The Iroha Project http://www.irohaproject.org main site finally recieved the much needed updates to the Japanese section. Presently, both English and Japanese images and audio are running very well. There are a few difficult to hear sounds that need to be recorded but the problem is with Audacity. Somehow there is a strange feedback sound that gets recorded, which can only partially eliminated through the use of the Audacity effects. Perhaps tomorrow I will be uploading three new languages (Mandarin,Guangxi Baihua (a dialect of Cantonese) and Southern Zhuang http://www.projecth2o.org/irohaproject/2009/02/12/origins-of-the-zhuang-peoples/ ) on the about page http://www.irohaproject.org/help.php.

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I just installed Ubuntu Linux onto a notebook PC after windows died. As far as I am concerned windows and microsoft should die but unfortunately that will not be happening soon. At first I was having problems installing it because some kernal panic error but realized it is some memory problem with the PC. Just need to shut down the PC for awhile. Other than memory problems linux seems to run a little faster than windows. After installing linux the desktop looks just like a Mac so if Mac uses the linux system and Mac PCs are much more expensive then Mac must be a scam. Taking a free open source operating system and charging people for it. I now believe that both windows and Mac are a scam.

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I finally got around to giving my website a new make over. After looking and experimenting with different content management systems I finally made up my mind to install Joomla. Joomla is one of the few opensource CMSs that have changed a lot since I first looked at it 3 years ago both main program and plugins. http://www.projecth2o.org

Looks like the gallery on Nutang has been fixed up so I uploaded a few pictures from where I work too.

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Most popular and un-popular companies for university graduates to seek work in Japan

1 (4) JR Tokaido
2 (9) JR East Japan
3 (1) ANA freight
4 (3) Mizuho Financial Group
5 (20) Mitsubishi UFJ Trust
6 (2) Mitsubishi UFJ bank
7 (17) Tokyo Marine Nichido Insurance
8 (29) NTT dokomo
8 (5) Mitsui Sumitomo Bank
10 (13) Benesse Corporation
15 (9) Panasonic
29 (8) Sony
77 (20) Canon
96 (6) Toyota automobile

Last year�s ranking is in brackets. Automobile and electronic industry taking a sharp loss of new employees source Ritsumeikan Inforum Express vol. 7, April 9.
It is interesting to see that new graduates are looking at ANA freight for work while equally interesting to see that banking has become popular. I guess working at a bank is one way to get money in hard economic times.

I wonder if the loss of new employees in Toyoto has anything to do with the fact
that 6 Toyota affliated companies are in the red? Source Nishi Nihon News
April 29 Morning Ed.

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