Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy
Originally uploaded by DJChan

Is there a hidden message here? In a land ruled by strict rules, I think this display is enough to freeze the typical japanese person into a confused blur of inaction.

VFR800, SV400, ZRX400, CB400

VFR800, SV400, ZRX400, CB400
Originally uploaded by DJChan

Next time, we are going to have to get some female to ride the blue yammy XJR400 to complete the set. We rode around the entire penninsula of Chiba and Izu, and put around 1000km on our bikes for the weekend. It was awesome.

Straight out of the book...Initial-D

Straight out of the book
Originally uploaded by DJChan

Irohazaka, the windy mountain road made famous by Initial-D, is a riders paradise during the day, drifters racetrack by night. Only 2 hours from tokyo, its a travellers must see. As you can see by the photo in the motorcycling book I'm holding.

MotoGP 2007 - The beginning

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Originally uploaded by cphousing

This was when we were all warm and safe and dry. Everyone was in such a great mood. Excellent weather, and riding conditions promised a fun and safe journey for all.

How little did we know that that would all change.

MotoGP 2007 - Motegi

Or should I call it the thunder dome? 10 men enter, 3 men leave. Only 3 people went without incident. 1 crash 2 dropped bikes (our own) 2 dropped bikes (not our own) 1 near miss 1 monkey on the road 1 torrential downpour 2 case of pneumonia due to the above But we all made it back safe and sound. And all a little wiser. Photos to be posted soon.

Outlook GUI Stupidity #114

Sometimes Outlook really just pisses me off. This works out to be about once a day. Today's "outlook you piece of crap" grip is about mailing lists. I have a mailing list, which is a global one. I want to make a new mailing list which is more regional based, using a subset of the mailing lists contained in the global one. It's worth noting that the global list is a list of lists, and not a list of actual addys. So, what do I do? As always, I do naturally what a user would do. Type the list into the TO field, double click on it to see its contents, and drill down to get the list of lists that I want to copy, leaving the ones I don't. In steps MS Stupidity -- You CANNOT COPY the lists you see in the properties dialog box of the mailing list! You can SELECT them, you can double click on them to drill down, but you CANNOT DO ANYTHING MEANINGFUL to those list names. WTF. Seriously, I hope that MS pays their monkeys in QA their quota of bananas for this one. What reason would you want to restrict the users to just LOOKING at the list contents if you can't electronically copy them? I think that EVERY item in a GUI that is SELECTABLE should be COPY-ABLE* (even if cut is not allowed) I am forced instead to TAKE OUT A PEN AND WRITE DOWN THE LISTS ON PAPER.** So that I can add them to the new list I am building. Outlook is a piece of hot steamy shite. * Except for password fields of course ** Anytime poor software design causes an end user to have to do this, somebody at the company responsible should be forced to ceremoniously cut off a digit.

An OIJ for the Record books

Thanks to plangent on tokyopia who subtitled it, for all to enjoy. Just sums up Japan, in one video