MOBLOG TEST

アップルのATG副社長も務めたことがある認知科学の世界的権威、ドン・ノーマン博士
その彼をアップル時代以来、久々(おそらく8年ぶり)にインタビューする機会を得た
インタビューは現在、発売中のインプレス社のdesktopという雑誌にて6ページにわたって掲載されている。
以前からやりたくてもなかなか実現できなかった原文との同時掲載、つまりバイリンガルの記事だ。テーマはまもなく米国で発売される同氏の新著、emotional designと今日のパソコンデザインについて。
Dr. Donald A. Norman is a well-known cognitive scientist;. I have interviewed him once in the mid-'90s for MACPOWER magazine. But I got the opportunity to interview him again, this time for a new quarterly publication by Impress Corp. called the "desktop"; a magazine designed to re-think about our desktops. I will be writing more about this magazine in the following entries.
Anyway, Dr. Norman discuused why the PCs today are so ugly as well as his favorite designs which you can now find on his own web page.
The magazine is in Japanese with one exception which happens to be this very interview which is bilingual: English + Japanese.
If you are interested, grab one at your favorite book store and take a peek.
V801SAはfotolog(そして一部のmoblog)に向かず!?
Though I haven't updated it much these days, many of you know that I love a service called fotolog; Some of yo may even know that I have started the TOKYOTODAY group log.
And as a matter of course, the first thing I did with my V801SA was to take a photo and upload it to TOKYOTODAY. But instead of the "Successful upload" mail, I got an error message. And so did sasurau.
I finally did a quick test and found why that was.
On fotolog, if you want to upload the photo via e-mail, you would address the mail to the upload address of fotolog (you can find it at FAQ) and make the subject look like this "your_fotolog_id:password" and attach the picture.
Very simple. And there is no problem uploading with FOMA P2102V phone.
So I sent the same mail to myself and I got this result:
P2102V:
Subject: test:dayo
V801SA:
Subject: =?iso-2022-jp?B?dGVzdDpkYXlv?=
Apparently, V801SA encodes the subject into ISO-2022JP no matter what characters are used (or not used) where as P2102V only encodes when necessary.
So those people who were trying to use V801SA as your fotolog phone or for moblogging should be warned and try not to use the subject line to send any commands or IDs.
日本語訳は後日
アップルの有名なCM、「1984」が最初に流れてからちょうど20年が経ちました
(日本語はmoreをクリック)
Whether you are a Mac-o-phile or not, you may have heard of the famous TV advertisement for the first Macintosh titled the "1984". It was directed by the famous film director Ridley Scott.
Most of you may think it aired first for the Superbowl in 1984 but it actually aired first twenty years ago today (in Japan time): December 15, 1983 (1am to be precise).
I first read about it in John Sculley's book "Odyssey." But you can also read bout it in Owen Linzmayer's "Apple Confidential"; I happened to be the co-translator of that book here in Japan.
If you don't have that book yet, here you can read the excerpt:
http://www.isd.net/cmcalone/cine/1984.html