About Yoshi

Yoshi has been eating since he was born, so he's quite the expert on the subject. Never mind that everyone else has been doing the same. He's confident when it comes to food, and longs to be a food stylist so he can take pictures of his mouth watering masterpieces and immortalize his pieces of art. Feel free to circle him on Google+ by visiting his profile at plus.haroyoshi.com

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This must be the best commercial for beer ever. Seriously funny.

3 people shot in Lacey, 1 dead

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3 people shot in Lacey, 1 dead – What in the world is going on!?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Yoshi

In my opinion, they should just go ahead and make St. Patrick’s Day an official holiday. Why not? People are supposed to celebrate by dancing, drinking and feasting! Isn’t that what History.com tells us? Everyone knows that the History Channel would never lie to us. What was that saying? “I saw it on TV so it must be true!”

Anyways, I still think we could all just use a day where we sit back, relax, pound a few beers, and celebrate whatever you want to celebrate. Celebrate life, that new promotion, whatever. I don’t think we Really need an excuse to party, but if it works for you, just celebrate life.

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Here’s a mashup of the songs Lady Gaga – Bad Romance and Journey – Separate Ways by Danalyn. Awesome stuff. You’re gonna love it! Yes, the first 20 seconds of the video is supposed to be dark.

AT&T “4G” at my residence

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Yoshi

So I decided to go ahead and test out just how fast (or slow) my phone was. So I disabled my wi-fi and downloaded the speedtest.net app to see how my connection was.

As far as things go, it’s just about what I expected. To give you a good laugh, I reconnected back to my wi-fi and decided to test my Comcast connection. Mind you, these are both going to a Comcast server in Seattle. So the Comcast connection might just be a bit skewed. =P

I think the Comcast connection might be just a little bit faster than the AT&T “4G” connection. I didn’t even realize that AT&T had any HSPA+ connections in this area. Still it’s not all that impressive. I realize that if I were to go to a different location, it might be a little faster. But come on. Just a little disappointed I suppose.

iOS 5.1 update a bit misleading about 4G

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Yoshi

So by now I’m sure you’ve heard of the iOS 5.1 update from Apple. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone 4s and you’re using AT&T as a provider, you probably noticed it might say 4G instead of 3G in the upper left corner. Whoa. What gives Apple? Did you sneak the hardware into the iPhone again? Nah. They didn’t do anything so sneaky. It’s causing a bit of confusion in the world, as you can see/read in this Macworld article.

That just sounds like a silly thing. I know my iPhone is not any faster than it was yesterday. The data service (and often, voice services) from AT&T in my area is a bit spotty at best. I’m thankful for the use of WiFi honestly. Presently, in my area, the only provider offering real 4G (LTE) is Verizon. Anyone else might be providing “equivalent” speeds, but it’s not Really quite the same now is it.

On a happier note, it’s nice to see some about time updates like being able to delete photos from the Photo Stream. OMG, shouldn’t we have had this from the beginning? I’ll be sure to play around with the Japanese interface for Siri too. Sounds like it could be interesting.

Text editor decisions: Ultraedit or Textmate?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Yoshi

So recently, I decided to finally get Ultraedit for Mac just to see what it was like. I’ve been a long-time (somewhat) user of UEStudio, which is like the amped up version of Ultraedit and I like it. When I’m developing websites in Windows, I’ll use that to edit my PHP and HTML files. Actually on Windows, I use UEStudio to do any editing at all, including normal TXT files and any other development I might be doing.

However, when I’m developing websites on the Mac, my preferred method for many years has been to use Transmit alongside Textmate. I don’t think anything will ever replace Transmit as my FTP program on the Mac. However, I’m talking about editors. Textmate has been very awesome for me. When I was heavy into ExpressionEngine (EE), there was a bundle made for it for EE Tags. That was awesome. That made EE template writing so much easier. But since then, I haven’t done much EE development and I suppose it’s just habit to use Textmate. I love it. But with the Ultraedit, things have changed.

So for those of you who are fond (or not so fond) of polls, I issue a poll. What text editor is your choice? Do you have any? It doesn’t matter if it’s a Windows, Mac, or Unix editor, I use all 3 environments, so I’m easy like that. Suggest something in the comments if I don’t have the one of your choice in the list.

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30,000 WordPress blogs infected

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30,000 WordPress blogs infected to distribute rogue antivirus software – One reason why keeping your blog software up to date is very important!

In Memory of Ralph McQuarrie

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In Memory of Ralph McQuarrie – If you don’t recognize the name, I’m not surprised. This is the guy who designed R2-D2 and Darth Vader from Star Wars. Ah, now some familiar names!