Some versions of Microsoft Word come with a very annoying “bug” that causes the following error message to show up almost every time you try to save a document. “The document was saved, but data for speech recognition was lost because there was not enough space to store it. Be...
Continue reading...November 2007
Views of Nepal
Two of my colleagues are from Nepal, so I am learning a lot about their country these days. One of my colleagues introduced me to a Nepali blogger named Rajesh KC, who also happens to be a famous Nepali cartoonist. In his latest blog post, Rajesh captured views of Kathmandu...
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I feel like I owe it to my readers to post something beautiful after forcing you to look at such an ugly site. Here is a nice autumn scene to help you erase that abomination from your visual cortex. Autumn leaves in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Continue reading...My Eyes, My Eyes!
The people who designed this site… …are going to protect us if anything happens to Japan. (Please click on the image so you can go to the site and get the full effect. I can’t really describe all that flashing and animation in words. I am actually tempted to take...
Continue reading...Test Your Website in Various Browsers
One of the problems with designing websites is that there so many internet browsers available, it is really hard to make sure that your site looks the same in all of them. Generally, if your site is well-designed, it should at least “work” in most of them, but even that...
Continue reading...Welcome to "Shaney Says…"
Hello and welcome to my latest website. If you have just happened upon this page, you may wonder why I am issuing a welcome statement when there are clearly a large number of articles that precede this one. In fact, this site was created to store a number of things...
Continue reading...Dictionaries
Here are some dictionaries that you may find useful. Bilingual (Japanese-English) Dictionaries ALC Bilingual Dictionary: This dictionary is good for looking up idiomatic expressions and checking usage. Excite Japanese/English/Chinese Dictionary Goo Dictionaries: These are good for checking the basic meaning of words and learning the readings of compounds. Infoseek MultiDictionary:...
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