Blog entries

Things that I'm working on, or that I have worked on, such as code for MSX computers, cloud computing, UNIX administration, website development, etc.

January 8th, 2026

Opinions I’m tired of repeating on social media

OPINIONPOLITICSSOCIAL MEDIA

I wrote this to save time. Instead of re-explaining my views in comment threads, I’ll just link here. These are my positions on issues that constantly resurface in social media discussions: LGBTQ+ rights, religion, drugs, sex work, and relationship models.

PHOTO BLOG 8 photo(s)

January 2nd, 2026

Manhole cover reproductions from all Japan at the Shibuya Hands

PHOTO BLOG 6 photo(s)

December 28th, 2025

Red momiji leaves at home are gone (until the next year)

December 24th, 2025

Christmas Even in Japan = KFC

CHRISTMASJAPANSOCIETY

This is the bento section of my supermarket today. Where there are normally a large variety of different meals, today it's basically all chicken...

PHOTO BLOG 4 photo(s)

December 7th, 2025

Cool spotting at the Daikoku PA: Chevy Chevelle (1970?)

PHOTO BLOG 2 photo(s)

October 27th, 2025

Sunny weather in Saitama again

PHOTO BLOG 10 photo(s)

October 25th, 2025

Lotus Emira touring to Lake Yamanaka

October 14th, 2025

Sysadmin lesson learnt today: Docker backups under macOS

MACOSDOCKERBACKUP

Today I learnt an important lesson: Apple's Time Machine doesn't work as a backup solution for Docker Desktop

September 8th, 2025

LEMONADE

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing

(if you get it then we can probably be friends)

September 5th, 2025

Flying back to Japan tomorrow

TRAVELJAPAN

Tomorrow I fly back to Japan. I don’t know how I’m going to handle the crazy temperatures and humidity of the Japanese summer after being in this very comfortable weather for a couple weeks. Wish me luck. 😅

PHOTO BLOG 12 photo(s)

September 2nd, 2025

Photo previews from Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid

PHOTO BLOG 16 photo(s)

August 31st, 2025

Photo previews from Montpellier

PHOTO BLOG 17 photo(s)

August 29th, 2025

More random photos from Paris

August 27th, 2025

Long flights nowadays are very different from what they used to be

TRAVELTECHNOLOGY

I remember that my first flight to Japan in 2001 had a couple of small TV screen hanging from the ceiling... for the everybody to watch the same movie. Now we all have our own big TV with on-demand video. How things have changed. 😅

PHOTO BLOG 8 photo(s)

August 26th, 2025

Some early photos from my trip to France

August 23rd, 2025

CARS

Dropped the Emira for maintenance

...see you back in 30 years 😅

August 13th, 2025

More exotic cars in Omiya

CARS

Left my car at the parking in good company

August 10th, 2025

Street preaching: Loud, Obnoxious, Unwelcome

Yesterday in Omotesando, I was walking to a shop when a van came by with loudspeakers blaring about “God” and “Lord Jesus Christ.” I don’t believe in any gods, I can’t stand being preached at in public, and they were way too loud. To top it off, they were shouting in English… in Japan.

August 5th, 2025

SUMMERJAPAN

39 degrees outside 🥵

Everything out in the sun is getting cooked

August 3rd, 2025

MSX

Met with two very old friends: Nestor and Juan Salvador

And Nestor's the teenage sons

July 27th, 2025

Time for a small celebration

WORKPROJECTS

Managed to finish a project I've been working on for several months.

July 26th, 2025

Video: 300KM in a Lotus Emira to Daikoku PA

CARSTRAVELJAPAN

My friend Bunga and I went on a 300km drive on my Lotus Emira, and he made a nice video about it.

December 2nd, 2015

8bitkick Kickstarter campaign funded

RETROKICKSTARTER

A tribute to the machines that brought computing home in the 1980s