Horas and konnichiwa untuk semua


FOMA basestations are improving
December 27, 2006, 7:44 pm
Filed under: en/Mobile

I am getting a more consistent network availability from FOMA W-CDMA network here in Fukuoka while using non-Motorola handset.

As I wrote in the past, DoCoMo as the company who began world’s first commercial deployment of W-CDMA used the revision 99 in the firmwares of the basestations. This prevents current handsets, other than Motorola ones, to connect to it.

But it seems that DoCoMo has done much of the updating work, that a small town like where I live now has a signal that is compatible with non-Motorola handsets. On the picture here I am using Samsung handset loaded with Indosat’s Matrix card, which previously was unable to log into FOMA network due to the above basestation’s firmware problem.

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The First Noel
December 22, 2006, 10:53 pm
Filed under: en/Music

Click here to hear me playing and singing "The First Noel"., and sing together with me the lyrics shown below.

The first Noel the angel did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay;
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep,
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep.

Refrain

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.

They lookèd up and saw a star
Shining in the east, beyond them far;
And to the earth it gave great light,
And so it continued both day and night.

This song is unique because it says on a cold winter‘s night the sheperds are in fields, something that could not happen in the area where Bethlehem is where Jesus Christ my Savior was born. This is the reason why I do not consider December 25 a special day, since it is contrary to the Bible that says when Jesus was born the sheperds were in the fields, which is clearly not in December.

Nevertheless, Jesus was born, peace be upon the earth!

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