Minimalism - Online Income - ESL - Japan
Internet and technology-related posts. Earning money on the internet, etc.
While I was browsing the news section of Yahoo Japan, I spotted what I thought was a really huge billboard hanging off the side of a building. On closer inspection I realized the building was the Sony Ginza head office in Tokyo. A bit more research revealed that Sony hired top graphic artists, Hajime Yoshio, ZanPon and Ryuji Otani, to design three unique skins for laptops, cell phones, media players and headphones. The items are limited edition, […]
Last time I went Sightseeing in Second Life Japan, I showed you Kumamoto Castle, Osaka Castle and Tokyo Tower. This time, Aleister Kronos pointed out that a faithful reproduction of Himeji Castle is under construction. Himeji Castle is part of Japan’s great cultural heritage located around 650 kilometers west of Tokyo. The castle is nicknamed “White Heron” because of its white plaster walls, plaster being a useful safeguard against fire in […]
The virtual reality world of Second Life is full of clubs, bars, beaches and bedrooms in which people interact in all manner of virtual ways and even positions, but there is more to Second Life than its “in your face” seedy side. I decided to go searching for some of Japan’s famous landmarks to see if they had been recreated in the 3D world. Here are a few pictures of […]
I’m very much hooked on Second Life at the moment. That means I’ve subscribed to a number of Second Life and virtual reality related blogs, and have been watching some videos on YouTube to find some places I haven’t visited yet. One such place was Princeton University, which has been recreated in Second Life. Princeton has created one of the biggest areas in the virtual world, spanning seven “islands” and […]
Just as I was getting ready for work on Monday afternoon (as is the schedule of an English teacher in Japan), a friend called me to say my blog had been hacked. Sure enough, this blog and all of my websites were displaying this rather unfriendly welcome page: Fortunately, the nature of the attack wasn’t particularly malicious, and I was able to restore things within an hour. I’ve since changed […]
For a while there I managed to avoid the virtual world of Second Life, knowing full well that if I gave it a try I’d be sucked into the world’s greatest timesink. Anyway, curiosity got the better of me and I ended up registering and created the character Nikorasu Revnik. It’s difficult to understand what Second Life is until you jump in and try it for yourself. Basically, it’s a […]
The new advertising medium is blogging. Companies and individuals alike are increasingly taking advantage of blogs to promote their products and websites to audiences in highly targeted niches. For example, somebody with their own blog about raising children in Japan, or a language school looking to recruit teachers, might want to get a special mention on LongCountdown.com because these are topics that I blog about. In the last year, the […]
With the launch of The News Room, I can now get paid to embed news stories, including video, into this blog. So, the first thing I looked for was a story related to Japan. On my first search I found this fascinating video about “styrofoam homes of the future”. It seems that a Japanese company in Fukushima is building dome-shaped vacation homes. Apparently they’re among the most energy efficient houses […]