The Week in Review (6/29/09)

This Week: I ran into a billion problems this week. Beyond being crushed at learning how much Softbank can rip someone off for a new 32 gig iPhone and the fact that they’re giving DoCoMo folks a sweet deal while doing nothing for their actual customers, my old iPhone just failed when I installed the [...]

Japan and the Environment: Part 1 (Good and Bad, with plenty of Ugly)

Japanese people always find time to slip in how environmentally friendly they are. I’ll be off drinking beers and some Japanese guy will come along an tell me about how Americans are so wasteful and how I’m destroying the world. And while he’ll lack the balls to go full out, like your average douchey American [...]