“Admins who have vCenter servers directly exposed to the Internet should strongly consider curbing the practice…”
— No shit, Ars TechnicaDo the models know?
At the creepy end of the Japanese photobook/DVD market, you can be pretty sure that the very young models don’t really know that being photographed in perfectly ordinary school outfits is fetish bait for middle-aged men, and that the photographers, editors, and stylists feel no urge to enlighten them. Ditto when they set up a scene in the kitchen and carefully adjust her string bikini to emulate the “naked apron” fetish.
But what about the ones who are all grown up?
Of Japan, but not in Japan
Small detail from a statue in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He has a certain “my new social-media avatar” look to him, I think.
Important NTP safety tip
When the clocks on internal hosts are drifting out of sync despite the fact that everything runs NTP, make sure that the server everything is pointed at isn’t pointed at itself.
(unless it has an attached GPS or other source of correct time, of course, which this one didn’t)
Sakura Mankai
A quick crop of cherry trees in full bloom in a back street in Kyoto.
Full frame, with an older couple getting their picture taken among the blossoms.
Reflections in the dark
There's always a way
Just because she’s short doesn’t mean she’s willing to miss out on the scenery.
Baffling Japanese spam
Recently, I’ve been getting a lot more infected-Excel Chinese spam than usual, and the majority of the Japanese spam has been bland one-liners with a link to a pay site, so I haven’t mentioned any of it.
This one stuck out for two reasons. First, there’s no URL at all, so no easy payoff for the spammer. Second, well, see for yourself:
From: 栄村良子 【BBガルダン 企画部】
Subject: 読むだけ簡単、貴方の脳の不思議発見
こんちには みさなん おんげき ですか？
わしたは げんき です。
この ぶんょしう は いりぎす の
ケブンッリジ だがいく の けゅきんう の けっか
にんんげは たごんを にしんき する ときに
その さしいょ と さいご の もさじえ あいてっれば
じばんゅん は めくちちゃゃ でも
ちんゃと よめる という けゅきんう に もづいとて
わざと もじの じんばゅん を いかれえて あまりす。
どでうす？ ちんゃと よゃちめう でしょ？
Not only is it all written phonetically in hiragana, most words are scrambled, so that the first body line reads “konchini wa, misanan ongeki desu ka?”
It does not appear to be written by assistoroids, so I don’t think the alien catgirls have found my email address.
Photo-shoot prep at Osaka Castle
I spotted this couple being moved around the scenic spots at Osaka Castle by a camera crew that included some pro video gear; they were likely shooting for a TV show (thanks, Jonathon) newlyweds.
