Monthly Archives: December 2009

“Popularity Contest” WordPress Plugin

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

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

Posted in Drink, Food

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

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

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

Posted in Japanese, math
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