rdv live from Tokyo

19 days until I give my thesis to my adviser. 40 days to my first presentation to the faculty on my research. 75 days (assuming that step go...

Right now I'm watching an episode of NHK's Silk Road The imagery of course jaw-dropping, and the culture and history astonishing. ...

The Daily Yomiuri reported a couple of days ago on the "cherry blossom prediction wars". The government Kizocho (meteorological ...

Okay, this is way past cool. Just a reminder that people in fields besides quantum computing are doing awesome work in ways that may fund...

Recently Mayumi took Sophia to Kyoto and Himeji, where they met up with some photographer friends. Mayumi took some fantastic photos . Ho...

[Update: the definitive version of this list has moved to Wikipedia , thanks to Edward. I have also been told that I misidentified Jon Post...

The file-sharing software Winny has been in the news a lot lately here in Japan, none of it good. It has security flaws that cause it to sp...

An article in the Daily Yomiuri today, cribbed from the Times of London, talks about the explosion in mobile phones in Africa. In 2000 ther...

Astronomy tidbits... I've been getting up between 4:30 and 5:00 to look for Comet Pojmanski, but have failed to see it -- either cloudy ...

As long as I'm cranking up the posting meter... A friend of Ted's spotted this one . The idea's been around for a while, I thi...

One of the joys of living anywhere is the rhythm of the seasons, and the Kanto area has a very agreeable climate with wonderful changes. Yo...

Mayumi and Sophia are off to Himeji Castle tomorrow, so I'm jealous, but I did get to snap this photo of a swan in the moat at the Imper...

User Friendly isn't exactly your average comic strip, hey, it's still not that often that quantum computing shows up in a strip . T...

Looks like predictions for when the cherry blossoms arrive are now posted. There's a map as well as more detailed lists, like the one ...

Man, Santa Barbara is the place to be. David Awschalom has been there for years, and they just added John Martinis to the physics departm...

The Japanese government was supposed to auction off two bands for new wireless services sometime soon. I think the use of the bands was goi...

It's still a little early for the annual "cherry blossom front" maps to be appearing on TV and in the newspapers, but Nikkei (...

This is actually sort of pathetic. I may eventually visit all fifty states, but they're making countries faster than I'm visiting t...

Okay, I'm I geek, I think this is cool. Thanks http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1200">Dave . create your own visited states map o...

Several tidbits from yesterday's Daily Yomiuri and Japan Times: JR East has tested a new shinkansen (bullet train) , which they call ...