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Today’s ramblings cover Japan’s desire for foreign workers, a Japanese alternative to Adsense, the latest on JapanSoc, and an unexpected present. Japanese businesses gearing up for foreign workers I’ve just been watching my wife’s favorite TV show – no, not Aura no Izumi! – actually, she turns on the telly every night to watch World Business Satellite News, possibly the only news show I can stomach watching. The first segment […]
Mike McKinlay is a name my longterm readers will know very well. For a full year, Mike was this blog’s top commentator and most avid reader. For a little while there, he lost his blogging mojo when Google robbed him of his PageRank, and thus the income he was earning from paid reviews dried up. His name is Michael McKinlay and he’s going to the moon! Now, my “Net Buddy […]
With the new year getting closer, I thought it was time to give LongCountdown.com a new look. Most people like to use the freely available themes you can get for the WordPress blogging platform. I, on the other hand, prefer to get my hands dirty and hack into the code. Before I explain the changes, here’s a picture of what this site used to look like: Wait! What’s that little baby doing there? Firstly, some […]
My last Ramsay Ramblings proved to be quite controversial when I touched on the topic of half-Japanese children. Today’s ramblings are far more tame. I am not your maid! This line is my wife’s favorite English expression, which she learned from my mum when we went to the UK on our honeymoon. Mami is very good to me, and even though I’m very lazy when it comes to helping around […]
There are a few things I’d like to ramble about this morning (2:30am!). The word “Half” – to allow it or not Mami and I were talking about what to tell Rikuto about the word, “half”. If you missed my post, Half-Japanese or Half-Blood?, this English word is used by Japanese people to describe someone who is only part Japanese. Foreigners despise this word because the English implications are not complete, impure, or even […]
In my previous post about sleeping, I said that I get about 8 hours sleep a night, usually from 3am to 11am. What I didn’t tell you was my secret for getting a good night’s sleep. A big nose doesn’t help you breathe more easily I blogged about my big nose before, and while it may make me look dashingly handsome to Japanese women, it definitely doesn’t help me breathe […]
We moved into our new house last December and never really went shopping for furniture. We had a few things which we brought from our old apartment, but unlike most newlyweds, we didn’t have the luxury of filling our new home with furniture, particularly not Traditional Office Furniture. If we could do it all again, and had some money set aside for it, we might have considered shopping at FurnitureFromHome.com. […]
If you saw the video of me ballroom dancing with our 3-month old baby, Rikuto, then you’ll know that once he’s able to stand I’ll be splashing out on these awesome parent and child dance shoes from Sala Shop. I originally came across the shoes picture on Molly McGinn’s I am Kindermusik blog. Molly has a lot of great finds from around the net including this wonderful video of shadow puppetry which […]