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daughter's been really into swimming lately, so we've been spending lots of time at the local public pool. It seemed like an apt Japanatron topic, so here it is! Oh, and I tried video this time.
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Podcast
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IThttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it
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27 - I Don't Get Ithttps://japanatron.com/?view=article&id=10255:27-i-don-t-get-it&catid=52
No matter how long I live in Japan, there are a few things about this country and its culture that perpetually confuse me. I present my whine list followed by grinch-like groans.
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Podcast
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Religious Freakhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/1004-religious-freak
brother Steve Pavlina is a professional blogger. He runs a rather popular self-improvement website. Since our family name is quite unique, I sometimes get traffic via his site; or people looking for his site simply stumble upon mine. In rare cases, I'll...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Rude Japanhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10010-rude-japan
Most all tourists that visit Japan say the same thing: "Wow! Everyone here is so polite!" Well, that's true if you're a tourist--especially one with a phatty wallet. Having lived here for over 5 years, I have come to realize that although Japanese...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Rude Awakeninghttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10065-rude-awakening
and I had a very rude awakening this morning. A loud alarm went off around 6:30am. It was immediately followed by a recorded voice saying, "An earthquake is coming! An earthquake is coming!" It was the nationwide early warning system, and our building's...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Dear Tea Pitcherhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10073-dear-tea-pitcher
Unfortunately, I was forced to throw out my plastic pitcher this morning. It was purchased over 3 years ago at the 100-yen shop in Nakano-ku. I used it exclusively for tea, so tea was so beyond crusted on the inside that the clear plastic turned dark...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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It's tough to beat a credit card's convenience, so I felt naked and demoted after moving to Japan and encountering a sea of rejection when trying to apply for a local credit card. True...I could use my US credit card, but that weak dollar / strong yen...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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* php5-mysql * php5-xmlrpc * nano * unzip * zip * wget * phpmyadmin * webmin * libav-tools (I install this for avconv, a utility used to convert video files.) Create DNS Entries / Zones (if necessary) PHP Configuration NOTE: Nginx uses PHP as FastCGI,...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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PRE-REQUISITIES - Rclone plugin - User Scripts plugin (if you want to schedule the jobs) SETUP RCLONE Rclone is surprisingly easy to use, as it's very similar to Rsync. The major difference is the initial configuration, as you have to register the...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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Test Versus Handshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/poems/10070-test-versus-hands
me introduce myself, my goods, and my services:" No matter how much time I spend with you, it never seems to be enough. In your company eternally, and it would be only a whisper cuff. "Breathe the essence of my body and soul now in convenient travel...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Poems
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Japan's Smoking Addictionhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10083-japans-smoking-addiction
on each and every pack of cigarettes sold in Japan. I was shocked this wasn't done 10 years ago. Japan has a major problem with smoking addiction, and here are some possible reasons why: They're Cheap A pack of cigs cost about 300 yen ($3 US). That's an...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I started working in the 800-person IT department of a large Japanese financial firm. Being the only white boy and only native English speaker in my 30-person section, I stand out quite a bit. I've only been here a month; however, the piquant...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Take Off Your Shoeshttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10092-take-off-your-shoes
on the sofa, shoes on the bed, shoes in the shower, shoes in the backyard, then back in the house. I didn't think twice about it. Living in Japan opened my eyes. Take your fuckin' shoes off, you filthy American. Why? Because it's nasty--incredibly...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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(like me), they will not. Below I present a few foreigner-friendly, no-guarantor-required housing options that have proved quite handy to yours truly. Leopalace 21 Leopalace is what's known as a "weekly mansion," an often short-term quick-sale housing...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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that I honestly don't think about much and things that Japan isn't really known for, but for that very reason they deserve befitting acknowledgement. Before moving to Japan I never realized that Japan is really really good at building stuff and really...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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Arvixe Web Hosting Reviewhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10143-arvixe-web-hosting-review
servers, which is a feature not often found on other hosts. They're generally responsive to emails and reasonable to work with. The Bad You get what you pay for. Their server performance can really suck at times. The shared SSL doesn't work, and that's...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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I preordered Starr Labs' iTar in December 2011. Three years later this device still didn't exist, and the fact the iTar was no longer even mentioned on the company's website had me worried. I decided to give up on the preorder and seek a refund....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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THE SITUATION Some of my end-users do this from time to time: They open an Outlook attachment (such as a Word doc), edit it, save it, then close it. Where is it!? It's buried in Outlook's temp file folder, dude! THE SOLUTION * Turn OFF "Hide protected...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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If IT geek-dom were a crime, I'd be on death row by now. Fortunately, it is not; so I continue my dorky IT pursuits--the latest of which is finding a VPS cloud server provider that offers a Japan datacenter location. Let's see what we come up with......
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT