My phone already arrived in Buffalo. I cannot wait until it gets back. Maybe the same guy that birngs it will bring (e:shawnr)'s xbox 360.

So I was trapped int he car the other day and (e:terry) left the radio on kiss or something like that. Some rapper sand some song in which she mentioned juku girls. I had no idea what this was but forgot about it until tonight when I was reading about a US Japan exachnage program in the UB media studies program that mentioned the same word. I am sure everyone else knows about it but it was new to me. I found this info at wikipedia

It is primarily known as a hangout for teens and contains the department store Laforet, which has many trend-leading brands for young people.

Harajuku became famous in the 1990s due to the large numbers of street performers and wildly dressed teens who gathered there on Sundays when Omotesando was closed to traffic. This area was called "Hoko-ten" or "pedestrian paradise". This was stopped at the end of the 90s and the number of performers, visual kei fans, rockabilly dancers and punks has steadily decreased since.

Quoted from: Harajuku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And these pictures on google

I was chatting away with Kara Kerwin when we started to talk about the mobile site. We went through lots of names but ended up with mobl.us. I think it's awesome. It is easy to type and it can become other names like bflo.mobl.us. I also worked on starting to do some MIDP programming so that I can create actual phone applications and not just WAP and XHTML pages.

(e:shawnr) and I are going to team up and build the coolest mobile portal that Buffalo has ever seen. That should not be very hard to accomplish but it promises to be cool. So as the first step in bulding our mobile empire, we need a name for it.

The name should be short so that it is easy to type on a phone and also very easy to remember. Any ideas? Maybe I should make this a contest.

You will be able to access every other mobile buffalo project, play games like (e:shawnr)'s hour 720 , chat, visit artvoice, visit estrip and post/read, visit remember buffalo, read the news, check the weather, meet up with other people, find library books, link to bus schedules, etc. Bascially your one stop shop to link to everything else.

You will also be able to customize your mobile homepage using the site's browser based interface so that you can save rss feeds etc to it and read them on the go.

The meeting with artvoice went great. Jamie asked if I would be interested in working on some mobile stuff for Artvoice. Could I prossibly be more interested?! I have waited for the opportunity to reach out to a mobile audience for so long.

I also talked with Dave, the artvoice computer guy, about moving the estrip/rememberbuffalo server there. Next step is to set up the supercomp and bring it in. Then once it is up and running, I can add the primary doc section to rememberbuffalo.org. Soon, thereafter I can begin really promoting it.

I expect the site should be even faster once it is local and I have control over the server.