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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't been posting lately. Being an assistant professor is a lot of work :-). The Williamson Daily News, my homet...

I'm devastated. Ron is the guy who brought me from Caltech to ISI. He was the sweetest guy on the planet -- and one of the smartest. R...

One season (or half a season) doesn't make much of a trend, but the Daily Yomiuri today has an article on how warm things are in parts ...

R. Van Meter, K. Nemoto, W.J. Munro, "Communication Links for Distributed Quantum Computation," is now available as quant-ph/07010...

After last week's by the men's team over Bard College -- the first NCAA win in eleven years -- the women topped it with their first ...

Winny, the popular Japanese file sharing program, has been linked to at least 27 cases of data exposure from the GSDF (Ground Self-Defense ...

Mount Fuji at dawn on New Year's Day, taken near the border between Yamanashi and Nagano prefectures. Not a bad photo for a little cell...

The FACOM 128B, first placed in service in 1959, has a new lease on life. Fujitsu plans to keep it running until 2019, when it will be 60 y...

Isamu Kaneko, the guy who wrote Winny, one of the most popular peer-to-peer file sharing programs here in Japan, has been convicted of enabl...

The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Tuesday that there is a new robotics association here, with Kyoji Takenaka to be its first chairman. It in...

DoCoMo reported a couple of days ago its first-ever drop in subscribers to its mobile phone service. In the month of November,17,500 more p...

It often comes as a surprise to people who think of Japan as an orderly society, but there's a lot of corruption here. One of the bigge...

Yokozuna Asashoryu finished off the year with a 15-0 zensho yusho (all-wins championship) in the Kyushu basho (tournament). He sewed up th...

Today's Daily Yomiuri contains evidence of the visual blight of Japan that Alex Kerr talks about in his fantastic book Dogs and Demons ....

IIJ, Internet Initiative Japan, is one of the oldest and most respected ISPs in the country. I've never used anyone else. But the day ...

I'm watching a news press briefing right now about the tsunami. It was triggered by an 8.1 earthquake several hundred km northeast of t...

Sorry, I still haven't written up my full notes on getting Fedora Core 6 running on my Sony Vaio Type T laptop, but one tidbit: Sometime...

I had the day off yesterday, and went to the Ueno Go Club (first time) and the Salvador Dali Centennial Exhibition at the Ueno Mori Museum....

One of the most popular entries on my blog right now is the one on getting cpuspeed working right on a Linux laptop. I am almost done with...

I look at this in a different light after reading Alex Kerr's Dogs and Demons , but it's still one of the cool things about living i...