http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/rss AXT's latest journal entries Lang-8 Inc. Tue May 21 10:29:23 UTC 2013 Tue May 21 10:29:23 UTC 2013 Lang-8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lang-8 They reveled the twitter linkage some years ago, too.

There was an incident that a hacker robbed a News twitter account and published a fake tweet and effected the stock market several days ago.
I think such linkage is convenient but, the other hand, dangerous.

Anyway, if I don't have a mistake, this journal will be published to Facebook.
Is it so dangerous?

http://blog-ja.lang-8.com/post/49936790131/facebook

Posted at Wed May 08 19:54:37 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/38276230917396374950999912229733271205 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/38276230917396374950999912229733271205 AXT Wed May 08 19:54:37 UTC 2013
Though it's still been cold at night so my young boy seems to be dripping nose.
However he is still big appetite. My daughter also goes to school between this Tuesday and Thursday. It'll be started that rest fragment of GW from this Friday.
We have no plan for the 4 days holidays at the weekend. Because we were busy for preparing our daughter's entrance of the elementary school so far.
Oh, I remember that I bought a yearly passport for the aquarium!

Posted at Wed May 01 07:36:04 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/265590572947464262904568648799795938981 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/265590572947464262904568648799795938981 AXT Wed May 01 07:36:04 UTC 2013 I thought it was by spam or advertise purpose so I checked her friends.

All her friends are men and same name or same reading.
It's so funny that I almost accepted the request. ^^;

However although she is a woman, I don't know why her friends are all men except possibly it's spam or something.

Did you receive such a request?

Posted at Fri Apr 26 12:56:55 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/263013191767258800260601020007644459914 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/263013191767258800260601020007644459914 AXT Fri Apr 26 12:56:55 UTC 2013
I thought this button seemed appeared and disappeared randomly, but there is having a genuine meaning.

That is the following.

1. The button appears on corrections except your own entries. This is also mentioned lang8 help.
See http://blog-ja.lang-8.com/post/19726872936

2. The button disappeared at your own corrections.

3. The button disappeared at your own tongue is not same as the writer's language which he/she want to correct with.

I don't know what else another.
Do you know it has another pattern?

Posted at Fri Apr 26 06:27:16 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/116004511773716916425114898325952241252 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/116004511773716916425114898325952241252 AXT Fri Apr 26 06:27:16 UTC 2013 I took this occasion more effective, I decided to buy a yearly passport of aquarium called Sunshine Aquarium located Ikebukuro.
In spite of calling 'yearly passport', it was only almost twice fee of usual entrance one.
I'll go there with children.


Posted at Tue Apr 23 01:42:37 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/26108057555663056932087433593920637461 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/26108057555663056932087433593920637461 AXT Tue Apr 23 01:42:37 UTC 2013 From now on, I try to dictate the DVD and write down english script.
This famous sitcom is useful for english learner because it consist of a lot of conversations.

Moreover american amazon's DVD is much cheaper than Japan's one.
So I tried it being continued.


Posted at Tue Apr 09 19:30:38 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/326128428930446236212791182991167561316 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/326128428930446236212791182991167561316 AXT Tue Apr 09 19:30:38 UTC 2013 I mainly took care of our younger two-year-old son instead he try to do something wrong.
In spite of image of entrance ceremony season, all cherry blossom has already fallen.
Our region has a lot of children in spite of facing decreasing children in Japan, so there are 6 classes in the first grade.
She went to a kindergarten far from the elementary school, so we aren't familiar with other students well, we knew my apartment members only. She was 3rd class and she didn't know whole of the members. Her most familiar friends and she were separated.

The ceremony was little bit boring so my young boy was fretful, So I had to go out till he was calm. After ceremony, she took her text book in her classroom while my son and I played on ground. Before we come back home, we took photos of ourselves in front of the ceremony board.
Anyway from today, she have to wake up at 6:30 earlier than kinder age but she is very cheerful.
She seems very looking forward to going to school.

Posted at Tue Apr 09 06:37:34 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/327550500606799253788080897856892680617 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/327550500606799253788080897856892680617 AXT Tue Apr 09 06:37:34 UTC 2013
My daughter's kindergarten attended a music festival program at Disney sea in Chiba on March 8th.
They played some marching music include "It's a small world" which they have practiced for whole their kinder ages.
After that, we enjoyed at Disney sea until 8 o'clock in the evening. It's fun for us.

Posted at Tue Mar 12 00:23:48 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/36667205957875001799933740161922053234 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/36667205957875001799933740161922053234 AXT Tue Mar 12 00:23:48 UTC 2013 It is a report of why the Patent Office failed their project wasting 5.5 billion yen.

According to the report, the Patent Office aimed brand new system replacing of their complex business in order to reduce the term of their patent approving but they failed the project in spite of using a lot of money.

The main reason of the project was failed is by the Patent Office as orderer themselves.

First they made a main person transferred in the middle of project. Second they offered different order of the previous specification. Third in spite of returning the main key person, he was arrested by official corruption after he changed the way of the project.

It remind me it's too Japanese way in the information technology industry.

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20121204/441882/


Posted at Tue Feb 05 02:55:45 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/182442310899965124990402557217081648715 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/182442310899965124990402557217081648715 AXT Tue Feb 05 02:55:45 UTC 2013 As I wanted to know how many people watch it nowadays, I checked how viewing rate is and then it's very high viewing rate still like 19%. However the family style was changed from 1969 so the typical family like Sazae-san may be reduced and may even be a fantasy.
Because the family of Sazae-san looks like Showa period.
Anyway we had nice weekend in spite of being cold days lasting.

Posted at Mon Jan 28 03:57:47 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/298620470150734971031312911111532308043 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/298620470150734971031312911111532308043 AXT Mon Jan 28 03:57:47 UTC 2013
The before day of Yesterday, Contrary to Yesterday, It was fine day so I went to the park with my daughter and son. She gradually went well riding a unicycle. My son was playing by tricycle. I was tired because my wife hasn't come to the park, I had to take care of them alone. Because she went to practice the piano due to show their performances to our kindergarten teachers at soon being coming thanksgiving event of my daughters' graduating kindergarten.

Yesterday, We were staying home all of the day because of heavy snowing.
Today it is sunny day but it is still lying snow on the ground.

Posted at Tue Jan 15 01:32:53 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/163791829196960984137718516659549103691 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/163791829196960984137718516659549103691 AXT Tue Jan 15 01:32:53 UTC 2013
http://lang-8.com/221963/journals/313864130081372748351531118956028094027/%25E3%2582%25B9%25E3%2583%259A%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2582%25B9%25E3%2582%25B4%25E3%2583%259F

上記の方からの引用です。

There is about 20,000 pieces of man made debris orbiting earth that is being tracked by NASA.
NASAによって残された人工のデブリが衛星軌道上に20000個ある。
Debris that can be tracked is larger than 5cm.
残されたデブリは5cmよりおおきい。
There are about 300,000 less than 1 centimeter objects that can not be tracked.
1センチ以下の30万個の物体は軌道上には残らない。

①上記の日本語訳はあってますか？
②ここの「being tracked」は足跡を残す≒軌道上に残るという意味であってますか？

以上よろしくお願いします！

Posted at Fri Jan 11 08:25:43 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/167313220903537362326314674005343462987 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/167313220903537362326314674005343462987 AXT Fri Jan 11 08:25:43 UTC 2013 (It's originally from Xbox360 game.)
I recently watched the anime and it's very fun to me.

The taste of the anime consists of Otaku culture like 2ch(internet slung) and 'John Titor' who was a real man appeared in the internet around 2000 and he said he was a time traveler.

The main character is 厨二病(syndrome of being behavior of like second-year of junior high school student[the word of 2ch]) so even his name is Rintarou Okabe but he often says himself as 'Kyoma Hououin' and he talked to 'someone' with his cellphone in spite of offline when he felt even bit shocked something.
Only 3 member of 'the future gadget research Lab' made the time machine which could send a 36 word to the past by chance.

My favorites of this anime is not only the detail of the story but also the characteristic of the characters.

I wrote till this, I noticed It's too difficult to convert 2ch words to English..

For this reason, if I realize some 2ch words more, then to be perhaps continued..
Anyway, thank you for reading to the end!

Posted at Wed Jan 09 21:53:19 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/333459716606734996984491484122892280141 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/333459716606734996984491484122892280141 AXT Wed Jan 09 21:53:19 UTC 2013 Today, finally I could get enough time, I decide to repair it by myself.

In order to confirm how much the HDD destroyed, I connected it to another PC after it get rid of the NAS. Unfortunately, the Windows PC couldn't recognize the HDD. However I thought that a linux might recognize it because almost cheap NAS was made of linux. And it was true.
In spite of be able to see inside of the HDD, the file name was corrupted text.
It caused the filesystem encoding of broken HDD was SHIFT-JIS but the rescue Linux used UTF8.
So converting the encoding was necessary. It annoyed me much, but now I found a tool called 'convmv' written by Perl. It easy to use than another convert tool like nkf, iconv even then the large amount of files had to convert. Now the convert still last.

Anyway today entry is enthusiast, thank you for reading to the last.

Posted at Tue Jan 08 12:59:00 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/58244757368215621481794737654887304403 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/58244757368215621481794737654887304403 AXT Tue Jan 08 12:59:00 UTC 2013 We had the cake next morning. It was nothing special without it.
Oh, I catch a cold a bit, so my voice was strange but my colleague said my voice was much dandy than usual. Good grief.

I'm getting sore throat.

Posted at Thu Dec 13 08:57:43 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/53247172744706339571003091568215173550 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/53247172744706339571003091568215173550 AXT Thu Dec 13 08:57:43 UTC 2012 Then I noticed that online English school tend to fun of the 'callan method'.
The way is a native speaker ask question to the student and he/she reply answer as soon as he/she can by full of the sentence like 'yes,it is'.
I don't know how it's effective but I decided to join some kind of English school and try it because my English conversation level is almost beginner and some author said that it's more effective for beginner than intermediate or upper.
In addition, I found that it's important for writing a journal and reading news continuously.
I bought the Kindle for reading news everyday but I didn't write a journal recently.

I said to myself twice, why do I use more lang-8!


Posted at Fri Dec 07 02:44:28 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/6793068626143421888863442488016218542 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/6793068626143421888863442488016218542 AXT Fri Dec 07 02:44:28 UTC 2012 According to the shop, the effective rate is cutting 50% from blue light.
Moreover the glasses are very cheap before I thought.

I always watch pc monitors because I'm an IT engineer so I decided to buy ones.
In deed last weekend I went and bought ones at AEON MALL Hinode.

I didn't wear glasses until now so I'm felt strange around nose.
However my eyesight was comfortable than before. Apparently my eyestrain wasn't coming.

Mm, Isn't this stealth marketing?

Posted at Tue Nov 27 00:35:25 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1797897 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1797897 AXT Tue Nov 27 00:35:25 UTC 2012
I will write the below sentences. Would you tell me if they are correct in the meanings and for grammatical rules?

1. For what do we learn English?
(私たちは)何のために英語を勉強する必要があるのか

2. I'm not sure for what I'm learning English.
(私は)何のために英語を勉強しているかわからない

(Especially I want to know these 'for what' are correct.)

Thank you for your help in advance.

Posted at Fri Nov 16 21:53:31 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1783667 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1783667 AXT Fri Nov 16 21:53:31 UTC 2012 That was great news but I had already bought Amazon 'Kindle Touch' on Amazon.com in USA and it had already shipped to a forwarder in Portland. (In fact, It's my own first time importing from foreign country.)
Next my action is pay to the forwarder to send my kindle, but now the forwarder status is in transit.

What a great timing..

Additional information about Kindle is very complicated.

My kindle may USA domestic version.
Kindle previous paperwhite can't get ebooks in Amazon Japan. It meant my kindle couldn't read Japanese ebooks.
I don't know why but some blogger said it caused bios or programable reasons.
If you buy ebooks by US account of Amazon in Japan's Amazon, you should be consolidated between US and JP account.
I don't know what it means.

Anyway I noticed it's OK if I continue to read only English Books.

Posted at Sat Oct 27 02:15:52 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1749793 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1749793 AXT Sat Oct 27 02:15:52 UTC 2012
I'll try to summarize the post.

--
The contributor lived in countryside of Hokkaido and is temporarily living in osaka to study at an University now.
His story was about his father's job and the opportunity of job around countryside.
While he returned to his parents home in Hokkaido, he had seen his father lost his job and is recruiting but never be determined.

Most of countryside suffers draining people to urban around ten or twenty years so called 'Lost (Two) Decade'

His father suffered from depression so he wasted a time to play game made by gree, which is a major mobile game company in Japan. And more he was not good health.

Base on that, he asked the below question to viewer of his blog.

1. Is there some job for a person who don't have improving oneself and a good health and getting communication?
2. Can anyone bring such works to like countryside where it takes four hours to a million city?
3. Not limited that, Can works be poured from urban to countryside?

He received a lot of negative feedback.
Example: Same problem occurred around all over countryside in Japan. So it's not your father's problem but Japanese system problem. First he had to apply a public assistant. etc...

Original:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sanokazuya0306/20120922/1348323875

Posted at Tue Sep 25 07:43:46 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1695251 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1695251 AXT Tue Sep 25 07:43:46 UTC 2012 We are all married and severals have children so the meeting held at day time.

The day before, my wife, her fifth toe were injured by her careless.
As She would have to go to the hospital on Saturday, I would need to take part in with my children without their mom.

I went to drive a car for around two hour and arrived at his house in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture.
His house is largest for all colleagues so it held always by him.

Moreover his family is great kind and good profuse.
Anyway we talked a lot of old story and have a meal in his house.
After that, we played frisbee and played wii.

Today was great fun day but little bit tired.

Posted at Sat Sep 22 14:59:57 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1690717 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1690717 AXT Sat Sep 22 14:59:57 UTC 2012 I try to introduce the article.

Do you know Japanese manner about riding on an escalator?
In Kanto area including Tokyo, all of people ride on an escalator on left side when they aren't hurry up because we think the right side is for busy person like a business person.
In Kansai area, the side is opposite for Kanto.
Anyway it's same to be vacant one side for people.

However recently elevator companies have noticed us riding one side is out of design so it's dangerous and cause serious trouble.
Moreover handy cap passengers may be very difficult to fit this situation because they aren't able to use their right/left hand.

I don't know why the custom, what the article said it's not manner only custom, were spread.
However the article critically said Japanese think they do what they do.

How about your nation or region?

http://himadesu.seesaa.net/article/292902070.html

Posted at Tue Sep 18 06:37:18 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1683300 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1683300 AXT Tue Sep 18 06:37:18 UTC 2012 Please correct the below sentences.

--
This is one suggestion about your e-mail.
If you send a same e-mail to some people and they don't know each other, why don't you use BCC on your e-mail. If not, they will have known each other's e-mail addresses.
BCC means the blind carbon copy.
You can change CC to BCC by your e-mail soft.
It's impossible to return to the before, I don't mind of your e-mail.
However I hope you would take care about that in the future.
It's not my anger, only notice you about that.
(I'm male so I'm not taking care of it, however it might be delicate matter for female. )


Posted at Mon Aug 20 15:04:36 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1636047 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1636047 AXT Mon Aug 20 15:04:36 UTC 2012
It was a story from her calling during their summer vacation.

It was unknown calling to my wife.
She took the call. Someone said that he asked her to reveal her name.
She was very anxious so she never replied her name.
After that he told her what he is.
Unbelievably, he was a police officer and told her that there was calling from her number without saying and soon disconnected.
So he called back to the phone. What it called number was 110, which meant emergency call to police.
However she never called such number. so she finally realized it was her daughter's mischief and greatly apologized for him.
 
She got angry with her.

And She suggested to me to do child locking to the phone.
Of cource, I immediately made my phone setting blocked from children.

Have you ever been to get such experience?

Posted at Wed Aug 08 13:57:39 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1617500 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1617500 AXT Wed Aug 08 13:57:39 UTC 2012 I thought it was past tense of 'ありがとうございます.'
(In Japanese they aren't really distinct.)

However if so, I should say 'Thanked you.' when the thankful matter occurred at past.

I think it's wrong.

How about you?

Posted at Thu Aug 02 02:23:26 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1607600 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1607600 AXT Thu Aug 02 02:23:26 UTC 2012
I had a trouble on my computer program. It related about batch file variables setting.
I googled for a long time then found the resolution.

Finally I said "I solved the problem", but my (Japanese) friend told me it more better using 'resolve' or 'fix'.

Does anyone notice me the most fit word in this sentence and he is correct or not.

Thank you in advance.

Posted at Wed Jul 18 13:09:51 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1585268 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1585268 AXT Wed Jul 18 13:09:51 UTC 2012
I bought a macbook pro and reached it yesterday.
However the display showed yellow lines like upper photo(the photo is my macbook's).
It wasn't good situation, it isn't always same, occasionally it's correct. I think this problem happened at booting after mac sleeping long. if I use it long, the situation wasn't occurred.

I called mac support, then he told me NVRAM cleared as suggestion. The way was pressing keeping Command-key and Option-key and P and R button at the same time after booting beep calling. if it's successful, rebooting twice.

I do that.
What's happened from now?

Posted at Sun Jul 15 09:52:24 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1580379 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1580379 AXT Sun Jul 15 09:52:24 UTC 2012

My old company ended yesterday and has just merged an another company today. The company name has changed from the before so today is birthday and death-day of our company.
This was the last event of my previous company.(I'm not sure that this 'previous' is correct because my company is present by different name.)
We went to Sagami Lake Pleasure Forest and barbecued.
This event concluded the farewell party about the company and one colleague who leaves our company at same time of that our previous company has ended.
We presented him t-shirt printed joke 'これはそれ' means 'This is it'.
He seemed to be very happy. My daughter also seemed to be happy because she played much with my colleague's daughters. Of course I played with them, especially water gun playing was very fun but very tired.
Although it's Sunday today, I'm in new office(it's wordplay only, it's just ordinal room.)

Posted at Sun Jul 01 08:51:13 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1557976 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1557976 AXT Sun Jul 01 08:51:13 UTC 2012 He was 17 years old. He would be over 80 in human years.

He came to their home(which is not present my home.) 16 years ago. He was a miniature dax.

I recall several happy times example he wore (We made him wear) Japan National Team shirt on 2002 FIFA World cup. It was a dog version.

After I got a job in Tokyo, I left their home.
However whenever I got back home, he welcomed me wagging his tail.

In the 17 years, I got married and children were born.
I'm very worried about my mother being lost him.

Posted at Tue Jun 19 06:11:36 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1538041 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1538041 AXT Tue Jun 19 06:11:36 UTC 2012 So we can't watch the event.
If not watching that, the next seems to come 100 years later.

Posted at Wed Jun 06 00:45:42 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1515006 http://lang-8.com/axt/journals/1515006 AXT Wed Jun 06 00:45:42 UTC 2012