lingqi's Journal: Feburary 28th, 2003

Feburary 28, 2003 (7:00pm)

Friday! and nobody can take that away from you. But they can make your time different way ahead the rest of the world so that it's monday for you when it's sunday elsewhere.

No exciting news. I havn't messed with linux this few days because mandrake has this tendency of crashing on me and once I reboot, it would corrupt some important files and render the entire X subsystem unworkable. bah humbug. Might be a issue with being beta? Of course, I really should be using a real driver for the video card, I suppose.

On the good side of news - I found out (preliminary) that in fact all the whole thing about my Navigation system being discountinued is a lie. Most of software conforms to a single standard, and as long as you get the right medium (CD/DVD/whatever) and the right format, you are good to go. A whole set of updated CDs for the kanto area is only like 80 bux.

I hear that right now is a good time for plum-blossom viewing. Kind of a pre-cherry-blossom event. While indeed going to view flowers (hanami èS±è¦) means looking more at fellow drunken flower viewers than the flowers themselves, I might still think it's better than football. This is, of course, until I give it a try possibly this weekend.

Hanami

[BillsPetMonkey]

I really recommend Omiya Ko-en for Hanami. They have huge cherry trees and lots of drunk oyaji to laugh at. No seriously, there's a few Sunkus and other liquor stores nearby too (if that's your thing). Stay away from those Dango though! They're leftovers from last year. Hehe.

Re:Hanami

[lingqi]

that's the to-do list next month. keep posted; maybe a "journal from druken oyaji under the tree" issue. heh. (Actually I was really thinking about Kyoto. Shinkansen over and back all in a weekend (a day if I really push it). That'd be something!

Hanami?

[Vengeru]

One of the few kanji I know is the one for flower (hana). I pride myself on the few kanji I do know, and I jump at every occasion I realize I understand a sign or two from a text. Reality - the fact that japanese isnt something I will learn on an evening - rears it ugly head from time to time though. Like now, when you wrote 'hanami' without using this one kanji I do know. Goddamnit. / V

Re:Hanami?

[lingqi]

you are viewing with UTF-8 encoding right? unless there has been some confusion between hana-flower (èS±) and hana-nose (é¼), you should recognize the character.

Re:Hanami?

[Vengeru]

Oh, crap. I had been alternating between 'Shift-JIS' and 'autoselect', but never 'Unicode UTF-8'. I switched to this, and there it was, the one kanji I did know. Thank you for that piece of info.

Try switching to one of the encodings I mentioned, the hana kanji becomes something wildly different, even two characters in a row.

/ V