Kingston 32GB SDHC Class10 Generation 2 SD10G2/32GB
携帯プレイヤーの容量不足のため買いました。あまりスピード重視な用途ではないですが、参考までに
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
Sequential Read : 19.975 MB/s
Sequential Write : 14.893 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 19.338 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 0.400 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 2.656 MB/s [ 648.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.056 MB/s [ 13.6 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 2.063 MB/s [ 503.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.020 MB/s [ 4.8 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [F: 0.0% (0.0/29.7 GB)] (x2)
Date : 2012/02/11 14:35:48
OS : Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x86)
Kingston 8GB microSDHC Class4 SDC4/8GB
と言う事で買ってしまいました。8Gもあればファイル移しにも使えて便利だし。ただ古いデジカメ、4年前のを中古で買ったヤツ、それに差し込んだら認識しなかった。新らし目のカードリーダライタは認識してくれたが。SDHCという規格は今日日どこでも、スーパーでも（西友って百貨店か）見かけるようになったので大概心配ないかもしれないが注意は必要。
HCってハイクラス？早いらしいです転送速度が。
Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11 (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)
Although the official publication date of this book came roughly 1 year after the quake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown of March 11, you should consider before you buy it that the contributions were submitted no later than July or early August 2011. In other words, the articles were written about 4 months after the disasters, but another 7 or 8 had gone by between being written and being published. The result is that while some essays are still useful as chronicles of events close to the time of the tsunami, many of the authors were unable to form a perspective that remains meaningful in light of subsequent events, revelations and changes of administration. (All of the essays were written while Naoto Kan was prime minister.)
In particular, the slow pace of change along the Tohoku coast is probably worse than the authors were anticipating when they handed in their contributions. (As of early May 2012, my most recent visit, a lot of debris had been cleared away compared to a year earlier, but there was plenty still visible, while some towns were even more like ghost towns than they had been soon after the tsunami.) And an author writing about Japan's anti-nuclear movement in July 2011 would be a lot more optimistic about its vitality -- as most of this book's contributors are -- than one writing even in December of that year, by which time the protests had fizzled out. One can't blame the authors, of course, for this rapid aging of their chapters: the misjudgment seems more to have been on the publisher's side. It might have been better to have made this book available as an e-book last summer or fall, or else extended the deadline for submissions until the first anniversary of the disasters, say, and published as an e-book in summer 2012, with a print version for libraries to follow soon thereafter.
A couple of contributions would not have been very useful at any time, such as a "content analysis" of Japanese newspaper websites and "international news websites" (in reality, only CNN US and CNN International) that's based on only 3 days close to the disaster (March 17, 24 and 31, 2011). Aside from its temporal limitations, this analysis also omits discussion of the discourses of the news stories in any depth, and totally ignores non-English language sources (such as in the French and German press, where coverage was heavily refracted through local nuclear debates), as well as even the New York Times (whose coverage was a psychodrama of its own). The three background articles about energy, by Daniel Aldrich, Paul Scalise and Andrew DeWit and co-authors, stand up somewhat better than average because of their longer historical perspective, but much of the content was already available from other sources by the same authors. I did find the article by Tokyo-based architect and planner Riccardo Tossani to be quite interesting, both for its description of how the reconstruction project is being pursued, and its attention to Onagawamachi in Miyagi Prefecture, far and away the scariest place along a couple hundred kilometers of coast that I visited in May 2011. The stand-out, though, is the first-person account by J.F. Morris, a long-term resident of the Miyagi coast who might have died on 3/11 if bad weather hadn't led him to suppress his hankering for some of the wonderful French-style pastries so ubiquitous in this country; in addition to hardship and humor, it includes many pertinent observations on being "saved" by NPO volunteers, and on the overlooked heroism of local governments. Overall, this book could be useful if you need to research what people were thinking soon after 3/11, but if you'd like a longer perspective you may find only a few of the 16 chapters satisfying.
Kingston Trio Story: Wherever We May Go [DVD] [Import]
ＴＶ放映を主体とした若きトリオの映像と歌がふんだんに収録されており、「キントリ」を愛した我々にとっては、まさしく永久保存版のＤＶＤ。今までリリースされなかったのが不思議。ＬＰでよく聞いた「キントリ」のヒット曲が次々に出てくるのに加え、ジョン時代のバンジョーは全てジョンの担当と思っていたのに、ボブが弾いていたり、デイブ時代とジョン時代の違いがなんとなく映像に出ていたりと、わくわくしながら各シーンに没入できる。'60〜'70年代のアメリカンフォークを経験していない人には、映像の質もいまいちだし、一部しか収録されていない曲もあったりで、まさしく歴史物でしかないが、この時代に青春を送り、ギターを手にしたファンにとっては見逃すことのできない１枚である。
