His real name is unknown. Kohei Yoshiyuki is a pseudonym for an ordinary commercial photographer who, for a brief period in the 1970s, documented a strange subterranean aspect of Tokyo culture. After a short interlude of notoriety, Yoshiyuki quietly disappeared from the art scene.
On a dark and rainy night, bright and blinding lights approach a vacant lot, off a Japanese highway - just if Shibuya’s blinking neon signs decided to move themselves past you… However, it’s some proud and lonely trucker halting for a rest! Welcome to the world of Decotora, short for decorated trucks!
A-SMALL-LAB
focusing on research and practice in creativity
based in Tokyo
contact: chris@a-small-lab.com
(Chris Berthelsen)
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Ce site web est une partie intégrante de l’exposition Perspectives de vie à Londres et à Tokyo
Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.
Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.
In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".
Times are generated by running shell commands like
env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"
every 20 seconds
The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.
FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)
From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.
K. abasourdie quand je lui dis être allé ainsi à pieds de Nakano à Asagaya, ce qui n’a rien d’un exploit pour qui marcher est aussi important que la lecture, ou la prière. La prière plus que la lecture, mais sans formule. Réciter le présent.
A couple of good things to remember here: #1 resolving 1 bottleneck can open another bottleneck that is much worse. #2 is to understand that not all API’s are created equal. Additionally the configuration and setup that works well on one system may not work well on another. Because of this people often leave lots of performance on the table. Don’t just trust that your current API or config is optimal, test and make sure it fits your application.
pour que memcached fonctionne vraiment, il faut que les données soient toutes dans le memcached.What, a performance regression? But we threw more memory at it!! How can that be!
Memcached is not a cure all.
"日本では部署だけでなく、メールやアクセス解析といった各プロバイダーもバラバラに展開している場合が多いと指摘。個別の最適化は全体最適化にはつながらないと苦言を呈した"
"ad:techのトラック内で唯一のサーチマーケティングを取り扱うセッションでは、日本を代表する検索エンジンベンダーである、ヤフー株式会社の河田 顕治氏やグーグル株式会社の小野 雄高氏をはじめ、海外の大手SEOコンサルティング会社、米アクロニウムメディア社のリアン・ライアン氏、日本市場向けのサーチマーケティングコンサルを行うAJPR LLCのハント 肇子氏の4名がパネリストとして参加、モデレーターとしてネットイヤーグループ株式会社 代表取締役社長の石黒 不二代氏が登壇した。"
Tokyo Cabinet is a key/value database meant to be the successor of {G,Q}DBM.
via designboom.com ...
via tomblands-fr.blogspot.com ...
introductory talk on Tokyo Cabinet, Tokyo Tyrant, pytc, and PyTyrant
Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key and a value. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are organized in hash table, B tree, or fixed-length array.
Commuters in Tokyo are being greeted with the friendliest of welcomes.
In a 2009 survey of 1,154 high school girls, by the Culture Studies Institute in Tokyo, hostessing ranked No. 12 out of the 40 most popular professions, ahead of public servant (18) and nurse (22).
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