Dog bitesSince I was bitten by a dog 20 years ago (and I think I had much worse injury than this girl), I got very scared of dogs, then I gradually come to love them again.  Properly behaved dogs are just very lovable.  I couldn't possibly name anything I disliked about Maggie, a very sweet border collie.  Of course, she has a very responsible ( Read more... )

Another story linked from slash dot - 'Geek speak' confuses net usersI'm not too surprised about this finding, but the result is still depressing and scary.  People tend to form some sort of community anywhere and everywhere they go, and some type of lingo starts to form.  IT is very notorious about that.  All kinds of new technologies are born ( Read more... )

Several things have been going on around me this week ( Read more... )

I let kojih.com domain name expire... and left it expired for over a week. Ouch, that hurted when I realized it. But how wonderful is DNS caching... kojih.com continued to work until today. Yay, internet ( Read more... )

That's a surprise statement coming from me.  Various people knows that I am a Firefox enthusiast.  Then why am I making this statement?

It goes back to earlier this month, when we received a notice from the IT department.

( The note, with the org. name edited out... )

First Swede Prosecuted For File SharingBy itself, the news isn't too big.  It's just another case of pirate being caught.  But it's the method used that's questionable.  An unconfirmed report (I read it on faireal.net, a Japanese site) says that APB, the anti-piracy bureau (Antipiratbyrån) was using an agent who acted a part in the file sharing ( Read more... )

I have some strange fondness to transparent terminal windows on computers. (And with a few other objects as well, such as game dice, etc...) back in 1998-1999 or so, I was messing around with wterm on Linux/WindowMaker. (I first found eterm for Enlightenment, but that thing was too heavy for my slow computer.) For DOS prompt, I *could* use ( Read more... )

I just ran a quick update of fansub translation log this morning.  I just noticed that I've hit 301st translation this weekend with the translation of Mahoraba episode 11. 300th was Mahoraba 10.
( details of all 301 )

Kansas legislature is considering a total smoking ban in any public, enclosed space. Finally, it's about time.

When I visit Charleston, WV, one of the really nice thing is that all restaurants are smoke free. Shiorichan has said numerous times that it's weird when the waiters ask "Smoking or non-smoking?" at restaurants in Kansas ( Read more... )

I just discovered that my hearing is far worse than I imagined, especially in the high frequency range.  My left ear can't hear much beyond 15KHz.  My right ear gives up at around 14KHz!  A healthy young ears are supposed to be capable of hearing up to 20KHz.  Man, I've lost quite a bit already.  I think I'm destined to lose all my teeth and my ( Read more... )