Things have been very quit recently…a little too quiet. Originally, I had chalked it up to summer vacation, and most people not sitting in front of their computers (unlike me).
It turns out, my provider changed an email setting on my server and was bouncing all mail to sugoisoft.com.
If anybody sent any support requests, I [...]

In this alternative reality, you have been seated, but your waitstaff doesn’t come. What do you do? In Japan, typically you don’t wait until the staff comes to you, like you would in America. Instead you call them when you are ready. How do you call them?
Usually you say something like in the general direction [...]

We’ve been seated at our table and look at the menu. It all looks like giberish and there’s not photos. Quick. What do we do?
No matter what you do, if you can’t read the menu, you’re going to be in for a surprise. This is generally a good thing. But, this could prove to [...]

Living or visiting Japan changes the way you think about food. It has a famous food culture that is very old. Life is centered around food. It seems almost every TV show has at least a small portion of it dedicated to watching celebrities eating a specialty dish. Complete with close ups of the various [...]

In a regular Japanese class, we are taught there are 3 basic ways to refer to oneself.
私　（watashi), あたし (atashi), and 僕 (boku).
However, there are many other wonderful ways to refer to oneself in a casual manner. A word of warning though, don’t do what I do and get yourself in the habit of [...]

One of the most powerful emotions a human can feel is love. It’s no surprise that one of the first phrases people often try to learn when learning a foreign language (after the most important ‘where is the toilet?) is ‘I love you”.
As a native English speaker, I know that this phrase is rather [...]

In Japanese culture what is not said is often just as important, if not more important than what is said. Aptly enough it’s language helps facilitate this with grammar points like today’s point, “such as”.
Consider the following:
Today I met with an old friend and we went out for a beer, played cards, and he [...]

Thank you to everyone who purchased Jisho and Jisho Touch for Indie Relief.
I was expecting to raise about $100 dollars but we managed to raise $170 dollars! This has already been donated to Drs. Without Boarders.
Again, many thanks for everyone who participated.

On January 20th, Sugoisoft will be participating in Indie Relief.
What is Indie Relief? Indie Relief is basically a bunch (over 101 as of this writing) indie Mac and iPhone developers banding together to help raise some money Haiti.
All money raised by the purchase software from Sugoisoft Soft will be donated to Doctors Without [...]

During the summer I co-founded DisposableApps, as a home for iPhone projects that I collaborate on with a friend.
Last week our first colaboration, Pubtunes, finally got accepted to the AppStore.
Pubtunes is a musical guessing game based on the popular Power hour drinking game and is complete with an English-pub style interface to help [...]