Moving again

It’s Golden week. The period of the Japanese year containing the most national holidays. April 29th – Emperor Showa’s birthday, May 3rd Constitution Memorial Day, May 4th – Greenery Day and May 5th – Children’s Day. For our school this means that we have a break from the 29th of April until the 6th of May. Feels pretty good. Unfortunately I don’t have any money to spend, so I can’t really do anything special. I also have to spend time moving from next week, which is always an unpleasant experience. …

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Apps in OS X I don’t want to be without – Part 2, Backup Solution

Backup, backup, backup! One can never hear these words too much. The reality is that hard drives fail sometimes and sometimes they do it a lot. No one can get away from it, and if you have something that you don’t want to lose, you have to make a backup of it regularly, or preferably two or three backups if it’s very important. There’s a couple of good solutions on OS X Leopard to solve this problem. The most commonly known is probably Time Machine, which is built-in feature in …

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Finally

Yesterday I had my entrance cermony to my new school. I have been waiting a long time for this moment. I was really nervous before getting there. I feel really silly about getting as nervous as I did, but I usually feel like that about completely new things. The fact that I’m going to start studying IT at college level in Japanese feels really weird and really worried about if I will be able to handle it or not. Next week it’s starting for real. Quite exciting!

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Apps in OS X I don't want to be without – Part 1, System Monitoring

Some applications are too valuable to not be a part of your toolbox. I thought that I should write a few lines about my favorite apps that I love and use regularly. The first one up is iStat Menus from iSlayer. This is the ultimate system monitoring software. It sits in your menubar and can show information about all sorts of things. For example the things I choose it to show me is, CPU load, network activity, hard drive info, RAM. It shows the activity of your system through color …

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Not so easy

It seems hard to find employment in Tokyo nowadays due to the recession. I went to Hello Work, a job counseling center in Shinjuku, a couple of days ago. Unfortunetly they had nothing to offer. They seem to have a new policy. If you’re not fluent in Japanese, they try to avoid providing a job for you. It is hard enough to get a job even if you are Japanese, so I guess I’m out of luck. I will do my own job hunting from now on. I will give …

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