A series of moves around Susan Boyle suggested to me that the era of talent-capitalism is emerging. I challenged to sketch a vague image of structural changes. Talented person had to enter a high-risk high-return segment so far. However, appearances of medium risk high-return success examples would sway the high-risk high-return segment. Finally, the structure of medium risk, medium return segment would change.
As the Bing-Maps became accessible from my PC, I challenged to experience their operability. The first thing I thought after using them was that MS would never fail to combine Bing-Maps and MS-Excel soon or later as follows. 1) From Excel software on one’s desktop machine, direct output and storage of one’s worksheet or graph onto the Bing-Maps may become possible. This means that making of figures as shown above may be easily possible without any cut and paste. Above figure was made with a repetition of multiple cut and paste. 2) Excel-like simple workbench may be usable on Bing-Maps. At least in Japan, lots of users would switch to Bing-Maps. As the Google’s reputation largely depends on Google-map, its business model would be impacted to a greater or lesser extent. Even under the Chrome OS’s dominance, Windows OS would survive. MS must have learned a lot from Mac OS’s survival strategy after Win95 more than anyone else.
A sewing machine with the engraved mark of ‘Made in occupied Japan.’ is coming up for auction.I firstly know that the nationality of 57-64 years old Japanese people is ‘Occupied Japan’ in a strict sense.
This photograph was taken at Wshuzan, one of the best viewing spots in the Inland Sea area. Though this seascape is well known, an island in the center of this photo isn’t well known even to Japanese people. The name of this island is Matsushima, which means the island of pine. Number of habitants is said to be less than 5 at present. Historically, this island was related to Sumitomo Fujiwara (A.C. 893-941), who was a medieval soldier and died leaving the legend of buried treasure. It has been said that ninety-nine jars containing Gold still exist somewhere related to him in the Inland Sea area. Other than his treasure, several legends of buried treasures of medieval pirates exist around the Inland Sea islands.
These days, rental services of ground-penetrating radar are becoming personally affordable range (e.g. 50,000yen a day). I hope each island municipality buys ground-penetrating radar and lends out for visitors. As an event of vitalizing tourism projects in the deserted area, the experience of searching buried treasure may be promising.
Anyway, there are lots of legends of buried treasures in various regions in Japan. With the assistance of ground-penetrating radar, the day of discovery of Sumitomo Fujiwara’s treasure may become nearer than before.
Book title: Reconnoitering the world secret military bases by Google-Earth. (With attached CD-ROM.)
Tag line: Bloodiest battlefields of the past, conflict zones and nuclear-testing sites. Strategically important strongholds are exposed to the light of day.
The word “本見” printed on eight of spades card is the right-to-left horizontal writing of a word “見本: A Sample”. As right-to-left horizontal writing was much more common before 1940, this item might have been produced during pre-ENIAC age. Even in this DS blooming age, we can enjoy playing poker games with this one. Development of a new kind of card game may be possible.
