Sunday, August 12, 2012

Knowte Pages

Did you know that plain HTML text areas such as those on the Knowte Pages can have there contents saved to SpringPad using the SpringPad browser plugin?

I will not work for a local HTML page on your own machine, but it will take notes from a plain empty HTML such as that at the Knowte set.

I only have three sets of 4 notes linked - if you would like more, send a note.

To test that the pages contain only text HTML and no hidden frames or scripts, use the View Page Source option of your web browser's menu.

If your note is private, be sure it is set that way on SpringPad.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Seduced by kanji


The following mentions of 'seduce' occur in the kanjidic2 entries for the basic jōyō Japanese kanji:
  • 丸, 4E38,  830, round, full (month), perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away
  • 慰, 6170, 1008, consolation, amusement, seduce, cheer, make sport of, comfort, console
  • 唆, 5506, 1284, tempt, seduce, instigate, promote
  • 召, 53EC, 1387, seduce, call, send for, wear, put on, ride in, buy, eat, drink, catch (cold)
  • 誘, 8A98, 1870, entice, lead, tempt, invite, ask, call for, seduce, allure
While only the last three are clearly to be tagged as "seduce", the first two seem to tell you something about the culture - especially the second !  He says he stops by to cheer her up and the gossip says otherwise.

You can find all 5 on my plain-HTML no-scripts page at kanji.aule-browser or if you get the lovely and free Hanaminzo font HanaMinA you can see them in that font here.

Because those pages are just plain HTML, you will have to search using CTRL-F in your browser.

note: the hex numbers above are the UCS or UNICODE values and the next digit is an index that is also used in the Curl applet for learning the joyo kanji set.

n.b. personally, I like the alternative order used at http://kanji.aule-browser.com/kanjidic2-joyo-hz-3.html