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summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 1000jpy
tag: tokyo
tag: transit
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summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 1000jpy
tag: tokyo
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content: Lunch (Monk's Food)
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-03T15:45:00+09:00
summary: Amy acquired Lunch (Monk's Food) for 600jpy (subbed by Mike & Nao)
tag: food
tag: monks+food
tag: restaurant
tag: tokyo

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content: ICOCA topup
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-10T20:03:00+09:00
summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 133jpy
tag: tokyo
tag: transit
tag: travel

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/11/58253135403e8
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type: Activity
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cost: 1000jpy
content: ICOCA topup
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-10T17:53:00+09:00
summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 1000jpy
tag: icoca
tag: tokyo
tag: transit
tag: travel

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type: Acquire
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cost: 1000jpy
content: ICOCA topup
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published: 2016-11-10T08:13:00+09:00
summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 1000jpy
tag: icoca
tag: tokyo
tag: transit
tag: travel

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type: Activity
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summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 2000jpy
tag: icoca
tag: tokyo
tag: transit
tag: travel

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summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 60jpy
tag: tokyo
tag: transit
tag: travel

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/11/583d705e68521
type: Acquire
type: Activity
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cost: 2000jpy
content: ICOCA topup
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-2916:39:50+09:00
summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 2000jpy
tag: icoca
tag: tokyo
tag: transit
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type: Activity
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cost: 1000jpy
content: ICOCA topup
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-30T20:09:53+09:00
summary: Amy acquired ICOCA topup for 1000jpy
tag: icoca
tag: tokyo
tag: transit
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commune246
type: Note
content: Working from Commune246 today, a cute hippie food court nestled in what appears to be a pretty upscale neighbourhood in Omotesando. It has vegan food, coffee, wifi, power (courtesy of Wired) indoor and outdoor seating with lots of laptop/notebook space, and a much better playlist than most public places in Japan.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-08T13:42:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about vegan, Tokyo, Japan, & travel
tag: antennawired.thebase.in
tag: commune246
tag: tokyo
tag: travel
tag: vegan
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decentralising-social-tokyo
type: Article
content: This is what I talked about at the W3C TAG developer summit in Tokyo tonight. 東京で2016年11月3日にて開催されたW3C TAGデベロッパー・サミットにて話した内容となります。 I am one of the staff contacts for the W3C Social Web WG. I also co-edit a couple of specs in the group, and procrastinate from finishing my PhD thesis by implementing the group's specs as part of my own website. まずは自己紹介から、 W3C Social Webワーキンググループのコンタクトを務めています。また、そのワーキンググループにていくつかの仕様についても共同編集者をしてたりもします。そのグループの仕様を自分のサイトへの実装がPhDの論文がなかなか終わらない理由だったりします。 I'm a strong believer in owning your online presence and social data on the Web. What this means (to me) is: making data accessible through a URL that you have authority over - either you own it and host it yourself, or someone you trust does. It also means having control and choice over how and when you express yourself; working against censorship and being free to share as much - or as little - about yourself as you want. This is particularly important when we think about a how social networking works today. Big systems like twitter and facebook - silos - are hoarding the data, and creative, expressive content, and livelihoods, of millions of people. And they're mining it and using it in ways that most people are completely unaware of. If twitter goes down tomorrow - and it could, they just shut down Vine - what happens to your history and interactions? We have this huge hoard of collective digital history that we, as societies, have aggregated over the last decade, and we just gave it right up. The culture of a generation is completely out of the hands of the people who created it, and who it's important to. This could disappear at the whim of an investor, or a glitch in a data center. 私は自分自身のオンラインにおけるプレゼンスとソーシャル・データを所有することについて、強い信念を持っています。(自分にとって)どういう意味を持つか、というと、自分がオーソリティを持っている(たとえば自分自身が所有しているか、あるいは自分が信頼する誰かが所有しているような)URLからデータをアクセス可能にすることを意味します。また同じく自分自身がどう表現させるかについて制御したり、選択したりできることも含んでいます。検閲から逃れたり、自分自身のことをどれだけでも多く、もちろん少なくでも自由に共有できることも大切です。 現在ソーシャルネットワークサービスを鑑みると、非常に重要なことだと考えています。TwitterやF…
generator: sloph
name: Decentralising the Social Web in Tokyo
published: 2016-11-02T19:28:00+09:00
tag: decentralisation
tag: social+web
tag: socialwg
tag: tokyo
tag: w3c

dentist-tokyo
type: Article
content: aka. The Tooth Hurts aka Visting a dentist as a foreigner in Tokyo, Japan, since I need a more SEO friendly header After minor face explosion due to wisdom teeth over the weekend, I eventually decided I should go see a dentist rather than try to wait it out until after my upcoming trip to the US. I am extremely thankful to Mike and Nao for taking me to their local dentist, and translating forms and conversation for me. It's nice to have W3C family all over the world :) We dropped by about 3.30 in the afternoon, without calling ahead, and I was seen within about five minutes, after filling in (or mostly, as it was all in Japanese, Nao filling in) a form. They estimated the prices upfront (without being asked) and to check that I was okay with it, promising for sure less than 10,000 JPY. This is about what I expected following extensive googling yesterday. First was an xray. The xray machine played like 8bit elevator music, and I had to stop myself from laughing. Then some waiting around, and then I was seated in a dentist chair. Then more waiting around. Everything seemed to happen at a very leisurely pace, but staff were friendly and smiley and chatty (in Japanese). The dentist talked to Nao for ages while I was in the chair, and Nao periodically gave me one-sentence summaries. I was reminded of the "moar... intensity" scene in Lost in Translation, and again had to stop myself from giggling. The xray was produced, and I got a detailed explanation of everything wrong with my wisdom teeth. My left side is infected right now, but the right side is just as at risk. The dentist noted that were she to be removing them, she'd take the top ones first. She showed me the best angle at which to clean the emerging tooth, and put some gel on it. She produced antibiotics and very strong painkillers. Yay! And if I'm still in pain on Thursday, I'm to go back. This came to 7,790 JPY - less than expected, though not something I had budgeted for. I'm going to see if I can claim any of…
generator: sloph
name: An Inconvenient Tooth
published: 2016-11-07T18:03:00+09:00
tag: dentist
tag: health
tag: japan
tag: justgo
tag: life
tag: tokyo

gyoza
type: Article
content: J taught me to make gyoza today. We even found soy meat in Seiyu (Walmart/Asda). The gyoza wrappers are on the top shelf in a fridge full of packaged meat. It never would have occurred to me to look for them there. The soy meat was not dry, but in a packet of liquid, and needed draining. All of the vegetables get finely chopped and mixed together, plus ginger paste, garlic paste, and sesame oil. Add filling to skin, wet around the edges, fold, squeeze, crimp. Ta da! And fry. And dip! In a mixture of soy sauce, vinegar, and chilli oil. Delicious!
generator: sloph
name: Gyoza
published: 2016-11-05T22:31:00+09:00
tag: cooking
tag: food
tag: gyoza
tag: japanese
tag: recipe
tag: tokyo
tag: vegan
tag: dumplings

vegan-in-tokyo
type: Article
content: Being vegan in Japan is this emotional rollercoaster, being stuck between the two extremes of hunger-weighted frustration that there's nothing to eat, and wallet-weighted frustration that there are too many good things all in one place all at the same time, which are all really expensive. Groceries A lot of Japanese food is vegan by default, including loads of desserts made from rice (mochi!), tofu, or agar agar. A lot is mostly vegan. In the latter case, restaurants either can't or won't substitute ingredients upon request, if they understand what you're asking. Plus things that look vegan probably have secret fish in. Similarly, grocery shopping is fine; buying staples is easy. But there are loads of super interesting looking unfamiliar things that I want to eat but I don't know what they are... they're probably soy, or vegetable, or seaweed, or bean... but I can't be sure. I carried around a list of all the kanji I needed to look for to read ingredients lists, but this is exhausting enough in English. First I googled the problem, and found pictures of things that the internet said are definitely vegan, and hunted some of those down. This includes this brand of soy milk, and these azduki bean ice creams: // Todo photos Then I obtained the services of my brother's Japanese girlfriend, J, and took her grocery shopping so I could point at things and ask what they are. I got all sorts of treats (descriptions on hover): <img class="w1of2" src="https://i.amy.gy/2016tokyo/IMG_20161101_144158.jpg" alt="Flavoured savoury silken tofu. This one is mushroom and pine. I also tried edamame. I tried spreading it on bread, but J told me it is to be eaten with a spoon, with soy sauce." title="Flavoured savoury silken tofu. This one is mushroom and pine. I also tried edamame. I tried spreading it on bread, but J told me it is to be eaten with a spoon, with soy sauce." /> <img class="w1of2" src="https://i.amy.gy/2016tokyo/IMG_20161105_123040.jpg" alt="Soy meat. In Seiyu, it comes in…
generator: sloph
name: Vegan in Tokyo
published: 2016-11-20T14:28:00+09:00
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/fujisawa
tag: ain+soph
tag: cafe6bt
tag: food
tag: happycow
tag: japan
tag: justgo
tag: kamakura
tag: kerela+bhuvan
tag: tokyo
tag: vegan
tag: veganic
updated: 2016-11-20T14:28:00+09:00

w3c-keio
type: Note
content: Today I'm working from the W3C office at Keio University.
generator: sloph
location: Keio University
published: 2016-11-10T11:27:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about Tokyo, Japan, phd, & w3c
tag: keio
tag: phd
tag: tokyo
tag: w3c

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