Last Updated:  February 22nd, 2025 at 5:31:28 PM GMT+9
Today is:  Sunday, January 4, 2026

Hi there 👋

I founded eSolia, a boutique IT services firm based in Tokyo, in 1999. We passed our 25th anniversary in July 2024 and hope to stay healthy and profitable, working on improving our operations by implementing ISO 27001.

I have spent my career in IT in Japan, doing a wide range of activities, such as compsci tutoring, physical cabling, network engineering, project management, software development, system architecture and design, solution consulting, web design and development, and delivering training courses to name a few. Sometimes I look back with nostalgia on the way things were in the late ’80s, but mostly, I like how things are now (you're old if you remember the struggle of autoexec.bat and config.sys, and trying to squeeze drivers into limited memory)!

Latest Statuses:

• 🎯 Just updated the design and functionality of my long-form "now" page at rick.cogley.jp, check it out! It's part of a larger effort to build a personal publishing stack using sveltekit on cloudflare.!
• 😒 Another daughter will leave the nest soon. Feeling pretty sad.
• 🗾 In line at the Osaka World Expo 2025. Yesterday was a typhoon but today is a scorcher.
• 🗺️ Heading to the Osaka Expo and no typhoon will stop us!
• 💦 Wrasslin’ Lume to get it to handle multilingual.

Latest Bluesky Posts:

• Just updated the design and functionality of my long-form "now" page at rick.cogley.jp, check it out! It's part of a larger effort to build a personal publishing stack using sveltekit on cloudflare.!
• I like and use @cloudflare.social but how disappointing is this: I added a client domain under my account on a “pro” subscription, then decided a separate account for them would be best. Paid for “pro” again after migrating, so can I apply the first $240 to another domain? No, per “policy”. Wow. 🙂‍↔️
• We are about to become empty-nesters with daughter 1 ready to fly the coop to her new apartment closer to work. Pretty sad about it to be honest but it is nice to have them home for the holidays.

Latest Micro Blog Posts:

• We updated and upgraded eSolia&rsquo;s <a href="https://esolia.co.jp/e ...
• Gosh what an exciting World Series. Dodgers and Blue Jays were both stellar and i ...
• Exciting World Series this year! On to game 7! 🏟️⚾️</p> ...
• When you change your domain&rsquo;s DNS (NS records), you can flush the recor ...
• Visited Osaka Expo 2025 on 6 Sept with 220,000 others. It was hot and crowded but ...

Stats:

| Item | Value | | --- | --- | | Repo Total Files | 7 | | Repo Size in MB | 4981 | | Lume Version | v2.5.0 | | Deno Version | 2.6.3 (linux x86_64) | | V8 Version | 14.2.231.17-rusty | | Typescript Version | 5.9.2 | | Timezone | Asia/Tokyo |

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