Last December as a company perk and to improve communication within the TheJapanShop.com team, I decided to buy all employees (that is, myself and Pam, my sister) an iPhone. Having succumbed to all the hype, we came up with good rationalizations why such a purchase would be necessary. All the way to the [...]
I realized this morning I haven’t made a video in a few weeks. Well, Yumi and I are working on a new downloadable $5 product on kotowaza (Japanese proverbs). So because I have a one-track-mind, here is a video on one of my favorites:
While thumbing through the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, I found out Kilobyte should be abbreviated as KB. I had always preferred Kb (with a lowercase ‘b’) just because ‘KB’ seemed like an abbreviated ‘KGB’ abbreviation.
However, according to Oxford, ‘Kb’ stands for Kilobit (1,024 bits) and ‘KB’ is Kilobyte (1,024 bytes). [...]
“Yumi,” I said the other day, “look at the Hanafubuki.” Our dogwood tree was dropping its pinky white flowers resembling the Japanese ‘hanafubuki‘ of the sakura cherry tree blossoms.
She said in disgust, “I can no longer enjoy flowers showering down after how you say hanafubuki before blowing your nose.”
It has become something of a [...]
Two quick 親ばか notes:
1) 待って！
Just now Yumi was chasing Makoto trying to put his diaper on. Makoto doesn’t like this part too much so he runs from mommy. As Yumi approached, I heard him take off saying, 「待って！」 matte Wait! Obviously he doesn’t quite get the meaning of that one yet.
Makoto just [...]
Years ago, Yumi and I produced a 48 page booklet for learning hiragana. It was a big flop. Well, we sold a couple dozen I suppose, but it took us nearly a year to produce—most of that time was spent worrying if people would like it (we didn’t have very thick skin back [...]
White Rabbit Press has made its name by producing high quality flashcards for learning kanji and kana. Never resting on their laurels, the folks there are expanding to include audio tour programs. Basically you would go to a specific starting point in Tokyo (for example), press play, and listen while your personal tour guide [...]
I’m still spending a lot of time working on setting up the new TJP.com. Here is a video showing off a few of the new features:
The screen capture software I used really slowed down Premiere (the video editing software I use). I don’t know exactly what it did to it, but it made a [...]
I’ve been so busy with theJapanesePage.com move, I haven’t posted or done much else lately. Here is a new video on basic (very basic) directions in Japanese:
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