In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new transit gate alarm sound going around. It sounds like this: Yeah, that sound. I hear it more and more these days but […]
Japan Journal
Borderless
This morning on the train the salaryman sitting next smelled like last nights sake bottle, 2 high school boys sitting across were admiring and fondling each others nice expensive haircuts, […]
Mobile Payments - Transit
State of Suica 2023
It’s time to take a look at Suica and Japanese mobile transit ticketing developments expected for 2023. The Suica transit platform and Transit IC partners will introduce some big and […]
Mobile Transit
High School Mobile Suica Commuter Passes and Apple Watch Family Sharing
There’s a very interesting section at the in the Apple Platform Security May 2022 document in the section covering transit and eMoney cards. Adding transit and eMoney cards to a […]
Culture Wars
The long goodbye
John Gruber of Daring Fireball is the poster child for former smart people who suffer from permanent Trump derangement syndrome, a TDS casualty. DF was my get up in the […]
Mobile Payments
Mobile payments don’t solve the wallet mess, they only make it worse
Way back when Tim Cook first unveiled Apple Pay, the main sales point was the convenience of doing away with messy wallets. My mom’s wallet for example was always stuffed […]