Seven Degrees From Home

Over at my Joyo Kanji page there are now links across some dictionary entries.

For example, there are seven links looping a chain through "house" (but not yet the counters for houses, or greenhouse or warehouse or castle ...)

If you have the Hanazono Mincho font already installed, the page will load promptly as the CSS stylesheet is now set to look for a local font first.

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Joyo Kanji Journey

Over at my jōyō kanji (2010) page with the HanaMinA font, I have started subtle changes in the first chapter of their series (so to speak.)

A linear series of over 2000 kanji dictionary entries is not quite as limiting as it might seem.

Can you start a story at the top and continue down with the tale?

If you make your own snapshot of the page, you can improve on the arrangement to your own liking.  Then rearrange the page of kanji-only.  Aha!

N.B.  On your own web versions, please credit the Kanjidic2 project where appropriate.

旅行

Kanji Aule Page

I am working on my personal Aule web page for study and review of Japanese Kanji characters and their meanings (very often with another Kanji or with other Hiragana characters.)

Here is a small collection from one of the links on my Aule page:

見, 898B,   18, see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion
視, 8996,  878, inspection, regard as, see, look at
眺, 773A, 1591, stare, watch, look at, see, scrutinize
覧, 89A7,  991, perusal, see
看, 770B,  827, watch over, see
診, 8A3A, 1440, checkup, seeing, diagnose, examine
査, 67FB,  678, investigate
糾, 7CFE, 1151, twist, ask, investigate, verify
試, 8A66,  499, test, try, attempt, experiment
認, 8A8D,  952, acknowledge, witness, discern, recognize, appreciate, believe

The numbers are UCS or UTF-16BE UNICODE codepoint followed by Henshall index.
The English equivalents are from Kanjidic2.

見る  miru to view   keshiki  landscape   景色  spring wind 東風

原, 539F,  107, meadow, original, primitive, field, plain, prairie, tundra, wilderness

Today we see the verdant spring colour: 緑

春

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Sample Aule Home Page Page

 
 Here is an example of an Aule Home Page in IE 8:

 In this example, the browser URL address field has not been suppressed.

 In an Aule-Browser it might not exist at all.

The sample is running on aule-browser.com with a few additional features.

 

NetVibes: Google passwords in personalized web portal

Personalized web home pages should provide you with a secure, useful, stable and reliable portal or dashboard.  They should remove the need to type the same URL address each day and the risk of an address typo - especially as we now see top-level URL changes coming where  .con could become as comon as .com and .edi be a .edu typing error.

NetVibes from France is one of many current providers of what should be a personal web page.
It is not.

A personal web page builder would allow you to choose email provider links, such as a link to www.gmail.com – but instead NetVibes offers a widget to hold your Google Mail ID and password.  No thanks.  My browser no longer is doing that, why would I have your widget store the same private content on your server?

A corporation using a home page builder would likely not want personal GMAIL in the mix at all - let alone passwords stored on a NetVibes server. But apparently they are doing so.

Another service recently asked me to turn on Java in the browser on my net book.  No thanks.

One answer lies in a secure client-side web technology – such as is offered by www.curl.com – and using a framework in which the "builder" provider does not know where the user stores either that page template or widget field contents such as Google Mail ID and password. The challenge is to make the portal available to the user across multiple devices - and to restrict it to the company domain and the company-issued mobile device went that is corporate policy.

That challenge can be met at the expense of a few more steps in setup and the use of a user-selected trusted third-party who is at arms-length from the "builder" service. The latter need not know which trusted repository was selected.

Curl on the desktop is quite adequate to the challenge - but Curl 7.0 does not yet have a mobile solution.

This is not to minimize the challenge - as can be seen by the case of HushMail in Canada and their use of Java in the browser.

Ἀλκιβιάδου [ was heard out in the ] αὐλῇ

In Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades is heard in the "fore court" or αὐλῇ whereas in Esther the king's servants are said to be in the king's gate or aule.

The sheep might also be brought within the confines of the aule at night.

At Heidelberg there remains die alte Aula Universität Heidelberg.

In Spanish, where boys once gathered in the courtyard with there slates, the classrooms are aula.

poet Robert Hawkes

The poet Robert Hawkes will read in Fredericton at Molly's on Sunday at 2 PM [May 1, 2011].

Here are some relevant web links:


http://www.brokenjaw.com/catalog/pg36.htm

http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/hawkes.htm

http://books.google.com/bookse

http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/h/hawkes_robert_ernest.html

http://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Robert-Hawkes/dp/0864920326
http://www.amazon.ca/Paradigms-Robert-Hawkes/dp/0864920326

https://lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/hawkes/bio.html

http://www.gooselane.com/author/152

http://nbwriters.blogspot.com/2008/09/robert-hawkes-at-odd-sundays.html

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=10119

Nela Rio will also read on this occasion.