Contact Info:

Name:	James Erik Elliott ("Jim")
Address:	Famiru Yuutenji #203 1-10-2 Yuutenji, Meguro-ku Tokyo-to, Japan  153-0052	In Japanese:
Phone:	03-3716-2018 (home) 03-5456-2687 (work) 0909-397-5906 (mobile)	(81-3-3716-2018 internationally) (81-3-5456-2687 internationally) (81-909-397-5906 internationally)
Email:	hyou@apricot.com pyro_jim@hotmail.com	(primary personal account) (secondary personal account)

Directions: Basically, the easiest way to get to my place is to go to Nakameguro station, either the Hibiya subway line or the Toyoko train line. Come out the ticket gates and turn right. Go a block down the street, passing a large construction site on your right hand side. Turn right at the first corner, where there's a small furniture store. Walk down this street of shops all the way until it ends with a T-intersection and a Lawson right in front of you. Turn left at this intersection and walk up this street about a minute or so. My building, Famiru Yuutenji, is on the right hand side with a couple of cigarette machines out front and right across from a tofu shop. Buzz 203 from the entryway.

Click here for a map , provided using the Mapion service at www.mapion.co.jp . This site is very handy for finding locations in Tokyo when you have an address.

Click here for another map , which shows the suggested route to my apartment from Nakameguro station, as described above. I made this map quickly by pasting a few Mapion screens together, but you get the idea.

Personal Info:

First off, you may be wondering why on earth I would put the above information on my web page, for the world to see. I guess basically I'm just not worried about it. None of this stuff is particularly secret -- a bit of checking in the phone directories and such would give you the same information. And I haven't had much of a problem with stalkers. On the other hand, the only people who are likely to know or care about my web page are the ones who could use the information, so I might as well have it here.

Naturally I expect common courtesy. Don't spam my email accounts, don't show up on my doorstep unannounced (if you're an exception, you know you are), don't call me at 3am, etc. (I live in the JST time zone, which is GMT + 9:00 hours, if you need help with that last one.) Oh yeah, if you email my mobile phone, don't expect me to reply from it. Entering text via a phone keypad... builds character, shall we say.

About myself:

Name : My name is Jim, and thanks a lot.

Company : Global Media Online , which is an internet company in the Tokyo area, providing domain name registration, web hosting, and internet connectivityl services.

Occupation : Sysadmin Team Leader. This makes me more of a manager than a sysadmin. This is all right since I hired on wanting to give management a try. But let's just say that it's a lot different than what I'm used to. I'm learning, anyways.

I worked at Reuters Tokyo for several years doing a mixture of Unix and NT design, support, integration, documentation, and testing for several projects there. Then I spent some time learning about web-related technologies, including the Weblogic product from BEA Systems.

Location : I live and work in Tokyo, Japan. When I was at Reuters, I was near Kamiyacho station, right next to the TV Tokyo building, if you know where that is. Made things interesting sometimes. When TV Tokyo showed the now-infamous epilepsy episode of Pocket Monsters, we had to wade through reporters and tv crews to get from the station to our building. I still don't know why it's so important to get to the front of the building of whatever big company is having a scandal and take footage of the front of it, when no one comes outside to make a statement or chase them off or anything. After they were out there most of the morning, the militant nationalist Japanese groups realized that they had the media all in one place, so they started driving up and down the street in front of the building in their black vans and grey busses, blaring nationalist music and political diatribes at volumes that would prompt a quick arrest in other countries, I would think. On the bright side, however, some show with a lot of male teen idols apparently tapes on Tuesday afternoons, so there are often large crowds of schoolgirls blocking the sidewalks on Tuesdays, hoping to catch a glimpse or get an autograph. Ahem, well, if your tastes run to that sort of thing, I guess.

"hyou" : I get this one occasionally. The name "hyou", which forms my main email address and handle on irc, is pronounced as a Japanese word, with the "hy" sounding a bit like the "h" in "human", and the "ou" as a long O sound, as in "mistletoe". Some folks have figured it's a contraction and have pronounced it as "hey you". That works too.

If you're really curious, the name comes from a character in a Japanese comic I liked (years ago), called "Ushio & Tora", which is kind of a semi-horror schoolkid action comic. Hyou was an occasionally recurring ghostbuster-type character -- tall, thin, Chinese, harsh, and very cool. But other than that, we're not much alike at all.