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People Say the TEPPEN 2015 Piano Showdown Was Rigged, but…
I knew nothing about it, but apparently a Fuji Television entertainment program called TEPPEN 2015 held a piano competition among celebrities. Those currently attracting attention…
Apparently the Cup Noodles Commercial “NY/Samurai-K” Really Does Show Him Hitting the Ball with a Wooden Sword
Like Musashi traveling to Ganryujima, SAMURAI-K crosses the Hudson while shaving down a wooden sword. His destination is a tennis stadium that is entirely hostile territory. The sp…
Researchers Identify Privacy Flaws in Instagram and Other Android Apps
Well, this is something we had all suspected, but app developers seem to have a very lax awareness of security and privacy. According to reports by CIO Magazine[1] and PCWorld[2],…
Japan’s Lack of Imagination: “If You’re Totally Blind, Don’t Ride”; “It Certainly Is Extremely Irritating”—After Blind Girl Is Injured on Kawagoe Line, Twitter Users Rush to Side with Assailant
This is absolutely appalling. I imagine the incident in which a totally blind student was injured after being assaulted by a passenger on the JR Kawagoe Line[1] is still fresh in e…
Editing Video with Final Cut Express
I finally began editing the video from Mexico that I had kept postponing. I could have used iMovie, but this time I tackled it with Final Cut Express, which I had bought and then n…
Romance from the Opera “Maître Pathelin”
Ever since hearing this piece on Ayako Takagi’s CD “Sicilienne”, I had thought it was beautiful without properly researching it. Feeling remiss, I finally looked into it. François…
Interview with Poland’s WP TV
This is an interview I gave to Poland’s WP TV. It is about OpenID. Watching it like this, my English really is poor…. I need to practice. To make just a small excuse, I…
On the Symphonic Suite Space Battleship Yamato
The NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Naoto Otomo Composed by Kentaro Haneda Symphonic Suite Space Battleship Yamato Watch this video on YouTube.Playing the video connects to You…
Variations on Akatombo (Red Dragonfly)
Variations on Akatombo. Composed by Haruna Miyake. It appears to have been published under this title as well, but would it really infringe the right of attribution under moral rig…
None Shall Sleep
While searching YouTube, I came across Paul Potts. Thinking of the same song, “Nessun Dorma,” I thought of Pavarotti; when I searched, I found his final performance, at the opening…
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