Distractions, reflections

David Ing, at large … Sometimes, my mind wanders


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Yesterday

googlereader (feed #7)
3:51am via Google Reader
daviding says: Students, from overseas and mixed with domestic graduates, aren't equal.
googlereader (feed #7)
3:47am via Google Reader
daviding says: The change in technology from film to digital movies alters the economics for cinemas.

March 12th

blog (feed #18)
8:51pm via Brightkite
Tiers of computers at the Toronto Reference Library. Still the placid pool of water at then entry. New wireless world (Toronto, Friday)
blog (feed #18)
8:50pm via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Toronto Reference Library

March 11th

blog (feed #18)
6:44am via Brightkite
City Hall underground parking: remembered location closest to internal stairs, northmost wall (stairs from level 4 to 1) (Toronto, Wed.)
blog (feed #18)
6:42am via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Toronto City Hall
blog (feed #28)
6:38am via IngBrief
Known problem on iPod: can’t see chapter (track) title in audiobook in initial view. After starting, can select list view. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1969622&tstart=0 .
delicious (feed #6)
6:08am via Delicious
Here’s the new process, which will work every time: 1. Import your audiobook using your favorite process, in your favorite audio format. (I’ve written detailed instructions for both standard Audio CD audiobooks and for MP3 CD a...
delicious (feed #6)
6:04am via Delicious
11-22-2008, 12:30 AM I have now released iPod Audio Book Creator to public beta - thanks to all those who helped see http://www.sjhaley.com/ipodabc/index.htm --- 10-03-2009, 11:43 PM I have no desire to ...
blog (feed #28)
5:45am via IngBrief
MP3 tag “Album Artist” (for various artists in a compilation) isn’t commonly supported, but MP3Tag does. http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ .
blog (feed #28)
5:43am via IngBrief
iTunes will read the latest version of the IDV3 … If only has ID3v1.1 tags, it will read/use those. However, if both ID3v1.1 and ID3v2.x tags, it will use the 2.x tags. http://forums.ilounge.com/archive/index.php/t-63246.html
blog (feed #28)
5:41am via IngBrief
On MP3 audio into iPod audiobooks, changing the Album tag to a list gets past the “unknown” audiobook on the first screen.
blog (feed #28)
5:16am via IngBrief
Creating audiobook on iPod from MP3 doesn’t need “MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter” since iTunes 8. http://itunesm4ptomp3.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/mp3-to-itunes-m4b-audiobook/#comment-1303 .

March 7th

blog (feed #32)
11:59pm via Dopplr
David Ing

returned from

a trip to Okayama.
blog (feed #18)
7:56am via Brightkite
Design Festa Gallery, then takoyaki octopus fast food with Roy and Janet, guided by Etsuko who hasn't seen these before (Tokyo, Sunday)
blog (feed #18)
7:53am via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Harajuku

March 6th

blog (feed #28)
10:41pm via IngBrief
Annoyed that iPod Touch has started in recovery mode. Creative Zen would reboot as an independent device, iPod seems to assume full replica on another computer
blog (feed #18)
4:02pm via Brightkite
Korean dinner at Toko, with symposium wind-down. Singing karaoke too often out of range. Music selections reveal ages (Tokyo, Saturday)
blog (feed #18)
4:00pm via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ near Mita

March 5th

blog (feed #18)
12:30pm via Brightkite
Sunny day 20 degrees C, warm for March. Mount Fuji visible from 7th floor terrace. Full day of presentations (Tokyo Institute of Tech, Fri.)
blog (feed #18)
12:28pm via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ near Oookayama

March 3rd

blog (feed #18)
7:59am via Brightkite
Drove Honda racing car simulator Japan Automobile Federation. Free, and Yoshi finds no lineup. Slow, with spongey steering (Tokyo, Wed.)
blog (feed #18)
7:57am via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Japan Automobile Federation

March 2nd

blog (feed #32)
12:01am via Dopplr
David Ing
started a
trip to Okayama.
blog (feed #32)
11:59pm via Dopplr
David Ing

finished

a trip to Shibaura.
blog (feed #18)
2:17pm via Brightkite
Sumo museum, Edo Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hakozaki, Naru Jazz Ochanomizu. Another full day. (Tokyo, Tuesday)
blog (feed #18)
2:14pm via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Kokugikan Sumo Stadium

March 1st

delicious (feed #6)
7:52pm via Delicious
Tokyo jazz bars are plentiful and almost uniformly wonderful. They are often insular places, a world created by the owner according to his or her own tastes. There are bars that play all genres of jazz and bars that play only one style. The record...
blog (feed #18)
10:32am via Brightkite
Tsukiji, Ginza, Asakusa, Shinjuku. Leading worldwind tour with Roy, Jennifer, Linda, Patrick. Sensoji temple new to me (Tokyo, Monday)
blog (feed #18)
10:30am via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Sony Building

February 28th

blog (feed #18)
9:12pm via Brightkite
Pub with zero English service, mimicked for hotpot like next table. Patrick from UK, struggling with chopsticks (Tokyo, Sunday)
blog (feed #18)
9:09pm via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Hotel Villa Fontaine Tokyo Mita
blog (feed #19)
8:59pm via Cocomment
@Pierreo , it's not you. It seems that the Wordpress visual editor has a glitch on the most recent upgrade. I've fixed it manually, and will watch out for this problem on the next post.
blog (feed #28)
8:56pm via IngBrief
Manually fixed relative addressing on new blog post on daviding.com . WordPress editor issue. Friends alerted, me so I do have readers! http://daviding.com/blog/index.php/archive/nippori-textile-town-tokyo/
blog (feed #28)
8:38pm via IngBrief
In Tokyo, just received work that speaker had home emergency, not coming. I’ll have to step up to a public talk I wasn’t expecting. http://www.service-i.titech.ac.jp/info/-20100306.html .
blog (feed #30)
At Nippori, we shopped in Textile Town, and then wandered through the Yanaka Ginza up to Nippori Park at dusk.

February 27th

blog (feed #32)
12:01am via Dopplr
David Ing
started a
trip to Shibaura.
blog (feed #18)
3:55pm via Brightkite
Elite status nice, 5 minute checkin. Extra long regular queue, Friday Beijing flight today. Haven't found Roy (Toronto - Tokyo, Saturday)
blog (feed #18)
3:52pm via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Toronto Pearson Airport Terminal 1
googlereader (feed #7)
5:10am via Google Reader
daviding says: The analysis says that I'm Courier, a democratic type face designed for IBM in 1955. I actually don't like the look of Courier.

February 26th

blog (feed #18)
2:13am via Brightkite
Picked up new business cards. In addition to having my name and title in Chinese characters, added the quarter century club crest
blog (feed #18)
2:12am via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Ray Printing Co Ltd
blog (feed #32)
12:00am via Dopplr
David Ing
went on a
one-day trip to Tokyo.

February 25th

blog (feed #28)
11:42pm via IngBrief
@jazzfm91 I phoned Four Seasons Centre, and got great tickets for Keith Jarrett, June 30. Close enough to hear him hum? http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/2921/62/ .
googlereader (feed #7)
4:54pm via Google Reader
daviding says: Bridging the engineering view with a (radical) management transformation view.
delicious (feed #6)
4:19pm via Delicious
Products * BlackBerry® Devices * BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for IBM® Lotus® Domino® Environment * BlackBerry® smartphone * BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for IBM® Lotus® Domino® * IBM Lotus Notes® Overview 1. ...
blog (feed #18)
1:34pm via Brightkite
Picked up DY at airport. Nice to be a whole family ... for two days until I leave for Tokyo . (Toronto, Thursday)
blog (feed #18)
1:34pm via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Terminal Access Road 3

February 24th

blog (feed #18)
11:49pm via Brightkite
Business meeting in a wonderful farm house redone with meeting rooms. Parking lots filled up with snowboarders next door (Halton, Wednesday)
blog (feed #18)
11:48pm via Brightkite
daviding checked in @ Halton Region Museum

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