June 24th, 2004
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Thinking and feeling in more languages than one
This is a short post to let you know that I’ve started to feel the strong urge to write my thoughts in Japanese from time to time. Currently my literary skills are pitiful, but I’m not going to get any better by being bashful. In any case, from now on a number of my posts will be in Japanese, so I recommend downloading the Japanese font extension to your web browser if you haven’t already [Mom, I did this for you already on your PC]. Of course, I think that just due to the fact that I have the encoding for this page set to Shift-JIS, you’ve probably already been prompted a number of times to download the font upon visiting, unless you clicked “No” and “Never ask me again”, in which case you’re in trouble because now you’re going to have to add the functionality manually through Tools..Internet Options..Languages..Add. Then you need to get Japanese from the list, and it should commence downloading from MS.
Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience but until there’s an OS that natively has both Asian and western fonts installed (well, a non-Asian version of Windows with that feature), we have to make do. I have my home computer set up to not only display Asian languages, but support input for Chinese and Korean as well. My PC at work is even the complete Japanese version of XP. Fortunately all the menus are almost in the same places, and half of the options are in katakana 
Long story short, install the font for your browser if you haven’t already, Japanese is really a beautiful language to look at, if nothing else (as you will soon see).
