Jitter
As a web developer, I’m asked to attend meetings. Read entry
OMEGALOGIC
Distant echoes of the Internet
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2026-06-23
Added Updates . Read entry
Cardboard
I had to turn down this junior Web developer today. Read entry
Transfigure
My name has a strange characteristic: in French, it is for men; in Japanese, it is for women. People have often confused my gender. Read entry
The Homeless Man
Saw an old frail homeless man in Shibuya. He was cold, and shivering alone underneath the train tracks. Read entry
To The Rescue
Saw a man knocked out at Nippori Station today. Some people were watching, but I went straight to the man to check on him. His nose was bleeding. “Please lay still. This is only superficial. You will be okay,” I told him. A bystander asked me if I was a doctor. I said no, put on my sunglasses, and said “I’m a Web developer.” Read entry
W VISION
Before YouTube and Netflix, even in the era of slow 28.8 kbps dial-up , there were attempts to broadcast video on the Internet for users to watch on demand. Read entry
2026-06-08
Added About . Read entry
Stardust
The most unexpected places sometimes will bring out the most unexpected memories. Read entry
Click Chat
When I was locking myself up in my room to chat with people online in the 90s, I didn’t have Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, or Twitter. None of them existed yet. Read entry
Copy That Floppy
Floppy disks, or diskettes. Well, not exactly floppy—the ones I used mostly were rigid. But they started floppy! The first ones before my time introduced by IBM in 1971 were thin, floppy, and at 8″ in diameter , they were almost as big and functional as uchiwa , round Japanese hand fans. Read entry
I Am Omega
Happy new year, everyone. Read entry
Netscape Ruminator
Thought I wouldn’t write much this month, but here we are with yet another entry in the same month. Good things come in threes. Consider this one a bonus. Read entry
Plastic Love
Alright, I thought my last entry would be my only one for 2024 , but… Since it’s the end of the year, with everything being festive and colourful, I thought I’d write memories about that trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of products made of colourful translucent plastic. Read entry
Host of Christmas Past
It’s that festive season at the end of the year that makes the young excited and everyone else nostalgic. Read entry
Nostalgia
Thought I’d say hi. It’s been awhile. Today, it’s raining cats and dogs outside so most of my plans have been cancelled and I didn’t go out much except to go buy food at the corner store. Read entry
Beige Boxes
Source: Wikipedia/Lamune ,2024-03-30 Techies online sometimes asked what was my first computer. I usually mention the first Windows PC I got, but when I think of it, that is not entirely true. It was indeed the first Windows computer my family owned, but I did have a few fun and sometimes strange computers before that one. As I went back in time of computing and the Internet a few times on here…
X.com
I’m sure by now we’re all aware of the resurgence of the third-to-last letter of the alphabet on the Internet lately, as one of the world’s richest man acquired a popular social platform and turned it into… uh… something. He owned the x.com domain for several years and decided to put it into use, pointing it to the site he now owns. Read entry
2023-08-23
Added Guestbook . Read entry
Offline
Today, you’re on the Internet, practically always connected. Wherever you are, at the office, at a café, at home, in bed, even on a toilet seat… Whenever there is Wi-Fi or 5G, your smartphone, your game console, your watch, your tablet, your computer is online. You can go offline if you choose to. But really, when’s the last time you’ve seen anyone do that? When did you ever turn off a computer…
Retrocomputing
Following the article “ Offline ,” here are some resources to help you relive the days of computing from the past decades. Or if you’ve never experienced it, now you can! For most of the links below, all you’ll need is a modern Web browser—like Firefox or Safari… not Netscape 3 or IE6. ;) Read entry
Video & Arcade Top 10
As I mentioned in An evening in 1997 , one TV show I loved watching regularly was Video & Arcade Top 10 . Read entry
2021-04-26
Published Video & Arcade Top 10 . Read entry
2021-04-12
Published An Evening in 1997 . Read entry
An Evening in 1997
It was a Monday, 5 PM, in the fall of 1997, somewhere in Canada. I finished my first day of school, grade 10, after a nice two-month summer vacation that never feels long enough. It took me about an hour for the bus to take me back home. Read entry