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Tokyo 2009: Prelude

Quarter to ten. Which means if I go to sleep now, I’ll get about five hours of sleep before my alarm jolts me back awake. Better make this quick.

Tomorrow at 7AM begins our long awaited trip to Tokyo. The trip out will push us so far through space and time that we will not land until 5:30 PM Monday, local time. The trip back on January 3rd will equally distort reality, taking an effective eighty-eight minutes after time zone changes.

Regarding the previously promised Project Moon Language: thanks to Rosetta Stone’s goofy DRM and our series of hardware failures, in combination with my brilliant plan to take six eCornell courses during the same span of time, and you get me knowing next to zero Japanese. I have been assured this will not be the end of the world.

Obviously, this is an exciting time to fly internationally. As someone who wearily adheres to whatever the TSA Rule Of The Day is, I look forward to seeing what sort of hoops I will have to jump through both coming and going.

Finally, expect an absurd number of photos, a reasonable number of blog posts, and a less-than-average number of Twitter messages. Adjust/monetize feeds accordingly.
See you all from the other side of the world, soon.

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Matt Haughey on Twittering During Tragedy

Frequently, when I start discussing Twitter with people who don’t use the service, I receive responses ranging from “I don’t know what I’d use it for” to “The world doesn’t need to know what I had for breakfast”.

Matt Haughey has just posted about twittering during tragedy, as he recently underwent treatment for a brain tumor. This closing paragraph stuck out to me:

>Twitter is a great tool for personal broadcast to a vast set of friends and family and it’s quickly turning into a new default communication medium for the online world. It can certainly be distracting in the face of day-to-day cubicle work, but in this specific case it […] was actually helpful at alerting friends to the accident and later informing them of the tragedy, and mirrors my own use of the service in a vaguely similar situation.

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Google Wave Invites

Google Wave, Googles proposed email killer, has finally made the leap from “developer preview” to “closed beta”. This means that much like when Gmail launched in 2004, there is a huge clamor for invites.

I happen to have eight seven. I am all out of invites.

Would you like one, valued reader? Leave me a comment on any published version of this post. Preference will be given to those people I know well. (Please make sure I have your preferred email address, and mind the note about them not being sent immediately.)

(I’ll send more out as soon as I get them, but maybe the people who got ones from me will be kind enough to send them on to the others that ask here!)