On November 3, 2011, I had a meeting with Smith’s School of English franchise system founder Mark Smith in Hyogo Prefecture. Instead of just sitting and talking, we went for a hike and talked while hiking. We took a trail in the mountains of Kawanishi, above the city, which crossed into Takarazuka at times. There […]
the saga continues
As many of you know I have had a long running history with my iPhone. First and foremost was just the arrival of the iPhone for sale in Japan, and even after that, it was just horrible timing, because I had already recently become locked into a contract with a phone that I had, at […]
the cruel (and wonderful) choices we must make
Let’s not pretend that Apple doesn’t know what it’s doing. Oh, it does, I tell you. It knows very well what it’s doing to me, or well all of us for that matter. As you may well know, last year I wrote a couple of Soapbox articles about my struggle to get an iPhone. A […]