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Blog: Wordpress-Facebook Gallery Plugin

Justin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:58:03 +0000

Following up on this post, I’ve just completed and released my very first Wordpress plugin, designed to allow bloggers to quickly and easily generate Wordpress photo galleries from any Facebook album they can access.

You can read the full documentation and see a small demo gallery here. Let… [Continue Reading]

Blog: JLPT 1Q

Justin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:32:44 +0000

As many of you no doubt know, the JLPT – Japanese Language Proficiency Test – is pretty much the internationally recognized measure of Japanese language ability for nonnative speakers. Something like the TOEFL for students of English. It’s a four-level test, where level 4 is beginner and level 1 is… [Continue Reading]

Blog: jKMLMap Released

Justin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:33:14 +0000

Throughout all the various additions and revisions to this website over the years, I’ve built up quite a pile of custom code – in the form of Wordpress plugins, widgets, templates, and sometimes as standalone libraries. For ages I’ve thought of releasing some of these as free plugins, so others… [Continue Reading]

Blog: Tribal Differences

Justin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:01:38 +0000

I’ve written several posts now about Matt Harding, a YouTube phenomenon who became famous as the result of a simple video that shows him dancing goofily at various spots around the world. This video became so popular that it’s since turned into a full-time career; Matt is now a published… [Continue Reading]

Blog: Digital Nomads: A New Lifestyle?

Justin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:35:19 +0000

When I left my job as a video game programmer in Japan in late 2007, I never actually had the specific intention of becoming a long-term freelance programmer. Nor did I have some grand scheme for country-hopping to different parts of the world every month of the year. Truth be… [Continue Reading]

Blog: The Gaijin Host

Justin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:47:37 +0000

Over the five-year lifetime of this blog I’ve written some wildly different articles – about everything from nerdy ways to customize your cellphone to narratives about epic nights of partying at Brazilian Carnaval. Some of these posts I’ve been particularly fond of, and others I never really gave a second… [Continue Reading]

Blog: Justin-Klein.com 2.0

Justin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:11:03 +0000

My last post, written more than ten months ago, began with the words “It’s certainly been awhile, hasn’t it?” Never could I’ve imagined that those words would mark… [Continue Reading]

Blog: Life at Home

Justin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:43:52 +0000

Well, it’s certainly been awhile, hasn’t it?

It may come as little surprise that life back here at home is significantly less exciting, and thus significantly less… [Continue Reading]

Blog: Anki: Memorization Reborn

Justin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:30:06 +0000

Those few of you who’ve been reading since the early days might recall way back in 2005, when I first started studying Japanese in Kyoto. It wasn’t long after my arrival that I discovered a revolutionary method for effectively learning Kanji: namely, the Heisig Method (referred to in posts here… [Continue Reading]

Blog: Ken Tanaka

Justin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:55:30 +0000

I stumbled on a great YouTube channel the other day.

This guy, who goes by the name of Ken Tanaka, claims to be a white American who was adopted by a Japanese family and spent his entire life growing up in Shimane prefecture. Now, in his early adulthood, he’s returned… [Continue Reading]