Today I had two missions, firstly to get a mobile phone and secondly to open a bank account. In Japan you can get phones anywhere but finding a bank open is a bit trickier, so after a bit of cursing that I was still in bed at noon, I went to Yokohama, the nearest place that had a branch of the bank I wanted to join that was open on Saturdays. (more…)

Well the site is starting to come together, I’ve started to add content to the FaQs though if anyone has any additional information, please do send it to me.

I considered having a wiki-style page but figured the effort involved in modifying the scripts and then trying to maintain it would be more trouble than it would be worth, especially as I don’t see the information contained needing updating all that frequently.

I am contemplating having a messge board but, frankly I think that my entire readership will talk to me on a daily basis anyway, however implementing one should be reasonably easy, so if you think it’s a feature we’re missing, say so…

Right off to write some more content..

I found my work visa notification in my mailbox this evening, which means I can finally get things like a phone and a bank account, which will make my life so much easier. Without the visa and Gaijin Card you are almost a pseudo person, unable to do most things which recquire you to have ID….

Yay for Visas…

Now we have a slightly different set of buttons, with a cool gradient effect, ok they still look horrible, but it’s a gradiated horridness.

The gallery is slowly filling the main delay is selecting pictures, once pictures have been chosen it’s a pretty swift process to get them up.

Still no progress on the faq, section, I haven’t really nailed down quite what I want in there, definitely a gyms guide, a “so you want to teach English?” guide, maybe a set of top 10 lists, an A-Z glossary and anything else I can think of. Suggestions please, on a postcard….

I also need to decide upon a set of fonts for the page so I shall be hunting the web looking for pages with nice fonts, sets to steal.

There is now an RSS feed for this page, so if you want to add it use the link over on the right hand side or if not it *should* be auto detected by browsers….

Well I’ve been solidly working on the gallery pages and am now at the point where I need to start adding images which is a reasonable place to be at now. I will fill in the blanks at work on Monday. I need to start working on the FAQ section, that is the next big project…..

Yesterday was my Birthday, I did very little of excitement, I do need to start networking here more as I hardly know anyone…