My last post on Posterous (and therefore Blogger, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Xanga, etc.)
Just over four months ago yours truly began a grand experiment with Posterous, the anti-aggregator. That experiment is now complete.
Whereas lifestreaming, as seen on the likes of FriendFeed and MyBlogLog, pulls in content from disparate sources for reading on a single page, Posterous does quite the opposite — blasting out the same content to multiple destinations.
In my original defence of Posterous I wrote of my desire to hit people where they live — i.e. let folks comment on my shit in the online spaces where they’re already active. But in practice it hasn’t quite worked out that way. While I’ve gained a couple of followers on Blogger (scroll down to the very bottom of the page) a single post on WordPress (with a shout-out on Twitter) has generated more discussion than the combined comments everywhere else — including right here on Posterous!
I won’t be abandoning Posterous altogether, but from this point onwards all content will originate from my WordPress.com blog — at least until I launch my brand-new site in 2010 8-)
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#ACRTW - Sucking face with a tuna at Midorisushi.
A heartfelt thanks to Q-Taro and his lovely girlfriend for ensuring that the penultimate meal of my trip around the around wasn’t McDonald’s…
After an afternoon of shopping I got the call to head out to Umegaoka Station on the Odakyu rail line. A short trip that should have taken 15 minutes instead took over an hour, partly because I couldn’t actually find the Odakyu line in the cavernous Shibuya station, partly because I took the express train instead of the local and overshot my destination and partly because email wasn’t working on my N86, due to lingering connection settings from Taipei.
None of this ultimately mattered, because by the time I got to where I was supposed to be my fellow diners were 45 minutes in to an hour-long wait for a table at Midorisushi.
Though we sat down for raw fish one of friendly staff talked us into this rather large cooked tuna jaw:
Once you scraped the meat off the bone it was a lot more tender than you’d think!
After that massive appetizer and an assortment of fresh-from-the-sea sushi (which I unfortunately neglected to photograph) it was time for dessert — (from the left) black sesame, green tea and sweet potato ice cream. There was but a single order of the black sesame left and it was supposedly the tastiest of the three. As the guest I was given the honour of devouring it but I shared because I’m cool like that…
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#ACRTW - My Saturday shopping spree in Tokyo.
Though Japan’s kick-ass keitai aren’t really suitable for export, there’s plenty of other stuff that is. Here are some highlights from my Tokyo stopover:
It’s not only white phones that I like… Here’s a collection of man-purses from Wise-Walker on display at the fashionable Tokyu Hands — specifically the Shibuya location near my hotel.
These neoprene netbook/laptop sleeves were also pretty cool. I might have picked one up but truth is my Eee PC fits in my Porter bag just fine.
I was also quite thrilled to find an ample supply of phone ninjas in Asakusa, exactly where I had purchased them some three years ago. No white ones, though. :(
And not being the selfish type I had to make my way back to this crazy cat store in Odaiba so I could bring back something for my boy. They had an interesting selection of humiliating strap-on hats and such but I settled for a more practical gift — some salmon jerky, which he polished off in less than 24 hours…
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