OnMyMind

Tomorrow we will be flying out of Hiroshima for a weeks stay in the Tokyo area.
I so look forward to these trips, as I really miss the energy and convenience that Kanto has to offer. The simplicity of traveling by trains, the abundant shopping, the people and the action. I am […]

The landing page of this site has been in dire need of attention for quite some time now, but I just could not find the motivation until tonight. I threw up the previous version rather quickly, using MS-Word to create the HTML, fully intending on updating it quickly. Anywho… I have been […]

These days, whenever my wife and I say “I love you” to our son, his response is “Thank you”.
I think that is just the cutest thing, if not the nicest. Afterall, must we always respond in kind whenever somebody says “I love you”? Doesn’t it seem so much nicer to just say “Thanks”?
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I have been wanting to add this plugin to my MT installation for a while now, and since classes are done for the semester I was able to justify tweaking the site a bit. What this plugin does, is to create a page that visually displays the search phrases that people use to find […]

Sitting in the car after my kendo practice Taiga jumped up into the front seat and attacked me, so Yuki pulled out the camera and directed an impromptu photo shoot. I think that her only cultural experience of the language a photographer would use in English is from Austin Powers, so it was rather […]

I have recently picked up on a new way that webmasters are spamming other sites to increase their Google juice. Their goal is to get the link to their site on as many other sites as possible, to make Google give them a high page ranking. I took notice to this practice as […]

Last summer, I began planning for a big summer film project to work on while visiting family in the states. The plan was to film as many friends and family as possible, either reading a children’s book or singing a children’s song, and to put it all together on a DVD. The purpose of this project was two-fold…