A new story of Fuyumi Ono

Fuyumi Ono released a novel that is side story of The Twelve Kingdoms as a part of anthology: Hisho no tori (丕緒の鳥). She hadn’t published since before six years. It’s a new story in a long time. I want to buy the magazine and to read it anytime soon, but It is not a independent book. Probably I wouldn’t buy it.

When I became a fan of her about the beginning, I read a postface of her book and it surprised me that she was quite fan of Inherit the Stars. It was such an extent that she named her own computer Zorach! There was a time when I wrote the diary about the book in other time. I like this series, too.

Bookmarklets

I wrote several bookmarklets yesterday. They are to search Longman Dictionary of Online for a word on current web page. I wrote a similar script in AppleScript last year but I couldn’t all rights include a script element in already existing page. There were times when the script failed, and succeeded too. At any rate, they were erratic. So this time, I tried to write the scripts as bookmarklet. Well, now I think it worked! Please, look at the last item of side menu.

However I'm a Mac user. I don't know that those scripts are which available or not available on other platforms. I have a little worry.

In double clicking version, I certainly blew off the difference in handling of addEventListener between browsers. Because I don’t have enough skill to make scripts that are available anywhere. Of course I want to solve this problem but I don’t have Windows environment. It’s pity I can’t verify.

To read extensively

This week I read three books. Those books were as follows:

• The Missing Coins (PENG)
• Parallel (Cambridge English Readers)
• The Man from Nowhere (Cambridge English Readers, Level 2)

Everything were extremely easy sentences. I felt short on fun because they’re all too easy. Maybe my language skill is this level to read without effort. Maybe I have no choice to read extensively. But then, I can’t keep reading with interest.

Therefore I searched Amazon for books of level 5 or 6. In the result, I found some interesting ones. I intend to buy those ones next time.

However next month, I’m going to receive a book that I bought on Amazon a few month ago. The name of book is The Twelve Kingdoms 2: Sea of Wind. The original of this story is written in Japanese. I have read it many times. After reading it, I’ll buy the foregoing books.

Not to get used to JavaScript

I haven’t used to write JavaScript yet. I was exhausted to make a web application using Ajax today. I got tired of debugging and wanted to breathe a sigh. I hate my ability to program. I want to be more clever.

I have to prepare for a way to debug more easily. But I wonder what way is better? So, what I want is not a finished program, but a way of process. There aren’t the older members in my work. Even if I try to ask someone it, I can’t do that.

Golden oldies

I found a name that is Nicolette Larson on iTunes Store yesterday. iTMS recommended a song, “Lotta Love”, to me as a part of list of JUST FOR YOU. I bought the her song without question. This brings back memories. Old days when I was listening to it, I was eighteen years old. And It reminded me to like drawing illustrations in those day. I used to draw an illustration as listening the song.

Why was this song listed on JUST FOU YOU? Few days ago I bought “Don’t Stop Believin’” of Olivia Newton-John. And “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight” of England Dan & John Ford Coley, too. I guess the reason why is, I did those. Perhaps iTMS listed Golden oldies and showed me.

At any rate, It seems that I like Golden oldies (^.^)

8020 campaign is in only Japan

I go to a dentist for a routine checkup about once a half year. I went to there near my work today. I hope that I keep my own twenty teeth when I become eighty. So far, there are no cavities and no gingivitis. I’m brushing my teeth for about fifteen five minutes as watching TV every night. At first, for twelve minutes I brush without teeth paste. And after, the rest of the time I brush with teeth paste for three minutes.

It seems this 8020 campaign is in only Japan. I searched but this word weren’t in articles on abroad site as the same mean. I guess people overseas are careful about teeth more Japanease. So they don't need such the campaign.

Feature of plugin

Today I learned how to extend a program’s code I wrote in Perl. The way was feature of plugin. I understood to use eval. But I didn’t know how to write it in particular. If it’s only to simply execute a code after reading script files, I could write soon. I thought they aren’t enough scripts. I needed to consult with a sample script. So, I consulted YukiWiki’s PluginManager.pm because I felt the program was no stranger. In the script, I knew UNIVERSAL module.

Dashboard

I bought a reference book to make a Dashboard of Mac. It’s “Programming Dashboard”. I haven't been interested in it until recently. I suddenly thought that I was going to make a tool as Dashboard that helps me to write a diary in English. I think Dashboard is easy. But to make a widgetsplugin is difficult task for me. I don’t know I can make it. So it became a challenge for me.

Moondial

“Moondial” was the most easy novel among paperbacks I have read until today. But at first, when I started reading this story, I didn’t understand what moondial meant. In other word, I didn’t know sundial, too. After sundial appeared in a sentence and I searched a dictionary for it, I became aware sundial is a hi-dokei in Japanese. So, moondial is a tuki-dokei, isn’t it?

But I imagine, I don’t think the clocks are so useful. Because when they are used to show a time, the weather needs to be clear, and that the moon needs to be near full moon as possible. Maybe there are few days to able to use one. Although I wrote that, I think if there was one in my garden, it would be cool that moondial was lighten by bluish white light.

Oh! just I have found. there is moondial on wikipedia!

To change the subject, I don’t like illustrations in this book. Quite honestly I would hate them. I want to erase them if one can. I didn’t enjoy reading because of those illustration. Rather I prefer rough ones as Quentin Blake or Akihiro Yamada.

Full screen mode

MacJournal has full screen mode. The screen doesn’t show any window, menu bar and desktop of OS. Before my eyes, there are only characters I’m typing now. It seems to be old operation system of computer as MS-DOS. But it’s now, the view is looking good because I feel refresh.

I’m writing this diary on the status. It makes me concentrate in doing it. I think that there aren’t temptation to delude me into doing anything else, such as watching site or reading mail. So I’ll use this mood to write a diary after this, too.

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MacJournal has a full screen mode. The screen doesn't show any windows, menu bars and or desktop of the OS. Before my eyes, there are only characters The only thing I can see are the characters I'm typing now. It seems to be an old operation operating system of computer as like MS-DOS. But it's now, the view is looking looks good because I feel refreshed.

I'm writing maintaining this diary on the status. It makes me concentrate in on doing it. I think that there aren't temptations to delude me into doing anything else, such as watching the site or reading mail. So I'll use this mood to write a diary after this, too.