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  Argh! WordPress upgrade!

  01.19.12 | Permalink | Comments Off

  This was going to be a post where I put up my latest Japanese homework (some diary entries). However, I noticed that WordPress needed to be updated, and stupidly, I actually tried it… I think the problem is that the web server runs as a different user than my FTP user, so when I installed [...]

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  Wednesday and Thursday Japanese homework

  11.11.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’ve been keeping up with my Gradint podcast, even without having the bus journey each day, by playing Grand Theft Auto III while listening.  I usually do Ambulance missions, trying to get the mythical Level 12 (you rescue groups of patients, 1 at level 1, then 2 at level 2, and so on, up to [...]

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  Pics for Reddit

  06.29.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  On my birthday, as an excuse to use my nice new graphics tablet, I started a thread on Reddit where I declared I would draw things for the fine folks at Reddit. This album of pictures was the result. I did about seven of them on the day itself, adding the rest approximately one a day [...]

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  Flat not burned down.

  06.28.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yesterday, during my weekly WoW night, the front door bell went unexpectedly. ?Unexpectedly, because nobody calls late at night! ?This turned out to be Kenny, my ex-neighbour-but-one-floor-down. ?He told me that some kids had set a fire in one of the bin enclosures around the back! We went and had a look, but as the [...]

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  Happy Birthday to me!

  06.07.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Guess I’m now middle aged – 42! Life, the Universe, and Everything! My birthday present from Mum arrived early, which meant I could convert it into tangible goods – a Wacom Intuos 4L Graphics tablet to replace the one that was stolen nearly two years ago. It arrived yesterday. I love it to bits already, [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Could Be Doing ? Immersion and Talking to People

  06.06.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Immersion Listen more. Watch more. Read more (or any!). There’s a lot of resources out there – free audiobooks, podcasts, comics, books, websites, YouTube videos… Really no excuse! The “Read Real Japanese” book comes in here, too. I doubt I’ll ever go the whole All Japanese All The Time “turn your computer’s language to Japanese, [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Could Be Doing – Vocabulary and Grammar

  06.05.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Vocabulary and Grammar The main thing to do is continue with Gradint. I’ve been thinking about perhaps expanding my Gradint listening to two half-hour podcasts a day, calling the second one “Gradint Nights” for my journey home. That way, instead of learning five words or phrases per day, I could learn ten. If I make [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Could Be Doing – Kanji and Kana

  06.04.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  What I Could Be Doing A braver person would label this section “What I will do”, but I’m not, so there! So basically this will be a place for me to put down some thoughts about what I could, should, and maybe will be doing in the future. Kanji and Kana Continue with the RTK [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I am doing

  06.03.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  What I am doing These are my ongoing Japanese learning actions.? Nice short section so everything all at once… Kanji I use Anki daily – more specifically, I use the iPhone app on my iPod touch. It’s really handy, especially as my daily commute has specific “dead” times – waiting for the bus, travelling on [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Have Done – Immersion

  06.02.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Immersion Japanese learning sites put a lot of emphasis on “immersion” – listening to as much Japanese throughout your day as possible. Although at the start you won’t understand much (if at all), the idea is that you will “tune” your ear to the language, getting an idea of how people actually speak Japanese, the [...]

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"Creative Slacker" referrs to the fact that I should be doing creative stuff – writing, art, 3D animation, RPG stuff, but I don't. Maybe "lazy bastard" would be more appropriate.

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