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I got caught in fog in the flat bit near the top of Hakuba 47 very early season once. Pretty soon I couldn't tell which way was up and which was down. And going down didn't feel like a particularly sensible thing to do in zero visibility, even on a totally empty groomer.

I did a translation recently for a sports club in Yokohama where you have to register each one of your tattoos and have it vetted. You also have to sign a disclaimer agreeing not to make a fuss if you are thrown out when somebody complains, without refund of your subscription. If you're found with a new, unregistered tattoo, you'll just have to go jogging or something.

Thanks for the tips. My provider is completely lame and provides no information or support of whatever type, and I'm thinking of changing. Nor do I have a special e-mail for customers. Also, I want to keep my mobile bills down to the absolute minimum. And I won't be going that far from my PC so it would be on anyway. So in this case, it looks like "Rules and Alerts" with all my customers registered is probably the best bet for the time being. Thanks again. If you've got any more ideas or points, keep 'em coming!

If I have my computer running in the house and I want to be alerted by my mobile phone in the garden about e-mail arriving on my computer, is there any setting or add-in to MS Outlook that lets you do that? Or is there some better way of setting things up? Any help would be much appreciated!

> You should see what China has done to its rivers in the name of growth, shocking (not to mention the behaviour of people who think of them as open-air flowing dumpsters). All developed countries went through the same thing. Japan used to look utterly shocking to people from Western countries after those Western countries had cleaned up their own similar mess. The word 'environmentalist' seems to be used very loosely these days...

I'll certainly be tuning in next week to find out how the environmentalists' "precautionary principle" (get the state to interfere now, just in case) is killing people.

> You can run Internet Explorer 7, which just came out, on XP. And if you do, you'll find that your old version of MusicMatch Jukebox doesn't work any more and you'll quickly uninstall IE7.

We already have Peter North on our forum. Now that Don is going to be having more free time, is it unrealistic to expect that we might be seeing ; Don R SJ Forums Member Member # 2432 sometime late in the season? Then we can all be ashamed of ourselves for what we posted on this thread.

"F**k you Goemon, just f * * k You!!"

Nice pics. How is the quality of the snow in NZ? In all the pics I've ever seen of NZ, the snow always looks hard, sparse, icy, and chopped up. Does NZ get any fluff anywhere?

Is that Britney? What is that bear doing? Why is there a bear there? Is that washing up liquid? Why would anybody want to squirt washing up liquid at Britney? I just don't get it...

Here's a link. www.translationzone.com (may the good Lord have mercy on my soul, for I have tempted an innocent young man) The thing really pays for itself. ("Go straight to the 5th Ring of Hell").

> 2 of the women I used to work with started up their own company and ask me to do translations from time to time. Heheh, I know that type of women very well. I bumped into one the other day in a meeting that we're both targeting as a client. She handed me a note saying "I'll try to get you work from these people if you teach my staff how to use the translation memory software..." I just grinned and handed the note back. Extraordinary and unthinkable business propositions require extraordinary and unthinkable inducements, lady, thought I to myself. > What is translation memory

Hey, when are you going to start handing out all-Shikoku passes! Me and ger and snobee are feeling pretty snubbed here.

I'm with tsondaboy (we classicists are a tightknit bunch). The people that the electorate have voted in have not shown any ability to battle Hydra effectively in the past, and the President, Vice President, and assorted Harpies have World Historical fantasies that they may yet unleash with as fortuitous results as the opening of Pandora's box.

I use translation memory software so I usually refuse any documents that aren't editable. And usually, lo and ****ing behold!, the data can be produced. Not surprisingly really, especially considering that PDFs are produced on data processing equipment... Are you doing much translation these days? Better stop quickly before you get trapped...

> it's for a translation. Looks like I have to do it the old way. It is so much easier being able to overwrite the bits as you go. PDF##kers! I feel your pain. Today and yesterday I've been slaving over a stupid PDF like that. I swore I'd never do another one as I'd rather starve. But I caved. I wish I hadn't.

Tsondaboy, can you do it in Acrobat if the text is not actually selectable in Reader? If you can't, there's not much point in having Acrobat.

Quick answer - you can't. Not easily. If the PDfriggenF does not have selectable text, you can't extract it. If it has selectable text you can use the cursor tool and select a few chunks at a time, copy them, paste them into Word, then go through eliminating the line breaks. Or you can Google for one of the PDF text extraction tools available. Although if it's Japanese you're looking to extract, I think you're out of luck (that was the case last time I looked). Let me know what you end up doing, as I'm interested in good methods. BTW PrimoPDF is quite nice for 'print

For 30,000 yen for 20 minutes, I would sell my soul to the devil. But not for 5,000 yen.

Popular places they are, especially in the sticks. I like the signs they display such as "Low temperature polishing!" and "100% return!", alluding to dodgy practices of the past where a noticeable portion of your rice would disappear and the rest would come back half baked. Don't forget to take a bag for the polishings too, for all your home preserving and fertilizing needs! There are also smaller machines that actually sell packaged, cooked rice for those chronically incapable of converting their own staple food into edible form. The product is occasionally featured on TV ads depict

What's a reasonable price to pay for a D70? Is it about the 100,000 yen mark?

> but EBC's photo had an SJ logo which is an identifying mark. To me, them cropping that out is the worst part of this because they did it knowingly I think that's a tad naiive. I like the SJ quid pro quo - I've benefitted from it myself - but the SJ logo is not EBC's mark ... I wouldn't want it on any pic I took, which is why I use other free hosts. As for the 'benefitting for financial gain', is it even a quantifiable amount? I want to get a digital SLR too. This photography/web publishing thing is too good to miss.

> there was a bright flash of light. I've seen that! It's a shocker ain't it? Apropos of nothing in particular, when Japanese people hit their heads, they seem to get permanent build-ups of calcium where they hit, unless they take very prompt cooling action and a program of massage afterwards. This I learnt when my son has whacked his head. Doctors have lectured me very sternly for not bringing him in sooner. But I have had knocks to the skull such as he has not, and have no permanent bumps, although of course the cooling and massage was not even considered.

> photo credits don't help pay the bills O11 Freely slapping up photos on the internets and having them credited to SJ doesn't help pay the bills either. Does it now? A bit of perspective is required maybe. Either you're in business or you're not, and if you're in the photo business, you'd better be systematic about identifying your work as your own. (Though God knows why that other place can't take their own photos. It's hard to take a bad picture of the Hakkers mountains...)