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One picture – Traditional Japanese Kimono and Hakama
Jana, L., David, Alana I don’t really have much time, because I have to pack still, and then get on a plane to go to Morocco for a conference, but I wanted to make a quick note of things. Yesterday I married L., and for the past week my family has been in Japan. We […]
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The Future of News
I do research on automatic opinion identification, and one thing that is really interesting to the community right now is analyzing blog data. Most of the available tagged resources are over newspaper data or movie reviews or other kinds of collectable TEXT – user star rating type things (restaurant reviews, product reviews, etc.) The community […]
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Licensed to drive: Making Japanese streets more dangerous
Delicious DMV Curry I can’t believe Japan gave me a Driver’s License About two months ago I started the process to convert my Texas Driver’s License into a Japanese Driver’s License. I expected it to take a long time, but actually things went more quickly than I expected. Preparing the documents took a while. You […]
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Updates around Jiyugaoka
Jiyugaoka New York Doughnut Plant Cherry Blossoms in Jiyugaoka Oimachi Line Express Trains I’ve been neglecting my blog lately. Work has been busy, I’m getting married, family is coming to visit, etc. etc.. These things happen all the time, and it is no reason to ignore your beloved blog. I spent a bit of time […]
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Mabo Tofu: Cheap and easy food
Mabo Tofu Mix: all you need for delicious spicy tofu Cut up your tofu Finished Mabo Tofu I’m always interested in adding new options to my menu of things that I can (poorly) cook. I often cook some kind of curry rice (it is one of my favorite dishes, it is easy to make, it […]
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More earthquakes in Japan
So I’m a bit late on this — I meant to write something last night, but never got around to it — but there was a medium-sized earthquake two nights ago (Wednesday night.) Actually, it was early Thursday morning, at about 1:45am. I was in bed, somewhat asleep, when my dreams started to become strange […]
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How I spent my summer vacation
This week was “Golden Week”, a sequence of usually 4 days off at the start of May. This is one of the big holidays in Japan, and people usually have big plans for the break, including overseas travel and the like. The gas prices always seem to go up a bit before Golden Week, and […]
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The Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese and Japanese Blog Data
Today I went to a brief introduction talk about the plans to release a corpus of Japanese blog data for research use. The presentation was at the National Institute of Informatics, with a panel of Professor Toukura and Professor Oyama from NII, MAEKAWA Kikuo from The National Institute for Japanese Language, and a representative from […]
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First impressions of OSX 10.5 Leopard and Time Capsule
A while ago I bought a 500GB Time Capsule and Leopard at work to use as a backup solution. It took me a while to find the time, but I had a lot of papers to read recently so I installed Leopard and set up the Time Capsule while reading the papers. First off, I’m […]
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Just try not to get sick
As of April 1st due to some law changes in Japan many people are changing to a new health insurance plan. I’m also switching plans, either because the type of employment I have has changed, or because of the health change laws – I don’t really know. I saw a story on the news about […]
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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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