When I step down to the living room, I was flicked out from a black aura.

After saying "What is this evil aura?” I found exhausted my senior daughter beyond the aura.

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I am very famous for lapping black in my family and company.

My wife affirms that she can see my black aura on the first floor when I am in my room on the second floor.

However it is naturally that the daughter of the father could lap her aura by herself, it is not usual that her aura force to change the direction of my walking,

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"What are you making an evil aura from morning?"

When I asked her, she replied me with a vacant stare.

"Changing class"

In addition, she said "this year of mine is going to be determined by the new class members and just ten minutes after releasing it."

I could not what she wanted to say, and she went to school with cling the black aura.

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However she went back home with all smiles, I didn't know what she implied this morning. So I called her to my room, and asked her about it.

After the less than one hour’s interview. I was astonished to hear her shocking story.

What she and her classmates are doing everyday are complicated politics breathtakingly, and sophisticated diplomacy beyond my imagination.

(To be continued)

(Continuation from yesterday)

It might be true that Ninomiya Sontoku was both reading and studying to save time, but it was not a main reason.

I think he knew the following very well.

(1)Being able to concentrate reading

During walking, I cannot access another information except for reading.

I can attain a state of perfect self-effacement walking at a uniform pace.

(2)Efficient performance

Needless to say, he could do three things at the same time, (a)reading books, (b)carrying firewoods, (c)building a strong body, keep his good health. These activities might have given him his rich life within limited life time.

(3)Pleasure

I can enjoy seasonable view and climate, and "smell of the air " gives me joy, in particular.

Not only plum and cheery cherry, but tender green, snow, sunshine in hot day, frigid climate in cold might. Everyday, every time, when I stop walking to notice changes of the smells, I feel happy very much.

(So, I am pretty spoiled at the day when a smoker walks ahead of me less than 500 meters.)

(To be continued)

(Continuation from yesterday)

"To concentrate one thing with whole heart = Right, Beautiful and respectable"

The thought is, I agree, a great sense of worth, however,

I am getting annoyed when it is spoken as a single correct answer.

As for me, I could not concentrate one thing in my youth, so I had experimented a lot of things, and they have been accumulated as a big mountain. After all, they become my column's platform.

But I am wondering whether it was good or not now.

What is right, beautiful and respectable ? Nobody knows them anytime, anywhere, after all.

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Now I have been doing a lot of things now, and I am broadcasting ambiguous results (of diet, power, atomic energy, copyright and electronic oven).

In addition, a lot of people gave me their advice of "waste of my life" and "loss of my talent"

That's right.

I am afraid that I have not been able to concentrate one thing for my life, ever.

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So I am going to change the interpretation of sense of worth.

I make up my mind to fix my purpose of my life as follow.

"I concentrate "I don't concentrate one thing for my life""

I am not sure that the way of my life is going to

"make me happy"

and

"be appreciated as "good" by people"

So I will ask people expect for me, to estimate my sense of worth slowly after my death.

From this month, I have started to use a smart-phone(low-speed data communication only).

As I mentioned before, the purposes of the smart-phone are, (1)training of IME of a smart-phone, (2)replacing PC.

To tell you the truth, I work hard for the training, however, if I don't do it, I will not go to the next stage. This time, I prepare myself for the worst.

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In past years, the PC whose name was "PC9801" spread out the concept of PC in Japan.

However, (it might be just a rumor) it was a famous story that more than 90% of PC9801 for private use, were sleeping in closets.

At that time, PCs were not installed not only applications but also Operation System. So end users should work for the installations and activations.

Thoses were, like trying to install iOS and Andoroid to your smart-phone by youself. The technical quality was incredible high.

Therefore, this story should not be "more than 90% of people can not use" but "at least 10% of people used it".

In fact, at that time, "being able to use a personal computer" was a "proof of elite", that is more meaningful than any educational background.

I made experiment reports by word processor and submitted it, and teaching how to use applications and simple programming in the PC classroom. I earned wages by PCs.

"Yeah, it was a really good time."

Also, numerous girls who talked "Can you initialize the PC?" to me .. was not ture unfortunately.

In the first place, in my memory, women who appeared in campus life were enough with the fingers of both hands.

(Continuation from yesterday)

On the other hand "neighborhood association (NA)" and "IT" are incompatible awfully.

Because NA cannot "discard the 40% persons" by nature.

Significance of existence of NA, is to provide local residents with "voluntary" and "equal" services.

And there is nothing more annoying than

"Noone can annoyed by analog"

In short, even by current analog managements and services, all local residents can get get and provide current services.

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However, from the viewpoint of "digital native", analog managements spend much money and time is inefficiently, the motivation is going down dynamically.

Now, many residents is leaving the association because of being out of conceit with this inefficient.

Let us show the example as follow.

(1)Receptionist of community hall on every Sunday

-> the task will be lost by Web service.

(2)Regular meeting in the weekend holiday

-> The tasks are also lost by mailing-list and tele-conference system.

(3)Circulation board

-> No cost and no delay by Web

drinking party, e.t.c.

Any "digital native" (at least, I) will get angry if the valuable weekend time of mine is spent.

(Especially, these outrage me, as a weekend engineer and writer)

(To be continued)

Since elementary school, I have been a boy who loves "one person while reading".

Still, when Saturday was the school attendance date, there was no lunch on Saturday, I could go home afternoon.

My parents used to work together, so I cooked myself since elementary school.

Once a week, I "arranged" your favorite food as I liked, and "cut corners" as I wished. Such "experimental" dishes were quite interesting for me.

And it was a pleasure to read the paperback while eating the food.

I don't remember the reason that I loved eating a meal, while reading the book of Inoue Yasushi-sensei.

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I am reading a novel of "The God of Slow Heights" from my wife now.

I remember an old event, when reading a scene of a female painter.

When I used to go to art museums with a girl in the old days (this is generally called a date), she said to me,

"I may get stuck for 10 minutes in front of a picture, but please leave me alone for a while"

I'm not an expert in art, but I could understood "the feeling" well, I accepted her wish naturally.

We were fascinated by each favorite picture, and met each other around the exit at about the same time.

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Yesterday I heard on the train that a young man was talking to a friend.

"If you get transferred, I might die without friends"

I know that he was exaggerating,

however, I also thought

"It is an idea that I can not do absolutely"

There's a saying, "Action before words".

Well, leaving aside its original meaning, the purpose of this four-letter phrase, in my mind, is to say

"It's more efficient (faster, less tedious) to do it in silence, without telling anyone"

This is one choice.

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Well, that's why I'm making OSS (Open Source Software) by myself, without telling anyone.

However, I am the only member of the OSS.

There are a lot of people who don't move their hands but only talk, and those people are deeply annoying, so I'm working to avoid them.

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Incidentally, the people I identify as my people (my allies) are only

"persons who speak up, but comes up with his or her own alternatives to what he or she has said"

For example, the people who appear in my column are people like this -- all of whom I respect and admire.

Leisurely talk

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Summarizing.

"Action before words" is the best strategy for free and spontaneous creation in a world without quotas or self-appointed critics.

For me (Ebata), this four-letter phrase doesn't means "Don't say this or that, just do what needs to be done"

A bug in a program is really a small thing.

I am not surprised that the bug responsible for causing a major blackout in 1/3 of California was famously "just three lines of programming".

Because I spent three days straight checking the traces of three programs over a hundred times to find the timing discrepancies in reading the data, and

"I commented out one line of JavaScript and the program started working easily."

So, what is left is a very dirty, ugly program list with a mountain of added (and totally unrelated) variables and a huge number of printout messages written on it.

Now I have the not-so-fun task of cleaning it up and uploading it to the server so that future for me.

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Programming education by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) ignores this current state of program development.

And they seem to think that they can teach something that is "programmatic thinking".

However, I understand that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology says, 'That's the only way to do it'.

I assure you that if the MEXT force children to experience the realities of the front lines of program development, they will all run away.

So, I think,

"Well, if such a thing can really happen, I can say 'congratulations' from the bottom of my heart to both the child and the Ministry of Education"

Let's wait and see what happens in 10 years.

I am currently working on displaying real-time bus information using information provided by the Yokohama City Transportation Bureau.

When I resumed coding last night, the traffic data was not showing up at all.

In a panic, I reviewed the program, however I could not find anything that could cause the failure.

After much investigation, I finally found the cause of the problem by decoding the strange short text data being displayed.

"No buses running late at nigh"

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Well, it is my fault for coding at a time when buses are not running.

Still, it's a damn shame to think that two precious late-night hours were lost for such a trivial reason.

Although this year's tax return has finished, our family forgot to apply for a deduction for medical expenses.

So, yesterday, I forced myself to apply for the E-Tax System.

(I heard that you can apply for medical expenses retroactively for about five years, but I was able to use it, so that's good.)

I was surprised that the information on my number card for my entire family instantly gave me a year's worth of medical expenses.

This service has made it very easy, as my wife used to compile the receipts, and I used to submit them in Excel with a few minor entries.

However, I had to apply separately for transportation expenses in XML format or something.

I had been converting Excel sheets to XML and feeding them into the system, but the system rejected them as expected.

I had to manually enter the transportation expenses combined for the year (though there were 4 cases).

As always, the system created by the government is convenient and inconvenient in equal parts.

This time, I got a refund that was not worth the hassle (enough for my family to go out for lunch).

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Speaking of taxes, the party members in the ruling party's cashback case, the so-called back taxes case, seem to have been punished yesterday.

I do not know where the "5 million yen" that was the basis for this disposition came from.

In our cases, we would be subject to taxation if the amount exceeded 200,000 yen, but 5 million yen is 25 times this amount.

If the standard amount is "200,000 yen," the ruling party (and possibly the opposition party) may cease functioning, but there is something unexplainable.

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I will not pay attention to a person's character if it serves the national interest, but if it does not, I will attack them.

Because such a person harms my (Ebata's) interests (and mood).

I am not interested in politicians' beliefs (although I may despise them).

I don't care what religion they believe in as long as it is not a cult that does psychic work (like the old Unification Church) (though I may make them look foolish).

However,?

"I don't forgive them about the money scandal."

My heart will not accept it except for the logic.

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I do not envy rich people because they have money.

I envy the "peace of mind" that comes with having money.

Money is a "source of security."

Suppose "security" is tied to a privileged status (politician). In that case, I want to rip that "security" away, smash it to the ground, and destroy it with the "greatest backhandedness" I can muster.

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In this case of back taxes, I heard the 39 party members of the ruling party have been confirmed for punishment, and some vehemently oppose the executive branch's decision.

"39" -- This is a good number of people.

These 39 people should leave the party altogether and start a new party.

The new party's name should be "New Party for Tax Evasion" or "New Party for Cashback."

The party can change its name afterward, so it is better to be as conspicuous as possible when launched.

The Party policy can be "overthrow" or "retaliation".

For investment funds, use the "slush fund" they have saved up to this point as a fund.

Perhaps not only our country but the world will be surprised.

It will be top news in many countries.