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Oh my, I haven’t posted here for over two weeks! I have been busy updating JapaneseBallPlayers.com, (that is, when I am not shoveling) and am finally happy with how it is working now. I did a major backend upgrade and most everything is database-driven. Pretty cool. I am just learning so much about php/mysql stuff. […]

Just doing my blogroll and came across Justice for Nick Baker site. He traveled to Japan and was “duped” drugs by a traveling companion. Still in Japan fighting his case. Geez, this is really bad. But perhaps the most scary part is this:
… but presiding Judge Kenji Kadoya, who in more than a decade on […]

I am excited! This is pretty amazing for me. first I figured out right syntax for setting the font in .emacs/init.el. Which is (set-face-font ‘default “-fndry-fmly-wght-slant-sWdth-adstyl-pxlsz- ↵
ptSz-resx-resy-spc-avgWdth-rgstry-encdng“).

To find out what the heck that is? Use xfontsel. It came standard in both Fedora Core 3 and X11 for Mac OS X (Two OS of choice for […]

I don’t want to make big deal about this, but I thought it was interesting that PM Junichiro Koizumi decided not to visit Yasukuni Shrine this new year season (Oshogatsu).
The Christian Science Monitor’s article Political pitfalls of a Japanese war shrine, written by Bennett Richardson, was perhaps the best one to explain the […]

Still fighting the same battle. I can’t seem to use nicer font on emacs. I found this prioject M+ FONTS from sourceforge.jp. I installed and set the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/Xresources as The site suggest and run xrdb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/Xresources but everytime I start xemacs I get the following error: Warning: Cannot convert string “-mplus-gothic-medium-r-normal–12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*” to type […]