PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

The Daylight Saving Hour

Mar

8

The daylight Saving Hour will start tomorrow.
Here is the current time in Seattle…

If you want to display your time zone on your web site, use http://www.clocklink.com
It is a free service of PSPINC.

#Life #Politics #Society

Heavy Traffic

Mar

7

I went to SEATAC today. To get there at 6:00pm, I left Bellevue at 5:00pm. It took little over an hour but the same trip without traffic should take no more than 25 minuets.

Traffic really suck here in Seattle. I wish the railway is more developed.

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When the rain is gone ...

Mar

6

When the rain is gone, I will start driving my restored car, 1959 Mercedes Benz 220S. The nick name is Ponton.

#Bikes #Cars

Tokyo Downtown

Mar

6

When you say downtown Tokyo, which part of the city are you talking about?
Unlike west coast cities of the US, Tokyo developed around the rail stations. So, depending what you are looking for, you need to specify which train station you mean.

This is a image of Shinagawa station. This station is near the large offices sometime headquarters of companies like SONY, Microsoft, canon and other high tech companies.

#Life #Politics #Society

Downtown Seattle

Mar

5

I went downtown Seattle today to attend Seattle Executive Association meeting. We have this meeting every week and I am a member for last 10 years.

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Privatizing the Infrastructure

Mar

4

One thing that most foreigners are surprised when the visit Japan is the public transportation infrastructure. Unlike other countries including the US, most of the transpiration infrastructure in Japan are owned and operated by corporations not government.

The largest rail used to be called Japan National Railway (JNR) was privatized back in March 1987. Since then, no annual strike, no yearly rate hike, no government subsidization.

Post Office was privatized as well in Japan. People in the US think the public transpiration and postal services must be run by the government … think again. It might save everyone money and improve the service.

#Life #Politics #Society

Revisit ClockLink.com

Mar

4

US Pacific Standard Time

ClockLink is the only free clock you can embed in your web site that shots the time of your business' times zone. You can choose from hundreds of clocks. Just visit http://www.clocklink.com

ClockLink is a service of PSPINC.

#Computer #Internet

Tilt-Shift Photo

Mar

3

Original

Tilt-Shift Image

Have you ever heard the term "Tilt-Shift" in the photography?
Please take a look at the photo. By doing Tilt-Shit, objects became miniaturized and gain the appearance of models.

I created this Tilt-Shift image using Photoshop. What do you think?
I posted both original and modified.

#Hobby

Credit to web.com

Mar

3

I decided to cancel Web.com … although I had to call to cancel my subscription and domain with web.com, they did not give me any hard time about it. I respect that. I wish it was like under $10 per month … I would have kept it.

#Computer #Internet

Web.com … Not Cheap After All

Mar

3

After 17 minuets of waiting I get to talk to an agent. He was helpful explaining to me what I sign up. Yes, the $1.99 (actually it was $3.95 with email support) was only for the first month and the any month after that will be $20.95 (actually it was $22.95 with email support).

I asked if they have any cheaper option. He told me there is a Central Hosting that is $14.95 or email only for $7.95. If I want just keep a domain name it will be one time fee of $37.

It started with $1.99/month but it did not stay there long. I would not call it a rip off because the pricing is not that outrageous but I would call it a bait and switch. I feel like a sucker. I asked him to downgrade me to $14.95. It is still $180/year. Not as cheap as I thought.

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