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What The! This site serves one main purpose. To provide a sandbox for me to play in, as such do not expect to find anything of great interest here. I use this site to muck about with php, css, html and so on. In light of this you will find some google maps and geoip stuff here and a few notes (on mainly Linux related stuff).

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First a blog now facebook

For no particular reason I have never been interested in social networking sites, or writing a blog. However, about a year ago a friend sent me an invitation to join Linkedin. I signed up and within a couple of days I was back in touch with people I had not seen in decades.

Created: 23-12-2008 Last Modified: 23-12-2008

Tokyo Linux Users Group

TLUG is a good place to catch up with like minded Linux/Technology/FOSS/Geek friends. You can meet and greet TLUGians in Tokyo or on the mailing list...

Created: 10-08-2008 Last Modified: 10-08-2008

StarDict - an excellent replacement for gjiten and rikaichan

"Gjiten is [an excellent] Japanese language dictionary program for Gnome". It has served me well for several years, but yesterday I found a better tool - StarDict.

Created: 14-02-2007 Last Modified: 14-02-2007

Mystery Tour

Taking the Mystery Tour will see you randomly whisked away to one of over 3.5 million possible destinations.

Created: 12-12-2006 Last Modified: 26-12-2008

Bash script for keeping Debian & Ubuntu systems up to date

This script will do a bunch of things - it's main purpose is to help keep apt based systems up to date. Check out the top part of this script for a more in depth explanation.

Created: 27-10-2006 Last Modified: 21-12-2008

How to "select" and generate locales on Ubuntu LTS 6.06 (Dapper)

For those of you who are used to running "dpkg-reconfigure locales" on Debian to select and generate locales you may be a bit disappointed at the seemingly broken way it is done under Ubuntu.

Created: 15-10-2006 Last Modified: 13-11-2006

Your IP Address...

I have thrown together a page that will display the IP address you are using to connect to the Internet or proxy between you and this server. Finally, a guess is made at which country you are in.

Created: 06-11-2005 Last Modified: 17-12-2006

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