Archive for 2010

29 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #175: In The Annex #5

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Mr. Sysop Q&A

  • Why would I want to build a media Center?
  • What’s your setup?
  • Should I buy in the US or Japan?
  • How about Blu Ray discs?
  • What about Hulu & Netflix?
  • Is there a browser I can use in my media center?
  • How about copy protection?
  • Control the media center with an Ipad or Iphone?
  • What’s the Cost?
  • Why is Digital important?
  • What about 3?

Don’t forget to write in with your Media Center questions.

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

28 Dec 2010

Coffee enemas in Japan (and elsewhere)

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25 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #174: Christmas Greetings

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Merry Christmas

Too busy to create a regular show, so today’s episode is jJust a very short message to pass on holiday greetings and to say thanks to everyone for being part of our audience.

Ending Song (Music Alley)
Doo’lit’Saa’Da (The Gift) Featuring the Dine’ Children’s ChoirDouglas Spotted Eagle

Links of Interest
* JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

22 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #173: In The Annex #4

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Links of Interest

Don’t forget to write in with your Media Center questions.

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

18 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #172

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Opening Monologue
* One week until Christmas
* Kobe report
* Bad Communication
* At The Moron Mansion
* Meeting Maggie Sensei
* Suicide on the Shinkansen
* Japan Vlogger People’s Choice Awards on the gimmeaflakeman channel
* Busan Kevin’s Christmas collaboration video
* David Silva’s Moorpark Oasis named CD Of The Year by Indie Music Digest

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Tokyo cracks down on anime, manga porn

Open kimono

Japan creates new medical visa

Tokyo Marathon to implement membership fee (bribe) system

Colon coffee

World’s most expensive coffee beans

Suntory may restrict shipment of premium whiskeys

Middle Song
Christmas Cheese PolkaA Don’t Hug Me Christmas Carol

McDonalds to test home delivery in Tokyo

Japan players criticized by U.S. baseball official

Fukuoka woman sues Google over underwear images

Japan crimes at 23-year low

Japan to tolerate unlicensed use of copyrighted material

J-gov’t mulls rescue plans for abductees

J-deflation affecting sex industry

Ending Song
Cold ChristmasProject Van

Links of Interest
* sukosh
* cafecolon.com
* Cafe Colon Products
* Tokyo Marathon
* Kobe Meet Up Video
* Christmas Collaboration Video
* Japan Vlogger People’s Choice Awards Video
* Bad Communication
* Project Van on Facebook
* Project Van Blog
* Budget Trouble
* Music Alley
* JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Christmas Cheese Polka courtesy of Music Alley.

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

15 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #171: In The Annex-3

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Digital BlissProject Van

“I am scanning all frequencies.” is from Scanning All Frequencies by Xenotoxin, courtesy of Music Alley.

Links of Interest
* Digital Photographs
* Digital Music
* DVD movies
* My videos
* Ripping Movies
* Japanese Television
* DVR
* Internet TV
* Boxee
* Streaming
* Tagging Photographs * Tagging Music files
* What are VOB files
* AnyDVD
* MTS files or AVCHD
* Japanese TV Tuner with Media Center remote control

Don’t forget to write in with your Media Center questions.

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

11 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #170

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Opening Monologue
* Going to Kobe tomorrow
* Stopping by to see Victor, gimmeabreakman, gimmeaflakeman, King of the Morons
* Watch the Kobe Meet live on USTREAM TV
* BusanKevin’s Christmas collaboration vid
* Big JAPUNDIT YouTube channel T-shirt/sweatshirt giveaway complete

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Mozart Bananas

More J-adults living with parents, marrying later

Apple Computer employs 1million Chinese workers

Akihabara massacre site traffic-free again

25% of all J-weddings of the shotgun kind

A-bomb victims worry about same things everyone else does

Middle Song
Christmas Eve In The Trailer ParkBill Kahler

Fraudsters adopting poor, homeless to create false identities

Body scanners coming to Japan

Speeder arrested for eating speed gun report

Supreme Court upholds life sentence for Luck Blackman killer

Japanese stop growing

Cell phone spat delays 70,000 commuters

Ending Song
Man It’s ChristmasJimmy Bratcher

Links of Interest
* Kobe Meet Up Live! (Starts 18:30 December 12 JST)
* Shukan Bunshun Online Magazine (J)
* Discovery Sound
* Kobe Meet Up, December 12
* Budget Trouble
* Jimmie Bratcher Website
* Bill Kahler Website
* JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

All music courtesy of Music Alley.

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

08 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #169: In The Annex-2

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* Consolidate all media in one central entertainment center
* No Media Center For Dummies
* Talking tech directly
* Japan going all digital next year
* Dedicated media players are limited.
* Look at SqueezeBox (Logitech)
* Hardware options
* Need a Windows 7 computer
* Windows Media Center
* No Vista!
* Check your video card output
* Plenty of disk space required
* Cable for connecting to the HDMI terminal of your TV

Theme Music
Digital BlissProject Van

“I am scanning all frequencies.” is from Scanning All Frequencies by Xenotoxin, courtesy of Music Alley.

Links of Interest
* Windows Media Center
* Japan All Digital
* Apple TV
* Google TV
* Media players Guide
* The Logitech Squeezebox
* Windows Home Server
* Cat 6 Cable
* SageTV
* MythTV
* Dsub Connector
* DVI Connector

Don’t forget to write in with your Media Center questions. I will do a Q&A bonus podcast at the end of each month.

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

04 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #168

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Opening Monologue
* Year of the Tiger drawing to a close, get ready for the rabbit.
* Kobe Meet Up next Sunday, December 12!
* Watch the Kobe Meet live on USTREAM TV
* In The Annex off to a great start
* Update on Show Me Japan photo meme.
* Subscribe to JAPUNDIT Video Channel to win a free T-shirt or sweatshirt!

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Watching a tuna being butchered… A great way to celebrate a wedding!

Tokyo taxis go WiFi

Twitter (rice) balls?

Shinkansen service extended to Aomori

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Christmas In HawaiiThe Hot Rods

J-professor sues “Cove” producers
“Prosecutor” arrested for fake ID
What passes for politics in Japan
Family Mart to offer funeral services

Ending Song
The Christmas SeasonDevo Spice

Links of Interest
* Discovery Sound
* Kobe Meet Up, December 12
* Budget Trouble
* The Hot Rods Website
* Devo Spice Website
* JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

01 Dec 2010

Japan Talk #167: In The Annex-1

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* First show of In The Annex, a new weekly Wednesday podcast on the Japan Talk channel.
* Your host: Mr. Sysop
* Options for creating a home media center
* What is a home media center?
* What can it do?
* Home theater PC
* Upcoming topics
* Cutting the cable
* 3 required components: Computer, high-speed Internet connection, display unit (TV)
* HDMI connector + computer + Internet connection is all you need
* Connecting to a smart phone for streaming of content
* Windows 7 system
* Media center automated content management
* 24-hour recording capabilities
* Next time: Required hardware

Theme Music
Digital BlissProject Van

“I am scanning all frequencies.” is from Scanning All Frequencies by Xenotoxin, courtesy of Music Alley.

Links of Interest
* Windows Media Center
* Windows 7
* Home Theater PC (HTPC)
* Cut the Cable
* HDMI Connector
* JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

27 Nov 2010

Japan Talk #166

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Opening Monologue
* In The Annex – New podcast on Japan Talk channel starting December 1, 2010.
* In The Annex – Building a computer based home media center
* Show Me Japan – Weekly photo meme by Budget Trouble
* XMAS In Japan – Musical Christmas Tree in TokyoJAPUNDIT Video Channel
* Meet us in Kobe on December 12!
* Intro made possible thanks to Discovery Sound

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North Korea attack hardly dents Japan parliamentary clownish antics

Super Girls cancel two concerts due to low attendance

Itochu aiming to make workers trilingual

Coast Guard video leaked to CNN one month before YouTube posting

Japan matches France in Michelin three-star eateries

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My Best Friend’s GirlChad Hollister

Don’t drink and drive in Japan!

I am a cat burglar

Otaku matchmaking party overwhelmed by applicants

Streaming J-radio player at Friday Jams

GOPAN bread maker orders stopped

J-prisoners serving life terms hits post-war high

Ending Song
EverymanSubplot A

Links of Interest
* Discovery Sound
* Kobe Meet Up, December 12
* Budget Trouble
* Chad Hollister Website
* Chad Hollister on Facebook
* Chad Hollister on Twitter
* Subplot A Website
* Subplot A on Facebook
* Subplot A on Twitter
* JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

20 Nov 2010

Japan Talk #165

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Opening Monologue

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Woman charged with using abortion drug

9 critical errors a woman can make at a gokon party

French looking to ban sale of Beaujolais Nouveau in plastic bottles

Burger King Japan: Crazy Christmas special

Middle Song
The Proximity Of DeathJordan Reyne

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Panasonic to up overseas hires, cut domestic hires

Attack of the flaming cockroaches

J-teens confess to using YouTube techniques in crime spree

J-vending machine with face recognition

Seniors serious about pachinking

Ending Song
Something Going OnShelley & Cal

Links of Interest

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

19 Nov 2010

Eating Natto 3: Natto Bean Soup

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The third of a series of many different ways to eat natto. This episode shows how to make soup with natto and instant creamy soup. A great way to keep warm during the winter months.

Please subscribe to the JAPUNDIT Video Channel and you can become eligible to win a sweatshirt with strange Japanese English on it that I have worn on a video.

18 Nov 2010

Marmot’s Hole likes Japan Talk

Robert Koehler, the man behind the amazing The Marmot’s Hole blog about all things Korean has written a very kind and flattering post about Japan Talk.

Robert has been a good friend of JAPUNDIT and Japan Talk from day 1, so if you have any interest in Korea, please be sure to pay The Marmot’s Hole a visit.

14 Nov 2010

Japan Talk #164

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Opening Monologue

  • New theme song and opening
  • Thanks to Steven at Discovery Sound
  • Monetizing a website
  • Designers and hosts and the horrors of dealing with them
  • Bozos and idiots
  • Pligg and other social bookmarking systems
  • Users going rogue
  • Podcasting and YouTube more fun
  • Building is fun, maintaining is a drag
  • Spammers – the only ones with energy left on the web
  • Meet us in Kobe on December 12!

Japan Coastguard video leak follow up

Man streams suicide live on the Internet

Cop forgets loaded gun in restaurant toilet

Female rice lovers more likely to develop diabetes

J-reporter held in Myanmar thanked by political prisoners

Middle Song
Ue Wo Muite Arukou (Sukiyaki)Junco & Cheep

Man loses bag of contraband, arrested when he claims it

Tsukiji to ban visitors during year end tuna auctions

City of Phoenix looking for people to teach English in Himeji, Japan

Obama passes on Nobel Peace winner anti-nuke meet in Hiroshima

Seibu Railways starts maid train service

Ending Song
Sumeba Miyako (There’s No Place Like HomeJunco & Cheep

Links of Interest

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com