Every time I visit Tokyo, I make a time to visit Asakusa. I did the same yesterday. Here are some pictures I took. Because it was Saturday, there were many people, bit this time I noticed many firing visitors.
I was at Tokyo Midtown (Roppongi) meeting with Food and Beverage (F&B) Specialit today. I learn what needs to be done to bring US Brand products to Japan. What Japanese people are looking for ...
When you think about it, it is all in the presentation and branding. What is funny is that we never talked about what food tastes like. I learned a lot today. I am starting to think everything including restaurants and IT ... the bottom line is the perception and branding.
It is very hard to find free WiFi hot spot in Japan. Many places say Free WiFi but they are only available to peoole with subscriptions. But yesterday, the taxi we got on (MK Taxi) had free WiFi. That was great.
In Japan all commercail cars with proper licenses carries green number plates. Any car with white number plates do not have license to carry people commercially. So some times, taxi with no license is called White Taxi. Do not get on them.
I found a ramen shop on the platform of Shibuya Station called RaOh ...
The ramen is 300 yen regardless the size (S/M/L) and it is based on Nisshin's Instant Noodle. Yes, you heard it right, you get to eat instant noodle cooked for you.
I did not have time to try this yesterday ... I will try it if I can in next few days I have left in Tokyo.
Let us assume there is a illness that only one in one hundred develops.
There is a test you can get to see if you have this illness. This test has 95% accuracy.
You went to the doctor and received this test and you were told you have this illness.
Most people including myself miss this. What is your answer?
I arrived at my hotel in Tokyo late last night. All I could do was to take shower and sleep. I woke up around 6:00am ... I wanted to sleep some more but my body is not adjusted to the Japan time yet.
Domain, web and email for your company … I promise we will not rip you off. And we will keep our promise. By the way, we will beat any price without compromise.
Tiny and Nano spent time with all this week while Mayumi Nakamura is in Los Angles and San Diego, California. They have behaved very well and will miss them. Pompom was happy to have company all this week.
I am amazed by the fact companies like Go Daddy and Toyota not only post messages on the Facebook but reply to many of the comments. If the big companies are going that, why not small companies. Are you doing enough?
When we had problem with our primary data center at Seattle Fisher Plaza back in July 4, 2009. We experienced the worst outage in our service history. Our service was out for 30 hours. When everything was recovered but still running with backup generators, we started looking for a backup data center where we can run everything if and when our data center goes down.
We looked for many places but everything we looked at effectively double our cost. We have decided to build out our headquarter building to house 10 racks, additional power supplies, additional A/C units and generators. We have added additional fiber optic to connect between HQ and our primary data center.
Our data center at HQ is one of the most efficient data center facilities with almost 90% of the time; it is cooled with outside air. Plus, Puget Sound Energy supplies our HQ building with alternate energy. Backup generators are on of the most efficient and quietest generators in the market. Most people visiting PSPINC do not realize the generator running when they are running.
Creating the backup data center at HQ was not the cheapest option but it created the most flexibility and security for our customers.
Bloguru now supports image upload up to 4MB per image. Now you can uplaod images taken by your iPhone 6 and 6Plus without resizing them.
Bloguru is a free (and no advrtisement) blog serice of PSPINC. To test this new feature, I have uplaoded large images of PSPINC masconts directly from iPad without resizing them.
HopTile is the easiest way to develop one page responsive web site.
May 22 release:
- Thumbnails in editor (update thumbnail when tile is saved)
- Preview options (desktop, tablet, and phone display modes)
- Public directory & Features/Trending (portal)
May 29 release:
- Add titles to tiles that will appear on hover in public view
- Full width tile background option
- Back-end prep for Dashboard system (manage upgrade, stats, multiple pages, etc)
Why should you choose PSPINC Domain, Web and Email hosting?
Questions
(1) Is PSPINC Cheaper than the others?
(2) Does PSPINC have something other's don't have?
(3) Is PSPINC easier to work with?
(4) Can you talk to a president of PSPINC when you have a problem?
Our design team manager posing in front of Ezell's Express Food Truck … We just happen to come across this truck. We design and developed Ezell's Famous Chicken website.
“Death by PowerPoint” is a phrase you hear in businesses that rely too much on using presentations to convey information. As it turns out, the US Military adopted a PowerPoint-briefing program that is similarly detrimental because of how it reduces complex situations into long bullet point lists that cannot convey the complexities of the world.
PowerPoint has had both positive and negative effects in the military. Some believe that PowerPoint creates an illusion of understanding and control that simply isn't there. On the other hand, if presentations are thorough, you get complex messes that are impossible to understand. This works great on reporters, however, because slides are so uninteresting that they lose interest and stop listening to the information they're hearing.
Tomorrow we will have Board of Director and Shareholder Meeting at PSPINC. We have a very important guests from Japan. We went to SEATAC this morning to pick up our guests.
Many of you utilize Wordpress to develop websites for customers. You have been thinking Wordpress is the best thing for customers as well as you. But you know it needs to up to date or carries several security risks. But you weigh the benefit to the risk and continue to use Wordpress.
Marketing wise, you talk to your customer about the advantages of Wordpress as if they are your strength. But you know everyone who uses Wordpress has the same advantage and disadvantage. You are no different from 1,000 other web developers who use Wordpress. Your only advantage is your sales talk.
You need to be different but you don’t know how. You will not get any bigger than what you are right now doing what you do with the tools that you use. You use SEO and Mobile Compatibility to push your sales but that will take you only so far. You look for recurring income but your business model does not have stable recurring income.
Your Web development price will go down because there will be more competitors. There will be more companies doing what you do. What can you do?
The fist thing is to think about your development environment. Wordpress might be good, even the best for what you do. But Wordpress will not make your company any different for other companies. Drop Wordpress then think about what you can do. What you can do that makes you different? Is it important to be different from others? Just think about it.
If you still think you are better off with Wordpress, I solute you. You may be different from other Wordpress Web Developers, after all. PSPINC is not a Wordpress Web Development Company.
Here are the new buzzwords for high-tech industry for you. It is “Internet of Things” and by the first look, you might just say what the heck are they?
I thought the same way so I did some research. Here is what I think what IoT is. There are things that are inherently Internet ready such as your computer, TV Set Top Box, Tablet and Smartphones. And there are by design not Internet ready such as your couch, refrigerator, bicycle, car, bed, coffee maker, windows, doors, air conditioning, shower and so on. At this point, just about everything is not Internet ready. We call them “Things”.
What if we made them connected to Internet?
Imagine your bathroom is connected to Internet, people will know what time you take shower or if you take shower … no, just kidding. What if the bathroom knows you are running out of toilet paper and it order TP before you run out of it? How about your office drawer knowing when you are running out of supplies and order them for you?
IoT … by having “Things” connected to Internet; “Things” will be much smarter and help your daily life. To accomplish this, Things must understand the environment they are in, by site, smell, sound, weight, temperature and so on. Yes, Things must have sensors and communication devices. They require more IP Addresses than what we have now. Thus, we will be using IP V6.
One of our newest Web & Email hosting companies is called Parcom. Since early yesterday, one of the Parcom's email servers was flooded with email and crashed. We are working with people who run Parcom to recover the server but it is taking a lot longer that we want.
The transfer of the service was so recent that we do not have an access to the servers directly. We must work with the former company to recover the server. Our goal is to move all Parcom customers to PSPINC's premiere Email service DreamersI as soon as possible to avoid this kind of issue.
We are very sorry for Parcom customers who are affected by this. We are working throughout the night to fix this problem. Thank you for choosing Parcom and PSPINC.
People do not have patience anymore to read a lot of materials online. People need "Get To The Point" simple website. For that Traditional website is just way too complicated.
You need one page easy to read and understand, visual oriented website. For that, PSPINC offers HopTile.
Internet traffic is increasing as Japan wakes up from long holiday called Golden Week. We expect as much as 5 times the usual traffic in next few hours.
PC Browser ViewMobile Device ViewGoogle Mobile Ready Test
PSPINC originally developed Personnel Management Systems, Inc. few year back. When Google announced "Mobile Readiness Test" (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/) couple weeks ago, we run the site against it and found that it was not mobile ready.
We immediately start working with Personnel Management Systems, Inc. to make it mobile ready … actually, we made it Responsive web Design. Look what we have done. It passes the test with flying color.
There are more people accessing your web site using mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. If last web rebuild for your web site more than a few years ago, your site may not be ready for smaller browsers.
Responsive Web Design enables same contents to be displayed on PC, Tablet and Smart Phone with one source file. We have developed the CMS/Web Builder software with responsive web design in mind. Let us custom build your web site using the template … It will be much faster and less expensive.
Some of you do not this but eBay started PayPal service as secure way to transfer money between setters and buyers. But now PayPal is separating itself from eBay and will operate as a secure payment service.
PayPal is also contributed to many new ventures. Those people who started new ventures from PayPal are called PayPal Mafia. Here are some people and vetoers started by PayPal Mafia.
Aqua Quip started 1959 … Same year I was born.Weber GrillsGreen Egg
Turkey RoastMeat Loaf
I want one … not meat loaf … green egg
But I don't cook enough.
I visited former Renton Honda location for Aqua Quip's private event.
Median Park where I walk with Pompom every Sunday has a heron … He does not move even when Pompom gets close. I guess Pompom is too small to be any threat to it.
This site by Microsoft looks at your picture and determine how old you are.
I came out 58 … Well it's off by 3 … pretty good job. I wish I looked younger but that does not scything good about the software.