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Uh, no, I’m not in South Korea. What’s worse is that there doesn’t seem to be any where on the page where I can change it, at least not intuitively. Clicking on the Blizzard link takes you to Blizzard’s Korean page. Of course, being popped onto a Japanese page with no recourse to “English” would [...]

The other day I went over to the home of one of my students for a group lesson over lunch. When these occasions come up, I have enough experience now to know not to eat anything for breakfast, and to tell my wife dinner won’t be necessary, since there is always an incredible amount of food, all of it delicious.

Recently I’ve realized that even keeping the iMac at it’s dimmest setting is still too bright. The solution I stumbled onto has proven to be very elegant — Shades, a freeware application from Charcoal in the UK.

In the process of resurrecting this blog I upgraded Wordpress, all of a sudden I no longer had the ability to post in Japanese. All the Japanese I typed in the WP admin interface for new posts would turn into a series of question marks upon saving.

Hadn’t been to Kanda-Jimbocho in quite some time, perhaps 9 or so months, but went there the other week to look for a book for an overseas customer. I ran into this rather startling site — the Jimbocho Theater, which is owned by the publishing house Shogakukan

Yesterday at Book Off I somewhat fortuitously — for I hadn’t even noticed the “foreign books” shelves until I was in the checkout line — picked up for 100 yen an old (2 years ago) edition of The New Yorker — the “Winter Fiction” edition.