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Getting In The Groove

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As many of you know, I left Deloitte late last month and have moved onto a position within IT Audit at SMBC Nikko Securities. This new position puts me in the thick of a Japanese working environment, which is challenging on many levels – language being the least of which. I look forward to this career change since it pulls out of the rat race that Big Four job have turned into. Long gone are the days where Big Four managers could get regular work and charge exorbitant rates. The competition is stiff and the rates are falling through the … Continue reading Getting In The Groove

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Lazy Sunday

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I’m back in Japan and back to the grind after a good, short vacation on Guam. I was called back to JP for some clean-up work before I change jobs, and also thought it would be a good idea to do some programming on the home development server to release WorkPapers Windy 2011; which is about two weeks past due.Lately, I have been programming a lot of python in order to create a REST API for WorkPapers (http://workpapers.pro). The first version of this API will be used for push/pull/replication functions in this upcoming release of the desktop application. While working … Continue reading Lazy Sunday

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Playing With Python…. Trying To Get Back To Pictures

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Over the last couple of months have really enjoyed studying, coding, debugging a bunch of Python code, but last weekend I got the photo bug again. Going to make it a point to pick up the cameras this weekend and organize photos and shoot a few. Stay tuned.If you are a WorkPapers user and are looking for a next release update, please visit that blog at http://workpapers.pro/blog.After BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, Perl, Objective-C, RealBASIC, and Java, I have found Python! For the cloudy world that we live in these days, with applications being split between the web and desktop (e.g., … Continue reading Playing With Python…. Trying To Get Back To Pictures

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Addicted To Web Apps – 11 Services I Use

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Posting this blog entry to inventory the web apps that I have signed up for over the past year, and to provide a brief commentary on what I think of them. 1) Google – excellent offering for the price. $50 a year amd you get just about everything to run a virtual office, including collaboration.2) Yahoo! – Premium email has undergone a major facelift and is a great location to integrate all thos ‘other’ email addresses one accumulates.3) .Mac or .Me…. whatever – a control freak rip-off. Don’t buy it.4) Salesforce – a great product, especially if you get the … Continue reading Addicted To Web Apps – 11 Services I Use

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Another WorkPapers Milestone – Desktop Release

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Lately, in this blog I try not go on about my pet software project, but cannot help to brag about some milestones. So, I’ve finally done it! About four years ago when I finished the RealBASIC version of WorkPapers (v2x) for Mac and Windows, I started to create a web version, but never got to it…. just could not stretch my time  to make yet another version. The press release is here.This time around I started with the web version of WorkPapers, then went to the drawing board with an almost identical desktop version – interface and function. This led … Continue reading Another WorkPapers Milestone – Desktop Release

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Let The Tablet Wars Begin

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This morning I had the great opportunity to sneak-peak the Samsung Galaxy tablet. Not yet released in Japan, so this was a ‘special’ occasion made available to preview Samsung’s morsel of toy. I have to say, ‘it is nice’. The accelerometer, the touch screen, the screen is all really nice. Okay, okay, you know there is a big BUT coming….Here is a nice picture and article from Reuters.I do not know how to describe what I am about to write, so I’ll be careful. What I notice with the my wife’s Android phone, I also see in the Galaxy tablet … Continue reading Let The Tablet Wars Begin

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Bullet Trains and Small Bladders

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Everybody in this country wants a window seat on the bullet train, but nobody can hold their bladder long enough for a two hour ride to Osaka. So, people like myself who actually like the ‘edge’ leg room and ease of mobility offered by the aisle position, find themselves levitating toward the window seats. When Japanese try to get out of their window seat, some where in their mind they think they can get get by without waiting for you to stand to get out of their way. One Japanese guy found himself sitting back down to wait for me … Continue reading Bullet Trains and Small Bladders

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‘Cloud’ Consultants

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You know when something has gone a bit far and it’s time to differentiate when so-called professionals start (calling themselves that) actually making a profession out of something. Huh? Back in 1987 when I was first hooked up to the internet as an individual through The Well community in San Francisco, I would have never imagined that just six years later job advertisements would appear for full-time email system administrators.  That came to pass and by about 2000 I was not interested in the administrative side of the business of IT any more and started working on consulting projects. Right … Continue reading ‘Cloud’ Consultants

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WorkPapers Release, Some Great OS X Applications

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First things first! WorkPapers Web Edition is now available at https://workpapers.pro. The site still has a few rough edges, but the project has progressed enough to invite blog readers, registered users of the desktop software, and others for a taste of the best work flow software on the ‘net. Register here to get into the provisioning system. At this time all provisioning is manual in order to evaluate load requirements and have a bit more security control over site access. We’ll automate the process in the near future (actually it’s already coded, but not enabled) after we have determined the … Continue reading WorkPapers Release, Some Great OS X Applications

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Accent Zip Password Recovery – A Career-Saver

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The fine folks over at passwordrecoverytools.com sent a request for an evaluation about four months ago, and as I was ensconced in a plethora of security work and programming, I never had a chance to test the tool for a good writeup. That was, until I decided to go on vacation last week and a client sent a password protected zip file without forwarding the password! That same client has decided that since I am on vacation, that my emails are not worth responding to! Hmmm…. Hahhhh! (small bellows of smoke roll out from the ears)Well, the password was recovered … Continue reading Accent Zip Password Recovery – A Career-Saver