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Well this really sucks. I had an accident today by crashing into a car which was turning to a side-street without actually watching if there's anyone on the walkway, while i was riding my bicycle on pedestrian walkway. The result is a nice acrobatic performance (i guess) and broken right collarbone so it will take 3 to 4 months until I can lift stuff again and 3 weeks until the bone will reconnnect again. I can type and stuff like that, but I guess it'll take some time before i will be able to code without taking rests every 10 bloody minutes. Well that really sucks but at least the jerk who was driving the car will get a very nice bill from his ensuranse company next year. Anyway, will try to get new bone grown ASAP :) Broken bones suck ;)

Nuf' said :)

Here's a new CM which will be broadcasted in Tokai area of Japan starting today. I kind of.. made appearance in it :) Have fun :)

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Well it's Friday evening so why no to post something most people won't scratch their head about :)

Here's a few pics of my first lava lamp. Well actually I had one running in Dashboard, but the real one is a real deal :) Thanks to my wife who won this one at lottery at her friend's wedding :D

Just a beautiful rainbow I took with my mobile phone the other day. There actually was a double rainbow at that exact place just 10 seconds before I shot this one, but the first shot with double rainbow was hopelessly out of focus :(

I finally, FINALLY got the internet connection at out new house!! Not only that, but it mind-blowing 100Mbps optical Hikari line. My upload speeds jumped 10x up to absolutely fantastic 700-800Kb/s! Download speeds are yet to be tested but I guess I'll be close to some 1Mb/s when connected to a server with fast uplink. And I now even have an IP phone at home so no analog connections at all :) Yay! Well worth the wait, although it doesn't mean that the time without the Net was not painful :)

 And here are some pics :)

I've been on vacation to Hawaii this week so was.. kind of.. AFK :) Now I'm back and though I still don't have Internet at home till 22th, now I'm back to normal, non-resort life ;)

And below are some pics from the vacation :) Hawaii is a nice place.. :)

Yup you click on an image and it grows big ;) 

Yup. I turned thirty today.

Well there's alot of stuff happening and lots of things I'm learning. But today's entry is not a technical at all :)

News #1: "YahooBB Japan sucks"

Yeah.. I'm without Internet at home until 20th this month. And no, there are no problems with the line being blow up by an anarchist samurai. Not at all! It's just YahooBB decided that since my contract with them ends on 31th of this month, they can just go ahead and disconnect my line on 10th! WTF??

And WTF do they think about when they send me a paper stating "Your contract ends July, 31; ADSL line disconnection was conducted on July, 10. Thank you very much for using our services". Yeah very nice of you to disconnect the line 3 weeks before the contract expires… Spending almost 2.5 hours on phone with the support, shouting and firing nuclear missiles didn't bring any result as support guys seem to be acting according to some service manual ("No, we can not conduct reconnection  until 20th. No you can't send us fax with your clain because we only do support via phone and email.. we are very sorry.. blah-blah-blah"). The only result was that I saved 50 bucks this month on Internet (I don't need to pay this month's bill because of Yahoo's mistake).

Well what I want to say is that if you ever come to Japan and want to connect to Internet here, don't even consider YahooBB Japan services. Because they suck. They make mistakes and they don't carry any responsibility regarding them. Their tech support only available 10:00-18:00, and they don't offer free dial if you call them from mobile phone. Oh well..

News #2: Got the loan!

Well, this one is completely off-topic :) I got a call from the bank today and it looks like our application for the house loan have finally passed! So we will be moving to a new house in the end of this month. Own house. Man.. that's fantastic.. Now the only cloud on this perfect blue sky is of course that there are 35 years of loan repay awaiting me ;) But oh well no pain no gain or whatever :D

News #3: New Ochre's album!!!!!

Ochre have released the new album! Name's "Lemodie" and the genre is IDM (that's for Intelligent Dance Music - a kind of electronic). The guy is incredible and if you're into electronic stuff you should definitely do yourself a favour and listen to some of his compositions. If you want to "try before you buy" you can listen to some freely available mp3's on Ochre's site.

Well it was fun for the first time, it was OK for 10th.. But after first hundred times it seems to become clear enough that I need some patch applied to my poor brain ;)

Here's how you try (unsuccessfully) to get a list of tables in a database ;)
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