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It took me a while to figure it out, so just a memo…
I got 5th generation iPod with video capability, but I always felt that I am not using it to its capacity.
Since there are many video websites online, and sometimes I wish I had a local copy so I could put it on […]

I have many WordPress 2.0.1 installations on my computer. I need to upgrade them to 2.2.1… Here is my notes on what I did and what happened. I was able to upgrade this blog to 2.2.1, but I had problem with my Japanese language websites.
OK, so it was a worst case scenario, really. As […]

I have to admit that I was lazy and have not upgraded one of my Japanese language Drupal site since it was installed in 4.5.0 some time in 2004. I have finally gotten around to think about upgrading. Well, stupifd comment spam forced me to upgrade, to tell you the truth.
But since Drupal went through […]

These days, I am wrestling with Action Script a lot…

I couldn’t move between scenes from a universal navigation component… Why Doesn’t _root.gotoAndPlay() Work with Scenes? Lessons learned: don’t use _root, or scenes (too much, anyway)
setInterval. Macromedia site
Cool trick: Creating a Toggle Button with ActionScript

I am starting to buying into the whole ActionScript stuff…

I am working on this sort of fun project which involves using Zen-Cart, open source shopping cart, but in Japanese. (BTW, for Japanese language pack, this support thread was very useful… Thank you Shida-san of Japanese language support group). During this process, I hit a minor problem. Zen cart send out an e-mail alerts (such […]

I have decided to team up with a friend, Hiro Nakano, to make my podcast more frequent and exciting. Hiro is about the most interesting and smartest guy I know and I am really excited about it.
However there is something that has bothering me for a quite a while. I use WordPress for creating […]

I’ve moved to the new host, and start using their default webmail, which is Squirrel Mail, and it works well, but I can not read or write in Japanese. I’ve searched some online and found this: Round Cube Web Mail.
The application looks slick, and have reviewd highly, has howto and step-by-step on my server, […]

As I ‘ve stated before, I’m switching from MySQL 4.1 to MySQL 5.0. I had a sql statement what used to work on 4.1 but stopped working and here is how I (and a little help from co-worker) fixed it:

It was frustrating as heck, I tell you, this MySQL thing. I have since learned that I can use iconv utility to convert the file like:
iconv -f utf-8 -t windows-1252 foo.sql > bar.sql
But that was not the problem. I’ve also learned that I can use mysqldump with option –default-character-set= to dump data in different encoding. […]

Create a php file, then put folowing inside the php tag:
header(”Location: newlocation.html”); /* Redirect browser */
/* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;