PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

PSPINC 2009-2010 Calendar Mouse Pad

Aug

5

PSPINC produces and distributes mouse pads with academic calendar. This year's edition just arrived today. We will distribute those to customers.

Those mouse pads are also available at PSP HQ lobby for free.

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Mayumi Nakamura on Seattle Times News

Aug

5

Click here for the article.

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This week

Aug

3

I am planning to organize what I supposed to be doing. Mainly, I need to organize all the R&D projects. We need to develop better quality control and documentations.

I am also concerned about the amount time each project is taking. I need to get better reporting from the development team.

I know everybody is working hard, but working hard does not mean working smart. We need to handle the project better and faster without adding cost.

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Last day of July.

Jul

31

This month started with the fire at Fisher Plaza. This brought us to operation and direction changes. First of all, we are building a micro data center at the PSPINC HQ building. This building will serve as a fail over facility.

Not having the second data center is a good move, because we do not have enough people to take care of two equally valuable data centers. Plus, having better connectivity with the sound hosting facility under our nose is much easier to manage. Plus whatever the money that we use is now a investment in our facility rather than expense.

We are not going to be building another Fisher Plaza like facility ... But that is exactly the point. I call it a micro data center project. It might be about time data center got smaller and more manageable size.

PS: The heat wave had passed and dogs are happy again.

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I learned today.

Jul

29

SAY WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO.
DO WHAT YOU SAID.

Doing things without saying is worse than not doing it at all. In business, one needs to report to people who is responsible.

You need to turn the turning signal on before you make a turn. When you have turn the turning signal on, you must turn.

I learn this today at Seattle Executives Association.

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Japan-America Golf

Jul

28

Today, we had Japan-America Society Golf Tournament at Echo Falls. The temp. went up to 100 degree today. Very warm ... too warm. I heard it is going to be even hotter tomorrow.

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Seattle Executive Open House

Jul

23

Today was all Seattle Executives Association day. It started with the board of director meeting at Bonney Watson Company downtown Seattle. After the meeting, I wend back to PSPINC and picked up my golf club and went to Seattle Executives Golf outing at Legion Memorial. After a round of gold we went to Seattle Executives Association open house event at Priceless Granite.

The picture you see are pictures I took using my cellular phone at Priceless Granite.

Thank you Priceless Granite for hosting wonderful open house today.

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Fisher Plaza Update

Jul

22

Fisher Plaza is still running using generators ... But from the front, I does not look any different from any day of the week. We expect to see those generators at least next few months.

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I have a guest from Japan

Jul

21

One of our business partners in Japan came to Seattle today to access the Fisher Plaza (Data Center) situation.

I went back to Fisher first time since the fire ... there are three big generators running outside the building. It does look really bad even 19 days after the fact.

I took some pictures but they are not downloaded yet. I will post them in next few days.

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It has been a week ...

Jul

11

It has been a week since we start receiving power at our data center at Fisher Plaza. The entire building is still running using the extremely large diesel generators.

The picture you see here is the picture I took when I went to Fisher Plaza early morning of July 3, 2009. Unfortunately, this was the third time I saw Fisher Plaza dark since 2006.

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