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		<title>Odori</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished the video below a few days before the March 11th earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan and has caused so much destruction and loss of life. It didn't seem appropriate at the time to mention it at the time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2011/04/odori/</link>
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		<title>Elliott Sharp&#8217;s SyndaKit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to see Elliott Sharp and 11 other assorted Japan-based musicians perform his composition SyndaKit the other night at the Pit Inn in Shinjuku. It was a full house, testament not only to the renown of Sharp himself, but also to the impressive roster of performers sharing the stage with him. I have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2010/11/elliott-sharps-syndakit/</link>
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		<title>Gotta love YouTube Sometimes</title>
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		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2010/09/gotta-love-youtube-sometimes/</link>
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		<title>Wall of images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago Google changed the way they displayed results of their Image Search. However, judging from various comments I&#8217;ve seen, and from browser extensions that have been developed, that quite a lot of folks hate the new look, which I like to think of as a wall of images. I suppose this grumbling has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2010/09/wall-of-images/</link>
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		<title>Auto Detect Failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Uh, no, I&#8217;m not in South Korea. What&#8217;s worse is that there doesn&#8217;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&#8217;s Korean page. Of course, being popped onto a Japanese page with no recourse to &#8220;English&#8221; would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2010/09/auto-detect-failure/</link>
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		<title>Lunch Lesson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2009/11/lunch-lesson/</link>
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		<title>The iMac is so bright, you gotta wear Shades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2009/11/the-imac-is-so-bright-you-gotta-wear-shades/</link>
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		<title>WordPress 2.8 Japanese Fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-japanese-fix/</link>
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		<title>Newish movie theater in Jimbocho</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2009/11/newish-movie-theater-in-jimbocho/</link>
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		<title>Travels near and far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2008/08/travels-near-and-far/</link>
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