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		<title>Resetting a lost ViewSonic DVI connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently upgraded to a shiny new graphics card (NVIDIA 7900 GT) and was bummed when the DVI connection on my ViewSonic VA2012wb LCD monitor couldn&#8217;t detect a signal from it and just stayed in standby mode. At first I thought the card was just dead, until I tried using the DVI to D-Sub (analog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Words: Monkey Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This photo caught our monkey friend with his mouth open, since he was yelling something about expecting a really big banana for having to pose with these two idiots. Now, anyone who knows me is certainly aware of my affinity for all things simian. Everything is better when you add monkeys, right? So imagine my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.munky.net/travel/japan/japan06-monkeypark/</link>
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		<title>Two machiya in Kyoto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most machiya, including that housing the Nunoya ryokan, include a nice enclosed garden. Finally managing to get out of Saijo for a few days of travel before returning stateside, we spent a few days in the old Japanese capital of Kyoto. We split our stay between a fairly expensive (for our budget) traditional ryokan, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noodles and beer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ll be able to get this one up on Engrish.com Yesterday was the beginning of the O-bon holiday in Japan, during which most people go home to the countryside to visit their families and pray to their ancestors. That being the case, the population of Saijo has now doubled or tripled, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.munky.net/travel/japan/japan06-day5/</link>
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		<title>Willie Winkie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the Willie Winkie bakery&#8217;s answering my &#8220;needs&#8221; with good combustible sandwiches, I have adopted their name as my new euphemism for the male genitalia. There’s definitely been a change in the retail environment here in Saijo since my last visit two winters ago. Just like in the U.S., the big stores are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.munky.net/travel/japan/japan06-day4/</link>
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		<title>Hoppy McBathtime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Coke machine takes payment via infrared transmission, cellular phone screen reader, or cellphone IC (prepaid?) card. This is in a city with no wi-fi access points. Internet access has turned out to be another technical challenge out here in the countryside. I’d hoped to find a café or library with wireless access available, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bathing via bicycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japanese gardens are known for their fine stone sculptures, such as this stunning rendition of Ultraman taking a dump. Despite my best efforts to take advantage of staying in downtown Osaka that first night, I wasn’t ultimately able to make it much past 9:00 before turning in. I was up early the next morning though, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.munky.net/travel/japan/japan06-day2/</link>
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		<title>Next time, I&#8217;ll take the bus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mt. Fuji as seen from the plane. I think. I&#8217;m pretty sure it was Mt. Fuji that I saw poking through the clouds shortly after our plane came within sight of land after our trans-Pacific crossing. Unfortunately I had nobody to point it out to at the time, since my wife had come to Japan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.munky.net/travel/japan/japan06-day1/</link>
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		<title>Visit to fuseproject</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from a short visit with fuseproject, the San Francisco design consultancy headed by Yves Behar. They gave our group from SFSU IDSA a quick tour of the 29-person office, which is (as one would expect) nicely laid out and clearly geared towards collaborative work, favoring long, shared tables over individual desks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.munky.net/design/fuseproject-visit/</link>
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		<title>Cultural identity postcard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a project for one of my design seminars, for which we were asked to create a 5&#8243;x7&#8243; postcard that reflects our &#8220;cultural identity&#8221;. Rather than taking the obvious route of addressing my mixed ethnicity, I decided instead to focus on the parts of my identity that relate to hacker culture. I still remember [...]]]></description>
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