You’ve probably been wondering why this site hasn’t had a lot of updates recently.  Well, I’ll tell you the reason: NTT sucks.

NTT is the gigantic telecommunications monopoly that controls the phone lines in Japan.  If you want phone or internet in your house, you will have to deal with them.  When I signed up for YahooBB last year, I had to wait 7 weeks for an NTT crew to come to my apartment and do 3 minutes of work to enable my broadband internet.  Why did it take 7 weeks?  Maybe because NTT doesn’t give a shit about consumers?  If you want DSL or fiber internet, you have to deal with them; you have no choice.  With a lack of competition in the market, NTT can charge ridiculously high fees for landline phones and forces costumers to wait weeks or months for service.  NTT is just another example of Japanese ‘free market capitalism’, in which large corporations cooperate to maximize profits and screw over the consumer.

Since I recently moved to a new apartment, I will be waiting 4 or 5 weeks for an ultra-efficient NTT internet setup crew to come to my building and toy with some wires for 5 minutes.  In the meantime I have been forced to use ridiculously expensive wireless dialup internet access. This site isn’t dead, it has just been slowed down a bit while I wait for better internet access.  I promise more frequent updates in the days and weeks to come.