This is a request. No, it's a plea. Consider this the voice of all the Japanese who wish they had a nice Westerner to practice their English with, but can't. I've been talking to a lot of Japanese people about finding … [Read more...]
I bet a lot of you have thought "damn, my pictures just don't look Meiji enough." Thank goodness there's a solution for you. I have actually known about this website for a long time now, but for some reason never realized … [Read more...]
Why, it was just yesterday that I teamed up with Koichi to kick some Katakana butt on edufire. A rather special class, it was - none of your usual vocabulary fluff. We're talking real, useful katakana and it's guaranteed … [Read more...]
Mmm. Macs. I'm about the biggest fanboy you'll see, which probably means a totally biased review. This morning, on the way to work, I made the trek to my version of Mecca and walked past ground zero for Apple's Worldwide … [Read more...]
Philip Seyfi sent me an e-mail asking me to check out his Adobe Air application Nihongoup (for a long time I thought its name was some sort of weird misspelling, or a fish reference, which of course we approve of Ha! Logo … [Read more...]
I know a lot of you out there are interested in going to Japan to teach English. Luckily, they'll take anyone with a beating heart, dumb apes included. But is it really worth it? I've always been against a lot of these … [Read more...]