Archive | May, 2005

26 May 2005 ~ 2 Comments

Kings of Europe

LFC

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, Alonso, Hyppia, Baros, [...]

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23 May 2005 ~ 0 Comments

How to get to DenDen Town in Osaka

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

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14 May 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Shitamachi does not equal downtown

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 is down-town, but [...]

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10 May 2005 ~ 1 Comment

Download, don’t stream script

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.

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04 May 2005 ~ 26 Comments

FSFJ

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 a “for profit” project. [...]

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