Vanocuver Conferences
Posted by Quinn at February 8th, 2007 11:57am under hearts, web 2 Comments Permalink
I just realized that Web derections North, a conference for web developers and designers held in Vancouver, just already finished its day one. All the celebrities, my heroes and heroines who are raising the qualities of the web, are there to share their passions with the attendees. I knew this would have been a good excuse for me to visit the city, but I simply can't afford the ticket. The price is just too much for me.
NorthernVoice 2007, another conference held in Vancouver (for bloggers), is going to be on the 23rd and 24th of this month. I am sorry to tell some of you (whom I met last year) that I won't be there this year. The main reason is that I am raising the bar to achieve the goal (projects, skills and income) as a freelance web developer this year. I really need to focus on this.
After all, I don't think it's going to be too far from the next visit to Vancouver. Until then, I hope you guys still keep up with me and check on this blog once in a while!
Dondo Yaki
Posted by Quinn at January 14th, 2007 9:03pm under Japan 0 Comments Permalink
Today, we attended an local event called "Dondo Yaki" at a small community of about 30 households, which we belong. It is basicallly a new year's gathering (to eat and talk) with a bonfire of bamboo.
Dondo Yaki is practiced all over Japan, but I didn't know this before I came to Kumamoto. I suppose this kind of events often stays in rural areas. It's probably impossible to do this bonfire in urban cities anyway.
This event is usually held around 14th or 15th of January, which is also called "a small new year's day." People burn the calligraphy drawn at the new year's day and decorations used for celebrating the new year's day at the bonfire to wish the good year to come.
I ate so much today. I also had some sake (rice wine) with a bamboo cup. It actually tasted good! Check out more of photos at my Flickr.
Walk More
Posted by Quinn at January 6th, 2007 11:05am under hearts, Japan 0 Comments Permalink
Happy new year to all! What? It's been already a week? In Japan, January 1st is a national holiday. Most businesses take a longer break to the 3rd of January or even for a week.
It was so slow in December. I don't recall much of what I did in the month. I don't think I did much of coding. Most of my works were just in preparations. I need to change this. Now, it's time for me to get up!
I want some changes in this year.
- I want to walk more. (I've been sitting too long.)
- I want to do some photography works with film (which I loved the most in my life).
Combining these two, I will go hiking whenever I have chances! Let's see..
Google Analytics
Posted by Quinn at December 27th, 2006 6:44pm under web 0 Comments Permalink
I know I am all behind. I always thought making the scripts to store and view access logs for websites is usually easy. I tend to think web companies which use free services for this kind of task is that just being lazy! (Actually, I am the laziest. I know I know.) Anyway, I finally gave a try to Google Analytics
Setting up this tool is very easy if you are able to edit your own HTML. It's even super easy if you are using WordPress or something like that to generate pages dynamically for your websites. You probably only adding 2 lines of code to a template file.
"Geo Map Overlay" is really nice feature for me. I get to know this blog is actually read somewhere outside of Japan, which means a lot to me. Yes, I am getting some motivation here. Still, I don't think most of my clients don't need this much complex informations.
It is always good to try whatever is available to try (for free) as a web developer. I'll try to be that way as much as I can.
