WhatJapanThinks said...

WhatJapanThinks at 08:43 AM JST - 2nd April

Uggh, that hurts my eyes! Far too much white from the plane, and what's with the white cards they are all holding?

And does such a small and blurry picture really need to be 142Kb?

Posted in at 08:43 AM JST - 2nd April
WhatJapanThinks at 11:38 PM JST - 1st April

I've been playing around with a feature of Opera (perhaps FireFox has it too?) whereby you can override settings in the CSS file. At the moment I've hidden the header to give me more screen space, and the right column to get rid of that HIS ad and the rest…

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 11:38 PM JST - 1st April
WhatJapanThinks at 01:34 PM JST - 1st April

Ooops, I could have guessed it might already be fixed... Or is it smart quotes that are the problem?

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 01:34 PM JST - 1st April
WhatJapanThinks at 01:33 PM JST - 1st April

Comments seem broken now. It's not handling apostrophes correctly, treating them as markers. It might be fixed already, but just in case, here's another apostrophe.

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 01:33 PM JST - 1st April
WhatJapanThinks at 12:16 PM JST - 1st April

Is power really that expensive?

Sekushi House say that spending 100,000 yen rental for the device, you save 190,000 per year, and Tokyo Gas say 60,000 yen saved including device cost, so that means at the worst case you reduce power bills by 160,000 yen per year, or or 13,333…

Posted in From toilets to fuel cells at 12:16 PM JST - 1st April
WhatJapanThinks at 09:17 AM JST - 1st April

It's also stretching it a bit to classify bagpipes as a musical instrument...

Posted in Bagpipe at 09:17 AM JST - 1st April
WhatJapanThinks at 10:47 PM JST - 31st March

Has anyone uploaded that clip to YouTube yet?

Posted in Actress Erika Sawajiri comes back from UK at 10:47 PM JST - 31st March
WhatJapanThinks at 04:57 PM JST - 31st March

"I hope everybody enjoys the baseball together with my song"

That sounds awfully like her statement was translated into Japanese, then retranslated back to English.

Perhaps if NTV promised to show broadcasts right to the end or showed other teams as well as the Giants it might do more than…

Posted in Mariah Carey to provide theme song for NTV baseball telecasts at 04:57 PM JST - 31st March
WhatJapanThinks at 08:17 AM JST - 31st March

I saw on Mino Monta this morning that a newspaper is reporting that the guy in custody is reported to have phoned a friend just after the time of the stabbing to say he did it.

I can't find anything in Google to confirm or deny it, though.

Posted in U.S. Navy provides sailor's fingerprints to police over murder at 08:17 AM JST - 31st March
WhatJapanThinks at 12:03 AM JST - 30th March

jambon, thanks, and it tells me that 1.33333333 cups is 306.56 grams or so; why couldn't they just use 300 grams instead? What annoys me is that a cup is a unit of volume, so should I adjust for density? At least tablespoons are used to measure liquids and powders…

Posted in Celebrity Australian chef introduces Japan to the pleasure of breakfast at 12:03 AM JST - 30th March