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Something wrong?

   In the morning, I had nothing wrong, when I did it. But I did it again around 1 p.m., I had a trouble. What did I do? I wanted to receive my mails from de.yahoo.com.

   After entering Yahoo!-ID and Passwort, I clicked [Anmelden] button. Sooner I got the warning page.

   So, I changed my Passwort.

   On Yahoo! DEUTSCHLAND, something wrong happened?? Does someone have any information?

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On July 1st, a new book of “The Twelve Kingdoms”.

   Hi guys, Shinchōsha gave us a big surprise gift today. They announced they would release a new collection of 4 short stories on July 1st. The book contains “Hisho no Tori (丕緒の鳥)”, “Rakushō no Goku (落照の獄)” and two new stories which are our long-awaited ones. The information about this, I already added the page. Please take a look!!

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Hatsumōde(初詣) five days late.

Update information      Edit(Jan.7)

   Today, I visited Takasumi jinja(高住神社) as the Hatsumōde(初詣) five days late. Around the shrine the snow stuck to the ground, and the temperature was -2℃ around 2p.m. I drew omikuji and bought the Tengu(天狗) version Hikosan garagara as a charm to ward off evil spirits for my house.

   I’ll show you some photos. Take a look!!

01-s 02-s 03-s
04-s 05-s  

Edit(Jan.7):
   I found this on the Takasumi jinja official blog. I drove the very same route yesterday, although less piling and more compacted.

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Mobile Theme.

MobileTheme   Today, I activated a feature of the Jetpack plugin, Mobile Theme. Now, you can read my blog more easier on a mobile device, like an iPhone. (^_~)
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Happy New Year!

   Happy New Year! It is the beginning of a new year.

   This is the year of Hebi, according to the Oriental Zodiac.

   We call ‘hebi’ ‘snake’ in English. I don’t like a real snake (-_-;). But, the snake on the right image is cute, right?

   I wish you guys a Happy New Year.

   Gods bless you, guys!

おめでとう!!
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Snow falling on my blog.

Update information      Edit(2013.Jan.4)

   As you know, WordPress has the plugin that “Falling snow on a blog from Dec. 1st to Jan. 4th”. It is recently included in Jetpack. But, I did not activate this feature because the beginning of December I didn’t feel cold enough to fall snow.

   These days, I feel cold enough and am approaching the new year, so, I turn on it today.
   Can you see it?

   Until snowing, it takes for a while, please patient.

Edit(2013.Jan.4):
   The snow stopped. I wrote “to Jan. 4th” unthinkingly, but the plugin said “until January 04”. So it seems Jan. 4th scarcely came when the snow stopped. Still now to get these subtle meaning is very difficult for me (^^;).

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A clean install of Windows8.

Update information      Edit(Dec.26)   Edit2(Dec.28)

   Yesterday, I finally had a windows8 upgrade DVD package.

   After this, I made an additional order of the Package because I found the information we would be able to have a clean install of Windows8 if we upgraded from the older 32 bit Windows to the 64 bit Windows8. I did it on Dec. 6th, Japan time, and they sent a shipping advice by email on Dec. 10th. Now, 25th. It took tooooooo long despite it was via AirMail.

   Anyway I got it, so, I wanted to have a clean install for my laptop. Of course, if you want the same thing as me, you need to know your pc supporting 64 bit or not before your installation. Probably, you can find the supporting information at your pc system property, on the manual, or on the laptop bottom label. You can’t find the information, then you could use Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. Maybe, it tells you your pc supporting 64 bit or not.

   I know my laptop, an Endeavor NJ2100, supports 64 bit. But I found a severe issue. Its BIOS does not support Memory Remap Feature. The vender does not supply the newer BIOS anymore. I think its main-board probably an ASUSTeK product. But the vender, Epson Direct, never tells us about it. If I have no exact knowledge about it, to update my BIOS is very dangerous. So I gave up to install the 64 bit windows8 to my pc.

   I booted my laptop from the upgrade DVD 32 bit version.

   If you do the same thing, you can see two install options, Upgrade and Custom. You must select the option, Custom. Then, you must delete your old Windows system partition first. After that, you can go the next step of the installation. Your clean install of Windows 8 does not depend on 32 bit version or 64 bit version. You can do it for either case.

   My installation finished without hitch.

   After first login of my Windows8, I made the Safe mode entry for being on the safe side when an incident happens.

  1. Start cmd.exe as an Administrator.
    bcdedit /enum /v
  2. bcdedit /copy {default windows loader guid} /d “Safe Mode”
    Close cmd.exe
  3. [Win]+[r] and start msconfig
    Select Boot
    Select Safe Mode
    Select safeboot minimal
    Apply
    OK
    Reboot OS

Now, I can use “Safe Mode”. Then I installed my custom drivers.

   About Ricoh xxx Host Controllers and High Definition Audio, I installed the drivers by the NJ2100 vender. For SiS Mirage 3 Graphics driver, I installed R529_Logo.zip from SiS DOWNLOAD CENTER.

   That’s it.

   By the way, you need some software to watch a DVD Video on Windows8. Until Jun.31st, you can get a Windows Media Center product key for free. You have it and can watch the DVD video on your pc. (^^)

Edit(Dec.26):
   I forgot to write.
   When I booted from the upgrade DVD, it did not start if the laptop didn’t have the older version Windows on its hard disk. The reason was only I was clumsy, or, at the boot time the DVD might have some program to check. The DVD is for a upgrade version, so, this behavior might be natural for itself, I guess.

Edit2(Dec.28):
   After upgrading Windows8, I had an issue about the sound on my laptop. When I watch a video or listen to music, my Win8 stops responding. Today I found the page (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2727113) saying about it (now already deleted – 2013.5.16). The page says “This problem is resolved in the release versions of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.”. But on my laptop, it is NOT fixed. They provide an update, but, I cannot use it for my laptop because this is only for Windows 8 Release Preview or Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. So, I did a workaround the page says.

         Start cmd.exe as an Administrator
         bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes

   That’s all. Now, my laptop multimedia processes do not hang anymore. Happy!!

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‘The day of the “Juuni kokuki”‘ special event is being held.

   As I wrote on the page Kirin tidings, the day of the “Juuni kokuki” special event is being held on the official site, from Dec/12 @12:00 to Dec/25 @20:00.

   When I visited there on Dec/12, the page response was very slow probably because a lot of access. Now, you can see the page easily.

   From the page, they say you can get an illustration for a cell-phone wallpaper or a postcard. It is a portrait of the two, Yōko(陽子) and Rakushun(楽俊), by Yamada Akihiro and available for a limited time until 2012/12/25 @20:00. Don’t miss it.

   >> The special event of the day of the “Juuni kokuki”

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Updating to WordPress 3.5.

   Today, Japanese WordPress develop members announced they brought the new Japanese version WordPress for us, according to the Codex for Version 3.5, there are tons of changes I feel. So, I updated gingerly. But, all are good after updating. Happy!!

   The wp-app.php has gone. They say if you want to re-enable it, you can do it with a plugin.

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The next book released on January, 2013.

   Hi guys, I told you “the next new edition is ‘Sea God in the East, Vast Sea in the West (東の海神 西の滄海)'”. The date is approaching. For that, they, Shinchōsha, began to post the new Kirin tidings again. So, I translated the articles on Nov. 30th and Dec. 4th and added them to the page.

   Please take a look and enjoy!!