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What does the title mean?

My attempt at a pun - noteworthy? Not worth it? Time will tell.

What’ll this blog be about?

Mostly I use this place as an output to write, whenever I get the itch to do so. Expect notes and musings on what I like - computers (Windows), anime, manga, TV and reading (and maybe more - I'm a fickle person with wide interests).
Hope you enjoy reading this, and may you have the patience to read through my long-winded ramblings ;)

Who is the author?

Just an ordinary aspiring geek beginner engineer. The tagline of the blog comes from a nerd test online.

How To Find Out How Easy A Certain Japanese Text Would Be For You

Are you trying to up your Japanese reading skills? Have a set of electronic reading materials, but don't know which one to start with? One way to rate them is by how easy they would be for you to read, so you can pick the level you're comfortable with. To do that, you'll first need a text list of words you already know, and then use that as an input file to the Japanese Text Frequency Analyzer tool. An easy way to get the list is to use the Morphman plugin in Anki (I'm assuming you're using Anki. Find out how to export the list if you use another SRS/flashcard system). What you'll need: Anki Morphman Anki Plugin cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool Steps: 1. Ensure your database of known words is up to date by forcing a Morphman Recalc. You can do this by using the Anki tools menu or the default shortcut Ctrl+M. If there are words you already know that are not in Anki, see this section of MorphMan Wiki . To make things easier for m...

Use a game controller for web browsing and more

I'm not a serious gamer, and little did I know that one day I would actually use a wireless gaming controller actively. Most of the time it's not for playing games though - I'm using it as a partial replacement of the keyboard and mouse, by mapping custom commands to the buttons. Shortcuts without even touching the keyboard? Bringing keyboard ninja skills to the next level ;) The wireless controller I use - Logitech F710 It all began when I started experiencing some pain in my wrist from too much mouse use. A friend loaned me a Logitech F710 wireless game controller*, and to my delight, I found that Logitech provides software to map the buttons to keystrokes and the analog sticks to the mouse. Since I use a lot a lot of keyboard shortcuts in my everyday computing, it was a great solution. Now I usually have my hands comfortably on the controller, only leaving it occasionally to type or when I need precision mousing. I even mapped Aero Flip so I could switch between d...

Creating Vocab Flashcards Easily with Firefox/Chrome Yomichan Add-on

Just a quick note on my current settings using Firefox/Chrome Yomichan Add-on (not to be confused with the older Anki Yomichan plugin ), when I'm reading Japanese material I can easily create Anki flashcards that has the sentence, the term I'm learning blanked out in the front (clozed), and audio replay. My Yomichan settings: (I have the reading field but I don't actually display it in the card; I opted to use furigana on the term itself instead) Example flashcard:

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