http://www.forthecode.org Software Engineering, Japan, Tokyo, and my life. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:11:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some photos of our trip to Kyoto: Capsule Hotel - a special type of hotel in Japan. Small beds in a shared hallway, with a shared bathroom. Super cheap, and surprisingly not a bad location. The Golden Temple, Kyoto. Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto Some of the landscaping midst the hills of Fushimi Inari shrine. Snow ... http://www.forthecode.org/2012/02/04/picture-post-friday-kyoto/ entrance to a temple at Matsushima 500 year old temple facing the island filled bay of Matsushima We ate tebasaki and hot pot for dinner that night. Pagoda at the famous Asakusa temple at night. The Asakusa temple, one of many temples, shrines and tourist places we visited in Tokyo. http://www.forthecode.org/2012/02/01/trip-photos-1/ It's a hectic schedule this week. I'll post a few photos tomorrow when I'm sitting inside the Shinkansen (bullet train) with Ben on our way to Kyoto. We'll be staying in a capsule hotel in Kyoto, so looking forward to giving you a review of that. Cheers! http://www.forthecode.org/2012/01/31/yesterday-sendai-today-tokyo-tomorrow-kyoto/ I just got back from meeting Dr. Foronda, Ben, and family in the Philippines. It was my first trip to the PH and I loved it. The food is great (although the balut won't be on my plate ever again) and the drinks are very cheap. The city of Manila ... http://www.forthecode.org/2012/01/28/manila-2012/ I just spent a few days in the Philippines with my Ben Foronda. I'll be posting some photos tomorrow, while he and I are in transit to Sendai city, Japan, by bus :) http://www.forthecode.org/2012/01/28/back-from-the-philippines/ Left the house around 5AM this morning on my way to work - and was surprised to see snow and ice on the ground! Even Tokyo was enjoying a little snow-dusted ice and slush. :) http://www.forthecode.org/2012/01/23/snow-in-tokyo/ Yesterday, January 20th, was my Japan Day - the day I came to Japan 3 years ago. On my last Japan Day I wrote a post while reflecting on all the things that had happened in the previous 2 years. That post was, and still is, rather important to me ... http://www.forthecode.org/2012/01/21/two-thousand-11-things-that-changed-my-life/ I'll be visiting the Philippines for a couple days in the next couple weeks. I've never been there before, but I hear the beaches are beautiful and the weather is warm - both a big change from Tokyo. I'm interested in visiting most, if not all, of the countries that can ... http://www.forthecode.org/2012/01/18/visiting-the-philippines/ Over the Christmas / New Years break I needed to make some emergency changes to a website or two but I didn't have internet access nor a computer save my iPhone. Luckily I found several FTP apps in the app store that seemed to be just what I needed based ... http://www.forthecode.org/2012/01/15/ftp-on-iphone-and-mt-fuji/ Over the last 2 months I've read a few books, occasionally I'll reread books that I think teach some good life-lessons, and occasionally I'll read a book just for fun. Recently, I've read Javascript the Good Parts - a useful read for any web-developer, The Lean Startup - has some ... http://www.forthecode.org/2012/01/12/recent-random-things/