Far East Cynic

This is why I support net neutrality…

Because companies should not tell you how much data you can use. I consider myself virtually addicted to my iPhone. I obsessively check my e-mail on it (4 accounts!); I listen to streaming music as I type on my computer at work; I surf the Internet fairly often; and I’ve got dozens

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A good hand poorly played…..

By Yukio Hatoyama who resigned yesterday-one year after winning election by a huge electoral majority. The S.O. has been grabbing every chance to watch the news coverage. It is kind of nice to see it in the original so to speak-not so filtered by American perceptions and biases. However in the

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The most important room in the house

Ah, this is the life. Jack Daniels in the glass, and hot water shootin’ up your ass! –from the beginning of the movie, Middle Age Crazy. While I am not normally in the habit of carrying a drink into the restroom-the S.O. and I did have a chance to experience the

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