Comme ça du Japon

It’s the intention that really matters. If I can appreciate the intention of the person who gave me this CD, I can’t figure out the intention of the designer Nicolas Maternik. This CD produced by Vox Terrae is a compilation of japanese songs for children played by a group of japanese artists. The lyrics and french translations are printed in the booklet but as you will understand by the end of this post, accuracy was probably a second thought. You can listen to one track on the blog “terrier à Tokyo“. Now, look closely at the picture. Don’t you feel that something is utterly wrong with this CD’s jacket?

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Let me introduce my very first Widget for WordPress: YAACC, an Ajax powered currency converter ! Feel free to try the live version on the right sidebar. As you might have noticed, the user interface is dead-simple. The widget is also optimised with a smart caching system and with compressed javascript and css. The option panel of the widget let you customise the default currencies and the initial amount. Finally, this currency calculator allow you to cutomize the list of available currencies by commenting or uncommenting lines of the complete list of currencies (177 currencies).

Download YAACC, a free Ajax powered currency converter widget for WordPress ! Your ideas or questions are welcomed.

Changelog

• 20080301: 0.9.3 fixed a minor bug, fix for the title option, version and usage check
• 20070922: 0.9.2 fixed a glitch in the caching of ajax-working.gif.
• 20070909: 0.9.1 replaced the ajax-working.gif image with a transparent version.

The french version of the japanese proverbs started in 2005 contains more than 160 proverbs ! I just started the english translation here : japanese proverbs. Each proverb is explained and an english equivalent is given where possible. Feel free to participate to the translation or other parts of the wiki on japanese and french languages. Sharing your own knowledge of the japanese language will help you to memorize and give you the chance to verify that your understanding of the japanese language is correct. In 2007 I will focus on 四字熟語 (YoJiJukuGo) “4 Kanji expressions (french version)” and on the translation of the japanese proverbs list. I hope that you will make tremendous progress in your study of the japanese language in 2007.

Moving to 千葉県市原市 (ChibaKen IchiHaraShi) “the city of IchiHara in the prefecture of Chiba” ! Please note that I won’t be able to access the Internet for about a week. See you soon.