what's new

Some recent updates to the website.

When I first came to Japan, I let my employer take care of the paperwork, just as many of my colleagues had done. Big mistake.

I've learned a fair bit about producing photos of diamond jewelry in the past year. This is the result.

One of my beliefs is that everything in life is attributable in some (large) respect to luck. Don't believe me? I have everything for which a man could want, and I'm not terribly gifted.

I've invented a routine for preventing spam to a website's comments field. It does so without those annoying and feeble 'captcha' routines, and without the need for login.

Some photographers I recommend.

I've encountered some notable toilets in my travels.

Links to the websites of friends who have them and/or journals/blogs.

My working career, spanning back to 1994.

The Australian language explained for English-speakers

This is the copyright statement for all text and photos found on this website.

My last name is German in origin, and most English speakers (and spellers!) can't get it right.

Adjusting to life in Japan seems to be taking me longer than I'd imagined.

This is a handful of instructional and motivational quotes I'm putting together. As I'm building a business, I find that I need these.

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