I think Kim's project is great BTW; and I am looking forward to seeing it grow and mature in the future. My being 1/8 Swedish has nothing to do with that either.
I have been studying Japanese off and on (more off than on, so don't be too impressed) since 1984. I have a B.A. in Japanese from Ohio State University and a B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering. I will start working on my MBA at Franklin University (back in the United States) this fall. I have worked as a systems engineer, manager and materials (mostly glass/ceramic, but now plastics) engineer in the States.
I am currently living in Japan and working (as an intern!!!) at an automotive injection molding company in Shikoku. I have been VERY fortunate to see A LOT of Japan during my many visits.
Ohio was the home to the first Japanese automotive plant (Honda) in the United States. Ohio ranks number two for having the most Japanese companies. California is number one. Ohio State University has between 55,000 and 60,000 students, so there is always some Japanese related activity going on their as well.
I like to make lists! And I like to make sure the list lists are appropriately detailed, correct and up to date. Any questions as to why I am here?
I am also a decent programmer. My main guns used to be C/C++, but I have been getting into PIC (et al.) programming as of late. But my main interest is Python programming. I love it! And yes, I have used PERL and Ruby (I was the technical editor for O'Reilly's Ruby book in fact). I love Python. I think a lot of other Japanese dictionary folks do too (Jack Halpern comes to mind first). It is has an approachable learning curve, it does everything (especially nice with RegEx and other string manipulation chores), it is reasonably fast, it runs on any platform, it is easy to read, it is easy to maintain (these two items are really PERL's downfall IMO), and so on.
The sad part is that I have never professionally coded Python (yet!).
I am currently writing a Python ray tracer that incorporates photon mapping. And yes, I know this is of NO interest to almost any one on this list.
I don't like to be the lone gun on projects. I am VERY productive on small, strong teams though.
I did hang out (mainly lurk) on the honyaku list for a couple of years, but that was several years ago.
And please don't hold it against Kim if he is a Mac guy. Ha! Hey, what ever tool it takes to get the job done!
Kim, what are you language are you coding in primarily at the moment?
Finally, in order to keep Jim happy (other than giving him lots a Vegemite sandwiches) [ed: thwack Todd over the head the next time he makes a wisecrack like that!] (Blame it on "Men at Work" for sticking that image in my brain!)[ed: I don't care what crazy 80s bands your stereotypes came from. Knock it off!](er, well what about giving Jim a Foster's Lager or two?)[ed: Well, that might be acceptable if you give me one as well!], a few suggestions to the gmail users here that haven't done this already--
* Click on Settings/設定 in the upper right hand corner of your browser window
* Select 日本語 for you language.
* Then click on the "Save Settings" button at the middle of the bottom of the page
As the subject says, the daily updates seem to have stopped a few days ago. JMdict.gz, edict.gz and edicthdr.txt
on the Monash FTP all show july 22 as the date stamp and none of my daily diff'ings of edict against the previous day's version have shown any changes since then.
And since this is my first post to the list I'll just briefly
introduce myself (ok, the list is new, but I think I have posted a total of two messages to SLJ the last few years, so I think an introduction is appropriate). I'm Kim from Sweden. I study Japanese at Stockholm Univ and open source project entrepreneurship at a
vocational school. My association with edict/jmdict is that I run Jisho.org and am working on a Kanjidic2/JMdict search application for
Mac OS X which will most likely be open source.