have a full casing like GoPro.
What SONY is doing is trying to become GoPro by doing the same type of marketing as GoPro. That will not work. Here are somethings SONY should think about.
- Object Tracking
- 4 K based image stabilization
- Wireless live broadcasting
- Camera locator
- Full stereo sound recording
- Full disposable casing (inexpensive)
What do you think?
I am checking out from the hotel in about two hours and taking a bus to the Narita Airport. It is quite wet today due to the incoming tycoon. I think I am going to able to avoid the heavy wind and rain.
Thank you for all the people I met. I learned a lot and I have a lot of homework. We will keep in touch. I will be back in end of October.
I bought this small cup of drip coffee at Starbucks for 100 yen. I bought this at seven eleven. That is less than a $1.
It is a very good cup of coffee and is very popular in Japan.
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I wonder how much they would cost in Seattle?
I think they would cost at least twice as much and on top of that you have to ay sales tax and tip. With the weaker yen, they seem even more reasonable.
There are three cellular carriers in Japan and they are docomo, au and softbank. It appears iPhone 6 Plus are almost all sold out and only docomo (NTT Group) has any stock of iPhone 6 Plus and most of iPhone 6.
I walked from Giza to Ueno today.
I took a subway from Akasaka-Mistuke, near my hotel, to Ginza where Apple Store is.
I was there around 9:00 and store was closed. I don't think they are expecting huge cloud today. Then, I started to walk North and just kept on going.
I did some gift shipping in Ueno and I just got back to the hotel. It is almost 2:00pm. This day trip took about 5 hours.
Dinner at Fuji Soba ... This complete set is priced for 650 yen (about $6.00) including tax and of cause no tipping. A small cup of very good drip coffee at convenience store is price at 100 Yen (about $0.92).
But not everything is cheap in Japan especially restaurants at hotel is insane. I saw a poster of Trader Vic's restaurant selling steak dinner for 16,000 yen (about $145).
You just need to know where to go and what to eat. Because of the weaker Yen, it is avery good time to come to Japan.
Japan has developed most comprehensive pubic transportation system in the world. You can actually travel pretty much everywhere without having a car.
The main train system was called Japan National Rail (JNR) and was wend by the government. In april 1, 1987, JNR was privatized and became Japan Rail (JR).
So, most of public transportation system, train, buses, airlines and taxies are not funded by the tax money. It is wonderful. I think the US should learn from that.
This is going to be my office and home for next 4 nights.
When there is an Internet connection, I can do 80% of my work.
I think I am lucky that way.
So I am okay for next few days.
The hotel I am staying used to charge money for an Internet access but they stop doing that few years ago.
Now both wired and wireless Internet are included in the price.
Compared to how much hotels cost in Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond/Kirkland areas, This hotel is bargain at less than $200 a night in the middle of Tokyo.
http://www.newotani.co.jp/en/tokyo/
I am on a bullet train heading to Tokyo. Although I am moving over 15mph, it is extremely quiet and stable.
Other than the fact it costs cheaper to fly, I love this train.
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This is a image of one of rescue animals at my parents home. There are 4 cats and 3 dogs. I think my parents house is a go to place for Ashiya Animal Society.
PSPINC donates and host the website for the organization.
http://www.ashiyaanimalsociety.com/
I had Takoyaki yesterday. If you don't know what it is, check out the Wikipedia I listed. It was very hot and good. If you never had it, you should try. You can also buy frozen Takoyaki at Japanese supermarkets in the US. Make sure you buy one that is round not a bell shape one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki
I am leaving my parents house in Ashiya and traveling Tokyo. Have 5 more nights in Japan.
It's another Chinese company went public today. It is the largest IPO in the world.
I have never purchased anything at Alibaba before ... I need to take a look at it.
It is a direct competitor to Amazon ... or is it?
http://www.alibaba.com
I went to Toyota Dealer today. There is an AU shop within it.
There is nobody lining up at this AU store and there are some already available.
Because this is an AU store you cannot buy a SIM FREE version.
I heard iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are cheaper in Japan than anywhere else in the world because of weaker Yen. There are many Chinese people lining up to buy iPhone 6 in Japan.
I had a meeting in Kobe this morning. The next door to the meeting was "Center for Developmental Biology" or 理化学研究所 発生・再生科学総合研究センター in Japanese. I did not know this place was in Kobe.
i am testing too see if Bloguru App works on iOS8.
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I am moving to Tokyo in two days. I will pack a suitcase today and ship it to my hotel in Tokyo. It will cost only about $18 and it should get there in one day. I can also send a golf bag to any golf course in Japan for about $27 round trip. If I do that using FEDEX in the US, it will cost me ten times that.
This carrier service in Japan is unbelievable.
I will show you exactly where I am using Google Map.
I used zoom out to show you where I am in Japan.
It is kind of cool I can do this.
I arrived in Japan safely. The flight from Seattle to Incheon was over 11 hours. I had an hour and half to make it to the next flight. The next flight from Incheon to Kansai took only an hour and 20 minuets.
I am tired now and I am going to seller now.
When the guys building the skateboard ramp wears a hard hat with GoPro logo on it, GoPro must be doing their marketing right. This is what Marketing is all about. Anybody can spend money to advertise but only when people starting to place their logo on the objects without getting paid, the marketing is called successful.
Look at cars and you see Apple, GoPro, Red Bull Logos. They sure have success marketing going.
You got to be kidding.
I would not do this.
I am scared go hight. Only in China.
Can you imagine a national park say Yosemite having this on the half dome?
No way.
More images ===>>> http://www.wimp.com/worldtrail/
Seattle Seahawks lost to San Diego which was named most miserable sports city in the US. Our San Diego team was happy to tell us they beat Seattle yesterday.
Seattle does not play well against the teams from south. Last year it was Arizona and this year it's San Diego.
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We are starting to work on Japanese-Online upgrade. We started this Japanese language learning site back in 1996. It has public area and member area and we have over 100,000 members one point.
We are making entire site open to pubic and cleaning up lots of things. It is not an easy task but we have first mockup for the design. Which one do you like?
PS: We have not decided on any of the design yet. We don't even now if we choose any one out of those 4.
http://www.japanese-online.com
They are building skateboard rink in the park we walk every morning. found the brochure too. It is supposed t be avery big event for skateboarders with many professional borders be there.
Too bad I am leaving to Japan tomorrow.
Please take a moment to like our official PSPINC Facebook page.
We are only 30 likes a way from 1,000 likes. It means a lot to us.
Thank you for your help.
https://www.facebook.com/PacificSoftwarePublishing
Pompom is happy at off leash park. It is another beautiful day in Western Washington.
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I brought back my Canon 5D back so that I can take picture of Aurora. Well, it takes a very nice picture but it is heavy. I will travel to Japan in two days but I will not bring this camera. For business, I think iPhone camera is good enough.
But I must say, 5D with this lens takes such a good picture.
On sale for more than the regular price. They should have fixed it. They said the new guy did not adjust the regular price when he put the price tag.
I shot 47/47 today. It is way too warm for my comfort.
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We are setting up Mac Mail Server on Mac OS X Server. Mac Mail acts differently from Windows and Linux based mail clients including Outlook and Thunderbird. We are trying find out what makes Mac Mail happy.
I received eMail from Apple today. It is not anything special but on the mail list view on my MacBook, it is highlighted in blue. I don't know how you do that. This highlight does not happen on Thunderbird. It tells me there is a hidden feature in MacMail to highlight the email when it is listed on MacMail.
What else are they hiding???
Have you ever purchased Jimmy John's a day old bread? They are $.50 each and they are good. I buy two or three every time I buy a sandwich there.
I don't go to subway much anymore. I like JJ's bread.
I took this picture with iPhone this morning. It will make a very good desktop wallpaper, don't you think? I really like the green on this photo. I saved it in the original size for you to download if you want.
Now you know about Google Email Accounts and Passwords are hacked. You should change your password. You can check and see if your Gmail account is hacked by visiting this site.
https://isleaked.com/results/en
Okay, now we ordered new iPhone. I ordered iPhone Plus. Do you know hope big they are compared to iPhone 5 and 5S? They are going to be big. In my case, I will say good bye to iPad.
Our Internet speed was about 100Mbps up and down. That is very fast for most companies, but we have much bigger pipes than most other companies. Our network guru found a problem and made a change just now.
Big difference. We moved from 100Mbps to 450 to 500Mbps, Now every page loads so much faster. I need to make sure we test our services on slower connections now.
The speed test is done at http://www.speedtest.net
PSPINC just released the $14.95 domain parking program that includes 1 year or domain registration. Unlike just buying a domain, you get to park for an year.
Take a look at http://dreamersi.com/order
Yes, I will have at least one more trip to Japan before the end of this year. I booked my flight again using Korean Airlines and Asiana Airlines. Business class flight on those flights are not too much more than DELTA or ANA flights.
I am doing the same flights to Japan next Tuesday. Flights to Japan are becoming very expensive now.
We have eased SPAM recognition threshold for PSPINC's email hosting service, DreamersI.com. Thee were some false positive SPAM recognition reported by users. The current threshold is considered to be industry standard.
http://spamassassin.apache.org
http://www.DreamersI.com
I am trying taking a moon picture with telescope … It is very hard to make it stable and keep a moon in the center of the screen. I think this is the best I could do with this telescope.
It translates to about 1600mm lens. Compared to $20,000 lens, I spent $200 for this. Not too bad.
Today, there was the Akimatsuri (Fall Festival) at Bellevue College and PSPINC had the display like usual. I walked to bellevue College from my house. It took about 45 minuets and it was warming up.
Today, the temperature went up to 84F (or 29C). I enjoyed the walk but it was getting too warm.
Kei Nishikori stunned top-seed and world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in four sets to reach his first career Grand Slam final. He becomes the first Asian man to ever reach the final at a major.
Japan must be going crazy now.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Actor and comedian Anthony Griffith recounts how 1990 was the most challenging year of his life, as he saw his career start to soar while also dealing with his young daughter's terminal cancer diagnosis.
It is hard to see.
![PSPINC and Cloud Computing]()
You have been hearing about cloud computing for few years now and most of who’s who in the computer industries is providing the cloud computing platforms. Now, you are starting to hear about large corporations stating to move to cloud computing platforms to save money.
But you don’t really hear much about small companies moving to cloud yet. Main reason for that is simple. It is not easy to understand cloud and take advantage of the cloud. Simply, we do not know what the heck it is!
By moving to cloud, you do not have to:
(1) purchase server hardware.
(2) purchase server operating system.
(3) hire IT specialist to maintain your infrastructure.
(4) high speed Internet connectivity.
But in reality you need to hire specialists to select and setup cloud. That might be too expensive for small companies. The cost is prohibiting small companies to move to the cloud environment.
What we need is a solution design to run on the cloud platform. Cloud by itself is a shell and does not provide specific solutions. It is like a computer back in ‘80s. It can do many things so long as there is software for it. Cloud can do many things so long as there is software for it.
It is PSPINC’s mission to start investigate and deign and develop software that design to solve problem for small companies. We are now starting to spend R&D resource for cloud computing solutions.
We have no plan to create a cloud environment to compete with companies like:
http://aws.amazon.com
http://azure.microsoft.com
http://cloud.google.com
http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing
http://www.hp.com/helion
http://www.dell.com/cloud
That will be stupid. We rather provide solution for companies using above cloud environments.
Seattle Seahawks won the first game of the season.
Why are we called Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.?
It is a funny name for Web Hosting Company, isn't it?
Name of the company should reflect what the company do.
When we started our business back in 1987, we licensed PC software and localize them into Japanese Language and publish them in Japan. That was how our business started and that is why our name is Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
http://www.pspinc.com/
SPAM is one of the most used ways to market products and services. Nowadays, even SPAM is more targeted recognizing "Gender", "Age Group", "Race", "Income Demographics" and "Location". When those qualities are considered, can you really call it a SPAM.
But when the targeting is off, email marketing becomes very ineffective. For instance, this is an email I received today. It is a SPAM but it is targeted to female. I think they miss the mark on this one.
We have completed the upgrade of NewsMAIL email engine today. System is not reporting any problem.As of now, any NewsMAIL broadcast using NewsMAIL.com is running this new engine.
http://www.newsmail.com
Our goal is to have a packaged version of NewsMAIL within this month.
Why do we have multiple company cars?
Those cars are used to provide on-site technical support to our clients uses our services. From the wireless network setup to virus cleaning, PC setup to Email setup, our staff can provide technical support to businesses around Puget Sound.
![Okay, its a software, not a phy...]()
Okay, its a software, not a physical engine.
This is just a illustration symbolizing the power.
We are replacing the backend email broadcasting engine for NewsMAIL tomorrow. It is faster and much more stable than the current engine. As a matter of fact, it is the most powerful email broadcasting engine we have ever built.
This new engine development started in November last year and took almost 10 months to compete. One of the biggest projects of 2014 is now complete.
http://www.newsmail.com/
I am going to fly to Japan and back using Korean Air and Asiana Air.
Korean Air 20
09/16/2014 (Tue) 02:15pm Dep. Seattle
09/17/2014 (Wed) 05:45pm Arr. Incheon
Asiana Airlines 116
09/17/2014 (Wed) 07:10pm Dep. Incheon
09/17/2014 (Wed) 08:50pm Arr. Kansai Int'l
Asiana Airlines 116
09/25/2014 (Thu) 01:30pm Dep. Narita
09/25/2014 (Thu) 04:00pm Arr. Incheon
Korean Air 19
09/25/2014 (Thu) 08:20pm Dep. Incheon
09/25/2014 (Thu) 12:20pm Arr. Seattle
It costs twice as much to fly non-stop to Japan and back using DELTA and ANA. I have never flown Korean Air before, so I am looking forward for this.
My doughtier gave me an Useless Box for my birthday to "BUILD".
She gave me a soldering tool kit as well. At glance, it did not look very difficult, and it was not too difficult. But I had to wear reading glasses to do the work. I hate getting old.
It too more than three and half hours to put it together. It should not take more than one if you know what you are doing. Soldering is a lot more hard than I thought. It has been a long tome since I soldered before.
Well, I made it and it works.
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