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It appears that a movement to enshrine in the constitution an individual’s right to decide whether or not to have a Virtual Personality (or Digital Identity, as it might be c…
The first Executive Director of the Commercial Internet Exchange. The 2nd Chairman of XDI.org. He was also the first Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation. He was a wonderful…
My mother sent me an album of old photographs. It is full of nostalgic pictures. I would like to introduce them gradually. Here is the first one! The high-school student pla…
Professor Matsuzaka has passed away. He was one of my mentors and was widely known for having written many excellent introductory mathematics books. He had suffered from kidney dis…
A little while ago, I received an email from a friend. He had played a fairly central role since the early days of the Internet and, for roughly the past 10 years, had been working…
Well, I am grateful—who would have thought that something like this would reveal the whereabouts of a best friend I had lost touch with… Mark Ndesandjo, my closest friend whe…
Surprise x2. (1) My younger sister, Reiko Sakimura, had become a lecturer at Hitotsubashi University’s Graduate School.(2) There was a koto teacher named Reiko Sakimura with the sa…
Mayako Tsukagoshi is a young marimba player who won the Paris International Marimba Competition in 2006. This concert at Hakuju Hall featured an ambitious program including 1 Japan…
I went to see Puccini’s opera Suor Angelica. An acquaintance of mine, conductor Hirofumi Yoshida (principal permanent conductor of the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Italy), ret…
I found an interview with a friend. Here: Ziff Festival Director Speaks to Cinema-Minima He is a film director. His older brother, Stan, was the classmate I was closest to. He also…
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