This year I attended Google IO and had so much fun that I think I'll have to break it up into several blog posts. Google IO is held in San Francisco and is the #1 Google event of the year. About 4000 or so developers attended the event which was held in the Moscone West Convention Center. In this post I'll kind of give the history of the events leading up to the event and some context. One d[...]

This weekend I went to the Python Onsen (Japanese) organized by Voluntas. Python Onsen is an event where people who like or are interested in python get together at a Japanese Ryokan Onsen and program/mingle/study together. The event started Friday but I had to work so I joined everyone yesterday. If you aren't familiar with the Ryokan experience check out the Ryokan link. Essentially you hav[...]

I went to Google Developer Day 2008 in Yokohama Japan yesterday. The keynote speech was pretty much the exact same info as was given at the keynote at Google I/O where Google announced their direction, moving forward the web as a platform. ### Keynote As with the Google I/O keynote it was mentioned how Google feels that Computing power and accessability have kind of flip-flopped over the ye[...]

Google Developer Day Japan 2008 is being held on June 10th at Google's offices in Shibuya and I've registered to attend this year. There were a number of sessions that people could take part in but I decided to register for a Google appengine hackathon. I'm pretty curious about appengine since I've been working at becoming more familiar with really newly evolving technologies and not necessar[...]

I'm in the 'states for a couple weeks visiting family. It's the first time I've been back to the 'States since moving to Japan. Things pretty much feel like I left them. My mom and dad are healthy but my grandfather went into the hospital this week so we went to visit him yesterday. Everybody said that it was crappy waiting around at the hospital but it turned out to be a good experience mee[...]

This past Saturday Reiko and I went to the Awaodori Festival in Kouenji with our friends at the Japanese-English Language and Culture Meetup. Awaodori is a type of dance that originated in the Shikoku island of Japan (One of Japan's four main islands) but has become a staple of summer festivals all around Japan. It's kind of a silly kind of dance with lots of different variations but in it's[...]