I'm trying to learn some more command line stuff lately, mostly because I think it makes me look badass -- in much the same way as smok....
24 Jun 11:31 pm  from  1rick   [Profile]  [Recent] 

A friend of mine created a site that teachers can use in the classroom, it’s basically web-based quizzes and surveys for students. Looks l....
31 May 2:34 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

Introduction In an ideal setting, learners would make their own flashcards as it’s a learning process itself. What most people come to f....
16 Mar 10:36 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

An amazing thing happened when I watched Chef Isao Yamada simmer ingredients in the Japanese way, a technique called nimono. When the simmer....
28 Feb 2:14 am  from  Japanese Food Report   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Kodansha’s Effective Japanese Usage Dictionary truly lives up to its title, and I really recommend it to pre-intermediate through pre-adv....
23 Feb 12:46 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

It's always fun to see how other people use new tools to get their work done. Inspired by usethis.com's series of interviews, Taka....
1 Feb 5:54 pm  from  1rick   [Profile]  [Recent] 

There are a handful of online dictionaries out there to help Japanese learners along in their studies. That may not sound like a lot (the i....
15 Jan 12:19 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

In this look back at Smart.fm, I’ll cover the following topics: A review of the system How to attack it The system as a personal review ....
12 Jan 9:30 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

Rikaichan is an amazingly efficient tool for looking up Japanese words simply by placing the mouse over them on any given website in Firefox....
9 Jan 10:34 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

There is no definitive “correct” way to study language, but some language learners prefer more structure than others. Here’s one prog....
7 Jan 7:41 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

ReadTheKanji.com has been around for quite a while in a beta form, but with (fairly) recent announcements on the site going subscriptions-b....
5 Jan 8:06 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

NihongoUp has been around for nearly 9 months now, so I felt it was time to give it a review. When the game was first announced on JapanSoc....
3 Jan 3:22 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

A friend got me thinking about bilingual puns recently, and I’ve come to recognize them as a good mnemonic device. In Japanese, these joke....
23 Dec 2:03 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

My brother Mike is living in Vancouver, and besides being a pretty awesome graphic designer (he worked on Megedeth’s site!) he has als....
29 Oct 9:44 pm  from  1rick   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The worst thing about all the documentation over on Drupal.org is that it’s just not very accessible to non-developers. But first I wa....
11 Oct 11:43 pm  from  1rick   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I don’t do stuff like this very often, but last night I had a chance to spill my guts to about 30 or 40 people on a topic that I’....
29 Sep 7:02 pm  from  1rick   [Profile]  [Recent] 

A few days back Om Malik published a blog post called ‘The Evolution of Blogging,’ which (among other things) asserted that: Blo....
17 Aug 5:06 pm  from  1rick   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Over the past few days we’ve seen some pretty startling events go down in Urumqi. The riots there have left 156 people dead (both Han ....
7 Jul 8:05 am  from  1rick   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I’ve never really thought that OSX’s dictionary app was very useful. I mean, I’m not going to open up that application whe....
2 Jul 2:12 pm  from  1rick   [Profile]  [Recent]