Archive | February, 2006

19 February 2006 ~ 4 Comments

JTV-Ads.net

This isn’t a new site of mine but one I recently revamped. It has Japanese TV commercials (ads) I recorded. Originally the ads were in xvid format, which you had to download and then play in a player but now you can view them direct on the site. No downloading, and no special codec or [...]

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11 February 2006 ~ 6 Comments

Another first for Michelle

Being a parent you experience many wonderful firsts. Michelle has been drawing for a while, but this is her first drawing on a computer. Michelle’s First Computer Drawing Note the realistic pencil effect. Makes you proud to be a parent

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09 February 2006 ~ 0 Comments

XAMPP

If you are developing WordPress sites, or themes then this guide from Podz will help you set up a local server using XAMPP. It sure speeds things up. One problem I did have was that permalinks didn’t work after following the instructions found in the guides. This is a big problem and I suspect that [...]

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08 February 2006 ~ 1 Comment

Mobile Number Portability in Japan

I’m thinking of changing mobile phone networks in the future but I am interested in keeping my number. I have heard that number portability will be introduced in Japan sometime this year. When I did a search I could only find vague references to it being implemented in 2006 (dated 2004). Further digging I found [...]

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06 February 2006 ~ 3 Comments

Michelle loves dancing

We visited Stargazer tonight, and enjoyed ourselves immensely. So did Michelle, who enjoyed dancing to Yamasaki-san’s guitar play. Here’s a quick video of the performance (Flash-powered)

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