Mac Fan
01-12-2008
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The next biggest media coverage achievement after appearing on CNN is a four page feature article on dannychoo.com and Mirai Inc in this months edition of Mac Fan - Japans major Mac magazine. Am rather pleased n happy ^^; image ID#23429 And this is what the cover looks like. The article covers my Mac life, dannychoo.com, my career acheivements, Mirai Inc and our Flagship product Mirai Gaia. A glowing feature unlike the steaming pile of baboon diarrhea that was published in the Singaporean 'news paper' The Straits Times recently. I spent more than two hours with them after the Animax workshop and the interview seemed to have went well. What they ended up publishing was some steaming crap which insinuated that I hated working for my father - the editor came up with junk from his/her imagination and basically made stuff up - their 'interview' with me seemed to have given them the privilege of saying what they wanted. They also chose incredibly childish language for bits 'which I said' insinuating that I cant speak English too! They dragged my wife and personal affairs into the article and published my personal phone number visible on my business card. Never met them before and don't know why they chose to publish a menacing article. Very very evil indeed. Just another bunch of people to add to the list of haters. image ID#23430 Anyway, the Mac Fan article cheered me up a lot - I have already had business proposals from folks who have read it ^^; image ID#23414 The four page article is called Ringo Shokunin - about designers and creators who use Macs. I talk about how and why I switched to Mac after using Windows for over ten years. I just needed to get on with my work and not spend all my time maintaining Windows where the underlying technology is still fundamentally the same since Windows 95 - a registry that gets raeped every time you install or run an application. The only time I need Windows is for doing QA on IE6/7. The sites we build run on Unix and as some of you may know - Mac is Unix based and comes complete with Apache and PHP. I also love the Mac interface and Expose which makes task switching a breeze. I do have my Mac complaints but am one very happy Mac user. image ID#23415 There was a time when I used to hate Macs and couldn't understand why people used them. I used to think that all you could do on them was mail and Internet browsing ^^; image ID#23416 Here are some closeups of the article for those who can read Japanese. Here we go through Tokyo Trooper, dannychoo.com, my career at Amazon and Microsoft and talk about Mirai Inc and our flagship product Mirai Gaia which is a Consumer Generated Media Search Engine Optimized E-Commerce platform - a mouthful ^^; image ID#23417 The title of the article is "Live my passion" and "mac enables me to do anything I want." image ID#23418 Here we look at me at work and the Mac machines around the home/office. The old PowerBook G4 still in action. Mac Mini used as a print and file server. Has two external drives - 2TB for Time Machine backups and 1TB for file sharing. All the Macs at home are automatically backed up here. image ID#23419 A look at the living room where I have an Intel Mac attached to the plasma - use it to watch open source movies and emulate Windows for QA on IE6/7... image ID#23420 A look at the armor and some figures. image ID#23421 And more info on Mirai Gaia - the Good Smile site with a few examples of how good it is at SEO. For example, do a search for Nagato Yuki (in Japanese) in Yahoo Japan - out of 3.6 million results - the Good Smile site is the first natural result which shows how powerful Mirai Gaia is. The key here is that my clients don't need any knowledge of SEO at all - all they do is prepare contents and Mirai Gaia does the rest automatically. At 5,000,000 yen is incredibly competitively priced where other web development companies charge over 10,000,000 yen. image ID#23422 And a look at some of the other pages - they cover Apple gadgets and the like. image ID#23423 A load of Mac apps are reviewed too. image ID#23424 Nice girlies too. image ID#23425 And hints n tips on how to get more from your Mac life. image ID#23426 And more mac hardware. image ID#23427 Been reflecting on life a lot lately and the difference between happiness (now) and depression (my younger years). I think about how I came from being brought up by a foster family (who treated me like poo - Buck Rogers was my only friend), bullied at school (more poo), lost as a teenager not knowing what to do and trying to put an end to it all a few times - will talk about that at a later day though as I need to get off to the shower ^^; Life started to change dramatically after I discovered that I was passionate about Japan and the culture. My need to absorb more of it opened up doors and opportunities and without learning Japanese, I probably would not have met my wife either - I joined that Japanese restaurant as a waiter because I wanted to practice my Japanese - thats where we first met. Oh as for the poll - do you buy computer mags? Me still like to have a physical mag to read in the lounge and find that mags tend to do a better job at aggregating easy to consume information - like the application reviews for example. Akihabara News - Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Japan Probe - Japan news and entertainment (Subscribe) Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan (Subscribe) image ID#23428 View the full sized images/comments for this item at dannychoo.com Feel free to join/add Danny Choo and see what else the little bugger is up to in his other networks.
The next biggest media coverage achievement after appearing on CNN is a four page feature article on dannychoo.com and Mirai Inc in this months edition of Mac Fan - Japans major Mac magazine. Am rather pleased n happy ^^; image ID#23429 And this is what the cover looks like. The article covers my Mac life, dannychoo.com, my career acheivements, Mirai Inc and our Flagship product Mirai Gaia. A glowing feature unlike the steaming pile of baboon diarrhea that was published in the Singaporean 'news paper' The Straits Times recently. I spent more than two hours with them after the Animax workshop and the interview seemed to have went well. What they ended up publishing was some steaming crap which insinuated that I hated working for my father - the editor came up with junk from his/her imagination and basically made stuff up - their 'interview' with me seemed to have given them the privilege of saying what they wanted. They also chose incredibly childish language for bits 'which I said' insinuating that I cant speak English too! They dragged my wife and personal affairs into the article and published my personal phone number visible on my business card. Never met them before and don't know why they chose to publish a menacing article. Very very evil indeed. Just another bunch of people to add to the list of haters. image ID#23430 Anyway, the Mac Fan article cheered me up a lot - I have already had business proposals from folks who have read it ^^; image ID#23414 The four page article is called Ringo Shokunin - about designers and creators who use Macs. I talk about how and why I switched to Mac after using Windows for over ten years. I just needed to get on with my work and not spend all my time maintaining Windows where the underlying technology is still fundamentally the same since Windows 95 - a registry that gets raeped every time you install or run an application. The only time I need Windows is for doing QA on IE6/7. The sites we build run on Unix and as some of you may know - Mac is Unix based and comes complete with Apache and PHP. I also love the Mac interface and Expose which makes task switching a breeze. I do have my Mac complaints but am one very happy Mac user. image ID#23415 There was a time when I used to hate Macs and couldn't understand why people used them. I used to think that all you could do on them was mail and Internet browsing ^^; image ID#23416 Here are some closeups of the article for those who can read Japanese. Here we go through Tokyo Trooper, dannychoo.com, my career at Amazon and Microsoft and talk about Mirai Inc and our flagship product Mirai Gaia which is a Consumer Generated Media Search Engine Optimized E-Commerce platform - a mouthful ^^; image ID#23417 The title of the article is "Live my passion" and "mac enables me to do anything I want." image ID#23418 Here we look at me at work and the Mac machines around the home/office. The old PowerBook G4 still in action. Mac Mini used as a print and file server. Has two external drives - 2TB for Time Machine backups and 1TB for file sharing. All the Macs at home are automatically backed up here. image ID#23419 A look at the living room where I have an Intel Mac attached to the plasma - use it to watch open source movies and emulate Windows for QA on IE6/7... image ID#23420 A look at the armor and some figures. image ID#23421 And more info on Mirai Gaia - the Good Smile site with a few examples of how good it is at SEO. For example, do a search for Nagato Yuki (in Japanese) in Yahoo Japan - out of 3.6 million results - the Good Smile site is the first natural result which shows how powerful Mirai Gaia is. The key here is that my clients don't need any knowledge of SEO at all - all they do is prepare contents and Mirai Gaia does the rest automatically. At 5,000,000 yen is incredibly competitively priced where other web development companies charge over 10,000,000 yen. image ID#23422 And a look at some of the other pages - they cover Apple gadgets and the like. image ID#23423 A load of Mac apps are reviewed too. image ID#23424 Nice girlies too. image ID#23425 And hints n tips on how to get more from your Mac life. image ID#23426 And more mac hardware. image ID#23427 Been reflecting on life a lot lately and the difference between happiness (now) and depression (my younger years). I think about how I came from being brought up by a foster family (who treated me like poo - Buck Rogers was my only friend), bullied at school (more poo), lost as a teenager not knowing what to do and trying to put an end to it all a few times - will talk about that at a later day though as I need to get off to the shower ^^; Life started to change dramatically after I discovered that I was passionate about Japan and the culture. My need to absorb more of it opened up doors and opportunities and without learning Japanese, I probably would not have met my wife either - I joined that Japanese restaurant as a waiter because I wanted to practice my Japanese - thats where we first met. Oh as for the poll - do you buy computer mags? Me still like to have a physical mag to read in the lounge and find that mags tend to do a better job at aggregating easy to consume information - like the application reviews for example. Akihabara News - Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Japan Probe - Japan news and entertainment (Subscribe) Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan (Subscribe) image ID#23428 View the full sized images/comments for this item at dannychoo.com Feel free to join/add Danny Choo and see what else the little bugger is up to in his other networks.
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