If there is no need to distinguish them, I can call what I do in my company "hob". If a distinction is necessary, I can call it "job" as before.
]]>When I was in the 9th grade (in 1972 (?)), CBS Sony (now called SME) sold a series of LPs titled Schönberg's complete work. I was just interested in Schönberg, so I bought all the LPs of the series. This piece was in this series. This is one of the music pieces that represents the 20th Century, which is often called the century of world wars.
The Schoenberg Center also uploaded "Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16" and "Chamber Symphony No. 1", but they are incomprehensively shortened. They do not contain whole music but they are too long as samples.
]]>Although I have not yet been able to access the Second Life, I experienced an other virtual world. It was the DigitalSpace Traveler (DST) developed by DiPaola, et al. The previous version of the DST was called "OnLive! Traveler", and BIGLOBE (a Japanese big service provider) once serviced it. I tried the DST. Because Japanese could not be used in the DST, I was afraid of being shot by machine-gun-like English words. The world I entered was, on the contrary, dull, but I finally encountered an avatar. I tried an interaction but it was failed. I guess there is more chance of interaction failure because the DST uses voice instead of characters for chat and voice communication is easy to fail because of technical problems. I am not sure the cause of the failure was technical or human (i.e., the guy did not want to interact with me). However, anyway, I missed the only chance of interaction and I quitted the bored DST. I guess similar events often happen in the Second Life too.
]]>When I used "asynchronous cellular automaton" or just "asynchronous cellular" as keywords, my pages, including Randomized Asynchronous Cellular Automata (RACA), are ranked sixth or seventh. I was not sure why Wikipedia's page on Asynchronous Cellular Automaton (which mentioned to my small work) was not on the first page (but it came first in the second page). I could use a more specific word "RACA", then my research theme page on RACA in Japanese was shown as the sixth item, but the corresponding English page was not on this page.
If I use "local information computation", some of my Chemical-Computation Model (CCM) related pages came first. However, I could not access this research theme page (top page) easily.
My pages on "Self-reproduction of Web pages" was ranked sixth even if I used a general word "self-reproduction". Although the title of this page is in English, the content is in Japanese. So you have to click a link on this page to access the English page.
If I use keywords such as "logic vector processing", "logic vectorization", "Prolog vectorization", or "symbol vector processing", I could found Logic/Symbolic Vector Processing related pages. However, the pages that came first varies according to the keyword combination.
By the way, although I can find my pages at high rank, often unexpected pages come first. So I need some adjustment. That means, in Movable Type, I cannot specify the format of pages that are displayed when people follow the links attached to the tags. That's why I use the original page design for such tag search pages. People may be puzzled when they see such pages because such tag search pages contain Japanese characters and do not contain appropriate links. I am not yet sure how I can solve this problem.
I wrote on search results using Japanese keywords in this entry in my Japanese blog. I found Japanese search results are more useful and stable because research theme pages came first. It is not very easy to use English search results.
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Related links: C# Programming Language, The 2nd Edition@Amazon.com, ECMA's C# Language Specification.
]]> Note: I submitted this book review to Amazon.com's review. ]]>Until then, I had experiences to build hardwares, such as radios and stereo amplifiers, but I had almost never touched softwares. However, in contrast, after the above experience, I seldom touched hardware but often touched software. That was because the wiring of the microcomputer was so painful, and I decided not to build hardware. I can write that this decision led to myself of these years.
]]> P.S. By the way, why did I arrayed toggle switches on the panel? This is because I believed it was the traditional design. At that time, a microcomputer called Altair 8800 was sold at a quite high price. It had a panel with arrayed switches (but they were not toggle switches). The microcomputer hobby club in the University of Tokyo displayed such machines at the Komaba Festival.By the way, I wrote only on hardware here. But I also wrote on Software and hardware in "Research Topics".
]]>I knew a link collection is an unstable thing. Linked pages would be lost one by one, and a link collection would loose its meanings. I made efforts on my pages no to loose its meanings. However, my Web site, which was originally in Rimnet, was damaged by a cracker and I had to change my URL. I thought it was the only way to avoid such trouble again to have my own domain. So, I moved all the pages to kanadas.com. Before that, I had to change the URLs of my pages, not only the pages in Rimnet.
]]> I talked on my link collections again. "Think about Peace and Nuclear Power" is a page that I created with my wish. For about two years after I created this page, I tried to track moved links and restored the page. However, now there is almost no live links in this page. On the other hand, most of the information on the pages called "the Hanshin Earthquake -- Information Volunteers and Computer Networks" (which was written solely in Japanese), which is a collection of information mostly from NiftyServer (now called @nifty), is still mostly available, because NiftyServe was not accessible from the Internet and thus I copied the information to my site with the authors' permission.I guess, if the information suppliers of WWW pay attention to the continuity of their contents and URLs, link collections will be more useful, but this has not been a reality.
P. S. A related content is in Spoiled link collections.
]]>This program was my first practical program for a PC. With this editor, one can visually edit programs, i. e., one can change a text or a Basic program while looking at it. However, I had almost never used a good visual editor such as vi or emacs at that time. My favorite editor was the editor for Mitsubishi's mainframe computer called Melcom Cosmo 700. With this editor, we could edit a program while looking at about 25 lines, but it was basically a line editor. Because I mimicked this editor, one could edit a text by using commands such as "I" (Insert a line) or "C" (Change part of a line by using string matching).
]]> P. S. Afterword, when I bought a PC9801, which was the NEC's famous PC, I developed and used an editor for PC9801 by rewriting BATE. However, because there was nothing specially new, I did not submit it to a magazine. And after I started using MS/DOS and left Basic untouched, the editor was also gone to somewhere.A related entry is available.
]]>In companies, new commers are often involved in handling complicated programs, and they may fail to grasp whole program. When I start a new project, I usually start with a program as simple as possible, and try to grasp whole system. In SSIP, I intended to try this type of practice in a protocol for conversations. It became a longer program than I had expected, but it must be shorter than other similar programs (though I was not sure if there are similar programs). The program is free to use. I hope people will use this.
]]> P.S. You must download the program of the SSIP Communicator to use it. You could access this program easier if if was an applet. Actually, it was programmed as an applet. However, unfortunately, because of the security protection mechanism of Java, it is not so easy to run a downloaded SSIP Communicator on your computer. The Japanese counterpart of this article is this. ]]>P.S. I also opened a Japanese version of this blog here.
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