I have started a new project called “A Fool’s House of Cards” as both an online repository of flashcards (similar to the several “flashcard exchanges” one can find online, of which my “Set Library” was a feeble and failed attempt) and the first step in getting my old Flashcard Wizard software online with its Interval [...]
I have successfully reversed the nocturnal existence I have been leading ever since I recovered from jetlag in October and have been an early riser for almost a week now. Zheesh, it was like kicking cocaine or something. Of course, I don’t know why I bothered given that I’m leaving for New York on Sunday. [...]
I just finished watching “Hero”. I was fascinated by it, but found it to be a deeply disturbing movie. In fact, it is a very difficult movie to review. The movie’s basic story surrounds the attempts of a group of assasins to kill the ruler of the kingdom of Qin. The movie alternates between Jet [...]
I have been working on various projects recently. One is Jii-chan’s Kanji Flaschards for studying Chinese characters used in Japanese language. I also got a full server for chinajapan.org and will hopefully get working on the software for this site soon. Sayaka has a personal homepage up now over at Securitygirl.net and her pages on [...]
SARS is about to get in my way. Yesterday, the WHO has changed Taiwan’s status from “limited local transmission” area to “affected area”. Following up, the US center for disease control and prevention put Taiwan on its travel advisory list. As I mentioned in an earlier posting, I was due to present at a conference [...]
I wasn’t interested in some journalist getting fired. The news buzzed by me as quickly as it did when that talk-show host got thrown out of Iraq. I didn’t recognize the name and I certainly didn’t recognize his somewhat ugly face even though I’m assured by every article I have read since that this Arnett [...]