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What to do when you can’t tweet

Twitter shows me 500 Internal Server Error…

Twitter 500 Error

Kendo blog widget attacks negative words

Kendo widget

Japanese Kendo magazine publisher recently released a blog widget both in Japanese and English, and it’s been getting popular among Japanese blogosphere.

A Flash based widget displays a virtual kendo worrier who attacks negative keywords contained within blog entries.

Working sample is available here.

To get the widget, click here.

XING.com is down

I was organizing group messages on XING Japan group, which I moderate.

But then all in sudden, I lost access to the site (500 internal server error). It seems their server has been down for a few hours now.

I wonder when it’ll be back.

I might need to think about alternative method of communication for XING Japan members.

Starting get a driving license

I’ve started to study for getting myself a driver’s license today.

I once had a plan last year, but my health condition wasn’t good enough to attend lessons. And finally after a year I’ve taken a first small step forward.

If you are unfamilier with Japan’s driver’s license system, please follow the links below explaning in English.

http://www.hellonavi.com/folderb/infoe/driving/01_c.php

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2022.html

mixi goes China (Shanghai)

mixi

mixi, Japan’s No.1 social networking service lately announced of a Shanghai office, and plans to enter Chinese social networking market.

I don’t know how many Chinese users are there in mixi at this point, but I wonder what services/features are provided and what cannot be. Read More »