Japan to pay airfare for 10,000 foreign tourists. Good move? Might it not reinforce perception that it's somehow dangerous?

I did a factory reset on my HTC phone yesterday. Contrary to dire warnings, not everything needed to be reinstalled and reconfigured. Nice!

Ah, the very useful "pack windows" function in the KDE window manager is working again. I really missed that. Good job!

Calendar sync is already broken on my brand new HTC Android phone. It seems the only way to fix this is a factory reset. Good times.

Finished my one-year assignment at $LARGE_CORP_CLIENT Friday, and used this an excuse to buy two large boxes from CupcakeSTHLM. Yummy.

Saw a guy on the train playing (I assume) a modern version of Pirates!, which I played a lot in the 90s. I almost want an Ipad now. Almost.

My cell phone is slowly dying, one preinstalled app at a time. Hardware is still fine. Usually it's the other way around.

According to Tepco, all 3 reactors at Fukushima Daiichi are now below 100°C, which is an important step towards achieving cold shutdown.

As someone who has no stake in either company, I find this stupid patent war between Apple and Samsung quite entertaining.

Mamasan was given a bike the other day. Perhaps related to this initiative to distribute bikes among Fukushima evacuees. j.mp/p0nTP1