Uchikura & Co Blog
2009-04-17
My friend just moved in to top floor penthouse suite in one of the new high riser building. I took picture from the balcony. You can actually look down from there. It is very scary standing so close t...
2009-04-17
In order to understand Japanese business culture, one needs to understand the history of the Japanese business system. To understand Japanese business history, you need to understand what we call Zai-...
2009-04-16
Kaizen translated to change for better. Kai = Change Zen = BetterIt is often used in manufacturing. In order to Zen (Better), one must find Aku (Bad) or waste. Once Aku is found, find the way to mak...
2009-04-16
Do you know Harry Brelsford?For most people, the answer will be NO. However, for many people in IT industry, the answer will be similar to asking, Do you know Arnold Palmer? to golfers. He runs a ...
2009-04-16
If you have 1MB picture you want to send to your friend, you just email it.What if you had 100 of those 1MB pictures that you want to send to your supplier in Boston, what do you do? How about sending...
2009-04-16
We have a service called ClockLink.com (http://www.clocklink.com/). This service enables you to select the clock from the library and place it on your blog or web page. This is the only free clock ser...
2009-04-15
Have you ever noticed that your laptop (notebook) computer gets hotter and hotter as you use it? Especially when you are running tasks like defragmentation and virus check. Unlike desktop computers, p...
2009-04-15
We had weekly Seattle Executives Association luncheon meeting on ARGOSY CRUISES (http://www.argosycruises.com/). ARGOSY is another member of the association and we have meeting on their ship twice a y...
2009-04-15
We have been using several SPAM filtering devices and software for our email hosting services. However, those devices and software are causing more problems than what they solve. They sometime could n...