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Snow Monkeys

Today, we hiked in the snow for half an hour and reached Jigokudani Yaen-Koen were a community of 200 monkeys take baths in warm springs. Some cool pictures are on Flickr. May and I took the pictures with a Canon EOS 1D Mark II and the superb Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM. We used May’s umbrella to protect the equipment from the snow. A webcam shows one of the springs.

[...] Fifth, CNET Japan expressed interest in organizing an Office 2.0 conference in Japan sometime in Spring. Japan is a country very dear to my heart, where I would love to retire at some point. In the meantime, I go there to socialize with monkeys whenever I get a chance, and I am looking for Japanese companies that have something interesting to demonstrate in relation to Office 2.0. [...]