Japanese Dramas - Fall 2007
Two dramas I'm looking forward to watching in the new season: モップガール - Mop Girl (wiki) ジョシデカ！ - Joshi Deka! (wiki)
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Sertcom, Unicode Standard 5.0 and Japanese Dramas
I've been slacking off on many things recently, including my hobby project. I'm posting from Flensburg, the northernmost city of Germany. Coming from Heidelberg/Mannheim, aka "Delta Region", you get to experience a mild intranational culture shock up in the north. It feels like a big town that cherishes horizontal freedoms rather than vertically stacked-up big cities I'm used to seeing in Southern Germany. Now to the reason of my stay in Flensburg. My brother acquired an established telemarketing company in Neumünster, Germany and is renaming it "Sertcom". So I ended up paying him a visit to see how he managed to get so far. The last time I was here he was a team leader. What a rapid development. Unicode Standard 5.0 The only thing I'm doing nowadays that bears some relevance to my studies and job is reading the version 5.0 of the Unicode standard. I'm now almost ready to fix some remeaning issues with my segmenter implementation that features t...
演歌 - Enka
While investing some time in improving my new frequency list implementation, I also started to watch some new Japanese Dramas from Winter 2007 : Erai Tokoro ni Totsuide Shimatta! Hana Yori Dango 2 Enka* no Joou I just fell in love with the songs in Enka no Joou and decided to cut and retime subs of one the enkas in it. Here you can download this wonderful song. Two great open-source programs helped me do the work in under 2 minutes: VirtualDub and Aegisub . Both are extremely easy to use!