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Kokoo Is So Cool!
The CDs I bought yesterday arrived. They were Shin Miyashita’s Thirty-String Koto and New Wave of Japanese Music, for a total of 2 CDs. On “Thirty-String Koto,” the first pie…
Aozora Bank Switches to Macs for Security; PC Terminals to Change by Summer
This is quite a bold move. Mac OS can boot diskless by design, so it should be very well suited to this sort of use. Even with disks, policies can be easily applied to executable a…
Cherry Blossom Viewing
Today, I finally went cherry-blossom viewing. All the relatives gathered in the garden of Kishibe Kindergarten in Shibuya, bringing out photographs of the deceased and arranging th…
Hōgaku CDs
What I bought today: Collection of Works by Shūretsu Miyashita The works of the first Shūretsu Miyashita, founder of the thirty-string koto and regarded as an extraordinary genius,…
Cherry Trees in Leaf
Walking through the city after the rain, I find that the cherry trees are already in leaf. At my age, I cannot help wondering how many more times I will be able to see the cherry b…
What on Earth Was That…?
At 5:30 in the morning, I woke with severe abdominal pain. It felt as though my intestines were twisting. I was drenched in a cold sweat, and it finally eased a little after 7 o…
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