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[05 Jul 2009|01:42pm] |
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I need some software that'll let me splice up video's. Any recommendations?
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[26 Jun 2009|08:36pm] |
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Yuuli got accepted into a baby modelling agency! Go Yuuli!
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[20 Jun 2009|10:48pm] |
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Not only did Yuuli manage to take his first few steps, but he did it carrying his own baby chair. Looks like he's gonna be like his grandad - ie. build like a brick-shithouse.
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[19 Jun 2009|07:45pm] |
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Has anybody ever used one of these palm-sized projectors? I'm thinking of buying one to use in my classes, but I'm not sure if one like that would be any good, or should i go for a more expensive standard digi-projector...
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[09 Jun 2009|09:19pm] |
At long last.
PDR English for teachers and professionals:
www.polkadotrocket.com
I'll be using this space for informational content - activities, theory, games, materials and the like. Right now content is thin on the ground, but that'll improve over time. If you have any interest in education, come check it out. Pass on the link to your friends too!
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[31 May 2009|10:34am] |
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[27 May 2009|03:06am] |
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If I wanted to start learning to create some simple flash/web applications, where would be a good place to start? Does anyone have any advice? Must read books or tutorials they've come across, software not be done with out...
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[23 May 2009|06:50pm] |
I want to make a worksheet that i can post on-line. Basically a picture, with a speech bubble that people can type their own words into and with the click of a button a fixed copy goes to the comments or can be printed, emailed, etc (though it would'nt have to be able to do all of these things - just going to the comments on a blog would be enough)
Is this like, wishful thinking, or something that sounds within the realms of possibility? I'm going for the former, but i know there are allot of people on my friends list who know an awful lot more about computers and the net than i do!
EDIT:
Here's a super-rough idea of what it'd look like on screen....
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[22 May 2009|08:30pm] |
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Ok, i have a website front page page www.pdrenglish.com. I have a blog page http://pdrenglish.com/wordpress. I went to set things up for now, so that when i open the front page it automatically links to and opens the blog page. Can anybody tell me how i should do this with dreamweaver? Eventually i will get a real website with a real front page built. however having been seven months already, i know im not going to get time for a little while =(
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[10 May 2009|05:56pm] |
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It's already started. The mind wrenching heat and humidity of Japan in the summer. It's already so hot I could die!
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[13 Apr 2009|08:57pm] |
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I have a question to those of you who're great with computers. I want to set up a blog on my personal webpage. Two, on two pages actually. I've fished around and come up with Worldpress, however none of it really means much to me. Can anybody give me any advice/ pointers? My time is extremly limited right now, so if i can get away without having to learn a ton of stuff all the better. The short lazy route is good, i guess (assuming there is one).
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[10 Apr 2009|09:18pm] |
I have like, month's worth of news to write about, but that can wait in favour of this Japanese video about making things zebra-striped that's had me transfixed for the last ten mins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhQ5SUanQY
I cant embed it, so you'll just have to click the link!
more soon!
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[21 Mar 2009|09:55pm] |
We had a picnic with some friends. Japanese, English, French and Chinese. Nice mix of languages going around. Not my photos, but I'm sure they wont mind!
( under the tag! )
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[21 Mar 2009|09:19am] |
By the way, for anyone on here who might be studying Japanese, I've been listing allot of the things I used and finished with on eBay. There'll be a pile more (books, comics, games and the like) coming up over the next few weeks.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/julianpdr
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[20 Mar 2009|09:59pm] |
Man, I’m sleepy. Somebody motivate me.
In the past couple of weeks I’ve taught myself to write around 1500 of the Japanese Kanji. I’ve got about 500 to go. I’m a terrible student it has to be said, but I’m hell bent on getting them all done before I start work at my new school (more on that soon). There’s no reason why I need to learn them all by then in all honesty, just man, enough already!!
On a separate note a year has passed already since I started my job. My classes are already over, and my school’s graduation day is next week. After that I’ve got two weeks off to gear myself up to start a new school and so everything all over again. I’ve learnt allot over the last year, not to mention that my command over the language has improved (although that’s questionable!) – so there’s allot I plan to do differently for the better. It’s a shame though, I’ve been really lucky to have been placed at a great school this past year so I don’t really want to leave. Who knows what the next school, its teachers and its students will be like…
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[19 Mar 2009|09:31pm] |
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I just spent an hour studing French - in Japanese. I feel slightly sick.
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| Polka Dot Rocket .com |
[10 Mar 2009|08:58pm] |
So, any advice anyone could offer me on these? I'm trying to come up with a logo for my website and this is an hour or two's work. Which one do people prefer colour wise? If you saw this on a website - what would you think? Really, anything that comes to mind. good or bad.
I have to say, the old creative juices aren't running very creatively. It's been a while! More academic study has taken over a little bit, time to give the old right side of the brain' a flex me thinks.
I also get the nagging feeling that Illustrator is the tool for the job - not Photoshop. Do i want to try and learn a new piece of software on top of my already logic-defying workload though, that is the question.
This is the original, but as you can see the rocket is a little hard to see....
On another note, check out the business-boy look me (taken for my resume). When i get back to England next, i wonder how many people will recognise me? Ha.
( Under the tag )
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[24 Feb 2009|11:24am] |
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Yuuli has so many toy's with light's and bells and cute bits, but, what he really really wants to play with is his dirty nappy bucket. Typical.
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| V Day |
[14 Feb 2009|07:34pm] |
Guess who got lots of valentine choco? Giri choco - "obligation chocolate" - Love this country and its stupid customs!
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[07 Feb 2009|05:59pm] |
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I guess this is a bit of an urban myth, but still, i like it. There's this huge graveyard in Aoyama, a really posh part of town, where allot of the bomb victims from the war went. Now, this area's pretty known for 'spooky goings on' (and my wife has a thousand stories from when she worked there, particularly from a photo studio that's particularly famous as being haunted), but here's the bit i love. They built a subway right under this graveyard - the Ginza line i think - and the story goes, ghosts get on the train sometimes then end up lost. So what do Tokyo ghosts do when they get lost? Same as us apparently, they get a taxi!! There's all these reports from taxi drivers of people they've picked up in area's on the line, driven to Aoyama only to find that when they look look back for their fare, nobody's there!
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