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Language Education

Teaching...

Three Wise Monkeys, a collection of teaching ideas compiled by Japan Exchange Teachers in Tochigi Prefecture.
Over 100 activities indexed by level, grammar point, time taken and materials used.
Presented in the kind of 90's internet retro style that will soon be coming into fashion again.

Learning...

The Japanese Wordinator a free Japanese-learning tool with a built-in Japanese-English dictionary, accessible from any site using a handy bookmarklet. Or your mobile phone. (Mail yourself a link.)
Easy Peasey Japanesey ⁺ - Tips on how to learn it from scratch. Now featuring...
Edochan's Famous Mnemonics - now on the web by popular demand.

Programming and System Administration

Fun with Apache...

Prefetching Hints: Helping Firefox and Google speed up your site.
All about prefetching - What it is, how to log it, and how to harness it to help Firefox make your site seem blazingly fast.
Comes with:
A little PERL script to mine your website referal data and generate prefetching hints for your server.
(Download it here.)

A Walk On The Client Side...

Racing your servers - A cheap, low-tech way to provide high availablity web applications using a redundant array of crappy, unreliable web servers.
Transparent SSL Detection - Finds out if the browser can access content over SSL.
Changing page layout - Some JavaScript to let your users choose how they want your site to look.
Bookmarklets - a couple of handy JavaScript one-liners for web developers.

The Application Server Formerly Known As Tango...

A workaround for the Tango 2000 Cookie Buffer Overflow Vulnerability.
Multi-byte String classes for (Wi)Tango - Java-based string functions to use instead of the native ones shipped with Tango web development middleware. Includes character encoding translation, and more...

Writing

Edo Investigates...

The results of my remorseless probing into...

Frogs ⁺ - and their role in Japanese culture and cuisine...
Moving the Diet - now featuring a fun, interactive Parliamentary Earthquake Simulator...
Tochigi dialect ⁺ - how to make yourself understood in the land of the Venus Gyoza.

Travel...

To Hell on a Bicycle - a tour of northern Tohoku and southern Hokkaido
South for Winter - Hitch-hiking in Shikoku and Kyushu
God, The Grand Canyon And A Whole Bunch Of Guns - the south-western United States

Culture

minimovie

minimovie - Create photo art by e-mailing pictures from your mobile phone.
(May not be accepting submissions at the moment.)

Links and contact info.

Contact me...

E-meiru: ed at_mark edochan.com

Now go away...

Some very old links

Notes

+ = contains Japanese characters.

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Edmund Edgar, 1997-09-28, last updated 2006-02-05.