Social Media explained visually
adminThis is 4 minutes of your life well spent. Watch and listen how a wonderful Aussie woman explains how social media works. Love that accent, and the way the video…
Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for writing fiction
tokyokevinKurt Vonnegut is in my top 3 writers. Here are 8 reasons why. From the entry in Wikipedia. In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight…
Banned Books Week
Last week was banned books week. All over the world, books are continually banned for their content. At this Interactive map of banned books, you can find out which books…
Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech
Ogawa-sensei remembered that I had brought Obama's acceptance speech to Cosmos Festival in November. He asked me if I had a good copy (better than the one on YouTube). Ogawa-sensei,…
Recent books
Over winter vacation, I spent almost a week at my wife's mother's place in Nagoya. No Internet. Which meant lots of time for reading paper-based stuff. Here is how I…