Michael Schubart’s Weblog

My favorite moment when preparing a presentation: When I add the final slide that says “Questions?”…

I’m not making this up…

Arco Tower (Meguro) and Hinomaru Driving School (Ebisu)

Tobacco week on Michael’s blog!

This poster is part of a publicity campaign by Japan Tobacco, a large tobacco manufacturer. Roughly translated, the slogan says, “If you pay attention, manners will change.” While ostensibly aimed at improving the manners of smokers, the campaign conveniently advertises the JT brand. I will post more pictures of posters over the next few days.

This enterprising young lady will gladly tend to all your cell-phone-painting and eyebrow-trimming related needs. Seen a couple of years ago in Inokashira Park.

I’ve uploaded the slides for my NinJava talk “What’s New in J2SE 1.5?” that I gave two weeks ago. There’s also a short list of links to the specs that I talked about and some relevant articles. It’s all on the wiki, so feel free to add your own links or leave a comment.

At the same NinJava meeting, Paul Raudkepp and Bob Scheele presented Temple University Japan’s iCarnegie IT Program.

Two weeks ago I started my new job at a big investment bank here in Tokyo. The first two weeks have been very exciting and interesting. I’ve been pretty busy but I hope that I’ll still find the time to update this blog every once in a while.