Archive for September 2003
I found a simle but flexible blogging tool, called blosxom, which runs on unix-based operating systems and Windows. Surprisingly, it has at most as short as 150 lines, although it has all basic blogging functions. Because of the small size, it is lightweight. Also, we can add new functions to it in an easy way with the plug-in feature. You can download this tool in the below site.
blosxom :: the zen of blogging ::
Although I know how interesting blog is, I can hardly tell friends of mine what interests me in blog. I may think that most people who do blogging in the world agree with me. I’d like to tell you this. For you, what is blog? What interests you in blog?
A couple of days ago, my relative, who lives in Hita, Ooita Prefecture, sent me a lot of pears called Hosui. According to my own research, although Hosui is produced almost all over Japan, the Hosui in Hita is sweeter than that in any other area because of the climate in Hita. Because Hita is located in a basin, the temparatures vary between day and night. This climate makes the pears in Hita sweeter.
When I opend up the box, a sweet smell penetrated the room. Immediately I cut one of the pears in hafl and ate it.
I think that this kind of pears has adequite sweetness for most adults. I know a sweeter pear, called 21seiki, than this. Children might like 21seiki more than Hosui, but I think that they are excessively sweet for most adults.
To examine my English skills, I took a standardized test called TOEFL today. My score is 24 in LC section, 13-29 in SWE section and 29 in RC section. While I am satisfied with the scores in SWE and RC section, I am totally not with that in LC section.
Recently, to improve listening ability, I keep listening some audio materilas repeatedly while going to my office and coming home. As a result, I have felt that I can listen to English better than I did a few month ago. However, my current listening ability is not enough to get more than 25 in LC section in TOEFL.
In order to improve my listneing ability daramatically, I try to do dicatation while listening to English in my commuting time.
If anyone else knows a better way to improve listening ability than I will, please advise me of it.
