Archive for July, 2007

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Indian Restaurants in Japan

http://www.ispeakhindi.com/indian-restaurants-japan.htm

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Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Added English-Hindi dictionary

I added a English-Hindi dictionary to ISpeakHindi.com that I found in the public domain.  You can see it at: http://www.ispeakhindi.com/dictionary/sa.htm

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Friday, July 27th, 2007

List of Hindi related resources

I compiled this list of Hindi learning resources:
http://www.ispeakhindi.com/HindiResources.html

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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Leaving Aomori — headed back to Tokyo

Had a wonderful day in Aomori yesterday.  We went to the Mt. Hakkoda Snow March Memorial Museum, saw the statue of one of the survivors on Mt. Hakkoda.  We went on a RopeCar ride (same as cable car), saw the Nabuta festival floats, ate at an all Japanese ran Indian restaurant, then bought our tickets [...]

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Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Possible core for wearable computer?

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5551137361.html
http://www.fit-pc.com/specifications.htm
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9996942590.html
Compulab has introduced a fanless PC, roughly the size of a paperback book, that consumes a mere 3 to 5 watts of power. The “fit-PC” comes with Linux preinstalled, and is intended to fit where conventional PCs won’t, according to the Haifa, Israel-based company.
Compulab says the fit-PC is based on the company’s CM-iGLX computer-on-module (COM), [...]

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Monday, July 23rd, 2007

in Aomori

We meet up with our friends from Houston that are visiting Japan.  We meet in Tokyo and have since come to Aomori.
Let me let you know some things that we have done in the past couple of days:
1) Pokemon center
2) Ueno Zoo
3) Natural Science Musuem in Ueno
4) Had dinner at my friend’s home (Yagi-san’s house)
5) [...]

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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Interesting article

http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/070622-tk.html

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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Tokyo day tour, Mt. Fuji, Kidzania

Day before yesterday when on a morning Tokyo city tour.  We went up the Tokyo Towers, went to the Meiji Shrine, visited the double bridge at the Imperial Palace, and ended up in Ginza at a Pizza and Pasta place.  Then in the afternoon went to the Children’s castle, which was closed on Tuesday, because [...]

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Monday, July 16th, 2007

2:07 AM and everyone is wide awake

Ok… Ok… you heard about the earth quake and you are wondering if I’m OK?  Well, here in Tokyo we only felt a little tremor.  It lasted only a few seconds and nothing to worry about.  But it was an interesting experience.
trying to convince the family to go to the Tsukiji Fish Market, but they [...]

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Monday, July 16th, 2007

Went to Palace and Akihabara

Had an interesting morning.  Went to the edges of the Imperial Palace and wondered around Akihabara.  I think I am finally figuring out the subway system.  Taking lots of pictures.  Hope to post some soon.
Planning to do a bus tour tomorrow and maybe go to Mt. Fuji the next day.

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