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  words of the week 2月24日

The week in words, some sample sentences from this week

物理   ぶつり physics

ゲームの開発を興味があった、でも物理に弱いからでけないかもしれない。

I was interested in doing some game development, but becuase Im no good at Physics I probably wouldnt be able to.

延滞  えんたい delay, procrastination

現在に1時間延滞がありますので、すぐに進捗の確認が出来ません。

At the moment as there is a one hour delay, I cannot confirm progress straight away.

説  おくせつ hypothesis, speculation, surmise

憶説を考えたら、3日以上かからないと思う。

If I was to speculate, I dont think it would take more than 3 days.

機具  きぐ (tools and) equipment

そのような機具見たことないです。

I've never seen that kind of equipment before.

予備  よび reserve, spare

印刷したレポート1枚を予備したよかったね

It's lucky I had 1 spare copy of the report isnt it !

 
 
Posted by sasqwach at February 24, 2006 12:59 PM | Permalink
 
  words of the week 2月17日

I'm going to start putting up the "most used" words of the week;

i.e. the words I've had to lookup more than once and can't remember clearly for study purposes and future reference.

The format is KANJI - READING - ENGLISH - SAMPLE SENTENCE (Japanese then English)

They may not be 100% correct, but helps get your point across.

配列  はいれつ arrangement, array (programming) この配列の3番目の変数を表示したい、でも表示すると数値の内容が化けちゃいます。

I want to display the third variable of this Array, but when I display it the variable's contents are distorted.
間欠  かんけつ intermittence, intermittent バグを再現をしようとしと思うってなか出来ない見たい、具体的に問題は何かが分からないですが間欠そうです。

I thought I would try to reproduce that bug, but I cant seem to.I don't know definitely what the problem is, seems to be intermittent.
不活化  ふかつか inactivity 今サーバーはメール送るはずですが不活化,困る!。

The server should be sending mail just now, but it's inactive, that's troubling.
判明  はんめい establishing, proving, identifying, confirming 先言ったの間欠なバグについて、問題の元を判明した。メモリーが足りないのせいみたい。

About the bug you just mentioned,I've identified the problem, looks like not enough memory is the fault.
良性  りょうせい benign 彼が癌があると思ってたでも医者さんが良性と言った。

He thought he had cancer,but the doctor said its benign
 
 
Posted by sasqwach at February 17, 2006 5:44 PM | Permalink
 
  personalised google on the move

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Personalized Google which is quite snazzy but missing so many simple features has went mobile this week. They promise many of the features of the PC site but cut down for mobile browsing...I tried it on my ketai here in Japan...did it work ?

Did it fuck.

=(

 
 
Posted by sasqwach at February 16, 2006 5:35 PM | Permalink
 
  nightclub graveyard

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I Passed a graveyard 墓所 (はかしょ - hakajyo) ) on the way from work the other night. The whole public facing aspect of the place spelt "nightclub" even though it obviously wasn't.

As our area is under heavy "business location re-development" with lots of classy cafes, eateries and discothèques, I almost mistook it for a nightclub.

When I die I want to be rested in a neon light club styled tomb like these peeps.

 
 
Posted by sasqwach at February 12, 2006 3:47 PM | Permalink
 
  日本にようこそう - Welcome to Japan



February marks Japans endeavors to embrace the rest of the world, even if it is only for a few weeks. Island nations are oft fertile breeding grounds for incoming colonists, UK being the prime example (and umm Isle of Man).

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Posted by sasqwach at February 10, 2006 3:48 PM | Permalink
 
  location free tv

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I've been reading a lot recently about Sony's plans for "location free TV". Basically the jist is you will have your lightweight portable 12inch screen and be able to receive wireless high stream broadband media content delivered to the device all across the country you abide in, that means being able to watch episodes of Gundam while visiting your Auntie in Hokkaido or the simple joy of a quick bit of wireless news while in the toilet.

On portable media, recently Nokia have announced their contender into the world of "portable media devices", an all in one games playing, PDF displaying, movie viewing, music playing single unit. It's interesting to see a new emerging market from the popularity of the PSP's extra features - How many people do you know who say "I didn't get the PSP for games..." and go on to explain its the portable media aspect that hooks them.

About time too, we were promised devices like these 16 years ago in Mondo2000 and isn't it about time we have competitors to Apple's culture of bland consumerism ?
 
 
Posted by sasqwach at February 1, 2006 5:34 PM | Permalink
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