Following political gridlock in the Japanese parliament, a “temporary” tax on petrol (gasoline) that has been in force for three decades after being renewed every couple of years is set to expire on 01 April 2008 (to readers outside of Japan: No, this is not an April Fool’s joke). As a result prices of petrol [...]
Entries from March 2008
Japanese petrol (gasoline) prices to fall 25c per litre
March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
First impressions of Vista and Ubuntu
March 10th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Last week I was on a business trip to the USA and decided it was finally time for me to buy a new notebook computer. Here in Japan it’s difficult to get machines with US keyboards.
My previous one was a 650 MHz Pentium III whose RAM was maxed out at 512 MB while my [...]