Back to the Grind
Hey all - I’m back from my insane almost month-long period of excursion after excursion. (Seriously…it’s the 26th and this is my first post this month…wacky…) I’m settling back in, getting over a wicked chest cold, catching up on my RSS subscriptions (and the Olympics and U.S. [Biden?] and World [Russia - Georgia] politics). MAN am I out of the loop. While I’ve been gone, some really cool stuff has been going on. The biggest deal would be the reintroduction of the Japan Blog Matsuri, started by Ken Y-N at What Japan Thinks. This month’s JBM was held by Shane over at the Tokyo Traveler, and was focused around the theme “Impressions of Tokyo“. Go check it out and start to think about whether or not you’d like to contribute to next month’s matsuri, which will be hosted by Tae Kim. I know I’m in. I just gotta find something coherent to write about. 
Also - I discovered this really cool tool cleverly called Keiken [Japanese] via Bryan at A Walk in Hachioji. (Curiously, the specific post I found it in is no longer on his page…but it existed in the RSS feed earlier…hmmm.) Here’s a map of my experience of Japan so far. It includes shenanigans from my time studying abroad all the way to present day. And while I’m sad that I’ve still not been to Okinawa, I think it’s sadder still that I’ve not been to Tokushima… Ha ha ha. I’m not sure if the Javascript is actually working, so I’ll try to replace it with a self-hosted image later. In the meantime, the link does work. 
How many points do you have? I’m currently at 107! Wahoo!
on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
So you caught me, eh? I actually got it from the BlizzardBoy’s blog. I did have a post relating my experience, but for some reason the cut-and-paste tags I received from the map generator hosed the map display (and the rest of my blog’s display too), so I had to bring it down. There was a time when I would have tried to figure it out…now I’m just lazy though. Perhaps I ought to find a better theme!
on September 5th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Yeah, I did catch you. I had the same problems with the code from the site, actually. I went and read the Japanese post (when I got home - it was blocked as a porn site at work…which creeped me out a lot), too - but it didn’t help. Something is flawed. So I just went old school and grabbed a screenshot of it. You could do that and re-post, no?
on September 6th, 2008 at 12:26 am
A screenshot!!!!! Such a simple, yet such an elegant solution!