Five Years of Japanamac
21 May 2008 | Comments (3)It’s a little late, but this past February was the 5th anniversary of Japanamac! Oops… Sorry Japanamac! Anyways, to celebrate the occasion how about some fun (and interesting) facts about Japanamac?
Fact: Japanamac’s first post was on February 16th, 2003. You can see the first post here.
Fact: The site was developed and produced entirely by my good friend Noel Jackson of eight6. He still helps me with the site from time to time!
Fact: Japanamac’s name is actually a combination of Japan and Mac, as in Macintosh (Apple) computers. Japanamac was originally intended to be a technology blog focusing on Apple products in Japan. It didn’t really turn out that way, though. It was pretty much a blog to keep my family and friends informed about my life in Japan right from the beginning!
Fact: I’ve lost most of my statistic data for the past 5 years, but it seems that we get an average of about 50 unique viewers everyday.
Fact: I almost always change the post date and time when I do an update. It’s not to trick anybody or fool RSS readers or anything like that. I’m just trying to keep chronological order.
Fact: I have to approve all comments made on the site before they will appear. The reason is because I got sick of ads and spam showing up in the comments section. Believe me! There were a lot! Anyways, I’m thinking about moving the comments over to a password based system so that trusted users can post right away using passwords.
Fact: Someday I was hoping to move Japanamac’s content away from personal stories and over to more general (and interesting) stories about Japan. I doubt that will ever happen though.
Fact: I’m not sure when we will come back to live in America, but I have actually played around with a new logo just in case. Amerimac, anybody?
Fact: The modern version of Japanamac is made with WordPress just in case you were wondering.
Fact: At least one kanji in the “Kanji of the Day” section at the bottom of the page is incorrect. The problem is, I can’t figure out which one it is! Doh!
Fact: During our last major overhaul of Japanamac it seems that a bunch of text got messed up by mistake. If you see any strange text just send us a mail and we will fix it! Thanks! For example, apostrophes got changed into this: ’
Fact: I have made many friends from all over the world because of Japanamac. It seems that many people are really interested in Japan and wonder what daily life in Japan is like. I always get great questions and I’m happy that people seem to enjoy the stories on Japanamac. We hope that we can continue for many years to come.
Dessert Heaven
19 May 2008 | Comments OffNow this is dessert heaven!!! My favorite Nespresso coffee and IKEA’s amazing Almondy cake. The combination is just, well… Yummy!
Golden Week Galleries
15 May 2008 | Comments OffIt took a while, but the Golden Week Galleries are now online! There were a lot of pictures so I split them into two galleries. You can click here for the Shirakawa gallery and here for the Takayama gallery. Oh, you can also use the links at the bottom of the page. Enjoy!
