Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) was a gifted composer and wonderful artist. Narimichi Kawabata’s rendition of Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen is superb, but I have not been able to find it on YouTube. However, I did find some other worthy renditions along with other works by Sarasate.
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Amazon has a hit on their hands. Reading a book, the paper, a blog, or Wikipedia will never be the same. Long battery life, easy to use, wirelessly receive your books, and electronic paper! It’s called the Kindle.
So what is it? It is a $400 wireless e-book from Amazon.
It takes the convenience of an electronic book reader, gives it an easy to read surface that doesn’t require backlight and can be read outside on a bright day, and combines it with the wireless interface that gives you access to much more content, wherever you may be, without the need for a computer or a wireless hotspot! It uses Sprint’s network (Except in Montana and Alaska) and gives you a book in about a minute for about $10.
Now if only they had a Japanese version for Tokyo….
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The ever elusive site (links always seem to die…) humorous Japanese language training. If you listen carefully, you will notice this is a ride around the Yamanote line…you can even hear the doors swoosh open and close, and hear the train picking up speed on the way to Shinbashi.swf ……….. and its companion learning about all 47 prefectures in Japan….ChibaShigaSaga.swf.
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I really enjoyed the last 5 minutes of this year’s Superbowl. Just outstanding football. I watched them again with my son and relived that 12 play, 9 minute drive by New York and the touchdown with 35 seconds on the clock. Super! Really Super! Bowl! Since I’m overseas, I didn’t get the commercials so I went online to find some…
My Favorite: “Mr. Oboe”
Others: From the official web site? Hard to say…30-second planters nuts commercials preceded the commercials, R-8 puts luxury on notice not so interesting, Amp Jump Start didn’t…
So off to YouTube.com to find their adblitz SuperBowl faves….and Fave5 from TMobile certainly hit the sweet spot…The rest…I’ll let you decide…
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I just signed up for Honda’s Internavi service. This service allows my car to always have the latest traffic conditions for all roads including local roads, weather at my current location and destination, I can plot routes on my computer then download them into my car for my own unique routing system. The wireless communications card from Willcom lets me do all this at a low monthly cost of about 1,000 yen. (Of course, you can also plug in your cell phone). With this system, my car can automatically download titles of CDs that I play on my car stereo. As a bonus, the HDD stereo automatically copies all songs onto the HDD in my car, so that I never have to insert the same CD more than once… This should be standard on all cars…. Anyway, thanks to the campaign, the card is free as long as I prepay 3 years of service (31,764 yen — about $300, the card is about $60 otherwise….).
Follow up: After I signed up for the service online, the commuincations card was delivered to my doorstep within the hour! That was super fast service from Willcom, the service provider. I still have to ensure my registration is complete at Honda’s Premium Internavi Service Page…And you can even view the traffic data using Google Earth. Club members can use Google Earth to view their planned route.
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