Hi, I'm Glenn. Thanks for visiting my web site. I've been living in Asia since 1986, Japan since 1988, and Tokyo since 1991. I'm interested in travel, computers, foreign languages, bicycling, music, the usual stuff. This page started off, as I suspect many of them did back in 1997, as a learning experience with HTML and some brain-racking for content. Since I had a lot of travel pictures, I used them and it became "Glenn's World," basically a travel site. I went through several years in which I was more interested in computers than anything else, and there is still a lot of computer-related content here. However, I'm trying to get more of a life these days, and you'll find several new travelogues. I went to Vietnam in March, 2007, more specifically to Hanoi, Sapa, Perfume Pagoda, and Halong Bay. More recently, I spent the summer of 2007 walking around Tokyo with a camera, so you can see my new Tokyo photo album.

I suppose if I were just starting this out I would use some kind of automated MySpace or blogging software and have RS feeds, YouTube video, and all that, but I continue to make this site with Dreamweaver and Photoshop. In short, this is an old-fashioned family home page.

Family Album - I've seriously considered pulling this part off the website with all the identity theft, etc. concerns nowadays, but for the moment, it's still here. I'm married and have two kids, a daughter who's 16 named Kelly, and a son who's 14 named Casey. Oh, yeah, my wife's name is Gihong, but I guess I won't bother mentioning how old she is. You can get a peek at what she and my kids look like (and you can also see and hear my kids talk) if you click here . . . uh, no, er . . . here.

Kidpics- People visit this page for different reasons. Family and friends just want to see how the kids are doing, since we can't all get back home so often. Here's a little collage of pictures that Gihong made, but it's pretty dated by now. Gihong is also a geekette, and for a while she was doing her own vacation spreads of pictures that she's taken on our family vacations.

Travelpics - I've been taking travel pictures since the 70's, and now I've got seventeen 500-page photo albums, shoe boxes of slides, drawers full of VHS cassettes, digital video, DVDs, jpegs on CD-ROM, you name it. Some of them even come out OK. See for yourself. Where would you like to visit? (creation or update dates follow)

John Kennedy Lives Again - The International Education Center has the honor of providing English training to the nine branches of Japanese Customs. In May, 2006, I was asked to help judge the final round of their nationwide speech contest at the Customs Training Institute in Kashiwa, a short train ride from Tokyo. After the recitation contest, the judges were also asked to do a recitation. I chose to do a 500-word extract of JFK's inaugural address because I thought it would be fun to say "Ask not..." in front of a hall of people. I was lucky because the entire address is available for download in mp3 format on the Internet, so I was able to listen to the original before doing my version. Although I screwed up parts of it, most people said they enjoyed it. Since the contest was videotaped, I was able to rip me delivering JFK's inaugural address to a WMV file that's just under 5 megabytes in size. It will look a little less jagged if you scale it down a bit.

Computers - As you've figured out by now, I'm a serious compu-holic. I spend way too much time studying and experimenting with computers (translation: sitting here on my butt). When I finally get something to work, I don't want to just forget how to do something - I write it down. To try to find it again, I've been working on alphabetized guide of often-used information for years now. This stuff is written just for myself, but you might find something useful, too.