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I was a web designer in Tokyo and left there to Australia for studying English. After 18months studying, I came back to Japan and web design industory. Currently, I'm working as a desiner for a company.
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8th Oct 2007
The Tortoise and the Hare
You know the fable ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’, don’t you?
The summary of the story is like this.
Once upon a time, a hare and a tortoise decided to have a race over the mountain.
The hare started swiftly while the tortoise walked painfully slow.
Letting his guard down, the hare dropped asleep.
When his rival was having a nap, the tortoise was making headway slowly but steadily.
When the hare became awake, the tortoise has already reached the goal.
What I had learnt from this story when I was a child was, “Don’t be lazy like the hare, otherwise, you can’t win any races even though you could”.
However, a book, which I read recently, taught me an astonishingly different aspect.
An creature, who decided the goal, ‘over the mountain’ was in fact the tortoise.
In other words, the tortoise had recognised these facts and challenged the match to the hare.
-The hare was very swift but only for a short distance.
-He is very lazy so will have a rest
-In contrast, the tortoise himself was slow but can make progress without having a rest.
What a clever tactician the tortoise was!
An old Chinese military treatise, the Art of War written by Sun Tzu tells, ‘If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories.’ This is exactly what the tortoise did.
Before knowing this, I had thought the fable shows a lessen, ‘Don’t be lazy, like the hare’. But, by changing the vantage point, there is an another lesson ‘Progress steadily like the tortoise’.
It’s not easy as saying but the episode encouraged me to give one more shot.
24th Sep 2007
iPod Classic
I know I’ve been going on shopping spree, but I finally bought iPod Classic 160G! Actually, this timing namely just after releasing new model, is the most cost effective since apple never give you discount until new versions turn out.
At the first glance, this classic is absolutely handy. Compare to iPod mini, which used to be regarded as “mini”, there are no significant difference, especially, thickness is almost the same. Nevertheless, it has 160G storage. Well, telling the fact, the HDD of my new laptop has 120G.
But how come I need such a gigantic amount of disk space? The thing is, not only do I save all of the musics that I have but also all of the photos that I took will be stored on the disk. Once I put every photos and make lightroom library, it enabled me to organise and edit all of the photos anywhere.
In fact, what concerned me the most was its transfer speed as iPod uses very tiny HDD. However, according to my personal research, bigger or smaller the speed won’t be different very much due to the USB’s limit. In reality, it does differ but it’s acceptable enough.
Overall, it was quite a big shopping but it’s a totally fantastic thing that I can carry all of musics and photos. I can’t be satisfied more.
15th Sep 2007
24th birthday
Actually, today is my 24th birthday!
Despite of the memorial day, I have nothing special and spend the same time as usual weekends. In fact, I’ve been positively living day by day in these days and it’s difficult to consider birthday as a turning point. Of course I have a vision for the coming years, but still, birthday is not really meaningful because I archived nothing significant today.
Well, if I should look back the past one year, returned from Australia, started working at the office, moved house, I could say I’ve stabilised my life finally.Indeed, it’s bit too stable and I’m kind of thinking to journey to somewhere again. But anyway I should suppress my wanderlust and work earnestly for a few years.
Besides, I’m exhilarated at purchasing a new laptop(DELL Latitude D830) as a birthday present for myself. Although the new one is quite big one for normal usage, I find it portable enough as the previous one was absolutely massive. Actually, I brought the old one to Australia but the huge machine which weighs more than 5kg was too heavy to carry daily. Nevertheless, the new one has only 3kg over. OK, now I can carry it everywhere.
Now, I’m writing this at the library in ‘Roppongi Hills’ where I can see fantastic nightscape. In this condition, hopefully, I might be able to update this blog bit more often.
5th Sep 2007
I’m a studet now!
From the last month, I became a student again, albeit the school is online.
For some reasons, I’m taking an online SEO class.
As a web designer, I in fact have certain knowledge of SEO; however it is based on my personal research, which was carried out couple of years ago at the office I worked at the time.
Therefore, I was not really confident when I had to speak about SEO to our clients.
Then, as luck would have it, an online school had a special offer, which gave a discounts more than 20,000yen. I jumped on it.
Well, well, it’s an ‘official’ reason and the foremost is being a student who is eligible to buy academic softwares such as Adobe CS3, even though I’ll have been a student only for 3 months. For example, if I want to purchase Adobe CS3 Master Collection, which costs 400,000yen, how much I need to pay in reality is 60,000yen(for the school) plus 140,000yen(for the software). In terms of commercial use issue, actually adobe allows academic software users to use them for their business; thus, I would have no problems when I use it for my work. Of course, it can be upgraded to the next version.
Adobe guys, I couldn’t be grateful of it.
What is more, I still have proper licenses of CS2 generation’s software. I might be able to make money by selling them at auctions.
I know I’m kind of exploiting a loophole, but it lucrative indeed.
Nevertheless, I’m taking the course seriously to some extent. I could’ve taken a cheaper course such as ‘CSS beginner course’ or whatever if I’d focused on profits only. But I choose the one from which I can learn something as I payed a significant amount of money for the course.
Actually, the content itself is barely improves my knowledge, given the situation, it’s satisfactory enough.
Anyway, I’m very looking forward to receive CS3.