For time to time, I've been working on the transition of my "Ippei's Blog" and the diary entries on Mixi (Facebook is already set to RSS feed). I'm pleased to announce that the new blog is mostly ready. I've still got older entries written in 2004 manually adjusted, but the newer entries are all up and running. (Can't believe more than half the entries in past 3 years plus were back in 2004.)

I regret I do not have any effective way to move the old comments and trackbacks over to the new system. Sincere apologies to anyone who has left comment/trackback on the old blog. I'd like to thank you all for reading my blog.


暇を見て「ペーの日誌」とMixiの日記を移動すべく作業してきましたが、新しいブログの準備がほぼ完了したので移転したいと思います。２００４年に書いた記事はまだ整理が済んでいませんが、２００５年以降の記事は移動してあります。（過去３年以上の記事の半分以上が２００４年なんですね。）

残念ながら古いコメントとトラックバックの移行が出来ません。今までコメントを残してくださった皆さん、本当に申し訳ないです。これからも「ペーの日誌」をよろしくお願いします。

New "Ippei's Blog" URL:
http://ippei.wordpress.com/

I've found this through a mixi.jp community:
Ajax IME: Web-based Japanese Input Method

I'm simply surprised by its quality, especially considering its underlying libraries etc.

The idea was around for ages. Even myself written something like this before leaving to Canada back in 2002 (I was 17):
Romaji-Kana Converter on the Web

Well, about this my program, me and my friend (Sakuma, the guy running BitCoffee Inc.) have talked about the possibility of going further enabling it to handle Kanji just like the one above. We concluded it would be either Java or Flash client's job to interact with the server. That was a few years ago.

Now, look at this wondrous IME implementation: it's Javascript, the AJAX! I can't believe how quickly things change. And anyway, I hope the above program will be stay online as long as possible and become popular without disappointing neither the author and the users.

Added:
The author of the above AjaxIME mentioned Sumibi's web interface. This one works alright too. So cool! The technology behind those seem open-sourced NLP engines: probably ones from MeCab, Chasen, Juman etc. This is actually one of the subject areas I'm interested in.

I take this as no need of waking up early tomorrow....
Well, I'll be late for the semester though.

See you on, er, probably Monday.

Something looks different yeah?



(http://homepage.mac.com/ippei_ukai/Photos/PhotoAlbum73.html)

"Ippei's Panorama" is renewed with tens of new photos. I'm getting more practical panoramas than experimental ones. It's getting a nice collection. This time, I have reproduced the entire page from the original image files, so even the existing ones got better quality.

「Ippei's Panorama」を更新しました。数十枚の新しい写真が追加されています。最近のパノラマは実験的なものよりも実用的なものが多いですね。今回はページ全体を元の画像ファイルから作り直したので、今まであった写真も画質が上がっています。

- "Ippei's Panorama"