SonicStage 5.1

New version of SonicStage 5.1 (Japanese only as far as I know, but then again you shouldn't be sad because non-Japanese Walkmen aren't locked to SS) was released by Sony Japan a couple of weeks ago, and I definitely had to follow my own instructions to get rid of the stupid promotions frame again. At least the same procedure worked, but let's see how many versions it will take until I get sick of fixing it...

LUNARR

I just went to a talk by Toru Takasuka and Hideshi Hamaguchi of LUNARR, Japan. Coincidentally, I've subscribed to their corporate blog about a month ago and had no idea what their products were. Something about inspiration. In fact, their talk was so abstract... so Japanese... so scientific but chaotic (for better or worse), so obvious but not, that I kind of regained hope for the Japanese innovative process and its spirit. That is all, for now.