PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Web Server Down

9月

12日

We had one of our web servers go down this evening.

Although we have alternate server setup at our HQ location, our server administrators decided to spend time looking for the problem before switching the service to alternate servers. Because of this foolishness, the service were down for 90 minuets. If we switched the service, it could have been less than 30 minuets.

This is the type of mistake we canno0t afford to make. I really hope they learned their lesson. I am mad as hell for this mistake. They need not only understand this by their head, they need to know it by heart.

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Where were you 9 years ago?

9月

11日

Tomorrow is the ninth anniversary of 9/11. I was in Japan at that time to attend one of the largest computer shows. We had a booth with other companies from Washington State.

We were actually stack there not knowing when we can fly back to the US. All the flights were canceled for a few days. The security was tight. When I got back to Seattle, there are military people with M16 on their shoulders.

That was the the day the air travel became very unfriendly. I wish we could get back to pre 9/11 era.

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Bloguru Invitations

9月

11日

We have issued two invitations per user. Please use them to invite your friends, customers, suppliers to Bloguru.com. Bloguru is an invitation only Advertisement Free blog service.

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Finally It is Done.

9月

10日

We have finally recycled all old servers that we retired from out data center today. It was taking too much space at out office.

To protect our customers, all the hard disks were removed and destroyed separately.

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Inactive Bloguru Users

9月

10日

We have deleted 18 users who did not post anything for 12 months today. We currently have 310 members. Our goal is to make Bloguru an active blog site with many people posting and responding to the post.

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Honda Accord

9月

10日

I took delivery of 2011 Honda Accord from Lynnwood Honda, Rick Fonceca personally delivered the car this morning. Because Lynnwood Honda is the member of Seattle Executives Association (so as Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.), I did not have negotiate to get great deal. Thank you, Rick.

Now my BMW 645 goes out of warranty next year, I need to start thinking about another car. I love car shopping.

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Right Brain, Left Brain.

9月

9日

Take a look at the image below and tell me which way she is turning.

If she is turning clock wise, you are right brain centric and vice versa. I saw her turning clockwise but after I found out I can see her turning another way, I can't see her turning clockwise anymore.

It is very interesting.

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Which way is she turning?

UNION BANK RECEPTION AT SAM

9月

9日

Tonight we were invited to UNION BANK's reception at Seattle Art Museum. There were more than 500 people attended this reception. UNION BANK is a subsidiary of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi. We had account with Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi but they have closed the branch office in Seattle. So now we will be working with UNION BANK.

UNION BANK seems to be very committed to Pacific Northwest expansion. This was a very nice reception with good food and drink.

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Not on the menu!

9月

9日

If you are a restaurant owner and you wanted to sell something over the others, you will have a SPECIAL on the menu. And it is safe to assume everything that you have for sale is on the menu. If you don't put something on the menu, you will not likely to sell the item not on the menu.

But when it comes to Internet and Computer technologies, there are so many thing the company like us can do, that it is almost impossible to create a menu that contain everything that we can provide. But it is our job to do so. Even the simple things like, we can sell and repair computers, must be on our menu. We of cause do that, but it is not so clear to everyone outside.

Also, having what we can provide clearly define what we cannot provide. That is very important too.

* The picture is our Japanese Language Advertisement that we are currently running in Southern California explaining what we do. We do not sell hardware in California. We provide web Hosting and Web Developments.

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