Category: Workshop

It has been a busy two weeks but I have been working a little on my online projects. The East Asia History Forums have been visited by most people I have spread the word to but not much has been posted.

I have started a new project at ChinaJapan.org, a “Scholar Blogs” project. Basically, I am trying to convince a number of scholars doing Sino-Japanese studies or research in related fields to allow me to host web logs for them at ChinaJapan.org…
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I had my first real, full hour long presentation in Japanese today, on the topic of the Hanjian (traitor) trials in postwar China. I was so nervous but I think it went alright. I’m now exhausted.

I set up several research forums for those doing research on various areas of East Asian history. Among others, there is a forum for discussion of the Sino-Japanese War and forums for the study of the colonial history of Korea and Taiwan etc.

I also included a number of forums on postwar issues, such as postwar Sino-Japanese relations and War and Memory

I hope some of my friends begin posting on the site and encourage others to participate.

I have started a new project called “A Fool’s House of Cards” as both an online repository of flashcards (similar to the several “flashcard exchanges” one can find online, of which my “Set Library” was a feeble and failed attempt) and the first step in getting my old Flashcard Wizard software online with its Interval Study features.
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I have been working on various projects recently. One is Jii-chan’s Kanji Flaschards for studying Chinese characters used in Japanese language. I also got a full server for chinajapan.org and will hopefully get working on the software for this site soon. Sayaka has a personal homepage up now over at Securitygirl.net and her pages on Clausewitz got linked over at the Web’s center of Clausewitz research.

Finally, my work on OWLS has paid off and it looks like I will be able to give a presentation about it at the International Conference for Internet Chinese Education this June in Taipei, Taiwan.

I installed the “Gallery” module for this web site. I can now upload pictures to the Muninn site. You can view the albums in my gallery here or by clicking on “Gallery” from the list of links at the left. I will not be adding all pictures I take in Japan as my space and permitted bandwidth is somewhat limited.

þó sjáumk meir um Munin
But I fear more for Muninn…

Muninn.net, which will serve as my online Blog (Web Log), is working after a fairly smooth installation. As I am an extremely forgetful person, anyone who knows the background of the name “Muninn” might find my domain name an ironic choice.

The Norse god Odin had a collection of pets whose names are recorded in legend and which have gone on to much success as trademarks. Muninn, also spelled Munin, is one of two ravens that Odin sent out into the world in search for knowledge each day. What we know of Huginn (Hugin), “Thought” and Muninn “Memory” are, as far as I can tell, only recorded in a few lines of the Grimnismál. However, I am going to try to find out where else one can find mention of them.
Continue reading Muninn.net takes flight…