Herro Flom Japan

Podcasts & Videocasts from an American salaryman.

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Entries from March 2007

Guess whose desk this is.

March 29th, 2007 · 11 Comments

Hint: It doesn't belong to any of my coworkers. Another hint: My boss's desk is even worse. (I like him.)

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Grokking PDF files for free

March 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Here at work I'm occasionally asked to make unreasonably difficult changes to PDF documents for which we don't have access to the original editiable versions. For example, "Richard-san, here's the updated version of page 23 from the 150 page CEA brochure. Please relpace it." How the heck do I do that? I'll tell you how. [...]

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Happiness is a kick-ass radio station

March 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I grew up listening to WMMR in Philadelphia. I just rediscovered it through a Yahoo Widget that's streaming it into my brain, and I'm happy. It still deserves its long-standing reputation as one of the best rock radio stations in the US. It doesn't have the homogonized sound of every ClearChannel-owned station. It's as if [...]

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Picking Strawberries

March 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Taken with Tony's VcamNow2.0. Edited by Daddy, who gave up on the subtitles after two hours of sparring with Sony Vegas. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

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The Mixi Challenge!

March 25th, 2007 · 12 Comments

OK all you Mixi invaders, try to find the Herro Flom Japan community and join it. Someone who joined wrote their self-intro in Japanese using machine translation. It's a bit like haiku by e.e. cummings.

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