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        <title>SCENERY OF TIME  - TAK TOKIO -</title>
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        <description>- A Japanese podcaster and a language learner TAK TOKIO&#39;s blog -</description>
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            <title>Is Windows 7 on your PC yet?</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(TAK TOKIO)</author>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;For me, not yet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I got some packages of Windows 7 for my PCs. But they are still not be upgraded. I didn&amp;#39;t use Windows Vista. I&amp;#39;m using Windows XP. This means you have to format disk and install Windows 7 on your PC. If you are using Windows Vista, you can overwrite Windows 7 on your Vista. It means you can keep your own settings and compatible applications. However, mine is XP. Therefore, I have to format and delete my properties.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a bit hard work. So, I hesitate to install it. And I have one more problem.&lt;br /&gt;My PC is iMac and MacBookPro released in 2006. They&amp;#160;have Intel based CPU and chipset on it. But Apple computer will not support 2006 model of them. It means that they do not release any drivers for them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#39;s big problem for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m considering of that resolution.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;I&amp;#39;m so exiceted to wait to see the Cirque du Soleil performance tonight, here in Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fortunately,&amp;#160;my place is&amp;#160;very close place to Tokyo Disney Resort. Therefore, I can get to its theather in 30 mins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I went to see the performance. It was awsome!&lt;br /&gt;It is a&amp;#160;wonderful show I&amp;#39;ve never seen before. You can see ZED in Tokyo. It is a bit expensive. However, you should go there if you have opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thought I want to write down my deep impression detail here. But it will be better not to do it for the people who are not go there yet.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>amazonKindle is now really available in Japan!</title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:57:07 +0900</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s been long long time to&amp;#160;visit and type out on the vox. It has been very busy days after baby comes around for 2 yeas. :) The baby growth as a toddler now. She speaks lots of words and even sentences nowadays...!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the way, I excited to announce you that I&amp;#39;ve got a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/kindle&quot;&gt;amazonKindle&lt;/a&gt; generation 2 international version from amazon.com. I&amp;#39;ve orderd there online and what a surprise it arrived for only few days at our place (Japan) !&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;amazonKindle is&amp;#160;a populer e-book device in the U.S which has a 3G mobile connection tool for download all materials you purchased. Now, it is spreaded to 200 of countries in the world. Japan is one of them. Therefore, I tried to get this one. It will be good to keep me to continue to study English, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can buy e-book via 3G mobile network from amazon.com. You can subscribe not only books but daily newspapers, magazines cheeper than paper book. If you subscribe a newspaper, such as NewYorkTimes, monthly,&amp;#160;it will be automatically delivered to your Kindle device everyday. Oh, 3G connection is free for download. That&amp;#39;s awsome !&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to it, you can read such kind of world-wide-famous newspapers, magazines out side of the U.S. I&amp;#39;ve tried to buy some of newspapers as &amp;quot;current issue&amp;quot;. It&amp;#39;s wonderfule to read on real time.(Maybe faster than paper one, actually) &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;amazonKindle also has a awsome text-to-speach function. You can listen the sound of text with mail or femail voices. It is really enhanced computer voice. But my wife told me &amp;quot;That&amp;#39;s computer voice, anyway. You should not practice your pronounciation.&amp;quot; :)&amp;#160; However, I really impressed by&amp;#160;these&amp;#160;voices&amp;#160;none the worse for&amp;#160;accenting&amp;#160;wrong sometimes.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It will be good function for English learners just like me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;amazonKindle uses special ink for display characters and pictures. This is also watchable technology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you for reading my poor typing.&lt;br /&gt;Keep in touch with all of you on the vox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;best regards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:57:44 +0900</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s clear and going to be very hot today.&lt;br /&gt;However, it&amp;#39;s only for today&amp;#39;s weather; it&amp;#39;s cloudy for the rest of the week. &lt;br /&gt;Tsuyu, the rainy season, began and it&amp;#39;s very humid. Usually it&amp;#39;s hot but sometimes gets chilly.&lt;br /&gt;Since it&amp;#39;s such a fine day, I&amp;#39;m feeling that I want to going to the TDS. However, I gotta go to work now.&lt;br /&gt;This is a picture of&amp;#160;last time.&lt;/p&gt;

    
    
    
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;This is a kind of interesting video with idol master which is populor software among with Otaku.(I think)When you watch this kind of movie on Youtube, you will see what is happening in AKIBA. &lt;br /&gt;This movie is symbolized such a event or circumstances.Looks so Japanese Anime but she is singing Bossa Nova standard with English and Japanese subtitles.&lt;br /&gt;AKIBA is the enormous electorical town and huge malti-cultural town.&lt;br /&gt;You can do anything you want without crime and crimination. :)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Baby became 6 month</title>
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&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s been a long long time since the last time I wrote. Actually, I have a new family member now. My baby was born in Oct last year. Now she can&amp;#160;cruise around by herself. I&amp;#39;m very looking forward to seeing her growing everyday.My baby is now&amp;#160;eight months old. Actually, I have been very busy caring for my first baby since she was born. I studied a lot about parenting. Sometimes it is really hard for me to care for a crying baby at night, but you can enjoy everything, including the hard things. There is no time like the present. The baby is so cute; therefore, I can be patient with it. I feel I&amp;#39;m rather enjoying it. Now she can flip-flap by herself.&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m very looking forward to seeing her growth everyday. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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            <title>Wonderful Kusatsu!</title>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;I&amp;#160;really like to have onsen. I went to Kusatsu hot spring with my wife &lt;del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;on last weekend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;It was one-day trip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/del&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;last weekend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;It was a one-day trip &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;from our place. It sounds a bit hard to drive &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;&lt;del&gt;so long time.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;such a long time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;However, it was alright. Unfortunately, &lt;del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;we involved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;in terrible traffic jam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;we were involved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;in a terrible traffic jam &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;on the way. Moreover, &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;&lt;del&gt;it was&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;it happened&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; several times. There were 4 accidents on &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;&lt;del&gt;the high way.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;the highway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; It took us &lt;del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;to reach Kusatsu more than 6 hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;more than 6 hours to reach Kusatsu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (usually, it takes&amp;#160;3 to 4 hours).&lt;del&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;We dropped by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;and took some rest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;We stopped&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;and rested&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; at every parking area &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;&lt;del&gt;on the way to get there&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;on the way there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; while we involved in &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;&lt;del&gt;big traffic jam&lt;/del&gt;. &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;the big traffic jam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;After all, we could get to our goal, Kusatsu onsen area, in the afternoon. I could find &lt;del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;parking space&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;a parking space&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; near the origin of Kusatsu hot spring, so-called &amp;quot;Yu-batake&amp;quot;. Yu-batake &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;&lt;del&gt;means, field&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;means field &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;of hot water. Actually, this is the origin &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;&lt;del&gt;of hot spring&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;of the hot spring. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;You can see plenty of hot water coming out from underground. &lt;del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;It&amp;#39;s including&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;It includes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; strong sulfur. This is the special feature of Kusatsu hot spring. As I mentioned before on the Beppu hot spring issue, &lt;del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;it is likely to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;Myoban onsen. But&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/del&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;it is like the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;Myoban onsen, but&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160; this is &lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;&lt;del&gt;very common&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;a very common&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and famous place to enjoy &lt;del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionR&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff99&quot;&gt;sulfur based&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/del&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;correctionRF&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #003366; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99&quot;&gt;a sulfur-based&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; hot spring. You can enjoy it at some place for free! If you want to find and try to real and high quality hot spring in Japan, I strongly recommend to try Kusatsu hot spring someday.&lt;/p&gt;

    
    
    
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&lt;p&gt;Hi folks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been to Kusatsu onsen place in the beginning of this year. It was just a one-day trip from the Tokyo area. It sounds a bit hard but it was ok. I drove my car to Kusatsu. Unfortunately, we were involved in a bad jam on the way. There were four accidents on several parts of the highway. It was a really bad jam. It took us more than 6 hours to reach Kusatsu. (usually, it takes 3 to 4 hours). We dropped by and took a rest in each parking area while we were involved in the big traffic jam. After all, it was already afternoon when we arrived in the Kusatsu onsen area. I found a parking space near the entrance of Kusatsu onsen, called &amp;quot;Yu-batake&amp;quot;. Yu-batake means &amp;quot;field of hot water&amp;quot;; this is actually the origin of a hotspring. You can see plenty of hot water coming out from underground. It has a lot of sulphur. This is a special feature of the Kusatsu hot spring. As I mentioned before on the Beppu Hotspring issue, it is like the Myoban onsen. This is a very common and famous place to enjoy a sulphur-based hot spring. You can enjoy it at some places for free! Today, &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:21:27 +0900</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;I finished to watch the 4400 season 1 yesterday. It was really fun. Actually, I&amp;#39;m a fan&amp;#160;of X-FILES.&amp;#160;I&amp;#160;had a tour&amp;#160;of its filming locations by myself when I was a student. Flilming locations of 4400 is also Vancouver.&amp;#160;My wife and I&amp;#160;could find some familiar place with us in the movie. When I went to Vancouver last time, I could see its film unit with big white trucks at the UBC. The next time we go to Vancouver, we will try to find some location where the 4400 had been taken again.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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