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I was reading the JLPT home page (or whatever you'd want to call it) yesterday to see when applications for this year's test will be available (July 15) and if there's some place close where they are sold (there is: the Yurindo bookstore in Atre Ebisu where I always buy books). Anyway, I also found ...

Owing perhaps to what seems like a strong strain of introspectiveness, there are a lot of books in Japanese about what it means to be Japanese . They don't get translated and seldom get any attention outside Japan though. Since I'm interested in both Japanese society and the language this suits me w ...

Over time I've been making some smaller changes to the language analyzer (my language identification web app), like manually tuning it to better distinguish between hard-to-distinguish languages, like the Scandinavian languages, Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian-Slovenian, Afrikaans and Dutch, and Czech and ...

The other day there was an interview in Dr. Dobb's Journal with the managing director of TIOBE Software , who publishes the TIOBE Programming Community Index , a ranking of programming language popularity . It was also discussed on Slashdot . The methodology used by TIOBE to calculate a language's ...

Socks have an intrinsic tendency to pair themselves with dissimilar socks. I believe overcoming this defect is is one of the great engineering challenges for this century . While walking around in mismatched socks might be perfectly tolerable for some, I believe that even engineers have to uphold so ...