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Can't remember if I have complained about this already. But just in case I forget again, I am writing some notes for my future self and or course for your reference. Let it all out It took me 20 minutes just now to find the new way to share flickr slideshow embed codes. Am very very annoyed. It used to be very easy to use, why has flickr made it so difficult? Flickr is a good platform but if flickr is trying to annoy users I think they have really done it. %$@#$^@$%&#^&#^%&#&#%&  End of ranting. Solution There may be other easier ways of doing this but this is how I did it. Flickr photo set 1. Crete your photo sets as usual. 2. Go into the photo set. 3. Click on the first photo in the set. 4. See the 3 dots at the bottom right corner? click on it and select "view slideshow". 5. Viewing the Slideshow this way will allow you to share the embed code. you should now see the share option at the top right hand side of the

One of the greatest modern Japanese exports (among other impressive achievements) is the animation films created by Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Studio. The studio won its fame in the animation world in the late 80s, and has since created many world famous classics such as My Neighbor Totoro,  Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement at the 2013 Venice Film Festival, leaving fans around the world with his final masterpiece - The Wind Rises, a historical fantasy with reference to the war time era and a more historical and political flavor compared to other previous works. Popular among children and adults, Ghibli is now a major global brand akin to Walt Disney or Pixar in the US. For fans and visitors to Tokyo, there is even a museum dedicated to Ghibli's film making, a place worth a visit especially for family visitors with young children. The Ghibli museum, situated in a park at the outskirts of T

Walking down the streets of Tokyo and you will soon begin to wonder where the Japanese keep their children. Babies and prams is a rare sight, the number of singles seems to out number couples and there seems to be more males than females. According to the BBC, the Japanese population is expected to shrink by 1/3 by 2060 if the birth rate does not increase. Japan's aging population issue seems more critical even compared to western countries that are going down the same path.  More young people prefer to stay single, remain financially independent and live out their desired life style to the full. This trend is portrayed in the most recent Japanese soap the "Dokushin Kizoku" (affluent singles) that seems to resonate well with many of Japan's working young professionals.  In addition to less marriages, there are also claims that some Japanese prefer to go "virtual" when choosing their dates, reducing the chance of creating babies even more. Ot

Read this article online today, the photo says it all. The United States really did quite some damage here. If there is anything that you don't want to be messing with in Europe, that would be the issue of "Privacy" with a capital P. It is interesting to note the cultural differences across the world when it comes to personal privacy. Talking to businesses and individuals from the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia, you very quickly realize that some feel more strongly than others about data privacy. From time to time you hear US tech companies get slapped on the face when they expand their services abroad due to privacy issues. GoogleMaps is a good example. In the new era of Big Data, the Internet of Things, Smart Cities and the increasing challenge of cyber security, how people feel about the technologies and their privacy can have interesting impacts on how the local commerce, legal, economics...etc develops in the future. It may seem extreme to people from oth