I noticed that I've not eaten diner with my wife weekday this week.

PC Trouble

My Windows box apeared to die, though it doesn't interfare on my daily work. In deed, I've rarely used it for several months. I guess it will be recovered by replacing the power unit.

Contemporary music

I had another chance to hear Rohan de Salam playing Kodaly tonight. When it comes to the Kodaly, his performance has been more impressive last week. But I could enjoy some other solo cello works today. He specially added Teizo Matsumura's peace to the program in remembrance of him. The peace and the performance blew my mind.

I'm not certain when I finish the current work...

Leave aside an ignorance on technologies, I'm diappointed at the poor Japanese of the people working on a professional translation project to Japanese.

Kodály --- Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8

I'm so fascinated by the music of Zoltán Kodály since I've heard Rohan de Saram playing the cello sonata (Op.8) last week. Precisely, I was fascinated by his play. I have the CD that Yo Yo Ma plays the Kodály, but his play is further emotional, or somehow dazzling, in comparison with Rohan's plain sound of the cello.

Baby and Fish

I visited my friend. She had a first child last month. We brought her and her son some playthings, and brought her spouse a bottle of Belgian beer.



This fish bell is made from a solid wood. I hope they like it. I plan to buy it for our child four month later.

Too hard to write a C code analyzing strings. I'm confident of my progress but I still feel I'm wasting my time.

Live Music

I went to a classic concert last week. And I went another one today. I'm still touched both of these.

I'd like to enjoy the sound of the live instrument more often. Playing some is desirable.

I'm almost giving up building lexical analyzer. It's hard to implement a data structure for the interpreter of my own.

How wonderful the holiday without a headache is!

I went to buy coffee beans at the morning and soon regained the sanity again. Then I fixed the CD player, read some pages on SICP, and wrote some code.

But while reading the SICP, I lost the insight on the eval and the apply. I seemed to think that I understood these concepts. I have to get back to the chapter 4 and brush it up.

Coffee withdrawal?

Still having a headache, I spent all the day sleeping fitfully. I'm starting to become suspicious that I'm going through caffeine withdrawal --- I've been out coffee beans since yesterday. I have to fill it tomorrow.

Headache

I have a headache. I haven't for almost an year.

East and West

There are many big cities in Tokyo. Such as Marunouchi, Akihabara, Asakusa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Roppongi. These cities are classified in two main characteristics by their locations. The first three cities are located in the east, and the rest are in west. I'm not sure where the border lies --- perhaps somewhere through the imperial palace. I live in the east, and of course the west city makes me feel ill at easy.



The Tokyo Tower is also on the border.

Rich or not

I think the man's best asset is his family but his money. I don't mean the mental benefit of a family. Family has the real effects on ones finance. However, people who realize this fact, in my opinion, generally doesn't take advantage of his family.

JavaScrpt

I find myself understanding JavaScript easier than ever. It would be the result of having read the SICP. But I still feel uncomfortable when I write the code using DOM. I think DOM is the most difficult part of the JavaScript programing.

Translation

I feel so curious about a language that I compulsively begin studying a trivial thing, such as a grammar of Japanese that is my native language. However, the more I study (rather than learn) a language, the less I use it effectively. I might be wasting a time.

I mean not only Japanese but the other language including a programing languages.

Cake

Today's my birthday. I want to show you the strawberry cake.

Nasu

I visited Nasu with friends last weekend. Nasu is a well-known highland where the princess has the Villa. There are a lot of milk farms, and some of them are open to the visitors. They sell a fresh milk and ice creams to people escaped the city.





We also appreciated the nature, especially the water falls.

I was too tired to write.

Still Under the Effects of the Typhoon

The typhoon is blustering outside the window just now. The radio says the Joban line has been out of services. My pregnant spouse got a ride to the station from the office by her boss, who was worried about her not slipping on a wet road. We appreciate that.

Effects of a Typhoon

The typhoon is coming. It brought a damp clammy weather. Also, the power system of the train company seemed to be damaged by the storm, and I was stuck on the station on the way home.

Why is TeX balky?

TeX calculates and compares values, on which words, images, tables are all put onto the pages of a book. It usually works well. But, especially for the books not written in English, we often need to change its behavior. Some programmer will try to change values or functions (macro) which used to manipulate these values, and fail, and hate the program and its author.

However, I suddenly recognized today that the TeX features are all associated to work with values representing the beauty. I mean, the beauty which Knuth thinks (or may feel) to be. And, of course, the beauty is hard to determine logically, so TeX calculates it with a ton of parameters working reciprocally, interacting with each other, and affecting to the whole system independently. As a result, it is beyond human understandings, as is the way with some other beautiful things.

Baka ha shine

The death of the idiot is the safety of the others.

It's too late, however.

Kashiwa Reysol, my favourite football team, win for 3 points tonight.

XP matsuri 2007

'Matsuri' means a festival. A lot of spunky people playing an active role in eXtream Programing gatherd and excited today.



I really was a lucky guy who could talk with these nice people.