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Crack appears in Mixi’s exclusion method
Two years ago mixi started requiring a Japanese email address in order to sign up to mixi. It seems that what they are doing is filtering for undesirable domains. Hence google mail etc are being barred, Japanese keitai are not. … Continue reading
Kanji Sieve – Analysing Kanji Usage
This is a little FileMaker solution I’ve written. It takes a piece of pasted Japanese text and analyses the kanji contained in it. I wrote it as a quick and probably imprecise way of looking at kanji usage in texts. … Continue reading
Nintendo DSi LL
Or outside of Japan the DSi XL. But a friend has brought me a Japanese DSi LL a month or so ahead of the European launch. Who needs an Apple iPad?
Japanese Childrens Kanji Book
These books have the usual unwieldy titles of so many Japanese books. 1行読んでおぼえる小学生必修1006漢字—低学年500漢字 and 1行読んでおぼえる小学生必修1006漢字—高学年506漢字. The idea behind them is quite simple though. You read one line per kanji to memorise if not all, at least most of its important … Continue reading
FileMaker Kanji Project – progress 1
I’ve started making my Kanji Notebook. The first week has seen me gather a lot of the basic data I want, some of it imported using XLST such as Kanjidic, some of it input by hand, some from tab separated … Continue reading
My FileMaker Pro Kanji Project
Long ago before I started learning Japanese, FileMaker Pro was one of my favourite programs. Then I started spending most of my time on Japanese and FileMaker was sidelined, especially as it didn’t support Japanese characters at that time. It’s … Continue reading
