RRS

運動会に向けてってわけじゃないですが、久しぶりにRRSから諸々買っちゃったかも。今回は汎用デジカメ用Lブラケットとストロボ関係の縦位置用ブラケットなど。汎用LブラケットはG3とR-D1用で、通常の小さいクランプ用ブラケットでも良いんですが、やっぱり縦位置撮影も多いしねぇ。縦位置フラッシュブラケットはWedding Proですけど、ちょっとチャレンジャー過ぎたかな。まぁ、持ち運びが畳めて楽だという理由だけなので、B87-B PPPのセットとかを持っていきたく無い場合などは有効な感じがします。

I bought some sorts of RRS's clump, buying a L-bracket for a common digital camera and a flash bracket for a vertical position etc. in this time. A general small bracket was OK, but I frequently take photography in vertical position, so I chosed the L-bracket for my PowershotG3 and R-D1. The flash bracket, which is the Wedding Pro, was that I might be a challenger. Well, it is effective when I want to take a small flash bracket without such a bulky bracket as a B87-B PPP, it can be folded and it is easy to take it.

KYと飲み会Drink with KY

うちの部下は二人とも血液型ABなのですが（私はO型）、その部下二人を連れて、今日はグループの飲み会だったりする。それぞれ4年目と2年目ですが、上の方は良くできる部下、下の方はちょっとKYの気があり自覚症状も無いので、かなりの問題児だったりするかも。女の子もいないんでどうなるのかと思ったけど、何とか保ったかな。問題児へもいろいろ指摘して自覚させたし（やっぱり気付いてなかった）、これで明日から態度が変われば有意義な飲み会になるのだけど。

My two subordinates are AB blood type, meanwhile I am O blood type. I took them to drink for my group. The one has 4 years experience, the other was a newcomer last year. The upper subordinate is excellent, but the other is KY and don't have his awareness. So I worried how the party without a girl would be, but it might finally have been OK. We indicated the trouble maker not to do KY actions, and he seemed to be aware of them. It could have been the useful party if he have changed his action from tomorrow.

フォトフレームPhoto Frame

デジタルフォトフレームが流行っているらしい。実は私も欲しいですね。ただ、現行だとサイズが最大15インチでXGAみたいなので、できれば今使っている液晶テレビ程度の32インチで、WUXGA（フルHD）は欲しいかも。このサイズで紙みたいにペラペラで10万くらいであれば、買うけどなぁ。今の液晶の値段であれば可能じゃないだろうか。まぁ、専用に液晶テレビを買った方が安いのかもしれないけど。理想は電気を食わない電子ペーパーかな。早く実用化して欲しいかも。

Digital photo frames seem to be in fashion. I actually want it. But, the maximum size of current types seems to be a XGA of 15 inches, so I want a WUXGA of 32 inches size, which is as same as my TV. I will buy it if it is that size and very thin like a paper and costs 100,000 yen. I wonder if it is possible to come true in the current price level of the LCD. Well, new TV which I buy might be cheaper rather than it. A ideal is an electronical paper. I hope that it is in practical use.

中途半端なHalfway

やめましたねぇ。1年保たなかったのですが、まぁ、あの参院選と前総理のあとだし、良くここまでやったねぇとは思いますけど、ちょっと人気が無かったかな。最近の5人の中では最もまともな人だったような気がしますが、まともな神経ではできなということでしょうか。次の人にもよるだろうけど、市場はどう反応するだろうか。しかし、この後に引き継ぐ方もおそらく短命だしねぇ。後始末は大変かも。普通なら逃げるよなぁ。いったん野党にやらせてみたらどうなん。

He resigned. It can not keep the status for a year, but I thought that he had done it well after the election of the House of Councilors and that terrible prime minister. He might be unpopular. I felt that he is the most normal prime minister among recent 5 successive prime ministers. The prime minister can not serve, can't he? It depends on the next person but how will the market react? I predict that the next is short term. It might be serious to deal with the aftermath. Generally speaking, candidates escape. How let the opposition party be the prime minister one time ?

物価高High Prices

ジャスコに買い物に行ったのですが、ガソリン以外にもいろいろ値上がりしていますね、最も痛いのはコーヒーかなぁ（そろそろストック切れ）。最安時には498円で購入できた、AGFブレンディの250g詰め替え用コーヒーですが、今日は858円と大幅値上げ。これまで普段では698円から高くても789円だったのが、一気に60円の値上げっていうのは、原材料というよりは加工工程での燃料費のアップだろうか。野菜なども温室モノは燃料を使っているので、この冬場は大幅アップになりそうな予感。

We went shopping to Jusco and I felt that some commodities' prices rose as same as a gasoline price. It was painful for me to raise a coffee price, which was out of my stock. AGF's BLENDY 250g refill, which was 498 yen in the lowest, rise to 858 yen today. It had been priced 698 yen generally even if it was priced 798 yen in the highest. But I thought that the price, which rose to 60 yen, was reflected an oil price rather than the material cost rise. Vegetables, which are used an oil in a greenhouse, might be risen largely in winter.

電子マネーCybermoney

最近、コンビニでもクレジットカードやおさいふケータイなどの電子マネーで払っているのもあり、自販機以外でほとんど小銭を使わなくなったので、小銭がどんどん貯まっちゃいますね（まぁ、お札もあまり使わなくなっていて、ATMへお金を引き出しに行くのも無くなってきたかも）。今のところ持っていて使っているのは、EdyとSuicaだけですけど、クレジットカードが使えないnanakoはおそらく持つことが無いでしょう。つまり、セブンイレブンで買い物をする機会がかなり減るような気がします。セブンも業界標準のEdyには対応して欲しいなぁ。ちなみに、EdyとANAのマイレージは連動していて、Edyの決済額で100円1ポイントでANAのマイレージになりますね（マイレージへのポイント還元の反映が結構早い）。安い商品を買うのが一番お得なんだけど、Edyのチャージはポイントが付くクレジットカードで、コンビニはEdyで支払うと、気分的に最もお得な感じがするなぁ。

Recently, I have much small money in hand because I pay by a credit card and a cybermoney like "Osaihu K-tai" at a convenience store and so on except vending machines. I think that I use less bill and withdrawing cash from an ATM decreases slightly. Until now, I use Edy and Suica, and I am not going to have nanako because it can not be charged by a general credit card, meaning to reduce shopping in the Seven Eleven. I hope the Seven Eleven adopts the Edy payment system which is the industry-wide standard. By the way, the Edy system links the ANA's mileage system, so if you pay 100 yen by Edy in a convenience store, you get one point of ANA's mileage. The points are reflected to the mileage fast. Buying the lowest price merchandise is the most profitable, but I feel the the Edy, which is charged by a credit card that gives payment points and gives usage points for my mileage, is the most profitable.

休みHoliday

昨日からの集中豪雨で岡崎あたりが危ないということで、今日は朝早い2番電車に乗ろうと駅に行くと、いきなり20分遅れ。一番電車に乗ろうと豊橋駅に既に来ていた同僚にメールして状況確認すると、どうも全く動いていないらしく、何となくやばいなぁという雰囲気に。同僚らと合流して、駅にいるのもアレだからと新しくサーラビルに出来たスタバで時間潰し。一応、部下らに電話で指示して、朝一と午後一の会議を中止。その後駅に行って見ると、2時間程度は復旧しないということで、一緒にいた女の子は有休にして家に帰す。同僚はどうしても外せない会議があるらしく、他部の知り合いの室長と新幹線で会社に向かったけど、無事着いたかな。私は10時まで粘って駄目そうだったので、BOSSに電話して有休にして貰い、神さんに迎えに来て貰う。豊橋駅で4時間近く過ごしたけど、今回の収穫はFREESPOTの位置がわかったことか。

I tried to go to work by the second train in the early morning because a train had possibility to stop around Okazaki for yesterday concentrated downpour. But the train had 20 minutes' delay. When I confirmed a colleague, who had already come to the Toyohashi station, by email, all down trains seemed to have stopped. I thought it was vaguely chancy, and we joined them. We thought that it was no use staying in the station, so we killed a time in new Starbucks Coffee of the Sala building. I phoned my subordinate to indicate stopping two meetings of AM and PM at least. And then, we understood that trains' status would not be improved in two hours when we returned to the station. I was going to wait till 10 o'clock after we let a woman with us return home as a paid vacation. And I phoned my boss to take a paid vacation because trains did not move. I had my wife come to pick me up. But my colleague had an unavoidable meeting today, he went to work by the super express with an other department general manager, who I knew. Could they arrive at work without hindrance ? I spent 4 hours in the Toyohashi station, but today's catch was that I could find the point of the FREESPOT in the Toyohashi station.

+J FOR S60

バージョンアップしたということで、早速ダウンロードして入れてみる。劇的に変わったなぁというのは無いけど、何となく変換が良くなった気がします。E71で日本語が表示できて打ち込めるだけでも幸せなので、元々そんなに文句は無いんだけど、E71、これまでの携帯・PDAの中でもかなり使えると感じています。特に無線LAN環境内にいる場合は最強のデバイスでしょうね。一番良いなぁと思うのは、Symbianなりの安定性と、これまでに無いきびきびとした動作でしょうか。W-ZERO3[es]は機能的には良かったけど、やっぱり速度が遅いし、不安定なのでストレスがたまりましたね。。

The +J FOR S60 was upgraded, so I downloaded and installed it immediately. There was not a drastic improved point, but I felt that a conversion of FEP became a little excellent. I do not complain E71 from the beginning, because I am happy only to use Japanese on E71. I think that E71 is the most useful among the past PDAs and cell phones. Especially, it is the strongest in WLAN. I feel as the best that E71 is stable for Symbian OS, and faster than past devices. W-ZERO3[es] was excellent about functionality, but it was slow and unstable, so I had some frustration.

大いなる新人Great Newcomer

昨年新人のうちの問題児がやってくれましたよ。今日は防災訓練だったのですが、11:30からの机の下避難時にいきなり自席におらず。あれ？今日いたはずだけど？と、トイレからまったりと出てきたりして、部署内で何じゃこいつはざわざわという感じに。まぁ、これくらいはお約束だし、こっちは防災隊長の仕事があるんで室内の隊員を連れて集合場所へ。防災隊以外は部屋の外に並んで順に一斉避難するのですが、防災隊でもないその問題児が防災隊の集合場所に何故かいたりする。おいおい、おまえは一般だからと部屋に帰したけど、BOSSが点呼時にあいついねーぞとかパニックだったらしく、あーやっちまったよと言う感じに。さらに支給されている事務用の帽子を亡くしたみたいで、工場実習時に貰った現場帽子で避難。それも注意されちまったじゃないかー（もー俺は知らんぞ）。ガキ以下のことしかできんアホだなということを確信した日でした。

A trouble maker, who is my latest subordinate, has done. Today, our building held a emergency drill from 11:30AM but he was not his seat then. Why? He stayed there today, but... In my office, everybody said "what did he do !" and it got rippling. Well, this was usual for him, so I as a captain went to a gathering point with members of my workplace. Except members had to line up and refuge out of the building together, but then he stayed at the gathering point for some reason. "Give me a rest! You are not a member, and return"! When my boss had to call the roll, he did not stay there at the worst. Therefore my boss screamed in panic, it felt that he had done it. Further, he had lost an issued hat from company, he used a manufacturing hat which was issued on a site training at a plant. I was warned about this too. I was unable to stand him any longer. I was sure again that he was an idiot who can only do an easy thing.

50D

ぶるぶるの40Dから1年で50D発売ですかぁ（5Dまだぁ？）。それも今回はセンサー画素数が1.5倍と大幅アップ。APS-Cで1500万画素ってことは、密度的に言うとフルサイズで4000万画素近くまで行くって計算なのか？何かすげー気がするかも。で、サンプルですが、早速ダウンロードしてみたけど、ISO1600の高感度のは良い感じがしたけど、全体的に1500万画素という感じはせず、解像感が無くて微妙じゃないんでしょうか。おそらくレンズの解像度を超えているんじゃないかなぁ。機能面ではぶるぶるが無ければおそらく不満は無いのだろうけど、肝心の画質は？ですな。しかし、これで又1600万画素程度の5D後継機は出しにくくなったような気がするが。

A 50D is released in an only year from a vibrated 40D. Does a new 5D come not yet? Further, the image sensor is upgraded to 15 million pixels from 10 million pixels this time. 15 million pixels of APS-C equals 40 million pixels' density as a full-frame size sensor, doesn't it? I feel that it is great somehow. Well, sample images, which I downloaded immediately, I felt that a high sensitivity sample of ISO1600 was excellent with less color noise, but all images did not have high resolution at a 15 million pixels level. I suspect that the image sensor resolution exceeds resolution limit of lens. If it does not have that vibration, users will not complain it about functionality, but the image quality is open to question. But still I thought that it got difficult for Canon to release a new 5D of the 16 million pixels degree.