JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

In my quest to find the best uncomplicated method to provide images to the widest array of mobile devices, I have reached the following solution (for now).

Open two copies of your browser (One for the blog and one for the Flickr account)
Go to the Flickr site and open a Yahoo account
Open a Flickr account [try to use the same user name for your blog, Yahoo account, and Flickr account to keep others (and yourself) from being confused when viewing your Flickr photo gallery]
Upload images to Flickr

For each image applicable:
Select image and all sizes
Select thumbnail
Copy and paste HTML info (selection 2) into your post (Note: it helps to create a message such as “Click on image to view large size” on line following image)

So far this is the only method that allows all images I have used with it to be viewed on my Japanese mobile phone. Usually image files are too large to be loaded. Also, the Flickr account lets you use a “buddy icon” that can produce a sense of continuity between the blog and Flickr gallery. I simply used my blog URL icon (favicon), enlarged it in photo editor, used “Paint” to save as a Jpeg, and uploaded it to the Flickr account buddy icon section of “Your Account”.

Thursday September 22, 2005 [PC (19/365) W (7/365) H (15/365) ]

September 2005 Total:
C-cloudy (2/365) PC-partly cloudy (19/365)
D-drizzle (2/365) SR-scattered rain showers (2/365)
W-windy (7/365) LW-light winds (10/365) VW-very windy (2/365)
H-humid (15/365) SH-slightly humid (7/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S-sunny (23/365) C-cloudy (30/365) PC-partly cloudy (59/365)
D-drizzle (6/365) R-rainy (4/365) SR-scattered rain showers (11/365)
W-windy (33/365) LW-light winds (59/365) VW-very windy (5/365)
H-humid (55/365) SH-slightly humid (55/365)

Good news, I was able to get the mobile page’s Japanese characters to display properly my mobile phone . If your Japanese cell phone isn’t showing the blog’s Japanese font properly, try going to the menu for help. Click on the menu and make sure the font selected is UTF-8. This should eleminate the garbled mess that appears if the font for the blog is set on something else.

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :
English – we are waiting
Japanese – omachishiteimasu (????????)?
Hogen – chuuyuru (?????)
– mensooryoo (???????)
– macchooibisa?(????????)

Wednesday September 21, 2005 [PC (18/365) W (6/365) H (14/365) ]

September 2005 Total:
C-cloudy (2/365) PC-partly cloudy (18/365)
D-drizzle (2/365) SR-scattered rain showers (2/365)
W-windy (6/365) LW-light winds (10/365) VW-very windy (2/365)
H-humid (14/365) SH-slightly humid (7/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S-sunny (23/365) C-cloudy (30/365) PC-partly cloudy (58/365)
D-drizzle (6/365) R-rainy (4/365) SR-scattered rain showers (11/365)
W-windy (32/365) LW-light winds (59/365) VW-very windy (5/365)
H-humid (54/365) SH-slightly humid (55/365)

I just saw the trailer for the movie ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ on the Yahoo home page. Based on the well-known book, it looks like this movie will be a must see when it is released in December. The reality of the situation in modern Japan is Geisha are a dying breed. More often than not, all one sees or can afford nowadays are bar hostesses.

Tuesday September 20, 2005 [PC (17/365) LW (10/365) H (13/365) ]

September 2005 Total:
C-cloudy (2/365) PC-partly cloudy (17/365)
D-drizzle (2/365) SR-scattered rain showers (2/365)
W-windy (5/365) LW-light winds (10/365) VW-very windy (2/365)
H-humid (13/365) SH-slightly humid (7/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S-sunny (23/365) C-cloudy (30/365) PC-partly cloudy (57/365)
D-drizzle (6/365) R-rainy (4/365) SR-scattered rain showers (11/365)
W-windy (31/365) LW-light winds (59/365) VW-very windy (5/365)
H-humid (53/365) SH-slightly humid (55/365)

Here it is almost two weeks since I last discussed blog search engines. I’ve posted daily, usually more than one post, since that time and what I’ve discovered is the posts don’t always get picked-up by the blog search engines. I believe the best bet in keeping up-to-date with a site or topic you find interesting is by suscribing to that site’s feeds with an aggregator (also known as a reader). I use Sharp Reader. Aggregators also let you keep up-to-date with comments. In some cases, regular blog search engines will not pick comments up because the adminstrator has turned “allow pings” off in the discussion section. To suscribe to a feed of a site you like simply type or copy the URL into the aggregator’s “suscribe” or “open” feed section.

Monday September 19, 2005 [PC (16/365) LW (9/365) SH (7/365) ]

September 2005 Total:
C-cloudy (2/365) PC-partly cloudy (16/365)
D-drizzle (2/365) SR-scattered rain showers (2/365)
W-windy (5/365) LW-light winds (9/365) VW-very windy (2/365)
H-humid (12/365) SH-slightly humid (7/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S-sunny (23/365) C-cloudy (30/365) PC-partly cloudy (56/365)
D-drizzle (6/365) R-rainy (4/365) SR-scattered rain showers (11/365)
W-windy (31/365) LW-light winds (58/365) VW-very windy (5/365)
H-humid (52/365) SH-slightly humid (55/365)