Rick Cogley

"Yeah, I totally agree about the marketing angle. Small customers paying 25 a year that (perhaps) does not cover their own costs, are not the target for sure. I wrote a little about it yesterday: http://rick.cogley.info/articl..." - Rick Cogley

"My Japanese wife and I have had this ironic problem. We got a good laugh about it since she does not have an income." - Rick Cogley

"I've been in Japan 25 years, and have experienced a little of this sort of unpleasantness first hand, being refused for being gaijin, and so on. On the other side of it, my family owns an apartment here, and we have continual trouble with tenants not paying, not separating their trash properly, noisily partying, leaving the apartment in a total mess when they vacate, and a whole litany of little things. Thing is, our tenants are all Japanese, born and bred. So I think it's a general skittishness by the landlord, about the potential tenant perhaps not being able to communicate (or vice versa) or follow the rules, or understand the culture. If even some of the Japanese can't follow the rules as is the case with our apartment, then I can see some landlords being reluctant." - Rick Cogley

"I went to the Pilot Pen Museum yesterday (it's near my office in Tokyo) and mentioned exactly this, to the gentleman at the repair desk. He patiently showed me all the various models, including the flagship custom 845, and the custom 742 and 743. I was asking about music nibs, so he showed me the various nibs available for the 743. My comment was, why are these wonderful nibs not available for your flagship, or at least in a more interesting pen body than the 74x series? His answer was to sheepishly grin, and say that other people have asked the same..." - Rick Cogley

"I like the big black reverse highlight. It's 100% clear where you are, in the UI." - Rick Cogley

"Nice usage of local storage. The cribsheet has javascript misspelled, FYI." - Rick Cogley

RT @Linotype_com: Linotype GmbH has rebranded to Monotype & we bring you 4 fonts as a celebration gift: RT to ... - Rick Cogley

Well done typography kit for the web. - Rick Cogley