December 2010
8 posts
Tokyo to Kyoto
After a mostly sleepless night in a Tokyo hotel, I decided that perhaps staying in the Temple in the same room as my lovely parents for four days might not be the best idea we ever had.
3am hostel.com booking later and I was booked into K’s House hostel in Kyoto.
We caught the Bullet train up from Tokyo and I had my first chance to test out my new camera and its 14x zoom of awesome. Ahh.....
A first taste of japan
So after flying out of Sydney Airport on Christmas morning, its been a whirlwind of experience.
Its not just the stepping from (admittedly tame) steamy Sydney summer to the decidedly frigid and incredibly vibrant streets of central Tokyo.
The thing that astounded me the most is the sheer size of all the buildings. It takes a while to take it the sheer size of almost all the buildings in central...
loved When morons try to teach. on Boxee →
sweet little clip about modern day "enlightenment"... →
loved GI Joe PSAs on Boxee →
Google's nGram reveals changing flavour of words -...
Google recently released its NGram viewer, which allows you to graph the popularity of words in book since 1800.
Its amazing to see how culture, that is the written word, reflects both history, and the changing nature of words.
First cab off the rank was war and peace, and predictably, war has always been more prominent than peace, although they both saw large spikes around the two world...
Devising a content strategy from user research →
