2005年8月アーカイブ

近視矯正手術をしてから半年たった。今日最後の定期健診に行ったのだが、

「きわめて順調だからもう来なくていいよ」

といわれた。

近視が治ってめがねをしないで暮らし始めて半年たったわけだが、とても快調である。めがねをかけている人を見るとかわいそうな気すらしてくる。

お付き合いのある営業の方と食事をしたときに、私はお酒を飲まないという話をしたら、

「僕の友達は大浦さんと飲んだことがあるっていっていましたよ」

といわれてびっくりした。他社の営業の人のことだったのだが、狭い世界だね。

SOA (Service Oriented Infrastructure) is a convinient word. But it has various meanings from people to people. So when you use SOA, you must clarify its meanings or definition.

Yes, I had very bad meeting today. With this problem.

New book will come soon.

Amazon sent me this book after my order. From this book, I could realize the history of RSS.

Apple, Netscape, Userland, ... Many companies and people developed this framework for describing information.
This also causes the different version of RSS or Atom.

Under this recognition, I hope this freedom of development will last long.

Finally, the final manuscript of my new book was printed out today. I must check the expression and answer it on Saturday.

This was a long way since this March. Yes, it was tough period for me. But I love firefox. I believe open source. And I have a fever to tell people this.
Without them, I can not come this day.

To add useful reference to firefox book, I was seeking web sites. But unfortunately, I could not find it.

Instead of it, mozilla reference was found. Most of the description could be fit to firefox, but not all. And the worse, I found this reference was not under maintenance.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries

One of the most serious problems for open source project is documentation.

Why they deny their responsibilities ? Of course they are Japanese.

Only few makes real decision making.

Firefox's popup block function does not care about popups made by plugins.
So flash can make popup window.

But to add these descriptions to your user.js, you can block this kind of popups.

user_pref("privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins", 2);

McCoy Tyner is one of the favorite jazz artist of me. This album is very unique one.
Piano is surrounded by many strings.

As if I'm watching movie, this album's sound takes me to broad landscape.

Yes, every time I have to make big decision, I listen this album.

When I wake up, I thought that I need to confirm the power of xquery and xupdate.

Saxon implements xquery but does not implement xupdate.
eXist implements both of them. So I tried to use eXist today.

But in Mac OS X, WebDAV is now working well. I can not write any data on WebDAV folders.

Though many problems, I can find xquery is very powerful.

Amazon.com is kind enough to find books.
I've ordered four books to them.

Can you guess what I am interested in now?

HMV Japan start accepting for booking Depeche Mode's new album. So I have booked it.

Their new single is "Precious". I found some fans wrote their blogs about this song.
The release date of this single is third October. Why could they write about this song?

I looked for the Internet. And soon, I found mp3 file of this single is on the web illegally.

I hope the Internet not to kill creativity.

My editor passed me the second manuscript for comming book.
In this manuscript, I made many mistakes. But he corrected them all.

I must thank him.

I have invited tenders for some companies this week.
I met them everyday and explain what I need.

They asked me a lot. I can answer some of them but not all.
To became good business person, it is very hard to be honest.

Today, I got earthquake in Tokyo.

The seismic center was Sendai, the north part of Japan.
We may have more earthquake this year, I think.

Everyday I got many e-mails. I need efficient e-mail management system.
Who knows where it is?

Today is my thirty seventh birthday.

This year, I get colitis. And 30 minutes surgical operation bring me another life.
I also got surgical operation on the eyes. This is LASIC. After fifteen minutes operation, I recovered my eyesight.

I am not sure how many years can I live, I do what I want.

user.js is the file to customize firefox. Mozilla.org prepare (almost) complete references for this file.

I decide to add this reference to my new book. Because it is useful for reader.

But I need the reference of extension or firefox's javascript more. They are not exist in public.

Of course development itself is very important. But the documents are important, too.

In the evening, I visited publisher to get manuscript of my new firefox book.

It is almost perfect for me. Book designer did great job. I want to buy it when I find this book in a bookstore.

This weekend, I must check the contents of it.

When I visited US in May, I went to movie theater to watch Starwars III. So today is the second opportunity for me to watch it.

In the US, fee is about six dollars. But today I paid 1200 yen. This is about double.
Yes, it is easy to say Japan is everything expensive. But we can not compare them only cost.

In the US, theater's seats were full of garbage. The audiences are talking loudly. On the other hand,
in Japan, theater is very clean. No smell, no garbage. The attitude of the audiences are perfect.
I could enter Anakin's world fully.

Globalization can not override good local custom.

以前苦労したのだが、今回はとても簡単だということが分かった。
そのやり方は、xoopsの方を参照。

Many meetings everyday.

Only meetings, things won't turn good.

In Japan, comedy actor/actress are called "gei-nin" and they are one of the idol for young people.

Today, I went comedy show in Yokohama.

Eight parties have fifteen minutes each and play their live show. Audiences are almost girls. The hall was full. About 1000 people are enjoy their live show.

But entertainment industry is very radical. Most of them are disappeared within three years.

I am waiting this day for two years.
First, I should thank Apple Japan. They launched this service almost the same as US.
This is not easy thing.

Japanese elder people prevent reformation. These years, Japanese music industry let their customer inconvenient situation. High price, low usability. When iTunes are popular Japanese consumers, they made copy control CD, to prevent their customers' rights.

This will change our situation.

Mozilla org will launch Mozilla Corporation. I'm not sure what bring this to me and all mozilla products users.
I believe mozilla products should be used widely. This corporation will support enterprise users, I want to welcome them.

But I could not get manuscripts today. I was regrettable. Because I would like to watch StarWars movie today.

Last week I broke my PDA by accident. I brought it to repair center of the manufacture.

Last night I received the repair has finished. I visit there again to get my PDA.
Because I bought it within a year, they did not request me any fee.

First Typhoon has hit Tokyo today.

I stop working early. And I cancelled two meetings planned in the afternoon.

But this typhoon is not strong. Just some raining.

After announcement of stop developing firefox 1.1, we discuss which version should we target?
Version 1.5 will delay. So we decide our book will target version 1.0.

Deer Park alpha was really bad quality. Especially developing extensions.

Good bye deer park, hello firefox 1.0.6.

Name is important. I wrote yesterday. MAMP is another example of this statement.

LAMP is more famous. Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. And MAMP is Mac OS X, Apache, MySQL, PHP.

To tell the truth, I had wrote this word in my book for three years ago. But no one knows this.

I know about DHTML. I know XML. I know javascript. I know XMLHttpRequest.

But, someone named them as "AJAX". This turns out everything. Now many developers are interested them as some new technology.

Yes, name is very important.