Holizz versus the Web

本当によかったと思う。It really finished the series off nicely. It’s a shame there won’t be any more (until the 電車男 SUPER DX MEGA SPECIAL) because I loved the series so much. 電車男のドラマと愛していた。

OMFG! It supports everything! I nudge-flooded everybody. Then I got bored of it.

Yes, I’m treating my normal blog as a sideblog now. Long posts are for people with free time. いそがしいよ！

Where do I buy the olives without the milky milk? THEY ALL CONTAIN LACTOSE!

Oh my god. I tried Damn Small Linux today. It has NO FONTS! It didn’t render a single character of Japanese. I was so not impressed.

DSL gets a holizz-rating of ♇ (that symbol means Pluto) - keep it up and you might be a real planet distro one day.

I just posted a personal looking for friends/penpals. It wasn’t particularly taxing to write, but it was good fun. I’ll post it here too:

ブラッドフォード大学校でコンピューター・サイエンスの勉強をしています。

ブラッドフォード・カレジで日本語の勉強をしています。そして、日本人と日本語の勉強してと英語の教えています。一年ぐらい勉強をしました。今年１２月に日本語能力試験の三級をします。

大学校のアニメとカルト・テレビ社会のプレジデントです。アーチェリーや柔術をします。そして毎週母さんと泳ぎます。

もと人見知りですから人々に会いたいです。日本人も日本語の勉強する人も。

英語で：

I’m studying Computer Science at Bradford University.

I’m studying Japanese at Bradford College. I’m also studying Japanese and teaching English with/to a Japanese person. I’ve been studying for about a year. This December I’m going to take the 3rd level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.

I’m the president of the university’s Anime & Cult TV Society. I practice Archery and Juujutsu. I also go swimming every week with my mum.

I’m a former shy person, so I want to meet lots of people. Japanese people, and people studying Japanese.

Turns out I was a week behind schedule for, well… everything.

I discovered earlier today that the Sports and Societies Fair is this coming Thursday, not the Thursday after next.

Just this minute I discovered that I’d agreed to help out the union this week (they still want help next week, but I’d agreed to help this week).

So as it turns out, I could have been doing things all week. I missed the archery social on Thursday too because it slipped my mind.

But I have something to do tomorrow, so that makes me happy. And then Sunday I have two things to do: swimming in the morning and helping people move in to halls (assuming I don’t forget that too). In theory I should be able to make myself useful to the union at other times in the week (assuming I am able to find out how to do this without excessive effort on my part).

I did part of a practice test for the 日本語能力試験(JLPT) ３級 and gave up when my lack of understanding got to me. As it turns out I came fairly close to the pass mark. So it might be possible to do ３級 this year. I have until the end of the month so I have more study time before I make the decision of ３級 or ４級.

ふー

SCIM doesn’t work with Qt at all. It is not very good. But fear not, for Tom knows how to fix this glaring bug in Qt!

Step one: install scim-qtimm. I downloaded the Ubuntu package of scim-qtimm (for my Debian installation).

Step two: start or restart any Qt apps, and stare in amazement at your ability to use your IME!

I’m glad I got it sorted out. Now I can search for よつばと♪ or あゆみ in Amarok (pretty much the only Qt app I use regularly). It sucks, however, that the package isn’t in Debian.

See also: Computing in Japanese.

At long last Firefox supports sessions! No more M-e n (Alt+e, n) Use current pages at the end of a session. Nope! I tried this feature twice, and then any subsequent attempt (including on a fresh .mozilla) failed.

It also has a new theme, and the Go! button is attached to the addressbar (and doesn’t say Go anymore).

There’s also a nice List all tabs button on the right of the tabbar.

It seems like Firefox really does want to be competative after all (rather than just being the best FOSS browser).

Oh… all of the buttons have become grey. Haha!