Author: nickcmaynard

I just bought a computer.
It was an impulse buy – just couldn’t stop meself.

I should calm those of you worrying at this point – it only cost a little bit. It’s a teeny little box which I’m going to use as a domain controller. The whole thing (minus a HD I need to get) cost me a grand total of £150. It’s got a little C3 processor, a CD drive, and it’s very sweet.

I’ll put pictures up when I get it home past customs, but the first thing I need to do is assemble it tonight so I can throw away the packaging and secrete it in my inventory for the flight over.

Eenyway. Last day and all that. We fly from Osaka airport bright and early tomorrow morning, and arrive at Heathrow at 1830 BST. Then I’ve got to train home. I will, most likely, be dead by the end of this journey, but what the hell ^-^

This is the best Internet cafe in the history of all Internet cafes. Seriously.

I’m on an ‘open’ terminal, but there are private cubicles with DVD players and stuff. They’re called ‘relax’ cubicles or something. Potentially dodgy, but hey.

Nevertheless, you get free drinks, can buy food (there’s a microwave, and a kettle for noodles). There’s pool, a library, and all sorts of other funky shit here too. There’s even a vending machine for hot food. Burgers, chips, whatever – they’ve got it.

We seriously need this sort of thing in the UK.

Oh, Windows XP too, so I’ve emptied my memory cards (thank goodness).

We’ve just arrived at the youth hostel in Hiroshima, and on first impressions everything seems nice, though not quite so cosy as the Kyoto hostel. We’re going to head into town this evening to eat dinner and have a quick shufty.

My camera now has a new 128MB memory card due to me losing my argument with Windows ME in the last internet cafe. I was less than amused. Need to find an internet cafe again though, as I’m pretty sure that I’ll have filled up this new memory card by the end of this leg as well.

Oh – peach flavour Qoo rocks. ’nuff said.

We’ve arrived in Kyoto now, and it’s very pretty.
Any worries about our healtｈ given the recent earthquake in Japan should remember that Japan is a fairly big country. It was near Hokkaido and the northern end of Honshu. Being in the south, I didn’t feel it at all.
The only thing that sucks about Kyoto is the ‘net access here is primitive and I can’t take pictures off my camera. Time to have a chat with the PC… ^-^

So we’ve spent two days in Tokyo now… and everything’s hunky dory.

Yesterday we spent in Akihabara, shopping for cute and other things. That was fun, though rather hard on the old feet (everything’s stairs here, and most shops have 6 or 7 floors – so far, anyway). I bought a couple of artbooks and a few OSTs, and then cut meself off before I spent anything else.

Today we went to Shinjuku shopping (again), and I found my digital camera that I wanted. I bought it second hand, even though it’s almost too new to be in the States, let alone the UK. It’s a Fujifilm FinePix S5000 – and it’s lovely.

Uh. Nothing more to report, except that it’s quite warm here. Apparently a vicious typhoon had the potential to kill Anthony (my friend near Fukuoka) a day or so ago, though apparently it blew a little and rained a bit 😉 Oh, and NatWest want to block my card because they’re monkeys. Got to ring them today.

Expect photos soon!