Neurotech - the weblog of Luke Reeves

This weekend so far has been hella crazy. Today was the day Chie and I moved from Tokyo to Kamakura (we’ll stay with her parents until I leave for Toronto), and last night was the start of a huge typhoon. So we made our way here last night, and woke up today at 5:30 AM to drive with her parents to our place and move. In the middle of this huge fucking typhoon. Man, it was crazy, but we managed to do the whole thing in one load using the two vehicles. In fact we were done so quickly that we were back in Kamakura in time for breakfast at Denny’s.

Right now the power is going off an on, and the rain is just insane. Fun though, I guess. We certainly picked a shitty day to move.

More typhoon info here.

Chie and I are at her parents’ place, and there’s only one LAN cable. It took about five minutes to share the network connection from my laptop using the Madwifi drivers and setting my system as an access point. Cool stuff.

One of the members of Mozillazine has posted MSI installer packages for Firefox to ease deployment in corporate environments. Keep in mind that the browser is still a preview edition.

Chie and I went to get me fitted for a tux for the big day (which is next May). Lemme clarify: the official city-hall style marriage is on the 10th of October, but the real ceremony is in Japan in May. Then one in Toronto at an unforeseen future date.

Anyways, after that we wanted to go shopping a bit for a web camera for her, and we dropped in at the bookstore. I was hoping that the latest and final Stephen King Dark Tower book would be out, and so it was. Also - to my surprise - Iain M. Banks’ The Algebraist was out. That’s got me totally stoked, even if it’s a non-Culture novel.

We also grabbed (for a good price) Katamari Damashii, which is awesome. Seriously. If you have a Playstation 2, you owe it to yourself to buy this game.