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 [...]

крачкомер за джвакане

вече трудно се трогвам от електронни джаджи, но понякога уцелвам такова чудо, че почти изпадам в екстаз от него. днес е такъв ден — японско фирме произвежда и продава крачкомер за дъвчене.
както знаем от малки, всяка хапка трябва да се предъвква към 30 пъти за оптимална преработка по-натам из червата. както също знаем оттогава, броенето [...]

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 [...]