Google Maps now is able to show a lot more satellite images of places outside North America and UK. I was able to locate Puerto Cabello (my native city), Valencia , my workplace in Caracas , and my home in the suburbs. The only caveat is that the satellite images do not have a great zoom...

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What I learned on this session: More vocabulary. How to formally introduce yourself. More numbers. They are easy but are a little strange because Japanese use a system based on tens of thousands, for example saying 100,000 in japanese is jū man , something like ten ten...

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Yesterday was the first session of the Japanese language course. As I expected it will not be only based on the language, but the culture side too. The first thing we learned is to do the initial bow before starting and I was selected to lead it, maybe because I looked as the oldest one :-(. It...

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It is good to know that other people that I read their blogs are learning Japanese too. The latest one is on Jim Pick blog , It appeared sindicated on Planet Classpath . Apparently it will not be difficult to find someone for chatting about Java or Linux on Japanese. I found a nice Flash...

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The second part of the configuration is writing. I needed the following packages installed: # yum install iiimf-gnome-im-switcher iiimf-le-canna iiimf-gtk iiimf-x Canna Started the services (this is only required if you do not want to reboot) # service iiim start # service canna...

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