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Archive for November, 2004

Judo tournament

Monday, November 15th, 2004

There was a pretty big Judo Tournament in Medford this past weekend. 21st Annual Charles A. Chaves Memorial Tournament, organized by Tohoku Judo club. I used to train there a long time ago. I didn’t go this time but I am going to compete, someday. I weigh about 184 and it is not to my […]

Go-RedSox.com

Thursday, November 11th, 2004

I’ve updated my Japanese Red Sox blog and broke down and got a new domain (yet again!). Go-RedSox.com
I miss baseball…

EUC-JP to UTF-8 conversion

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

Howto convert EUC-JP encoding Japanese text document to UTF-8
nkf -w filename.txt > filename.utf8.txt
nkf is Network Kanji Filter and it is maintained at SourceForge Japan. Man page is here

Newaza and Nagewaza

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

Found pretty good reference on Judo Nagewaza by Kodokan, and very good website on ground work. I need to work on my ground skills…

Newspaper jobs

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

Very good reference, Newspaper jobs JobsPage from Detroit Free Press.

Ukulele

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

In my trip to Hawai’i, the best thing happened. I discovered ukulele and I am not kidding. It is awesome. I got a uke from Island Music (which is located inside Hyatt Regency Hotel) in Waikiki. It is rather easy to play and I am addicted. I also bought couple ukulele book by Jumpin’ Jim […]

Yuta Tabuse

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

Who says Japanese man can’t jump? Yuta Tabuse made the team as the third point guard — behind Steve Nash and Leandro Barbosa for the Suns. Related stories:
Tabuse makes headlines in Japan, Tabuse Set to Make History
Well, he is no Yao Ming, but Go Tabuse!

Purple America

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

Princeton’s website has a pretty amazing Election 2004 Results US map that shows the Dem-Rep ratio in color.

God Bless America

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

So, Bush defeats Kerry. What a democrats to do? Here are some options: A reader’s guide to expatriating on November 3 by Harpers.org, and The Democrats’ guide to Canada by csmonitor.com. Very funny.
I though Kerry’s concession speech was one of the best.

Back from Hawai’i

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Crazy. While I was out of the state, the Sox wins it all and, related or not, one of my website, japaneseballplayers.com is attacked… Very frustrating. I was very disapointed, sad, and angry, but I think I will look at the bright side of things and am going to try to build it again from […]