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Caterpillar's Murmur

Set My Goal

(THU) April 18th, 2024

8:21 p.m. A day has already passed and my preparation hasn't moved an inch. Well, I had to tend to other things such as looking up the requirements to install Ubuntu as well as detailed procedures for installation.

Yes, I'm seriously thinking about switching the OS of my old lap-top from Windows to Ubuntu, as Microsoft will end its support for Windows 10, which is the latest OS version I could possibly install on the old device. Another reason is that having online meetings on my iPad via wifi leaves much to be desired, so I want to use my lap-top. But the web camera on the lap-top hasn't been working properly for the past year despite the latest driver being installed. I'm suspecting Windows to be causing some sort of trouble.

With all the searching, reading along with my language learning app activities, I've been kept quite busy all day. Have finally set my goal, though for Yomiuri Milers' Cup. It's a mile race run on the outer track of Kyoto turf on the opening week. Unless something goes terribly wrong, the pace is not going to get tight like the past two years when the race was run at Hanshin.

Therefore, all you have to do is look for the top four or five horses that can run the last three furlongs faster than the others, while making sure they don't have physical or mantal damage from their previous races.

The End

Caterpillar

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Pocketchange
Pocketchange - How to charge your left-over Yen to digital money

If you are ready to leave Japan but have your pocket heavy with leftover Japanese Yen, why not empty your pockets and feel light with Pocketchange?

Holidays

Holidays of April

    April 29th (MON)
  • Showa Day

Food Catalog

Cream Anmitsu
Cream Anmitsu

Fed up with the heat? Here's a nice cold Japanse-style sweets to cheer you up! Cream Anmitsu is a delux version of Anmitsu, Kanten(Japanese gelatine) jelly and fruits with ice cream topping and Kuromitsu caramel sauce poured over it. And what's great, it's low calorie!

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Manned flight by oxyride dry-cell batteries project

The Tokyo Institute of Technology in cooperation with Panasonic, has led the project 'Manned Flight by Oxyride Dry-cell Battery' into the world's first success. On July 16th this year (2006), they made success in a trial of manned flight using commercially available oxyride batteries, in a project that they had been bringing forward together.