Spaceman-Spiff July 18th, 2008
A great add-on for Japanese learners. It adds furigana to kanji characters in webpages with a click of a button. There’s also a preference to set your level of kanji and to ignore furigana for certain kanji characters (that you have memorized).
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Mozilla.org has the older version of the add-on. The project page has the latest version that works for FF 3.
Spaceman-Spiff March 19th, 2008
I had Foxkeh Theme installed on my Firefox since months ago. I never used it till today. The menubar is too much for me, but the running Foxkeh animation is really cute.
More on Foxkeh:
Spaceman-Spiff February 3rd, 2005
Gmail gave me 50 invitations to send out. So, if anyone is interested, let me know.
My Gmail status says: You are currently using 246 MB (25%) of your 1000 MB.
Spaceman-Spiff September 26th, 2003
My power supply went dead 2 days ago when doing an Aquamark3 benchmark. Stupid crappy power supply, it's not even 1 month old and it's already broken. 2 days without the computer was boring…
I finally managed to borrow a power supply from a friend. I'll have to get a new one on Monday, this thing should still have a warranty, it's not even a month old yet 
I'll prolly get a 400W one…
I saw Kill Bill trailer this afternoon. It looks pretty cool. I didn't like the teaser when I saw it a few months ago, but this trailer looks pretty interesting. Many Japanese highschool girls and katanas… and it's a Quentin Tarantino's movie!! One thing I find weird about Kill Bill is… why did they used Lucy Liu to play as a Japanese woman o_O?! Well I'm not 100% sure that her character in the movie is Japanese, but it's kinda seem that way in the trailer.
Speaking about Quentin Tarantino, I love From Dusk Till Dawn (one of his movies), well probably because I have no idea what the movie is about before I saw it, so the the stuff that happened after they get to Mexico was a shocking plot twist for me 
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EDIT: Forgot to mention that Kill Bill will be released in 2 vols, since the movie is too long. The first one will be out on November, and 2nd one on February 2004.
Spaceman-Spiff September 18th, 2003
I’ve just installed the Rikai Bar extension for Mozilla Firebird.
The moji project aims to help foreign japanese language learners to read web pages. The main goal is to add lecture guides to chinese characters (kanji), but may be extended later to other useful functions.
When browsing Japanese websites, you can click on the Rikai ja button in the toolbar, and the translations of the kanji/kana words will be shown if when you hover your mouse over the words.
It is a very new project, not even in alpha stage, but it looks really promising. The current version doesn’t translate every kanji words/phrases yet though, only about 50%. This will be very useful when you’re learning Japanese, but still having troubles with kanji characters.
Spaceman-Spiff August 8th, 2003
Some random tech news:
An Interesting Global msg on mirc-x today: -Global- We would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to make sure your computer is fully patched and behind a firewall. Nearly all versions of Windows are currently exploitable due to a recent bug, and the only way to protect yourself currently is to use a firewall. Please see www.zonealarm.com or www.tinysoftware.com for some software based firewall solutions. Thank you.
ZA is my fav firewall (maybe because i’ve never tried other firewall programs ) and and i’ve had no complains using it. If you wanna test your pc, go here and click on ‘common ports’ or ‘all service port’.
Cool stuff: Wakthrough fog screen.
A long article on PHP5, could be interesting, I haven’t start reading it yet…
The new version of Mozilla Calendar finally works fine in my computer. They’ve fixed the GUI bug in the previous version. Its good to be able to schedule stuff and have a reminder, specially when you’re in front of your computer a lot.
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Btw, livermouse posted that Kenshin will be released in Graphic Novel format, not in magazine. Hikago will be the one replacing SandLand in ShonenJump.
S.W.A.T. movie was released today. The newspaper says its good, maybe I’ll see it this weekend. Anyone seen it yet and wanna give comments? No spoilers pls…
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