michael lambe

Something very bad has happened to Deep Kyoto. If you try to look at it there’s a page of code you have to scroll through to get to the home page. But what’s worse (for me) is I can’t access admin – when I try I just get code. If anyone out there in the [...]

I went to see the Robert Doisneau exhibition at the Kyoto Station Art Gallery today and it made me want to live in Paris AND become a black and white photographer. Robert Doisneau really knew how to wait for the perfect moment and he knew where to wait too. Pure genius. Every picture is a [...]

Take a look at this page. Notice anything missing? Any glaring spaces? Gaping holes?
The ads have gone. And not by choice. Yesterday I received a mail from Google Adsense that read like this:

Hello Michael Lambe,
While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since
keeping [...]

I just tried out this GenderAnalyzer thingy. It uses artificial intelligence to find out if a blog is written by a man or a woman and apparently it usually works pretty well. So I tapped in urls for both this blog and for deepkyoto and do you know, in both cases, I’m a lass. Who [...]

This month’s message from Hozouji left me feeling singularly unimpressed.

人生は
うれしさ半分
かなしさ半分
jinsei ha
ureshisa hanbun
kanashisa hanbun
life is
half happiness
half sadness
“So what?” I ask myself. Big deal. Well, it’s little things that make me happy. Things like this list of useful veggie links on Seika University’s website, with this little baby right at the top:
Deep Kyoto – Excellent local info [...]

The problem with blogging is that unless you are an anonymous blogger and the peeps that read you are total strangers, there is no way you can write about the really juicy stuff that happens to you day by day because if you did you’d land yourself in a whole heap of shit with a [...]

I’m in a book! Or rather Deep Kyoto is. Old Lado buddy Masaya Kanzaki writes:
I know an editor at 実務教育出版, and I told her about Deep Kyoto a while ago. She liked it, and so she included the link to Deep Kyoto in their new book called ネットの英語技術 with a short introduction. [...]

One of my many New Year’s resolutions (drink less, exercise, save money, meditate, translate poems, be a good boy…) is to make Deep Kyoto profitable. For a long time now I’ve been reading Yaro Starak’s tips on how to be a successful blogger. Basically he seems to have two key ideas: one being pillar [...]

Welcome to the new blog. Why a new blog? Well, for one thing the URL is a lot simpler. But mainly because whereas BLOGGER owned the last site – this one is all mine and cannot be taken away from me. Why WordPress? Because my good friend Rik Abel told me to, and he [...]

Here is something that is worthwhile signing if you are British. Here’s brief preamble from the site to put you in the picture: “People in Britain use an average of 300 plastic bags every year. Each bag lasts up to 400 years, spending the vast majority of that time in a landfill site or [...]