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Archive for September, 2005

Vote for Sam Yoon today for Boston City Council At-Large!

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

If you are registered voter in Boston, there is a preliminary election for the City Council’s at-large seats today. In this preliminary, 15 at-large candidates will be narrowed to eight candidates. The winners will compete in the November election for the four at large seats. Please consider picking Sam Yoon for one of the four […]

Expo Aichi 2005 ends

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Expo Aichi — Photo by Daigo.

Expo Aichi has ended Sunday. As you can see on the left, we were there this July and that’s me and Jonathan with Morizo and Kiccoro.
There was a really interesting story called “Japanese queue - gladly - for a 35-foot platypus and falafel” in […]

A sad day

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Yesterday was a sad day for the church I was baptized in 2003, Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Newton. Father Walter Cuenin (Pastor) suddenly resigned. He was the one who baptized me, and he also baptized our son. But more and more I read about this, it gets crazier. Both Boston.com and Boston […]

Thoughts on Japanese election

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

So, Koizumi and LDP, as expected, overwhelmingly won the snap election. Taking 296 of 480 lower house seats. Combined with 31 seats that Coalition partner New Komeito won, now the majority party controls 68.1% of the lower house. It was smart for Koizumi to make this a “one-issue” election. The postal-reform election. I think Koizumi […]

blog + del.icio.us + flickr = feedburn

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

This is pretty cool. Using FeedBurner’s free service, I can combine my photos from flickr and recently bookmarked item on del.icio.us. Link Splicer and Photo Splicer are the two service for this. It was easy to set up and I now have a pretty regularly updated RSS! Very nice. I discovered this while trying to […]

Be not Defeated by the Rain

Monday, September 5th, 2005

With all the Katrina madness, I’ve been thinking about what I would have done if I was in the situation. Situation like that brings best and worst of us, they say. I remembered a famous Japanese poem that I learned when I was young, and I found it on line, so I thought to post […]

Amazing thing you can do with JavaScript

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

I have been just amazed by what you can do with JavaScript Bookmarklets. They are easy, useful, and smart. But this one, just blew my mind. Apparently it is created by brilliant mind(s) of ChildTV.org
So let me translate “How-to use this script” for those who don’t read Japanese.
Here is the button: ChildTV

First, execute […]