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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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!

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

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.

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 […]