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Redesign of LocalizingJapan.com

February 11, 2010

My blog Localizing Japan has needed a redesign for some time. The old design was a modification of a theme someone else had created. I initially set up WordPress quickly with the first decent theme I found so I could begin writing. I did not expect to keep it for so long. Well, it's finally done.

The design is very minimalistic with lots of white space. I want the content to be the focus, and I think I achieved that. It is professional, functional, and most important, it does not get in the way of the content. The extra effort to get the typefaces and line spacing right really makes a difference in readability.

Now that I have the design taken care of, I just need to start writing posts again.

Working on my Home Page

February 16, 2009

I've been working on my personal home page and finally got it to a point where it can go online. I still have much to do, but now I have something I can work from.

I decided to go with a UT Longhorn type of burnt orange theme for most things. I ended up doing everything by hand in PHP and Javascript. jQuery is really cool and I plan on doing more with it in the future. This blog is just hand coded at the moment. But I will probably convert it to WordPress once I finalize everything.


New Home Page

February 1, 2009

I decided to redo my personal home page. My old Web site was nothing more than my resume and random little pages I had worked on. My plan for my new site is to have one place for all my personal and business related content. Also, I have multiple blogs, so consolidating them all in one place is a good idea.

At first I thought I would just keep it simple and do straight HTML. But after working on it, I realized it isn't really possible to make a 'site' with just HTML anymore. I considered using Drupal for the entire site, but doing anything seemed like a big hassle. Drupal is pretty cool and I want to try to use it again in the future. But for now I just want to get my site up. So I decided to just use straight PHP and do all the content reuse myself.



Japanese Input on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx

Posted on 15 June 2010 | 6:29 pm

The latest release of Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, makes a lot of things easy in Linux. And setting up Ubuntu with a Japanese IME to type in Japanese is as easy as ever. Whether you are a student of Japanese or a native Japanese speaker, you will need to set up Ubuntu to type [...] Full Article

Japanese Input on Android Phones

Posted on 15 February 2010 | 2:17 pm

With the release of the first Google Android phones in Japan from NTT Docomo, there are finally phones with Google’s native Japanese keyboard input. The keyboard has been in the SDK, but it has not appeared on any handsets in the U.S. yet. I have not been able to find any information about when non-Japanese [...] Full Article

Batch Search and Replace

Posted on 30 August 2008 | 11:31 am

Batch search and replace across multiple files seems to come up a lot. It’s good to know a quick and simple way to do this on text files. Problem Suppose you have 100 XML files and you want to add an attribute to one of the elements. Current XML: <document author=”mark”> Desired XML: <document date=”2008-08-08″ [...] Full Article

Generate a Concordance from an XML File

Posted on 21 August 2008 | 5:09 pm

A concordance is a list of all the words in a document, and there respective word count. For example, if you had the following sentences: I like XML. I like computers. Do you like XML? A concordance for those sentences would look like this: 3 like 2 I 2 XML 1 you 1 computers 1 [...] Full Article

Translating Sentences for Trados Rather Than Ideas

Posted on 30 March 2008 | 10:11 am

The benefits of translation memory tools such as Trados for translating are numerous; but they have their negatives as well. They encourage the translator to translate everything on a sentence by sentence basis. Every source sentence will have a corresponding target sentence. It is not always ideal to translate in this manner. For example, consider [...] Full Article




Wedding Convention = Lots of Free Stuff

Posted on 11 January 2009 | 9:33 am

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Don't Pass Up Free 401(k) Money

Posted on 13 March 2008 | 2:56 pm

When I first started my current job, I was surprised to find out that my company offers free money to anyone that invests in their own 401(k) retirement account. A lot of companies do this. Some will match up to a certain percent. I signed up as fast [...] Full Article

Disposable Things Waste Money - Simple Ways to Save by Reusing Stuff

Posted on 26 February 2008 | 5:18 pm

If you use something often, find a way to use a reusable item instead. Buying the same thing again and again wastes money you could be saving and investing.Water Mug/ContainerIf your office/school/place you go everyday has a water cooler or a water [...] Full Article

Get Things Fixed for Free

Posted on 25 February 2008 | 6:07 pm

I had a hair dryer that just stopped working. The last thing I wanted to do was spend more money on a new one. So I looked around, and by chance I still had the box and instruction manual. The hair dryer had a 2-year manufacturer's warranty. I didn't [...] Full Article

Recessions are for Buying

Posted on 19 February 2008 | 5:08 pm

Everyone seems to be worried about the economy these days. As a result, the market is tanking. People freak out and want to cut their loses, so they sell everything and get out. Those people are fools. Now is the time to invest more money in the mark [...] Full Article




Kara ShinShoryuken is Awesome

Posted on 5 March 2008 | 6:57 pm

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Small Characters Parry Low

Posted on 16 February 2008 | 11:58 am

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Chun Li's Low Forward - It's Not a Link

Posted on 3 February 2008 | 9:49 am

Mythbuster time! Chun Li's low forward into Houyokusen is not a link; it's a cancel.This is one of the most popular myths in 3rd Strike. The game has been out for 9 years, and people still think Chun Li's low forward is a link. It's not. It's a cance [...] Full Article

How to Escape Urien’s Unblockable Aegis

Posted on 13 July 2005 | 11:15 pm

When Urien juggles you in the corner with a tackle and cancels into Aegis reflector, he hits you with a cross up knee drop while the reflector hits you from the front to cause an unblockable situation. From there he gets to launch and juggle you agai [...] Full Article

Verifiable Kara-uppercut Mid-screen

Posted on 11 July 2005 | 1:56 am

Kara-uppercut is really good. I have been trying to find more ways to land it, but generally it is up to your opponent to mess up to give you an opportunity to hit them, such as whiffing a throw for instance. Low forward -> DP and stand strong -&g [...] Full Article