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 == Bernie's brain dump as of April 2009 ==
 
-=== April 29th: Back to Tokyo ===
+=== April 30th: Departure ===
+
+TODO
+
+==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ====
+
+On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add little 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 I'm using to produce floating thumbnails on the side of pages
+
+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
@@ -15,15 +44,13 @@ enjoyable experience.
 
 TODO: assemble a good video from all the scenes I took along the way
 
-{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour/00038.jpg|maxwidth=800}}
-
 ==== 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=800}}
+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=640}}
 
 === April 27th ===