Candy Japan

A few months ago, I decided to subscribe to Candy Japan. Candy Japan is a subscription service which provides a random collection of candy from Japan twice a month. It costs $25USD/month, which is about £15GBP in the Queen's money.

Most recently, I got 4 things.

  1. CalorieMate (カロリーメイト). Appears to be some sort of chocolate flavoured energy snack / meal supplement. “Naturally suited for people on-the-go who need an easy source of energy and nutirtion-at breakfast, work, sports, study, or any other busy time”.
  2. Wakuwaku zukan gummies (わくわくずかんグミ). The name means something like exciting picture book gummies. The gummies are apple and grape flavoured, and are in the shape of various stages of a frogs life cycle! On the back there's the name of each frog stage. とtoまmaごgo(Egg) > オoタtaマmaジャjaクkuシshi(Tadpole) > カkaエeルru(Frog).
  3. Yakisoba mayonaise sauce flavour? snacks (焼yakiそsoばba). They look like a pretzel flavoured snack, or maybe something similar to something in a balti mix. There also appears to be some mention of squid flavouring too. I think it says イiカka粉kona練neりriこkoみmi, but it's quite hard to read such small kanji to my untrained eyes.
  4. Finally I got Soft Ramune Balls (ソフトラムネボール). They're kinda weird fizzy sweets, with a taffy like part too. I really like the packaging on this, it looks really funky.

All this from half of a £15/month subscription. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me!

Nanode

Nanode

I've recently started working with my [DEAD] nanode again. I have a couple of these and I want to make some cool Christmas gifts. I'm not settled on what yet, but I have a few ideas.

I'm currently just playing around running a webserver on one of them, which can turn one of the LEDs on and off. I'm limited to probably less than 30kb of data! That kind of limitation really makes you appreciate the modern web.

Welcome

Hi, I'm Michael, welcome to my new website. I'm a programmer from Nottingham, UK. I like creating cool things and visiting places. In my spare time I like to play DOTA 2 and procastinate at learning Japanese.

I made this site predominantly to advance my knowledge of Django, Python and the Google App Engine framework (when I first started I had just moved onto a Django project with my employer). Addtionally, I thought it would be a good opportunity to further my knowledge of Japanese by giving me some material to translate in my fields of interest.

I expect I will be writing about a range of topics, including programming, DOTA, Japan (or travelling in general). There is also an album page, which will have photographs from my travels, and other images I find interesting.

If you would like to provide any feedback, I'd be excited to receive it. Please contact me at [email protected] .

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