浅茅生の
小野の篠原
忍ぶれど

あまりてなどか
人の恋しき

Sangi Hitoshi

Asajiu no
Ono no shinohara
Shinoburedo

Amarite nado ka
Hito no koishiki

Minamoto no Hitoshi

Bamboo growing
Among the tangled reeds
Like my hidden love:

But it is too much to bear
That I still love her so.

Source: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

• Merry Christmas
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• Kurisumasu omedetō - クリスマス おめでとう

The LifeType team has released a new bugfix release (1.0.2).

Note: LifeType is the software powering this blog

I have found the most useful Firefox extension (no software development related), rikaichan. It allows you to check the meanings of the words on Japanese text and query information about a particular kanji written on the page. See it in action:

Firefox 1.5 has been released to the mirrors in preparation for the official release in the following hours. Download it before the servers become overloaded, better yet, use one of the mirrors (navigate up to firefox/releases/1.5/)