Note: Hideyoshi Toyotomi is one of the most famous Japanese historical figures. He was the Taiko, who conquered and reigned over much of Japan in a period after Oda Nobunaga and before Tokugawa Ieyasu, the most famous Japanese Shogun (military…
I talked about how to use PiVPN to set up an OpenVPN server on a Raspberry Pi at home previously, here and here. The next step for me was to use CloudFlare as a DNS server, instead of signing up…
The last few days, I’ve been working on a vpn server for my home network. It’s so that my family all over the world can see the pictures of my son, which are hosted on a local server. However, I don’t…
Well, apparently, WordPress supports iframes by default now. I updated an old post that needed an iframe, and spent a lot of time looking for plugins for it, but it turns out, that wasn’t necessary. Read more here.
Just a note from the notes file: New Balance shoes in Japan run in different shoe widths, but for kids, the widths are not stated. However, the codes for shoes is a hint for width: 300-series shoes are more narrow…
Just a note for something floating around in my notes page: 給与収入 is a term that one may come upon when dealing with Japanese taxes. It means employment income. 給与所得 is a related term that means something like taxable income.…
Kids have a wonderful sense of what’s possible and what’s not. A lot of them ask if I have children, and I point to the nearest kid and say that it’s my son or daughter. We all laugh a little.…
Americans love to talk about how exciting, beautiful, or fun their experiences were in foreign countries. Many people especially love to talk about those experiences with natives of the visited country. Japanese people are no different. Sometimes they tell me…
Sometimes I ask children about their parents to get to know them. Most of them say things like “my dad is as tall as you” or “I don’t know how old my mom is.” One time, I asked a 2nd…
Japanese people, like us Americans, like to name things after popular figures. Some students are actually called Naruto. I recently made a friend called Taiwa (大和), which is also read as Yamato, the same as the most famous battleship of…