Door to Japanese Blogs

kotoriko tells how to shorten your sleep time in a cheap way

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:43:25 +0900

kotoriko can sleep a lot; even 18 hours. Because of that, he’s been keen to learn how to shorten his sleeping time for a long time. He says there are three typical advices which basically didn’t work for him.

Improve bedding
Eat a smaller amount of fish and veg (i.e., not meat)
Absorb sunshine

Having failed to reduce his sleeping time with these methods, kotoriko came up with a simple and cheap method which actually worked. That is to use

an eye mask and earplug

Simple, huh?

Read on with Google Translation »

Original post: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kotorikotoriko/20080213/1202904458

80% of the major Japanese firms bans the access to 2ch.net

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:23:00 +0900

80% of the major Japanese firms bans the access to 2ch.net:

Original post: http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0802/14/news110.html

jkondo decides to return to where he started Hatena

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:17:00 +0900

jkondo decides to return to where he started Hatena:

Original post: http://hatena.g.hatena.ne.jp/hatenapress/20080214/1202969302

Migration from wordpress.com completed

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:44:59 +0900

Stay tuned.

Lessons to be learnt from the first week

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:43:00 +0900

OK, since there doesn’t seem to be many entries today to share with you, I decided to write about the lessons I learnt from the first week of my activity in Door to Japanese Blogs.

The only criterion I use in the selection of the blog entries is whether or not the entries offer any value to the community outside Japan. Obviously this is totally biased by myself, but there are cases where I can clearly exclude from my consideration. That is, the re-blog entries which introduce English entries in Japanese (sort of reverse of this blog). What I realised in the first week of my activity was that a large proportion of published blogs belong to this category. It was a little bit of surprise to me. I initially thought that there would be more, say, original posts, but that wasn’t the case so far. It makes my job easier, though.

There are several categories of posts I intentionally pickup in this blog. They are about the software development, discussions on Japanese society, opinions on foreign issues, and fun stuff. I believe that the development technologies some bloggers have in Japan is of high standard. Therefore, I’d like to share their effort with you. The second and third categories are kind of obvious but rarely published in English. There are as many crazy people in Japan as anywhere else, so I enjoy introducing some of the fun we have on the web.

It doesn’t take much to make the “Today’s elsewhere” entries because they are just a collection of bookmarks I make during the web surfing. The main entries tend to take about a half an hour. I try to limit myself not to spend much time so that I can have a long life.

Alright, that’s enough from me. Keep me posted any feedback on the blog.

ujihisa shows us how to deploy a ruby application from scratch in 30 seconds

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:19:00 +0900

ujihisa shows us how to deploy a ruby application from scratch in 30 seconds:

Original post: http://ujihisa.nowa.jp/entry/4d57e24df4

mala, a leading developer of Fastladder, is leaving Livedoor for a new post

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:09:00 +0900

mala, a leading developer of Fastladder, is leaving Livedoor for a new post:

Original post: http://la.ma.la/blog/diary_200802081626.htm

Milano was supposed to get a MacBook Air, but the machine he's got today was a little bit bigger and thicker than Air

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:41:00 +0900

Milano was supposed to get a MacBook Air, but the machine he's got today was a little bit bigger and thicker than Air:

Original post: http://rebecca.ac/milano/mt/archives/001831.html

heimin kept eating curry for eleven days

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:41:00 +0900

heimin kept eating curry for eleven days:

Original post: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/heimin/20080207/p1

Taku released a Japanese word segmentation software written in Javascript

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:41:00 +0900

Taku released a Japanese word segmentation software written in Javascript:

Original post: http://chasen.org/~taku/blog/archives/2008/02/tinysegmenter_j.html

Fastladder, a lightning fast rss reader, is now in the MIT license

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:02:00 +0900

Fastladder.com is like Blogline; make an account and register RSS feeds. Today, Livedoor, the company behind Fastladder, decided to release the source code as an open-source software. This means that you can install the software as an RSS server in your local environment.

I think this is a great move from Livedoor, and deserves more attentions. I encourage everyone to try out the software if you subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds. Fastladder is known to have excellent usability to handle a large number of RSS feeds without stress.

Fastladder.org

Original post: http://blog.livedoor.jp/staff_reader/archives/51181618.html

Official announcement: http://blog.fastladder.com/blog/2008/02/open-source-rss.html

An anonymous coward girl tells her transition from an 18 year-old who didn't know what a love hotel was to the girl who writes very nasty pornographic comic books (Part I)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:06:00 +0900

An anonymous coward girl tells her transition from an 18 year-old who didn't know what a love hotel was to the girl who writes very nasty pornographic comic books (Part I):

Original post: http://anond.hatelabo.jp/20080205004002

An anonymous coward girl tells her transition from an 18 year-old who didn't know what a love hotel was to the girl who writes very nasty pornographic comic books (Part II)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:06:00 +0900

An anonymous coward girl tells her transition from an 18 year-old who didn't know what a love hotel was to the girl who writes very nasty pornographic comic books (Part II):

Original post: http://anond.hatelabo.jp/20080206161047

Hate spam? Go to SNS

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:52:00 +0900

Due to the widespread culture (if I may call it) of anonymity in Japan, there has been a long and winding dispute between the pro-real name and anti-real name schools. The issue is relatively simple. The pro-real wants everyone on the web to identify themselves with the real-name (or an ID that can trace back to the person in some way), while the anti-real argues that the pro-real is missing the whole point of the Internet, it is the what (to be said) that matters, not the who. The anti-real also laughs at the unrealistic desire often expressed by the pro-real school (Everyone with real name? Yeah, right. That won’t happen).

Anyway, today, Yamada made an interesting proposal for those who are fed up with spams by anonymous cowards on the web.

Go to SNS

The whole argument is actually more complex than this. But, the point is the largest SNS in Japan, mixi, has got 13 millions users and it’s been reported that many of them use the real name. Surely the S/N ratio will decrease.

Read on with Google translation »

Original post: http://e0166.blog89.fc2.com/blog-entry-386.html

michikaifu discovered that bloggers writing a book is the "long-tail" model in the publishing industry

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:43:00 +0900

michikaifu discovered that bloggers writing a book is the "long-tail" model in the publishing industry:

Original post: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/michikaifu/20080204/1202186029

dh has got not one but three sets of MacBook Air

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:43:00 +0900

dh has got not one but three sets of MacBook Air:

Original post: http://uva.jp/dh/mt/archives/005126.html

hokousya presents her experience with heroku, a web-based Ruby on Rails, in details

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:43:00 +0900

hokousya presents her experience with heroku, a web-based Ruby on Rails, in details:

Original post: http://webos-goodies.jp/archives/51287729.html

Using Google's Social Graph API, F.Ko-Ji released a twitter tool that showed the follower relations of your account

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:23:00 +0900

Using Google's Social Graph API, F.Ko-Ji released a twitter tool that showed the follower relations of your account:

Original post: http://blog.fkoji.com/2008/02031741.html”

Gigazine reports their visit at the office of mixi, the largest SNS service in Japan

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:23:00 +0900

Gigazine reports their visit at the office of mixi, the largest SNS service in Japan:

Original post: http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20080204_mixi/

itoshi argues that the most useful language for newbies is R

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:23:00 +0900

itoshi argues that the most useful language for newbies is R:

Original post: http://itoshi.tv/d/?date=20080204