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 == Bernie's brain dump as of April 2009 ==
 
+=== April 30th: Departure ===
+
+TODO
+
+==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ====
+
+On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add goodies such as
+
+ * a grid view for photos
+ * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs
+ * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3"
+ * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which you can use to create thumbnails floating on the right or left
+
+These should make the wiki markup much lighter.  As usual, these additions resulted in
+simplification of the codebase rather than code bloat :-)
+
+{{{
+git diff --stat v3.0..HEAD geekigeeki.py
+geekigeeki.py |  709 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
+1 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 357 deletions(-)
+}}}
+
+If you see any regressions in the output, please report them to me.  I'm hoping to release
+4.0 soon.
+
+Tags: [[tags/stuff_that_matters]] [[tags/!bloat]] [[tags/as_simple_as_possible]] [[tags/but_no_simpler]]
+
+=== April 29th: Back to Tokyo ===
+
+TODO
+
+=== April 28th ===
+
+==== Guided tour ====
+
+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour/00038.jpg|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright|The Yutaki Waterfalls}}
+
+Pictures of our day-long [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour]] are now online.
+Our friendly guide, the Buddhist monk whose name I forgot, answered many of our pending questions
+about Japanese traditions and religion.  Hiking through these sacred mountains and woods was an
+enjoyable experience.
+
+TODO: assemble a good video from all the scenes I took along the way
+
+==== Nikko Temple Area ====
+In the afternoon, we went to visit the [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site]].
+One would expect to grow bored of Shinto and Buddhist temples after seeing many of them
+all over Japan, but visiting the Nikko temple area was once again an extraordinary experience.
+And I could finally spot a few [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko]]s too!
+
+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=640}}
+
 === April 27th ===
 
 ==== Afternoon: travel to Nikko ====
@@ -27,10 +79,13 @@ to silly gestures in order to get his stupid Vodka Martini the way he likes it.
 Tomorrow, of course after our morning yoga and vegan breakfast, we're going on a day long
 guided hiking tour with the monks, which sounds really cool.
 
+**UPDATE**: ouch!
+
+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/00026.jpg|Ouch!|maxwidth=640}}
 
 ==== Morning: Zenko-ji ====
 
-In the morning, we tried again to visit the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenk%C5%8D-ji]].
+In the morning, we tried again to visit the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenk%C5%8D-ji|Zenko-ji]].
 Even on a Monday, the queue was not much shorter.  A nice volunteer guide advised us that
 the pilgrims where queuing just to touch a wooden pole with an inscription on it that was
 right in front of the temple, and we could skip aside if we weren't interested.  So we did.