PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Japanese Yen is at its highest since '95

9月

14日

This morning the exchange rate between US$ and Japanese hit the record low for THE US$ since 1995. It is trading under 83 Yen to a US$. This exchange rate (if continues) will have devastating effect on Japanese export economy.

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Replacing Telephones with Voice Over IP

9月

13日

We are now working with Dennis Tyler to replace our aging PBX based telephone system. We are looking at VoIP system. We will let you know how it goes.

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Japanese Fall Festival = Aki Matsuri

9月

12日

Japanese fall festival is taking place at Bellevue College yesterday and today. PSPINC has a booth there.

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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

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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?