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Ultra-Lightweight PDF Viewer: Foxit Reader
Do you not think Adobe Reader, Acrobat, is heavy? I cannot stand how it loads a whole stream of plugins at startup. On macOS, Preview, the PDF viewer included with the operating sy…
UN Secretary-General Points Out Risk of Civil War in Iraq
I want to say that this was visible from the beginning… Or are the world’s leaders unable to see even this? No, they surely see it. They must simply have thought that t…
Meeting with Ajay
I had completely forgotten that today was a holiday, and had scheduled a meeting with Ajay on his way back from DIDW, so I went to the Marunouchi Hotel. We met for about 3 hours in…
Converting Attached Documents to Text
Sometimes I want to extract text from MS Word documents or PDFs. The former can be done with abiword and the like, and the latter with pdftotext, which comes with xpdf, for example…
Zimbra Is Amazing
I was excited for the first time in a long while. It is software that seems like the very embodiment of Web 2.0. Zimbra
Roppongi Sakuragaoka
“Roppongi Sakuragaoka” is on the right after walking down Imoarai-zaka for a while from Roppongi Station. The exterior has the appearance of the Showa 40s, but the interior has bee…
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