Just at the end of my trip to the UK, highlights include:
- A visit to the Tate Modern
- A stroll down Brick Lane with master painter Darvish Fahkr
- And lunch with ‘Philospoher’ David Pearce
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Tate Modern, Brick Lane and negative utilitarians
Following on from being recognised several times in the street after my headstand presentation at pechakucha night in superdeluxe, I’ve just been informed that I’m now pictured in the Wall Street Journal.
Splendid!
setting up terminal and vim for japanese on osx
I’d hazzard a guess that there aren’t a great deal of non-japanese vi users on osx who need to work in japanese, but at the very least this will serve as a reminder for myself later on!
First up, the most useful resource I found was the following page http://osksn2.hep.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/~taku/osx/vimjp.html (thanks to Taku Yamanaka!)
If you can read Japanese, then follow his instructions otherwise, the key steps are:
Setting up VIM
edit. you ~/.vimrc file and add:
:set enc=utf-8
:set fenc=utf-8
:set fencs=iso-2022-jp,euc-jp,cp932
Edit your terminal settings
- File -> Show Info (ファイル>情報を見る)
- Go to Emulation (エミュレーション)
- uncheck Escape non-Ascii characters (非Ascii文字をエスケープする)
- Go To Display (ディスプレイ)
- Check Wide glyphs count as 2 columns (ワイドグリフは２桁とカウントする) and Wide glyphs for Japanes/Chinese/etc.(日本語や中国語などにワイドグリフを使用する)
- You’ll probably want to make the settings default (設定をデフォルトとして使用)
Bash
For good measure you might want to tweak bash. Edit ~/.profile and add:
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Edit ~/.inputrc and add:
set input-meta on
set output-meta on
set convert-meta off
set meta-flag on
set output-meta on
You’ll need to reload bash for these changes to take affect - close and reopen terminal.
Facebook have opened up their 24 million strong network to 3rd parties with a sturdy development platform which allows one to put applications inside facebook that users can install and interact with. On top of this facebook are giving complete freedom to developers to monetise this opportunity!
If you have a new idea or an existing website that you would like to turn into a facebook application then we can facilitate it’s development. We have extensive experience of the facebook API and what it can do for your application more over we have already deployed an application for the successful sentence game website inside facebook; you can see the application here (facebook registration required)
The Next Step
Please fill out our enquiry form with brief details of your project and budget allocated.
Useful links
PHPAccounts has so far been tested on MySQL and Apache though other configurations may be possible - please report your successes and failures!
Required
- PHP 4.3 or greater
- MySQL 4 or greater
- Apache 1.3 or greater
Recommended
- ImageMagick is required for processing of images
- Ability to run a crontab is required for repeat invoicing and reminders
This project now has a site of it’s own. Please Go to phpaccounts.com and download the open source package there.
Web Based Databases And Applications
Running a business on the Internet can often mean running the business FROM the Internet. A great number of business already make use of the Internet’s potential, sales: booking flights, selling goods, selling software services: on line banking, data analysis publishing.
Behind the scenes, the integral part of this process is storing the information in a database and creating an “application” to use this database. Mr Kirkland special izes in web application and database design and has many clients whose businesses are running of applications crafted to their needs.
Whether you have an existing system that needs improving or you have yet to realize the potential of your business on line, Mr Kirkland would love to hear from you.
Useful links
- W3C - Web Standards Organisation
- UK Government DDA act
- DDA information and resources
- Knightsbridge Online Web Hosting
- www.sentence-game.com
Photograper
Artists
Musicians
Friends
- Sharon’s Lewis - Song Writer
- Nizlopi
- Healthy Concerts
- Elite
- Rose Polenzani
- Magic Baby
- Darvish - Painter
- Eliza Wyatt
- Black Rock Films - Video / Film Editing
- Brahmani Yoga in Goa
Japanese Domains
Other Links
Google Adwords Traffic Estimator Accuracy
I often use the adwords keyword tool, to play around with keyword ideas both for adwords campaigns and general reasearch. However I’ve always had a suspicion that the results for search volume are subject to some sort of inaccuracy. Exactly why they should not be able to present accurate data I am unsure - it’s google’s own data after all!
In particular I noticed that for japanese keywords e.g. オフィスレンタル (office rental) that it also reported high volumes of traffic for the same words reversed レンタルオフィス (rental office), whereas intuatively I’d have thought the order of the words very important. Perhaps they need to be exact phrase matches i.e. enlosed in quotes, however the keyword tool doesn’t seem to allow this.
Anyway I’m not alone on this train of thought!
