ibiblio, you rock!

I didn’t notice this until today but the guide to Japanese grammar is featured on the front page of ibiblio! It has brought in about a 100 visitors a week for the past few weeks or about 0.5% of overall traffic with a bounce rate of 44%. ๐Ÿ™‚

Well, that’s not bad considering a non-targeted audience from a online library archive site. I’m proud to be part of Ibiblio’s mission. They’ve been a truly great hosting provider kindly serving up www.guidetojapanese.org for free since the beginning with unlimited space! I did write this in Notepad++ though because the site was inaccessible due to DNS nameserver issues. Heh.

Anyway, this post is to thank the great folks at ibiblio, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, IBM, and AMD for having me on their servers. Thanks!

And thank YOU for all your kind comments, support, and interest in the Japanese language. I hope you enjoy the new site and the new content I’m trying to put out as fast as possible.

Fonts matter people!

I thought I’d try Chrome out since it has cool themes and I like that kind of stuff.

I considered switching for simple browsing until I went to the news.google.co.jp. Compare the font to Firefox.

Chrome
Chrome Font

FireFox
Firefox font

The font just looks really, really bad. There are jagged edges everywhere and I don’t recall ใ€Œๅ“กใ€ having two diagonal lines like in. It’s just downright painful to read. But by far, this takes the cake.

Zetsu

Are you freaking kidding me? This is version 3 and it doesn’t even display the right freaking language?!

This was on all my Windows XP machines including a Japanese version of Windows XP.

Link to original article: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20091029-OYT1T00108.htm