Ray Bradbury passed away at the age of 91.
The most famous his works are probably ‘Fahrenheit 451 (華氏451度)’ and ‘The Martian Chronicles (火星年代記)’, I think. But my favorites were the short stories ‘R Is for Rocket (ウは宇宙船のウ)’, ‘The October Country (10月はたそがれの国)’ and ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes (何かが道をやってくる), when I was young. I heard of his death, which will make me read his works again.
I’m very confused these days. What? It’s about spam comments on /. This is a spam or not, that is the question. ;P
Yesterday, I had a comment, and it was difficult to determine whether the comment was a spam or not. Though I installed Akismet, it reported it was not a spam and I also felt it wasn’t a spam from its contents. But when I examined it, it seemed a spam.
Very confused.
I determined to install a CAPTCHA Code feature for my comment form on /. I chose the plugin ‘SI Captcha Options’. Does it make a difference?
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I had a weird invoice today. I have a lot of spam emails everyday. But this kind of invoice spam I receive is the first time since March in last year. Their letter has nothing new. They charge the same old price.
I have my contract with my company in Japanese. So, if others want to hook me, they should have used Japanese and JST at least. 🙁 |
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A year has passed since the day. Last week, I watched the TV programs “Rebuilding Japan“.
They are positive thinking reports by Japanese. I know a lot of miserably situations still in the disaster area. But positive thinking is very useful. It is not to ignore the real disaster. It is not to neglect one’s post traumatic stress. Positive thinking rather makes us face the reality.
My town had no disasters from the quake. But, I cannot help but concern I will have some disaster from some quakes some day as long as I live in Japan.
When such a megaquake occurs, which brings some big afterquakes within a few years. The quake is no exception.
Note(4/29):
Today, I’ve found the site below. This might help your understanding.
Japan beyond 3.11 Stories of Recovery
Last week, it was very cold in Japan. My town, which is on the Kyūshū(九州) island, was no exception. On Thursday temperatures were 2 ℃(36℉), and On Friday 0 ℃(32℉). What time? Around 8a.m. Where? My living room(茶の間). (^^)
I rebuilt my house about 20 years ago. It is, if anything, a traditional Japanese-style. My old house was built in the early 1880’s. It was a traditional Japanese-style house for me. But for people in the early 1880’s it might be a modern house because it was a two-story one. When it was built, the first two-story house in my town, I hear.
When I decided to build a new house, the old one was almost 100 years old. Actually, the decent traditional Japanese-style house stands more longer time. But my town was old coal mine lands. It has a lot of tunnels under the ground. So the ground isn’t firm, which makes a house lean. Rain has harmful effects for the house because a traditional one is made of wood, paper, and soil. Result of that, its life goes shorter.
Until an air-conditioner invented, how to build a house in Japan makes it a principle to how to live out Japanese summer. (^^;) About it, Yoshida Kenkō(吉田兼好) wrote in Tsurezuregusa(徒然草), section 55(第55段).
Even now, almost everywhere in Japan except for Hokkaidō(北海道), a house is not sealed in a high level. Most of them don’t have a central heating system. So does mine.
The heating system of my living room(茶の間) is an oil heater and a electric kotatsu(電気ごたつ). Main is kotatsu and sub is oil heater. When I relax in the living room, I use these devices and wear a wataire(綿入れ). In many cases 綿入れ might be called as 綿入れはんてん.
Now i.e. 10p.m., temperatures are 18 ℃(64℉) in my 茶の間. I feel a little bit too warm. So, I turned off the oil heater. (^^)
Happy New Year! It is the beginning of a new year.
This is the year of the Tatsu, according to the Oriental Zodiac.
Though ‘tatsu’ is called ‘dragon’ in English, I think they are more different than might first be surmised. Both of them have their own history, so I’m not surprised it. In the Oriental Zodiac we write it by 辰, and we also use 龍 and 竜 as a mythical animal. In Japanese the year of the dragon is called ‘Tatsu doshi(たつどし)’. You can see ‘Ryu’ on a right-side painting by Hokusai(北斎), ‘ryu’ and ‘tatsu’ mean the same mythical animal.
Last year, we had a lot of natural and artificial disasters in and out of Japan. I pray this year will be a happier year.
Gods bless you, guys!
Last night (actually it was after midnight, so I should say ‘tonight’, though) my server on XREA+ was down.
According to XREA+ admin report, it was from 00:10a.m. to 01:60a.m. — What is ’01:60′? A written mistake of ’01:06′ by human or an error of ’02:00′ by a program. Which? — It has been the first time since I started to use the server, but I found there was a previous failure report on July 07.
Though its cause is not written, its resolution took about an hour, so it is probably O.K., I think. I wonder this frequency is no problem?
It’s time to bring back my site to on my home server, but very busy my offline life now, so I still can’t get into. (´д｀ι)
Last night, I couldn’t. So, I do “Otsukimi” tonight. We call the moon after “full moon(十五夜)” by “Izayoi(十六夜)”.
Chinese characters(十六夜) mean sixteenth night. And 十六夜 as a word is “the sixteenth night of a lunar month”.
But “Izayoi” has another mean. “Izayoi” originated from a verb “izayou”. “Izayou” means “hesitate”. The moon after full moon rises a little bit later than the full moon, as if after some hesitation.
I took a picture of 十六夜の月. Like this.
Today, it’s 15th of August by our old calendar(旧暦). By tradition, we do ‘Otsukimi(お月見)’ at the night every year.
When we do ‘Otsukimi’, we decorate Japanese pampas grass(すすき), moon-offerings of sake and dango, and we view and admire the full moon and enjoy an autumn evening.
Recently, this custom is fading out. I don’t make decorations anymore, but I still remember the full moon of this night.
A little minutes ago, though I stood in my garden and looked up the sky, I could not find the moon because of thick cloud. Last year, at the night I had a cloudy day, too. But at that time, I could see the full moon and take its picture like the right.
php-5.3.6-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
————> php-5.3.7-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
1. Unzip php-5.3.7-Win32-VC9-x86.zip.
2. Copy “curl.exe” and “php.ini” to the unzipped directory.
3. Delete “php.ini-development” and “php.ini-production” from the unzipped directory.
4. Replaced all files in the directory “PHP” with the unzipped directory ones.
5. Run phpinfo().
Note) php-5.3.7-Win32-VC9-x86.zip doesn’t include “PEAR” anymore. It still include “extras” but it is empty.
ActivePerl-5.12.3.1204-MSWin32-x86-294330.msi
————> ActivePerl-5.12.4.1205-MSWin32-x86-294981.msi
1. Uninstall ActivePerl 5 12 3 Build 1204.
2. Install ActivePerl-5.12.4.1205-MSWin32-x86-294981.msi.
3. Run printenv.pl.
ImageMagick-6.7.0-7-Q16-windows-dll.exe
————> ImageMagick-6.7.1-9-Q16-windows-dll.exe
1. Uninstall ImageMagick-6.7.0-7-Q16-windows-dll.exe.
2. Install ImageMagick-6.7.1-9-Q16-windows-dll.exe.
3. Reboot Windows.
Edit) Oops!! I have a “5.3.7 upgrade warning” from www.php.net.
So, I make a rollback about PHP.