Minimalism - Online Income - ESL - Japan
I’m supposed to be too old for this kind of thing, but November 27th is when Sony launch a new PlayStation 3 bundle, complete with Winning Eleven 2009 and two controllers. Winning Eleven is my greatest vice, and the only thing standing between me and a thousand hours lost to a new PlayStation is my wife. Will Mami give up her TV time to let me play games? Can I […]
I’ve been continuing to develop modules for the Social Web Content Management System, and have listed the ones I’ve made so far on a new page: My SWCMS Modules. My latest creations are a sin bin for temporarily disabling users, a way to block repeat submissions of deleted stories, a module that builds an RSS feed for comments, and I’ve improved the original private messaging module with bulk message deletion, […]
The most successful freelance writer I’ve ever known, Michael Kwan, has asked me to tell the world about myself in the latest self-introduction meme. Let’s get straight into it… 5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago: Learning Japanese Living in a one-room apartment in Nagoya, Japan Eating instant noodles and paying off debts Teaching English Hanging out with a guy called Bamboo 5 Things on My To-Do List Today: […]
Don’t wake the baby! If you like, you can find me on Twitter at @nick_ramsay. I’d love to hear from you!
In response to my post about Japanese convenience stores only selling four different chocolate bars (Snickers, Aero, KitKat and Time Out), my mum surprised me by sending one of the best gifts I could have wished for from England… I particularly like the chocolate fingers! Thanks mum! P.S. I think I was supposed to share them with Rikuto, but come on, he’s just a baby! For now, I’ll put the […]
Two great, free resources I want to recommend this week are Remember the Milk, an online things-to-do list which you can share with other people, …and SimplePie, a brilliant RSS and Atom feed parser written in PHP. I used this to write the RSS Basic module for SWCMS and also to pull in and parse the Japan Blog Big RSS Feed on JapanSoc. If you like, you can find me […]
Here’s a five-minute video of Rikuto at 15 months of age. He’s slowly taking his first steps, but he’s having more fun playing on the grass and slides at Oasis Park, which I’ll talk about more in a future post. If you can’t watch the video, you can find it here on YouTube. P.S. I’m a bit disappointed with the quality of this video, but I don’t really know what […]
When I was at university, I played on the Korfball team. It didn’t quite have the wow factor of football, basketball or rugby, but I was proud to be a starting member for the Essex first team, even though we were awful! Nick, what in the world is korfball? Korfball is the world’s only true mixed gender team sport with the rules laid down so that both men and women […]