Breaking aesthetic standards of this blog I put photos of me on the front page not (only) because of my narcissism, and urge to make you feel jealous, but mostly because I know how much you miss me while I am away :) Just for your relief: after clicking on one of the nails you want see my face anymore.

When I learned that I go to Japan, the same instant I knew that I will use this chance to go skiing. I got tired of 10 seconds runs on 200 meters long slopes around Moscow. Can I still handle something more real?

Hakuba is a decent ski resort in relative proximity to Tokyo. I used to ski there quite often. The distance allows you to go Saturday morning and return Sunday night. That's what we did with small and well-organized team of colleges. The rest is in photos! Since I didn't venture to bring my main camera on the slope this time, most of the photos are from our pension and from the road.

When publishing did you get tired of dealing with browser and forms and constantly loosing your content? I did! Then all these spell checks I have to cut and paste for and all those links I have to insert manually. Waste of time. I was also scared by stories from fellow bloggers of their hosting providers loosing all content after hard drive crashes, etc. I do MT database backups from time to time, but wouldn't it be better just keep original content locally under my control?? Thus I opted for new cool thing called Blog Client. There are plenty of them around apparently.

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YAWP or Yet Another Window Photo just to keep you bored. View from my appartment on 11th floor of an appartment bulding located between Russian embassy and Tokyo American club. Temporary appartment :) For some photos I had to climb to the very top of the building using fire ladders and risking to be shot by a scared guard from the embassy. Especially when pointing my telescopic lens to their yard.

В пору создавать новую категорию - "Из окна". Я сменил в Токио несколько квартир, но еще не забирался так высоко. Это 11й этаж. Однако только часть снимков сделана из моих окон. Лестница, чердак. Не запертая по недосмотру дверь. Знак "Keep Off".