Herro Flom Japan

Make sure your version of WordPress is up-to-date and that you're making frequent backups. Hackers wiped my databases and got the sites ready to use as link farms. They must have gained access to wp-config.php and found the DB password. I wasn't making backups of Herro Flom Japan or Japlish Podcast and I lost a [...]

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I found this interesting fact in my Twitter stream yesterday morning. My first reaction was, “I call bullshit.” I’ve lived here for over 19 years and not once have I ever heard of condoms being sold door-to-door. In fact, I can’t see why they would be sold that way seeing as how every convenience store [...]

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It's the middle of the week already and the only extra masks I'm seeing are on service industry employees–convenience store cashiers and people working in restaurants mostly. I was expecting to see a repeat of what it was like in Osaka a few weeks ago where it looked like 9 out of 10 people were [...]

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Last night while the rest of my family was at a soccer match, lightning struck about 100 meters from our house and blew out our TV, VCR, Wii, phone, wife's PC and fried the network card in my PC. Luckily the fridge, washer and air conditioners were spared. On the bright side, with nothing left [...]

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