PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Typical Lunch in Japan

6月

3日

This is a typical Lunch in Japan. It is about $5.50.

I am traveling to Tokyo today.

#Life #Politics #Society

BLOGURU cound not accept any poting.

6月

3日

BLOGURU.COM cound not accept any posting for last 5 hours. This was caused by preapring the system upgrade in two days. The system was reverted back and is now operating.

We are very sorry about this.

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Blood Pressure

6月

2日

I went to a hospital yesterday with my parents. While we are waiting for my fathers doctor, there was a BP machine. I did it and this was my result. My doc in the US told me that my high BP should be under 120. I need to make it lower I think.

#Beauty #Health

Virtual Business Card Exchange

6月

1日

ScannedCards.com enables you to register your business card and exchange it with others. QR Code (2D Bar Code) is used to represent you and enables you to exchange with the QR capable mobile phone.

When you scan a ScannedCards.com business cards, this is what happens on your phone. It recognize who and give you an option to register (exchange) business card virtually. This eliminate the need to actually exchange business card too.

ScannedCards.com is being developed by Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. It is free to register for now. Please take a look.

The term "QR Code" is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.

#Employment #Jobs #Work

Good Morning from Japan

6月

1日

It is a beautiful June 1st morning in Japan.

#Life #Politics #Society

Group Blog will become a paid service.

5月

31日

Group Blog on Bloguru.com soon will be paid service.

Bloguru.com had a feature called Group Blog which enables people to have a blog open to members only. Bloguru.com is a commercial free blog service, it does not make sense to support Group Blog when it contributes nothing back to other Bloguru.com users. Besides, we have ben reported some unworthy sites operating under Bloguru.com Group Blog.

As we announced about few months ago, we are making Group Blog a paid service. The price will be $20/Yaer for individual and $200/Year for corporation. For those who operate Group Blog, you will be notified from the office soon. You will have three options.

(1) Become a paid customer
(2) Close the account
(3) Make it a public blog

If you are a paid customer of PSPINC, your fee will be 1/2. Thank you for understanding.

This will not effect anyone who has standard blog, not a group blog.

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Using Twiiter

5月

31日

I have restarted using Twitter. I think I am starting to understand how to use Twitter. I am following about 7 people (companies) and 5 people are following me. Following means that I am presented with those peoples posting on my Twitter page. But as I follow more people, I will be presented with more posting everyday. That means I will not b able to read everything. I do not know what the optimal number of people to follow.

Yesterday, Twitter was not reacting very fast ... few minuets later I found out there was a technical error. I think Twitter is still not technically sound yet. I am not saying they are bad. I think they are growing so fast that they are having difficulty keeping up. It is a very good position to be in i you are well funded.

Any how, if you have a Twitter account, please follow me. I will follow you.

http://twitter.com/uchikura

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I saw this in Japan.

5月

30日

This is a picture of a model house (house display) in Japan. I noticed the metal shutters outside of the windows to protect homes from the high wind of typhoons. I have never seen this in the US.

Dont you think it will sell in the US???

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Good Deal on Macintosh

5月

30日

Mac is expensive ... I hear that a lot. And I think if you are just looking at the cost of hardware and OS, it is true. But as for a total cost of ownership, I don't think Mac is any more expensive than PCs.

Once in a while, you see some good price in the Mac hardware. I found one today. $599 for the prev. version MacBook (Black). It only has 1GB of memory and 80GB of hard disk, but you can upgrade them if you want.

Make sure you buy "Apple Care" when you buy any Mac. It covers your Mac for three years. PSPINC or I make not money ... It is just a recommendation.

$599 Deal

#Computer #Internet

From cloudy Japan

5月

29日

I traveled from Seattle to Kansai yesterday, The first leg of my trip was SEA to NRT. It was almost 10 hours and last two hours of the flight was really bumpy. It was so bad that they have to cancel second meal service.

The code name of the flight was Northwest 007 but the plain was painted DELTA. Inside the plain, there are things that says NWA and DELTA. It is in transition I guess.

The second leg of trip was from NRT to KIX (Kansai International Airport). KIX is man made island ... supposed to be sinking few inches every year. The flight I took was NWA 084 and it was an international flight (although it was flying within Japan). I went through health check, immigration and customs in Osaka.

This was really a first time they had people at health check. Actually, we had health inspection people come on board the cabin when I got to Narita. Japanese government is treating swine flu like some kind of killer virus.

Well, I have a weekend to relax. Have a good weekend to you all.

BTW, I have noticed one of the Seattle Executive Association member companies is starting to use Twitter.com. If you have Twitter account, please support them by following. http://twitter.com/SchwartzBros

#Travel