Japan’s Earthquake donation

Japan has been my home for the past 4 years. The earthquake, tsunami and also nuclear reactor plant crisis that Japan face right now is a serious problem. The least I could do is to donate to their red cross for disaster relief.

Taken from the official japan red cross’ website

http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html

This is the account number information

Name of Bank: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Name of Branch: Ginza
Account No.: 8047670 (Ordinary Account)
SWIFT Code: SMBC JP JT
Payee Name: The Japanese Red Cross Society
Payee Address: 1-1-3 Shiba-Daimon Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN

I’ve donated this morning and I encourage anyone who live in Japan’s Tokai,Chubu and Kansai area (and all other area that weren’t affected by the disaster) to donate if you have some money to spare.

 

Japan’s Earthquake March 11th, 2011. The biggest yet.

March 11th, 2011.

Today I have an interview session via Skype from Japan with the prospect employer in another country. At morning around 10.00 Am I got phone call that he wanted to change the schedule from 13.00 Pm to 16.00 Pm. Which is good for me because I have more time to prepare myself.

At around 15.00 Pm while I’m preparing for the interview session (wearing suits, necktie etc) the quake came in. It is not my first earthquake experience but it is definitely one of the biggest I’ve ever encounter. I tried to check to Japan’s earthquake site but the site itself was down. So I checked the American website and found that the epicenter of 7.9 earthquake is 700km apart from my place. Later on it got updated to 8.9.

The interview went on at 16.00Pm smoothly without the quake.

After the interview I went to BBC news website and see a shocking image of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. It is really scary, just like watching armageddon sci-fi movie.

My actual plan is to go to tokyo yesterday at March 10th, but because the ticket has been sold out, I changed it to March 11th. And guess what, at March 11t, the earthquake hit and my destination place is also got hit by it. I couldn’t imagine if I DO go to tokyo at March 10th. I guess I’ve been blessed by unknown force.

Connectify Wi-Fi Hotspot maker

Today I want to share how great Connectify is if you want to make a wi-fi hotspot from your wired internet connected Windows 7 PC.

Recently I just got myself a portable multimedia gadget that need wi-fi for its internet access. So I need someway to share my internet connection from my laptop to that device.

After quick search I found connectify and tried it. At first I ran into some issues, not because the connectify itself but because I never really use my wireless card on my laptop and didn’t know that it had some issues from day one. After re-installing the driver for it from the manufacturer’s support site, the wireless card got detected and it ready to go.

So basically connectify make it really simple for you to share the internet connection.  You just need to provide SSH ID (the name of the wi-fi network you want to create), the password to join, and the internet connection that you want to share from your PC and that’s it, connectify will do the rest for you. (*note: if you are a tech savvy, you could create the batch for this connection without connectify, but if you are just a normal user than go for connectify to make your life easier)

Today when I boot up my laptop I got notification that newer connectify is up. I’m currently on version 2.1 and 2.2 is the newer one. Without hesitation I upgrade the version to 2.2

But ironically it didn’t work. So I reverted back to version 2.1 and everything went OK again. I guess the saying don’t fix it if it ain’t break holds true here. Well for the time being I will use version 2.1 for now.