We have recently changed the extensions of all ‘blog entires on Blood and Soil from HTML to PHP. If you have come in via a search engine link and are getting “file not found” error m...Read More
I have managed to do entries on seven consecutive days this week. Ohh, break out the champagne. Anyways time for lunch. 図書館へいきます。 This afternoon have got to go to the library and ret...Read More
I have seen a few Japanese blogs (ブログ) where the authors have been writing in English which has motivated me (a litle) to start doing a few (entries/lines/words) in Japanese. Don’t expect ...Read More
Today we were at an intersection and a building at the intersection was being repaired/painted (something!) and they had an old ojii-san (old man) with his red baton to direct traffic – never mi...Read More
We have a few flyers left over and upon the suggestion of my brother Kiyomi and I headed to Higashi Okazaki Station (東岡崎駅) to hand them out to people who were leaving the station. Were they in...Read More
Today is Australia Day and I bet all foreigners must be sick as pigs. In the spirit of Australia/being “Australian” here are the posters from Meat and Livestock Australia’s new Lamb ...Read More
We should have had some snow by now here in Okazaki (based on when it has snowed in previous years), but so far nothing. Aren’t we going to get any snow this year? Maybe not. It sure “feel...Read More
I wrote about “When In Rome” last year. It seems that it must either be me or that intersection near the side street, but today what did we see? Not an old woman, but this time an old man ...Read More
One thing that has started to get my goat is the number of websites that open (external) links in other windows. Arggh. I mean how hard is it to have your site open a link in the same window. Windows ...Read More
Until recently Kiyomi has been using her maiden name in Japan and Australia. We decided (for a number of reasons) that she should change her family name to mine. The procedure to do this in Japan is a...Read More
After stuffing around on Kiyomi’s laptop for the past two days I have finally found what was causing the problem (which was causing me to rip my hair out) and how to fix it. Having rebuilt her W...Read More
Today is known as seijin no hi (成人の日) or The Coming of Age Day which is held on the second Monday of January every year. Basically all young people who turn 20 that year celebrate seijin no hi...Read More