DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Good News, Everyone!
I’ve been neglecting this blog a bit lately. I’ve been a bit worried about the personal / public boundaries a bit, but one of the reasons I have a blog (besides the fun part of playing around with blog software on my personal server) is to keep friends and family up to date with that […]
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Mail Server downtime
The mail server on FuguTabetai.com was broken for an unknown period of time. I didn’t notice because essentially, once I set up the mail server (postfix) it just worked, and kept on working. I should also take the time to note that Rimuhosting.com, which hosts this server (on a virtual linux system) has been just […]
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Tax Time
I don’t know what to think about taxes when one is a resident of a foreign country. I think it is completely reasonable to pay taxes where you live: I am living in Japan, and taking advantage of their infrastructure, so of course I should pay taxes to help defray those costs. I also think […]
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Three Cheers for National Health Insurance
I have been extremely sick for the past two days. On Tuesday afternoon, I started to feel bad, a nasty headache, and my joints started to ache. When that happens, I know I’m in for some sort of sickness. I went to work on Wednesday, but started to feel bad again in the afternoon, and […]
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Street Fighter IV on Test in Akihabara 2/29 – 3/2
I keep up with a few blogs via Google Reader, and recently came across this entry about Street Fighter IV going on public test (Japanese). I’m a big Street Fighter fan, but pretty much only Super Street Fighter II Turbo or the new mix-and-max Hyper Fighting Anniversary Edition. Great games. (A brief side-note: last night […]
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People that are not me
While reading the program for the 2008 International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (it looks like an interesting conference, I wish I was going!) I was surprised to see that I am going, and apparently giving a presentation! Oh wait, no, that is not me. That is another David Evans. A quick search pulled […]
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Salad
I’ve been having salad more and more often. I would like to say that it is because I’m on a diet, but more truthfully it is because I’m lazy, and making salad is easy. Also, I don’t like thinking about what to eat. I like having a clear decision. Since thinking about what to eat […]
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Added Gravatar support for comments
This person wrote a Gravatar plugin for bBlog and I set it up here for the comments. I like the idea of Gravatars a lot, so I’ll try them out and see how it goes. If you are interested in the procedure, download the function.gravatar.php file from the website above, throw it in your bBlog_functions […]
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Dave, your forms are EVIL!
A while ago, I got this email from a friend of mine: i left a long comment on your starbucks entry, but i got a character wrong in your CAPTCHA, and it told me to click the “back” button and try again. however, when i did that, all the entries in the form were BLANK! […]
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Kafka by the Sea Part 1: Japanese Vocabulary in half a modern fiction novel
This is a post that I’ve been waiting to make for a long time. Every weekend, I spend about one or two hours reading Murakami Haruki’s “Kafka by the Sea” (村上春樹「海辺のカフカ」). I have been doing this for the past year, and finally today I finished the first book. Japanese books are often sold in two […]
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Arcade Fire Concert
I went to see Arcade Fire play Studio Coast in Shin-Kiba on Monday evening. It was my first time seeing Arcade Fire, and I didn’t realize that they were such a large band. There were ten members up on stage: two horns, two strings (like, violins), three guitar-like objects (bass, guitar, banjo, etc.), one or […]
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The Asian Olympic Handball Controversy (and Doctor Who)
For the past few weeks when I check out the news I’ve been hearing about the Handball Controversy. First off, I didn’t know that handball was an olympic sport. I know there are lots of olympic sports that I don’t know much about, but I have never seen anything about handball in the US. That […]
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