PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

iPad is on its way.

Apr

20

I ordered the iPad on April 12th. I just got a notice that it will arrive on April 26th. It is taking two weeks. Whats funny is that there are few more items that I ordered not being shipped at this point. Mainly, the iPad case is taking more time than the iPad itself.

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New Entry Way

Apr

19

We have installed a card reader at the new entry way. Our security system is installed, maintained and monitored by Washington Alarm, another Seattle Executives Association member company.

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Picture of Seattle

Apr

19

This picture was taken before 1985 (because I do not see Columbia Tower in this picture). This is one of many thousands of picture that Rowland Studio has in their archive. PSPINC will work with them to digitize some pictures to be sold on the net.

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Problem with Microsoft Server Update

Apr

18

On April 16th, the Windows update caused all email service definition to be erased completely causing the service to shut down. We can not trust Microsoft to fix their own problem without introducing more problems.

I will try to replace Microsoft components with our own starting next week.

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I played a round of golf

Apr

17

I played a round of golf yesterday from 10:30 to 3:00pm. We were lucky that we missed all that rain.

I shot 96. Yesterday was not one of my better days. The air was really heavy and the ball did not carry very far. Also, entire golf course was aerated so the greens were in bad shape.I three patted more than 10 times.

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This is where I came from ... Osaka

Apr

16

This vodeo has English Subtitle. Enjoy.

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Improving Security

Apr

16

One of the best ways to improve security is to install a video camera. We just did this in our new data center area at our HQ. This system captures and records movements to a server.

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What a majestic bird!

Apr

15

I saw an eagle soaring in the sky today. I happen to carry a camera with 300mm zoom. This picture was taking with that lens.

You can feel how high he was flying. What a sight! Click on the picture to zoom up.

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Being Green

Apr

15

As a operator of multiple data centers, we consume more electric power than most other companies. We are really concerned about that. So to reduce the CO2 emissions and be green, we are

(1) Using "Green Power" from Puget Sound Energy
(2) Reduce electric consumption by using the natural air to cool our servers
(3) Retire old servers in 3 to 5 year period.

It is not alway easy, but we are try our part. Also, we host 35,000 companies email servers using little over 400 servers. That is 98% reductions in server foot print.

http://www.pse.com

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Bee Problem

Apr

14

Every year when the weather gets better, we have bee problem. And every year, we ask local pst control company, Paratex Pest Control http://www.paratex.com/ to take care of them. It is that time of the year again.

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