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| Get a sneak peek of Wordfast 6.0 |
Tomas Wassmer’s recent article on Wordfast in the current issue of MultiLingual offers a glimpse of the changes in store in the upcoming release of Wordfast 6.0, and last week pre-release versions were made available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, so Wordfast users are now able to try out beta… |
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11/12/08 |
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| A little dose of Olifant can save your life |
Well, maybe not your life, but certainly your life’s work. For technical translators, there are few resources as precious as your (or, more likely, your team’s) translation memory. It represents all the work you’ve done since you started using translation memories, which in the case of translation teams can easily… |
Sako |
07/12/08 |
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| Take Your Tools With You With PortableApps |
If you ever find yourself working on more than one computer (and these days, who doesn’t?), you’ve probably found yourself wishing that your data and applications could be quickly and easily ported to the various machines you work on, so that you wouldn’t need to spend so much time installing… |
Sako |
06/25/08 |
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| Meet Felix, a clever new CAT tool made by GITS |
If you use computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools in your work—particularly if you translate between English and Japanese—you owe it to yourself to take a look at Felix, a new application released last month by Okinawa-based Ginstrom IT Solutions (GITS). Although Felix is technically not new in the sense that it… |
Sako |
06/01/08 |
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| Which Linux distro for the Eee PC? |
Last night I met briefly with a friend who happened to have a copy of the latest release of Linux Mint on a USB drive, so I borrowed the drive for a few minutes to see if I could boot from it and run Linux on my Eee PC. I… |
Sako |
05/15/08 |
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01/13/09 |
| Cell phone spam |
I recently noticed this survey on cell phone spam (via What Japan Thinks), and can vouch for the fact that it is a constant problem with no particularly good solution (at least, none that I am aware of). Although the volume of spam that comes to my cell phone (probably… |
Sako |
05/15/08 |
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06/08/08 |
| First post with the new Eee PC |
This evening on the way home from work I purchased up an ASUS Eee PC. As much as I really like the MacBook I purchased about a year and a half ago (has it already been that long?), it is a little bit too heavy to carry around all the… |
Sako |
05/13/08 |
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| Corinne McKay on translating in OmegaT |
In my day-to-day translation work, I get a lot of mileage out of a number of different computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, one of which is the very impressive OmegaT, an open source translation memory tool that has an innovative approach to the way translation tasks are handled. One of the… |
Sako |
05/08/08 |
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06/26/08 |
| Welcome to the world, UltraBaby! |
I see that UltraBob and his wife have added another Ultra to the family. Congratulations to all involved. Linc, welcome to the world outside mommy’s belly. UltraBob, I figure you’ve got two, maybe three years before we learn whether your computers prefer to drink milk or orange juice with their… |
Sako |
04/27/08 |
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05/02/08 |
| What took me so long? |
After putting it off for entirely too long, I’ve now gotten around to setting up ScribeFire and Google Gears, which will enable me to read Google Reader and do a bit of light blogging even when offline. All of these things together should make it possible to return to a… |
Sako |
04/23/08 |
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| Go, O! |
Although I have previously expressed mild reservations about Barack Obama’s ability to get elected president, I have been very pleased to see that his big win in Iowa has propelled him to the front of the Democratic race. I had long assumed that Hillary Clinton would steamroll her way to… |
Sako |
01/06/08 |
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| Ringo Rocks! |
I went to a Ringo meeting tonight for the first time ever and ended up winning an iPod nano in a drawing held afterward. Will I be going back there again? You bet I will! And thanks to the presentation Kilian Muster gave at the meeting, I might even be… |
Sako |
11/17/07 |
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| All the World’s Knowledge in One Place |
I remember a conversation I had once many years ago, when I was a young journalism student, with a friend of mine who worked part-time for a local ISP. I was telling him about all the amazing things I was learning in one of my information-gathering courses, a lot of… |
Sako |
11/04/07 |
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| Krugman’s Back from Behind the NYT Subscription Wall |
After what feels like a really long time, The New York Times is finally allowing non-subscribers to read Paul Krugman’s columns again. Naturally, I think this is a very good thing. They should have never put his work behind the subscription wall in the first place, but I’m happy to… |
Sako |
09/19/07 |
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| Magic Bar Yuzawa |
The company where I work is located in an area called Shimomaruko, which is not particularly well known for anything except the fact that my company is headquartered there, but if you ever happen to be in Shimomaruko in the evening, it is well worth your time to stop by… |
Sako |
09/11/07 |
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| The End of the Rove Era |
It’s about time! Karl Rove, Adviser to President Bush, to Resign Karl Rove, the architect of President Bush’s two national campaigns and his most prominent adviser through 6-1/2 tumultuous years in the White House, announced today that he will resign at the end of the month… The only bad thing… |
Sako |
08/14/07 |
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| ErrorSafe Infection |
Over the past several weeks, I have encountered a strange pop-up ad that hijacks Firefox and will not relinquish control unless Firefox is forcibly shut down. Has anyone seen this before? (Click on the image to see a larger version.) It’s the same ad every time. I’m wondering if this… |
Sako |
04/26/07 |
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| Let’s upgrading |
Around this time last year, we bought a new Windows PC, which naturally means that we bought an anti-virus/security package to go along with it; in this case, we decided to go with McAfee. The software itself works well enough, so there is really no reason to complain about it,… |
Sako |
03/09/07 |
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| HPV controversy |
I’ve been noticing a lot of news articles about the controversy involved in making mandatory a recently approved vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease linked with cervical cancer. The proposals in favor of mandatory vaccination seem to revolve around the idea of vaccinating pre-adolescent girls. Critics,… |
Sako |
02/23/07 |
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| Obama’s Audacity |
I just finished reading Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. The copy I have is now available if anyone reading this blog entry would be interested in reading it. (Offer limited to people living in Japan, or to people I know living in other… |
Sako |
02/21/07 |
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| Lose DRM, win customers |
By now, anyone who cares about these things has probably already read Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Music,” an open letter that advocates the abolition of digital rights management (DRM) technologies as currently applied to downloadable music. Among other things, Jobs writes: “This is clearly the best alternative for consumers,” which… |
Sako |
02/17/07 |
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| Ten years since we first met |
It was ten years ago yesterday that my wife and I first met. We owe that chance meeting to the fact that my ex-roommate’s birthday happens to fall on Valentine’s Day, which in college is more than enough reason to have a party…The rest is family history. |
Sako |
02/15/07 |
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| iPhone eats Zune’s lunch |
Wow, Apple’s new iPhone looks like it is going to seriously diminish whatever appetite the market may have had for Microsoft’s Zune. Too bad it won’t be available here for a while, but I guess that gives me time to scrap together the hundred thousand or so yen it’s probably… |
Sako |
01/10/07 |
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| If you love your books, set them free |
Recently a colleague turned me on to BookCrossing.com, which is a site that helps people set free their unused books. Because we have a lot of those, I have been slowly registering the ones we need to find new homes for before we can fit any new books on our… |
Sako |
12/16/06 |
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12/19/06 |
| DeWine going down? |
My politics are more pragmatic than partisan, which is why I found this news from my home state encouraging: In Final Weeks, G.O.P. Focuses on Best Bets WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 — Senior Republican leaders have concluded that Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, a pivotal state in this year’s fierce midterm… |
Sako |
10/17/06 |
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| Finally! A Mac I can call my own |
At long last, today marks my first day as a Mac owner. I picked up my new MacBook last night and let it charge overnight; I’m booting it up for the first time even as I type this message. So far, so good! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have… |
Sako |
09/28/06 |
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09/30/06 |
| New Copyright Laws Needed |
I happened to catch this news tidbit on Digg today: British Library calls for digital copyright action The British Library has called for a “serious updating” of current copyright law to “unambiguously” include digital content and take technological advances into account. In a manifesto released on Monday at the Labor… |
Sako |
09/27/06 |
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| The MacBook and Me |
Has it really been almost six months since my last weblog entry? I’d better do something about that. I’ve decided that one of the first steps in my rehabilitation as a blogger will be to get a MacBook so I can write even when I’m away from home. I’ve been… |
Sako |
09/25/06 |
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09/26/06 |
| PHP Hacks |
PHP Hacks by Jack D. Herrington December 2005, O’Reilly Media, Inc. 468 pages, $29.95, paperback Amazon.com | Amazon.co.jp From generating Flash movies on the fly to adding interactive maps to your Web site, the number of interesting things that can be done with PHP is limited primarily by one’s imagination.… |
Sako |
04/01/06 |
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| Way to go, Kelly! |
Word from back home is that cousin Kelly took fourth place in the women’s biathlon at this year’s Paralympic Games. Underkofler Takes Fourth, Bascio Fifth in Women’s Biathlon at 2006 Paralympic Games Way to go, Kelly! That’s a tremendous accomplishment. |
Sako |
03/17/06 |
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| Hardware hates me |
In the past month or so, I’ve been having more hardware-related problems than I’ve ever had at any other point in my lifetime. First the CD drive on our laptop stopped working, then the same thing mysteriously happened on the desktop I was using at the time (which is strange,… |
Sako |
03/03/06 |
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03/08/06 |
| Time to buy |
We’ve been thinking about getting a new computer recently (to replace my Linux desktop and my wife’s Windows laptop), but I’ve been having a hard time making up my mind about whether to go with a typical, run-of-the-mill PC or one of the new Intel Core Duo iMacs. On one… |
Sako |
01/20/06 |
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01/25/06 |
| Dell.jp anti-Firefox? |
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12/27/05 |
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| To Z or not to Z… |
...that is the question. Well, the question of the moment, anyway. A friend from work has offered me a reasonable deal on his Zaurus SL-C760. I’ve borrowed it for the evening to see how well I like it. Actually, I’m using it right now to write this blog entry. Although… |
Sako |
10/26/05 |
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11/15/05 |
| Crichton Binge |
Spurred in part by a generous donation from Zachary (who unfortunately seems to have abandoned his blog like yesterday’s dead fad), I’ve been on something of a Michael Crichton binge lately. First was State of Fear, which I wrote about once before, and that Zachary offered to send—and later did.… |
Sako |
09/26/05 |
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10/26/05 |
| Significant quakeage |
I was at my office during yesterday’s 5.7 earthquake in Chiba. It seemed like it went on for a really long time. It was powerful enough to knock over some books on my desk and completely shut down the elevator in our building, but other than that no damage was… |
Sako |
07/24/05 |
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07/24/05 |
| Showa Kinen Park |
Showa Kinen Park is a really nice place to go with kids. If I had a bit more time, I would go into more detail, but for now I’ll have to make do with a picture from the sunflower patch. |
Sako |
07/20/05 |
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07/24/05 |
| No unfinished business |
As far as I know, our local Movix is one of the few movie theaters that actually offers a “Men’s Day” special to complement the “Ladies’ Day” specials that can be found nearly everywhere. (Like the neighboring Toho Cinema, for example.) At Movix, every Thursday is Men’s Day, which means… |
Sako |
07/14/05 |
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| Noticed by a Zero |
In my About page, I link to Zero Dean’s FAQ about his unusual name as a shameless way to dodge explaining my own. Zero noticed: This was a time when a lot of people were naming their children unusual things. I could’ve easily been named “Sako”, or “Peace”, or “Rainbow”,… |
Sako |
07/02/05 |
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| Tasty Red Hot Sand |
I normally don’t pay much attention to the pseudo-English expressions used in Japanese advertising, but sometimes the Japanese borrow a word from English, shorten its pronounciation to make it easier to write in katakana, and then use the shortened version in what it presumably intended to be English advertising copy—sometimes… |
Sako |
06/13/05 |
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| Citizen: PC use frustrates spouses |
My wife, who often finds herself frustrated with the amount of time I spend on the computer, recently found that she’s not alone. According to this survey from Citizen (link to Kyodo news article in Japanese), nearly 30% of wives and 20% of husbands feel frustrated about the amount of… |
Sako |
06/10/05 |
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| Reika at Sankeien |
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04/11/05 |
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| Sankeien |
We took our daughter to Sankeien yesterday. It’s a nice place for hanami (cherry blossom viewing), although it’s very crowded this time of year. More pictures here for registered friends and family. |
Sako |
04/10/05 |
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| PIE 2005 |
I seem to have come into possession of a limited number of tickets to the Photo Imaging Expo 2005, which will be held next week at Tokyo Big Sight. If you would like to go, please let me know. I’ll probably try to go on Saturday the 19th to catch… |
Sako |
03/12/05 |
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| The Dems choose Dean |
I’ve been waiting for quite some time to hear confirmation of what I’ve been expecting for nearly as long, that the Democrats would choose Howard Dean as the chairman of their national committee. I see that news has now arrived: Dean Accepts DNC Helm With Low-Key Speech Capping an improbable… |
Sako |
02/13/05 |
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02/15/05 |
| Can you believe she’s five already? |
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02/04/05 |
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02/13/05 |
| Separation of Hearth and Screed |
Recent discussions with my adorable wife have led to the conclusion that we would prefer to limit access to news about (and pictures of) our family life to our friends and family from now on, so I will be setting up a separate, password-protected weblog for that purpose. This will… |
Sako |
02/02/05 |
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02/04/05 |
| Not on my dime! |
Ouch! When I came home from work this evening and checked my e-mail, I got a rather nasty surprise: More than 40 “spambacks” from online poker games and porn sites. ExpressionEngine, the blogging software I use to run this site, has always been very good about keeping comment spam under… |
Sako |
02/02/05 |
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| So are we doomed or what? |
I’ve always been a big Michael Crichton fan, so I’m looking forward to reading his latest work, State of Fear, even though I find it rather difficult to buy into the premise (that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by radical environmentalists). It seems hard for me to believe that… |
Sako |
01/25/05 |
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02/09/05 |
| Oops, I did it again! |
Right about now my regular readers are probably beginning to think that I change the design of my site more often than I change my socks. Sorry about that! I promise this will be the last redesign for at least a year. Maybe. I took advantage of the redesign to… |
Sako |
01/25/05 |
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