{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Hello! from Rick Cogley", "icon": "https://micro.blog/rickcogley/avatar.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://cogley.jp/", "feed_url": "https://cogley.jp/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2024/02/29/the-other-day.html", "content_html": "
The other day in Otemachi of all places, I saw a group of 3 or 4 teen boys carving up a parking garage entrance on skateboards. It was jarring to see that in that area. 🛹
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-29T04:55:45+09:00", "date_modified": "2024-02-29T04:55:46+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2024/02/29/the-other-day.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2024/01/26/with-the-release.html", "content_html": "With the release of Apple iOS 17.3 comes “stolen device protection” (盗難デバイスの保護), in Settings, Face/TouchID & Passcode. Tap “Turn on Protection” to require biometrics with no passcode fallback, if your iPhone is outside familiar locations. Slick! 🙅♂️😈
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-26T05:43:53+09:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-30T09:00:22+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2024/01/26/with-the-release.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2024/01/23/kindergarten-teachers-and.html", "content_html": "Kindergarten teachers and their charges at a street crossing. Must be stressful! 📷🎌
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-23T09:23:30+09:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-30T09:00:22+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2024/01/23/kindergarten-teachers-and.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2024/01/19/fido-security-keys.html", "content_html": "FIDO2 security keys for M365 MFA have been working at my firm eSolia for over a year. Enabling an Entra conditional access policy to require “phishing resistant MFA” for admins (aka FIDO2 keys!), caused an endless loop of pain.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-19T10:11:24+09:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-23T09:00:06+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2024/01/19/fido-security-keys.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2024/01/06/jan-or-is.html", "content_html": "Jan 5 or 6 is 小寒 (shokan “a little cold”) which marks when the sun is at 285 degrees. Now is a good time to start bundling up. ❄️
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-06T06:48:05+09:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-09T09:00:34+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2024/01/06/jan-or-is.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2024/01/02/if-youre-living.html", "content_html": "If you’re living in or visiting Japan, here are some useful resources we compiled regarding disaster readiness. Stay safe and help those around you if you can. 🎌🚒
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-02T05:25:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-02T09:01:01+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2024/01/02/if-youre-living.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2024/01/01/happy-new-year.html", "content_html": "Happy New Year greetings to one and all, but our thoughts are with those impacted by the large & terrifying Ishikawa quake.
\n\n\n📷🇯🇵
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-01T21:48:27+09:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-02T09:01:01+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2024/01/01/happy-new-year.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/27/kiji-pheasants-have.html", "content_html": "“Kiji” pheasants have a grating call that I always said sounds like a rusty gate, but I found a more apt comparison: the scraping sound of sliding plastic hangers along a pole. 😬
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-27T04:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-02T09:01:01+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/27/kiji-pheasants-have.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/26/its-not-a.html", "content_html": "It’s not a thing where I’m from, but Boxing Day each Dec 26, has an interesting origin of being a day for the more fortunate to give to the less so. There’s also Cricket and big sales. 🎁⛪️
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-26T04:50:37+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-26T09:02:05+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/26/its-not-a.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/25/merry-christmas-from.html", "content_html": "Merry Christmas from Maru the Shiba and his humans. 🎄📷
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-25T08:37:31+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-26T09:02:05+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/25/merry-christmas-from.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/24/nyt-connections-is.html", "content_html": "NYT Connections is a cool game where you pick groups of four words with some connection from easy to hard.
\nPuzzle #196
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On 12/23 in 1982 Japan NTT designated this day “telephone card day”. My first real job was at a design co that licensed idol and actor photos, selling “tereca” printed with them and some English text, to dept stores. 🎌☎️
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-23T04:16:29+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-26T09:02:05+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/23/on-in-japan.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/22/per-geda-h.html", "content_html": "Per GEDA, 12/22 1997 (H9) marks when generic medicines were first allowed by MHLW, giving Japan consumers access to cheaper alternatives. Med patents expire in ~20 yrs, after which generics can be made. 🇯🇵💊
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-22T04:22:34+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-26T09:02:05+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/22/per-geda-h.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/21/today-dec-is.html", "content_html": "Today 21 Dec is the anniversary of the first “word-cross” puzzle, published in the New York World in 1913 (T2) by its editor Arthur Wynn. 📰
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-21T04:10:53+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-26T09:02:05+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/21/today-dec-is.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/21/walkers-have-precedence.html", "content_html": "Walkers have precedence on the highways and byways of Sumida… 📷🇯🇵
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-21T03:58:47+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-26T09:02:05+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/21/walkers-have-precedence.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/20/optimists-waiting-in.html", "content_html": "Optimists waiting in the cold to buy their 年末ジャンボー “year end jumbo” lottery ticket. 📷🇯🇵
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-20T04:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-26T09:02:04+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/20/optimists-waiting-in.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/19/red-down-left.html", "content_html": "Red down left 📷
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-19T05:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/19/red-down-left.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/19/baron-yoshitoshi-tokugawa.html", "content_html": "Baron Yoshitoshi Tokugawa (relative of the last Shogun) piloted Japan’s first powered flight 19 Dec 1910 where Yoyogi Park is today. 🇯🇵🪽
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-19T03:43:28+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/19/baron-yoshitoshi-tokugawa.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/18/robert-patrick-who.html", "content_html": "Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 in one of the Terminator films has a good line in the new Reacher season on Amazon Prime. Someone asks about an alias: “Who’s Sarah Conner?” and his character quips, “I don’t give a shit, just keep an eye on that hotel.” 😆
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-18T04:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/18/robert-patrick-who.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/17/dec-kitty-hawk.html", "content_html": "Dec 17 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, was the first 4 manned flights by the Wright Brothers over a short distance. Today you can hang glide it! 🛫📷
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-17T03:54:01+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/17/dec-kitty-hawk.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/17/dec-m-marks.html", "content_html": "Dec 16, 1890 (M23) marks the start of phone service between Tokyo and Yokohama with 155 and 44 phones respectively. The 7 female operators (with 2 males on night shift) could connect you for 240K JPY in today’s money. 🇯🇵📞
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-17T03:36:27+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/17/dec-m-marks.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/16/destruction-of-the.html", "content_html": "Destruction of the ancestral “jikka” home under tarps, 2019. 📷🇯🇵
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-16T01:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/16/destruction-of-the.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/15/a-program-in.html", "content_html": "A program in place since 1906 in Japan, Dec 15-25 marks the period during which you can post a 年賀状 “nengajo” postcard for Jan 1 arrival. 🇯🇵🏣📷
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-15T04:14:53+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/15/a-program-in.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/14/empty-tokyo-restaurant.html", "content_html": "Empty Tokyo restaurant. 📷⏳
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-14T02:54:35+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/14/empty-tokyo-restaurant.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/13/maru-the-shiba.html", "content_html": "Maru the Shiba came back from day care and the staff who drove him said he and other Shibas hadn’t pooped. A border collie friend kept running up like “hey! Whatcha doing!? Any good smells there?” causing poopus interruptus. 😂🐕
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-13T06:16:31+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:19+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/13/maru-the-shiba.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/13/dec-marks-the.html", "content_html": "Dec 13 marks the formal start in Japan of 正月事始め(shougatsu-goto-hajime) when the Big Tidy activities start and it’s off to the mountains to get 門松 (kadomatsu) materials. 🎍🇯🇵
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-13T06:06:06+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:18+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/13/dec-marks-the.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/13/bean-bun-boogie.html", "content_html": "Bean bun boogie, Shinbashi Tokyo. 📷🧆
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-13T03:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-19T09:00:18+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/13/bean-bun-boogie.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/12/alien-traffic-safety.html", "content_html": "Alien traffic safety mascot approaches. 📷👽
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-12T04:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:40+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/12/alien-traffic-safety.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/11/dec-is-international.html", "content_html": "Dec 11 is International Mountain Day, a day to think on our impact on vital mountain ecosystems. I wish I was hiking today! 🏔️📷
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-11T07:15:15+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:40+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/11/dec-is-international.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/11/scaffolding-went-up.html", "content_html": "Scaffolding went up before the old “jikka“ ancestral home was torn down. Four years ago already! 📷🏡
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-11T03:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:40+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/11/scaffolding-went-up.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/10/yesterday-our-ohsouji.html", "content_html": "Yesterday our 大掃除 “ohsouji” or “Big Tidy” task was replacing the ugly brown mats we’d laid downstairs with nice wood-like flooring. Took all day & was really hard, but looks good & we can use the heated floor. 💦
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-10T07:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:40+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/10/yesterday-our-ohsouji.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/10/us-per-hour.html", "content_html": "8000 US $ per hour?! Wow.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-10T06:24:06+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:40+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/10/us-per-hour.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/10/this-weekend-is.html", "content_html": "This weekend is 大掃除 “ohsouji” or the “Big Tidy” as I like to call it, where the nooks and crannies get so clean even Marie Kondo blushes. If you’re not in Japan, do you do this? 📷🇯🇵🧽🧹
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-10T06:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:40+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/10/this-weekend-is.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/10/udagawa-yusuichi-is.html", "content_html": "Udagawa Yu-sui-chi is a little nature conservation area near a park we take Maru the Shiba to almost daily. You can’t go down into it but you can peer at it to see birds. 📷🦆
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-10T04:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/10/udagawa-yusuichi-is.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/09/dec-is-international.html", "content_html": "Dec 9 is International Anti-Corruption Day. Corruption follows and causes conflict globally, and is inherently undemocratic. It’s worth your thoughts and fight! 🤛
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-09T04:23:35+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/09/dec-is-international.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/09/snaps-of-a.html", "content_html": "Snaps of a Hillman in Higashi Azabu, 2016.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-09T04:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/09/snaps-of-a.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/08/japan-marks-dec.html", "content_html": "Japan marks Dec 8 as “Start of the Pacific War Day” although we don’t really hear about it that much. May all those who died at Pearl Harbor and after, rest in peace. 😔
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-08T03:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/08/japan-marks-dec.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/07/rip-norman-lear.html", "content_html": "RIP Norman Lear whose work shaped my childhood. 101! Such influence; a life well lived. 🖤🤍
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-07T03:35:05+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/07/rip-norman-lear.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/07/dec-is-world.html", "content_html": "Dec 7 is World Kamishibai Day! It’s the art of telling a story to children while showing cards mounted in a box, popularized in Japan in the 1930s. Have you seen it or something similar? 🇯🇵👩👩👧👦
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-07T02:55:06+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/07/dec-is-world.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/06/andme-confirmed-the.html", "content_html": "23andMe confirmed the leak of 6.9 million users’ ancestry data. That’s just stunningly bad. You’d think they’d have superior cyber security but no, they’re only just now getting around to requiring 2FA. 😱
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-06T07:25:28+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/06/andme-confirmed-the.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/06/atsuta-horaiken-is.html", "content_html": "Atsuta Horaiken is a famous eel shop in Nagoya since 1873. Two hour wait, and 3100 yen for lunch in 2011! The servers looked bored, but were chatting, pretty in their pajama-like purple kimono uniforms. 📷🇯🇵
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-06T04:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/06/atsuta-horaiken-is.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/05/besides-it-being.html", "content_html": "Besides it being my sister’s birthday 🥳 it’s also International Volunteer Day. Did you know you can volunteer online? 🙋♀️🙋♂️
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-05T21:28:22+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/05/besides-it-being.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/05/at-my-checkup.html", "content_html": "At my checkup, asked about flu shots this yr, and they had had a cancellation so I jumped on it. Got a garlic and B vitamins shot to counteract the flu shot. Ever had? 💉🦠
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-05T21:10:34+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-12T09:00:39+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/05/at-my-checkup.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/05/can-i-get.html", "content_html": "Can I get your PIN? At a 370 yr old wagashi sweets shop in Nagoya called Ryokuchiya Korekiyo, 2011. This person was kindly explaining and answering my many questions. 📷🇯🇵🍡
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-05T04:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-05T09:00:24+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/05/can-i-get.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/04/for-micromonday-id.html", "content_html": "For #MicroMonday I’d like to share and thank Sven Dahlstrand (@sod), who is a great help in the m.b forum & makes great posts and plugins. 📅🙏🏻
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-04T09:10:32+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-05T09:00:24+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/04/for-micromonday-id.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/04/in-the-famous.html", "content_html": "In 2010, the famous dept store Matsuya in Ginza Tokyo was wearing a Louis Vuitton livery. 📷🇫🇷
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-04T03:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-05T09:00:24+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/04/in-the-famous.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/03/some-snaps-from.html", "content_html": "Some snaps from a morning jog in Tennozu Isle Shinagawa Tokyo, 2016. It’s a whole feeling to wander among these buildings when there’s nobody around. 📷🏢
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-03T08:00:00+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-05T09:00:24+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/03/some-snaps-from.html", "tags": ["Japan"] }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/03/dec-rd-is.html", "content_html": "Dec 3rd is “International Day of Persons with Disabilities” a day to reflect on what you have, and how you can help differently-abled others. 🤗
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-03T02:23:44+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-05T09:00:24+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/03/dec-rd-is.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/02/dec-is-world.html", "content_html": "Dec 2 is World Nuclear Energy Day, from Fermi’s success on this day in 1942, in getting the first sustained chain reaction at Pile-1 in Chicago. Ponder the pros and cons today. ☢️🌐
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-02T04:10:01+09:00", "date_modified": "2023-12-05T09:00:24+09:00", "url": "https://cogley.jp/2023/12/02/dec-is-world.html" }, { "id": "http://rickcogley.micro.blog/2023/12/02/i-liked-this.html", "content_html": "I liked this lettering: not only front to back on the truck but italicized in the opposite from normal manner. Wonder if the tilt is consistent on the left side of the truck. 📷🚛
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