Going to the USA is becoming more and more like a trip to a prison, or maybe a war zone. While security is important, at what point does the price become not worth the result? My desire to visit as a tourist is decreasing every time I hear another US Customs horror story.
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GeoURL is a neat piece of metadata that lets you see what other GeoURL-registered websites/website authors are physically close to you. I’ve finally added GeoURL tags to my pages, and have discovered I’m near … some tide prediction websites. Woop!
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I’m trying to find out why I can’t see Todd David Rudick’s great Japanese study tool Rikai.com in Safari. Is it due to the HTTP 1.1 compression used? I hope the Safari developers can tell me…
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I recently read an email in the Japan Bloggers list, and my reply became too long to email. So here it is; Why should anyone use ‘Web Standards’ or validators when making web pages?
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My first comment spam leads to the installation of Jay Allen’s MT Blacklist. More anti-spam violence to follow…
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The first spam I’ve read in quite a while. This reminds me of all the anti-spam stuff I have to do…
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I’m having problems with Brad Choate’s most excellent MT:KeyValues plugin, and despite the high likelihood of user error I can only think it might be a bug. Inconceivable! Help would be greatly appreciated in pointing out the user error ;-)
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Zatoichi・（座頭市） is a new movie from ‘Beat’ Takeshi, based on an old and very popular Japanese story of a blind swordsman. Fantastic sword fights, and moving ambient sounds and music make this a great movie — highly recommended!
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An Osaka construction company is surprised by the uproar caused when their company holiday leads to the hiring about 400 Chinese prostitutes during a 3-day orgy in Zhuhai. The Chinese Foreign Ministry acts deeply offended while trying to pretend sex is not one of their biggest tourism earners. The Japanese Foreign Ministry and News Media pretends nothing happened. The company wonders what the fuss is about. With bonus ‘Crazy Japanese Sex Toy’ link.
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My latest small polishings to this weblog have involved adding Metatags (what an ordeal!), changing the formatting of long posts (like this one) in indexes, and a start on reworking comments. Oh yes, the excitement never ceases round here!
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