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	<title>Japanese Open Source</title>
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	<description>The Business and Technology of Japanese Software  by Jesse Casman</description>
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		<title>Plat&#8217;Home&#8217;s Will Linux Work? Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting technology news for Linux enthusiasts.  Plat&#8217;Home, a Linux pioneer in Japan, is running a contest around their OpenMicroServer series.  If you&#8217;re not familiar with their products, several reviews have come out lately including Jason Perlow&#8217;s at ZDNet.  (Note this is not the exact model that is being offered in the contest.)
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/08/03/plathomes-will-linux-work-contest/</link>
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		<title>Golden Week 2008 (ゴールデンウィーク 2008)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week and the first half of this week is Golden Week in Japan, connecting about 4-5 different holidays into one big long one.  April 29th is Showa (the previous emperor) Day, May 3rd is Constitution Day, May 4th is Greenery Day, and May 5th is Children&#8217;s Day.  May 1, May Day, also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/04/golden-week-2008-%e3%82%b4%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%83%87%e3%83%b3%e3%82%a6%e3%82%a3%e3%83%bc%e3%82%af-2008/</link>
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		<title>The Kindness of Strangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago while playing soccer I crunched my Achilles tendon.  Bad.  It&#8217;s almost a &#8220;100% rupture of the tendon,&#8221; which means I had an easy decision to make: Just let it heal and have no pushing off power for athletic activities or&#8230;  go under the knife.  I&#8217;m 40 and play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/03/the-kindness-of-strangers/</link>
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		<title>Plat&#8217;Home&#8217;s OpenMicroServer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[plat&#8217;home&#8217;s linux microserver sitting on my desk so compact! they&#8217;re a startup in the US but a real company in japan
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		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/04/01/manual-twitterings-about-japanese-open-source/</link>
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		<title>Matt Asay, C&#124;Net, on open source in Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Asay blogged about open source in Japan  I&#8217;m really thinking there&#8217;s more open source activity in Japan now
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		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/31/matt-asay-cnet-on-open-source-in-japan/</link>
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		<title>Plat&#8217;Home OpenBlockS server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Building a product review guide for Plat&#8217;Home OpenBlockS micro server. Cool Linux-based device. 1/75th power usage of normal servers.
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		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/24/plathome-openblocks-server/</link>
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		<title>US-Japan IT Venture Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attending the 2008 US-Japan IT Venture Summit tomorrow morning in San Jose at the Fairmont Hotel panel discussion on &#8220;how to prepare your company for successful US market entry&#8221; looks good
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		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/17/us-japan-it-venture-summit/</link>
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		<title>Japanese software exports teeeeeeny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking through &#8220;Why Only Nintendo?&#8221; presentation &#8212; US software sales at $200B japan at $85B but on $70M exports tiny
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		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/12/japanese-software-exports-teeeeeeny/</link>
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		<title>Not convinced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[just back from lecture on japanese software at the mechanics institute in san francisco &#8220;why only nintendo?&#8217; not a convincing answer&#8230;
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		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/12/not-convinced/</link>
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		<title>Open Source Conference 2008 in Tokyo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Craig Oda and I got to the Open Source Conference 2008 in Okubo &#8212; middle of Tokyo &#8212; last weekend. 
Basically, I was totally blown away at how many interesting projects and little companies are sprouting up.  I&#8217;d guess several hundred people in attendance, something like 50 companies and projects.  The event was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://casman.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/07/open-source-conference-2008-in-tokyo/</link>
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