It was totally mind-blowing how Liverpool won their 5th European Cup. 1-0 down after 1 minute, 3-0 down at half-time. Then our captain fantastic scored an early goal in the second half and the belief returned. It helped that Rafa brought on Hamann, it helped that we had players like Carragher, Smicer, […]

Posted on May 26th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
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DenDen Town 電電街 is the Akihabara of Osaka. I am not sure of the relative sizes but you can easily spend a whole afternoon walking around DenDen Town.
The Easiest Way

Posted on May 23rd, 2005 by Ian Cheung
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I came across this article when I was searching for info on Kujo. Ah! it is now clear why my students used to get confused when they came across the word downtown. (click on the word downtown for the English definition). In Japanese there is a word “shitamachi” (下町)which if literally translated […]

Posted on May 14th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: English, Japanese, Japan, Photos & Photography | No Comments »

Sometimes you might want to put files on your server for people to download. The problem comes when the default action is to stream or execute the file.

Posted on May 10th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Web Dev/IA | 1 Comment »

Anyone want to hear about my new project called FSFJ? I even have a domain registered for it. It is one of those crazy ideas that might work or might fall flat on its face.
I’ll give you a clue, the J of FSFJ stands for Japan. Another clue, it isn’t […]

Posted on May 4th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japan, Web Dev/IA | 26 Comments »