naganodave

Quote: As it turns out, she is not a fan of feminism. Meaning she dislikes it or just not interested?

3 months?! Lucky you! If I had 3 months there is no doubt I would choose "Nagano" as the destination, and I'm not just saying that because I live in Nagano! In 3 months you can come to learn and love Hakuba, Shiga Kogen, Nozawa and tons of other places all within an hour or two of each other.

There was something on the tv about that gg. The ojisan they intereviewed were not overly impressed as she wasn't "traditionally Japanese" (thats pretty much what they said). I watched some of that yesterday (the Miss Universe program). What a joke the whole thing is. Funny watching Miss USA fall over though.

I am looking round now to buy a new pc and came across this, which makes some interesting points about Dell "Confessions of a formed Dell sales manager" http://consumerist.com/consumer/insiders/22-confessions-of-a-former-dell-sales-manager-268831.php I sure agree with the play around with the website. You can get wildly different prices on exactly the same spec by going in via different packages/routes. Quite annoying actually.

Quote: who cares which is bigger People who have a business interest in getting punters to the slopes of "their" resort!

I'm one of the sillies who have been up there more than once. Basically a group of friends wanted to go up there and I decided to do number 2. I enjoyed it, and it is a great feeling up top there when the weather is good.

Hey I like the new setup! Good job.

Really interesting piece on Steve Jobs and the preparations that go into his keynotes. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1677772,00.html Whats on the cards for this time?

Sounds good to me. I'm making a decision early tomorrow morning.

Sweet. I didn't make a members page last year, but thought I'd take the plunge this time it seemed a bit complex. I really like the way they look now and it was real easy to get a page going. Here's what I made. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/sjmember.php?uid=naganodave I'll be sure to keep that updated and get some more pics and stuff up there. Cheers for the site, it seriously rocks.

Near Nagano. My local playing grounds are Nozawa, Ryuo, Madarao, Shiga Kogen. What a choice!

The company culture brings it on.

Car is necessary. Only found that out when I got one last season and it made such a big difference.

Snowboarding for 10 years. Lucky to be living near Nagano city.