There doesn’t seem to be anything to specifically replace the depreciated align=center tag for block-level elements in
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Monday Miwa and I had to file our tax returns today. Instead of confusing forms and a deadline, we met with a Town Office official who told us what to write where. We even got a little tax back -…
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The world is presently focussed on Iraq, and a potential war that nobody wants, but some want less than others. However living in Japan there’s also another danger - North Korea. The statements North Korea makes are even more unusually…
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Saturday… involved getting up early and driving to Taki, to teach little kids. Wow, there’s a couple of two year olds in the class! I thought it was from 3 upward ;-) After that I headed home and saw a…
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I was interested to read the article Linking Innovation and Diversity (posted on 1/21/2003) on Z+ Blog (it’s just on the main page). Their quote from Nicholas Negroponte’s article on Creating a Culture of Ideas sounds exactly like Japan at…
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Another fun, action-packed day for a shufuo-kun. Spent a long time reworking a spreadsheet itinerary for my parents’ trip to Japan in March. Also did some town errands and finally posted off all the thank-you letters to NZ, including some…
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Miwa’s birthday! Woop. I heard about an interesting program (thanks Gios) - iSwipe. It’s a general multi-protocol download app for Macs compatible with: WWW,
FTP, Hotline, Napster, OpenNapster, Gnutella, FastTrack and Carracho(*) networks, and soon the OpenFT network. The way…
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The day before Miwa’s birthday. After surfing overly long I embarked on an epic tidy. It involved taking down some unused curtains putting another bookshelf in pretty much emptying the cupboard sorting through the boxes putting everything back in the…
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After a slow start we went to Forestopia. The cabins are nice although they lack sitting devices apart from cushions - might be a bit much for the olds. Photos to come. We also checked the venue again and decided…
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A list of notable things to remember (with page #s), from Eric Meyer’s excellent book. Includes some unacknowledged errata…
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