Obon Festival in Japan

Aug

15

Obon is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed spirits of one's ancestors. According to the tradition, sprits come to visit once a year around this time and departs when the Obon is over.

Many people take vacation during this time and today, August 16, is the first day of work after a few days of vacation.

Any morning after the vacation, we see peak in email traffic. Many people download may be a week worth of email on Monday morning.

We host a few hundred thousand email accounts from Japan. Many of use are at the office watching the traffic to make sure we do not overload our system. We are experiencing two to three times the email traffic from Japan, but our email system is handling them without any hitch.

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Familiar Sight ... No more public phone.

Aug

15

Because everyone has a mobile phone, there is no need for the pay phone any more. And there are more and more people decide to get rid of the land lines.

There will be no use for the cable TV or Satellite TV either soon. People will be watching TV over Internet. I think that is the way it is going to be anyway.

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High Temperature in Seattle

Aug

15

No, I am not playing golf this weekend. This picture was take on the way to A/C cooled office this afternoon. In case if you are not familiar with the celsius, 36C is 96.8 Fahrenheit. This is very hot.

After living here in the US for 30 years, I am still used to metric system.

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No sales tax sale

Aug

15

It is such a fun to purchase anything at the price that is displayed. Today ist the last day of no Sales Tax Sale at McLendon Hardware.

I bought a tool I wanted buy for a long time yesterday.

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Sea Fair Pirots

Aug

14

I took this picture of Ken Hearing, mayor of North Bend, with Sea Fair Pirots. Temperture was almost 95 degree this afternoon.

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I just love the sound of "NO SALES TAX".

Aug

13

Don't you love the sound of "NO SALES TAX"? I know McLendons is paying the sales tax by discount the product by about 10%. But NO SALE tax sounds better than 10% off store wide.

http://www.mclendons.com/

I just hate paying tax to the State. They just spend it no matter how much we give them. I heard they are giving themselves a raise while they are cutting school and emergency service funds.

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Linked In look a like Virus Email!

Aug

13

There is an email looking like an email from Linked In. Do not Click on those!

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If you are a Mac User, you have lot ...

Aug

12

If you are a Mac User, you have a lot going for you and you know it. But Aperture isn't one of them.

I bought Aperture 3 (Photo Organizing Software) when it came out. It was full of bugs and was not able to use it. It has been a while and there has been many updates for the software. So, yesterday I updating the software to the latest version and imported 49,000 images from iPhoto.

It does not work. Maybe my 2.8Ghz (4GB RAM) iMac is not fast enough, but the software just slows my entire computer down so much that it became useless. I am now deleting the library and getting back to iPhoto.

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SPAM Filtering

Aug

12

SPAM with Zipped File

There have been many SPAM email with some kind of ZIP file attached. They came through untouched by our SPAM filtering system. We have been working on the SPAM filter to catch those SPAM emails without affecting any non-SPAM emails. It was not an easy task, but we think we have manage that and deployed to the live servers today.

The changes made to our filtering system should enable us to catch 80 to 100% of SPAM email that has ZIP file attached. This change will only effect the email with ZIP file attached.

We will continue to monitor and eliminate as much SPAM as we logically can. Thank you for supporting http://www.pspinc.com and its web hosting service http://www.dreamersi.net

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Healthy Sushi ... but not this way!

Aug

12

Okay, now this is gone too far.
I am all for brown rice when I eat THAI or CHINESE FOOD. But for SUSHI, I can't imagine how it tastes. It is wrong.

This is at local SAFEWAY.

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