Flea market in Yamato

“Silver week” (a week-long holiday) starts today. Everyone is going away, to the country side or abroad. I have to stay in Tokyo though, so instead I plan to visit as many of the flea markets that take place as possible, and as many of those – on the bicycle. Today I went to the [...]

Biking to a Flea Market in Chofu (geotagged)

We rode to a flea market in Chofu – a small township in the Western part of Tokyo. The market was small and not worth it, but biking to and back was fun, we found a few excellent spots  for picnicing. Some (geotagged) pictures are on the map below (as this post is mostly an [...]

Taiwan disaster

You’ve all seen the news of the typhoon that hit Taiwan this week, and the damage that it has done done.
My heart goes out to the victims of the typhoon and their families. I wish everyone affected good luck rebuilding their lives.

Kymoziu temple

Известният храм Киомизу в Киото.

vgn-sz55b

Summary of the linux install:

xorg.conf.stamina
xorg.conf.speed
/proc/config.gz (for gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r9), as I gave up on ubuntu

Not working:

Thumbnail reader (sony uses proprietary key in the hardware)
Felica card
Adjusting monitor brightness
Hard disk active protection

Have issues:

Camera quality is way inferior to the quality available with the windows software
iwl3945 fails randomly
on ubuntu kernels, there is bug 177895, which makes cpu drain power [...]