http://files.thilosophy.com Everything Thilo feels he needs to share ... en Toru Yamaguchi... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/05/17#yapcasia2008_2 For the third year in a row, the Shibuya Perl Mongers brought YAPC::Asia to Tokyo, this time on campus at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, which I hereby proclaim to be the best venue yet... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/05/15#yapcasia2008_1 Part thirteen... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/05/11#cissy_sun Part Seven... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/05/10#golden_bear Earthquakes are quite frequent in Japan, but now we had three tremor days in a row, which is a little unnerving... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/05/09#quake3 Hunting for deer in the Texas desert, Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon the bloody aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong, including a suitcase full of money, which he decides to keep for himself... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/05/06#no_country_for_old_men I was reading up about time zones on Wikipedia, when I came upon this chart showing the difference between UTC and the real time (mean solar time) over the last few years, and how leap seconds are introduced to keep UTC from diverging too far... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/05/03#leap_seconds A lavish country-side estate in England, 1935... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/04/27#atonement Circle K sunkus wishes to offer you a unique and cozy store to put a smile on everyone's face... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/04/20#cherie_dolce An O'Reilly book without the popular animal cover design that collects essays where leading programmers explain how they think and present examples of elegant solutions to hard problems... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/04/13#beautiful_code For decades, the default choice when it comes to storing application data have been relational databases... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/04/10#couchdb Confusing gmail ad of the month... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/04/07#hemorrhoid_pictures Just like the New Tokyo International Airport, and Tokyo Disney Land (and Sea), the Country Farm Tokyo German Village is not really in Tokyo, but in the neighbouring prefecture of Chiba, where things are less crammed and there is more space for roomy ventures like, well, an international airport or a theme park... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/04/06#deutsches_dorf_tokyo I quite enjoyed the Golden Compass movie and immediately ordered this boxed set of Lyra's adventures (the Golden Compass, the Subtle Knife, and the Amber Spyglass) from Amazon... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/04/05#dark_materials Part Six... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/03/23#dishwasher Three rich and estranged American brothers (and their eleven suitcases, the printer, and the laminating machine) on a train voyage across India to find their mother (turned nun in the Himalayan foothills) and renew the family bond... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/03/21#darjeeling_limited Japan has a new mobile phone service provider... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/03/19#disney_mobile Micro Mutants... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/03/15#immelmann Now that I managed to log in to my OTN account, here are the results of Saturday's test suite for Oracle XE on Windows XP... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/03/12#jdbc_microbenchmark_2 Part twelve... http://files.thilosophy.com/2008/03/10#tokyu_hands