I am trying to get information about traditional japanese door knobs.  They are not really door knobs, more like indentations made out of metal and with floral embellishment and used to slide room dividers open and closed. I put in the search phrase “japanese traditional door knob” (without quotes) and what is the result?  Go…

I got a new used ZTE Avid 4G phone today.  It is the first Android phone I’ve ever had.  I already have an Android tablet but that is different. I just found instructions for rooting the phone.  It was very easy.  I am also making the root file available here for convenience sake.

There continues to be tension over claims of sovereignty of the islands called Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyu in China, and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan. It is possible that armed conflict will result which would be grave and senseless. Taiwan, China, and Japan should agree to set their boundaries right at the islands. There is a region…

I just found this driver online for the Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family which Intel chose to orphan by not releasing Windows 8 drivers for. This effectively means anyone with a laptop with this (or any of these other) graphics chips cannot upgrade to Windows 8. I can’t understand this either since Windows…

UPDATE: Please see this more recent post for more up-to-date information about this issue. One major annoyance with the Windows 8 “upgrade” on this Thinkpad was the reduced functionality of the TrackPoint driver which actually removed the usual three choices for the middle button: scrolling, magnifying, or neither. Scrolling has always been the default but…

Am getting close to reinstalling Windows 7 on my main laptop as I’m just getting tired of all these nagging issues with Windows 8. The Thinkpad driver for the trackpoint lost a critical feature which was to customize the middle-click button, which I always set to “do nothing” so that the middle-click can be used…

What was this person doing roaming freely in society? How many others are there like him wandering around at large? Things are in a dire state of breakdown. A 10-time felon has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of former Oakland Tribune freelance photographer Lionel Fluker, who was struck and killed…

I wish I could do this voice caricature in this post that I sometimes do of the demonic energy that I encounter in America when I get disgusted of the aggro energy I sometimes encounter. Today I finally went on to catalogchoice.org and submitted requests to various companies through the web site to remove multiple…

The latest release from Studio Ghibli, “Kazu Tachinu” or “The Wind is Rising”, will be released in cinemas in Japan on 20 July, 2013! I wish they would release more animations! source: http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/studio-ghiblis-newest-animated-feature-gets-official-release-date

A woman who I admire highly had a Zumba studio in a small town in Maine. On the side she would see clients for sex work. Now they have busted her and come down on her hard, forcing her to confess to a bunch of charges and now she may spend a considerable amount of…