Those of you who read the blog on a regular base, might have noticed that each post comes now with a trailing line saying something like “Popularity: … %”. This information comes from a nice little plug-in which has be…
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Yearly Archives: 2009
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Posted in computer, programming
Mc Airport II
About half a year I have posted an article about the phenomena of Mc Donalds at Tokyo (Narita) international airport. On my business trip last week, I walked by that fast-food restaurant before my departure and I saw a similar…
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American size S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL, …
Using a few free hours on my business trip to the US, I took the chance to look for new sports trousers. Given that the current US$/Yen exchange rate is quite pleasant, I started checking out sports stores in a…
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Posted in Food
Google Chrome for Linux
Since a few days Google offers its browser Chrome for download under Linux. Since there’s also a RPM which should work under Fedora 64 bit, I gave the whole thing a try and installed it on my PC. Other than…
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Posted in computer
Japanese Language Proficiency Test – or how to play lotto
During the summer I spent some time on learning Japanese more intensively, which motivated me to register for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験) level 2. Unfortunately, there was not much free time after I had registered and I was…
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Plotting environments for Octave
Until now I used Gnuplot, for generating quick plots directly from Octave. Since I am only using Octave for rapid testing purposes I don’t mind so much about the rather poor implementation of the plotting features. Anyway, when testing some…
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Yen/Dollar exchange rate
In the last months the exchange rate from Japanese Yen to US Dollar dropped dramatically. Although Japan has a strong domestic market, it is very much depending on exports, which are reducing at the same rate as the US$ gets…
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Pepsi Azuki
Today I saw in supermarket a newly introduced drink promoted by Pepsi (Japan). It’s name is “Pepsi Azuki”, but basically has nothing in common with a classical coke. The color is a little bit fancy but the taste is nice.…
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Posted in Drink
Cygwin, Vista and the X-server
I decided to install Cygwin (1.7) on my laptop in order to have useful programs on it rather than Word, Excel and Powerpoint which are the three reasons why I am forced to use a M$ solution. I had Cygwin…
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Posted in computer
Extended homepage statistics
As you might have noticed (when loading this page) I am using Google Analytics to monitor the access of my webpage as well as this blog. Google provides you plenty of options to display and categorize access counts, but one…
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