Saturday 25th October – arrival
On the last episode we learned that our hero had made all kinds of plans for his trip through Japan. What would come of it?
On today’s episode, we continue where we left off: the flight to Hong Kong was underway and finished by the time the previous episode aired. That is, Hong Kong had been reached, hence the publication.
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I will post / add pictures later.
Friday 24th October – departure
After weeks, nay, months of preparing, today is the big day. Yours truly is on his way to Japan. Konnichiwa, birches!
As I’m typing this, I’m on board of flight 270, en route to Hong Kong, an 11h trip. There I will take my connecting flight to Ōsaka, another 4 hours. Side note: I’m glad I have my phone charger with me and that there’s a socket available to keep my phone charged. Very handy!
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Your truly will be going to Japan… You can follow me here.
Ever since version 36 of 37 or something like that, Google Chrome started rendering texts incorrectly. That is, texts would become a bit blocky and just unpleasant to read.
Being the good little technology enthusiast that I am, I usually read all the ‘whatsnew’-documentation that comes with new versions of programs, like with Chrome. And at one point I remembered reading something. Google implemented a new feature called DirectWrite which does who knows what, but should cause your texts to appear even better than they did before.
Well, as it turns out, this little feature caused the problems I was experiencing. So what does one do? Open this URL in Google Chrome:
And just toggle ‘Disable DirectWrite’ so that the text reads ‘disable’ (you have just enabled the feature to disable that feature). Hurray for overly complicated texts.
Note: I use Google Chrome on a Windows 2008 R2 terminal server. On my laptop with Windows 8 everything is just fine…