While browsing the site, I came across Christopher Cross's debut piece :"Ride Like the Wind". It's a song about a worn out bandit on the run, still more to go till the Mexico border and "riding like the wind" to reach freedom.

Not in the same meaning as intended, but I send myself the words "Ride Like the Wind" on my birthday. At this time of drastic change and new way of life, one who cannot adjust to the changes will not survive.

Ride like the wind, go with the flow, and accept the changes that occur.
Sometimes difficult not being the smart and flexible type, but I need to work on it.
Still a bit to go, but the border is near.

Working from home, May 2020.

Since I was fortunate to have a room for my own to setup my tele-work environment, that certainly helped me concentrate on work. It did help in achieving a lot effectively, but it came with some negatives. Since I apparently was so focused and somewhat overly concentrating, the days usually wound up noticing myself completely exhausted. In addition to the work space, I guess that focusing all day on your PC display which is the one and only connection to your team and company drains most of your energy at the end of the day. Controlling yourself, snapping yourself out of the concentration for a break once in a while is important. I actually experienced swollen legs from sitting at the desk all day. Getting away from the displays and going out for a short walk at lunch time also helps a lot.

Lessons learned. A nice experience to actually learn how you can or cannot manage yourself in a tele-work situation.

In my case, reducing person-to-person contact by 80% from my usual days including my commute on the train would become around 20 people. If I were to count strictly the people who come within my social distance of 2 meters, this 18 people/day turns out to be quite difficult to achieve since the majority of people aren't aware of social distancing and walk by you so closely without any bad faith. They even give you a grin if you try to back off. I am not aware of any stores that have any signs of keeping distance inside, except COSTCO which is of US origin. If I were to seriously aim for less than 20, I'd have to give up my daily jog (walk in public) to achieve it. IF everyone become aware of social distancing and seriously abides by it, I believe it will work.

I plan to keep a day by day record of how many person-to-person contact I have made, to keep myself conscious of this 80% target which all Japanese citizens have to keep in mind for the next month.

• 04/09: approx. 20ppl
• 04/10: approx. 20ppl
• 04/11: approx. 10ppl
• 04/12: 0ppl
• 04/13: 0ppl
• 04/14: 2ppl
• 04/15: 0ppl
• 04/16: approx. 10ppl
• 04/17: approx. 20ppl
• 04/18: 0ppl
• 04/19: 5ppl
• 04/20: 1ppl
• 04/21: 0ppl
• 04/22: 10ppl
• 04/23: 20ppl
• 04/24: 0ppl
• 04/25: 0ppl
• 04/26: 5ppl
• 04/27: 0ppl
• 04/28: 0ppl
• 04/29: 3ppl
• 04/30: 0ppl
• 05/01: 5ppl
• 05/02: 3ppl
• 05/03: 5ppl
• 05/04: 5ppl
• 05/05: 5ppl
• 05/06: 0ppl
• 05/07: 0ppl
• 05/08: 1ppl
• 05/09: 2ppl

* Stopping the recording of social distancing as of May 9, since it has fulfilled the role of keeping me conscious of person2person contact to the point that it is now in my blood.

• Asahi.com "Experts: Small fraction could derail social distancing plan" - http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13287260

Everyone's relying on video calls to stay connected during this #stayhome time, and webcams and video boards are difficult to find even if you're willing to pay. This utility solves that for EOS users.

I've installed the utility on my Win10 UMPC：GPD Pocket that doesn't have an integrated camera, hooked my EOS M6 Mark II to it via USB and it worked just fine on ZOOM.

The image quality is obviously much high compared to the low-res webcam images we've become used to these days, and it's easy to notice at a glance.

Good job Canon.

note: It is a beta version with no support outside of the US. Use it at your own risk.

• Canon USA:EOS Webcam Utility Beta - https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/self-help-center/eos-webcam-utility/

Another unexpected improvement (should have imagined, my oversight) was that the extended signal range in new generation access points enables me to reduce the number of Access points from 3 to 2. (Yes, I needed 3 to cover my small apartment full of walls !) The new access point also uses some technology that pinpoints and aims at the client device in transferring the wireless signal. Wow, technology improvements !

I guess it does make sense to invest in your network infrastructure once in a while.

Amazon Japan:

• @nak.com - #supporttakeout (in Japanese)

A lot of recommendations for the Technifiber X-ONE BIPHASE.
Flat stroke player, wanting a string that helps hold down the ball, soft on the wrist and elbows.
Any other recommendations ?

p.s. Congrats to Novak, 2020AO Winner, as I am posting this.

This direction goes against the current web trend that calls for dedicated localized pages. It also does not mean that I don't want to post contents in English anymore because I still do ! The main reason I had made the decision was due to the burden and redundancy on my part to update information twice, once in Japanese then in English. I had also set up a separate blog for posting English dedicated articles, but articles are not posted as often as expected. What would you want to post in ENGLISH ONLY in the first place ? lol

Result...I decided to keep the English side of the website.
Restructuring the website to be modular enabled a common content body for both Japanese and English webpages so updating is an one time procedure. Language switching is done using style sheets. The remodeled website has a English side with the majority of contents mirrored and synced, but in English. A look at the Blog postings in the Japanese side and the corresponding English page will hint at what is being done to achieve this.

BTW, This helped.
Rodger Keays.com "Using base href/ with Anchors"- https://rogerkeays.com/blog/using-base-href-with-anchors