Words of Today

English Lesson

• mocking: laugh at
• follow suit: follow the previous things (innovation).
• unparalleled: nothing is comparable.
• tamper: modify without permission.
• enthusiast: big fun / computer enthusiast
• craze: popular trend
• boil down: it all boils down to the same thing.
  

ESL Podcast 412 - Corporate Spying

• second thoughts
• ethically
• draw the line: I draw the line at having us snoop on our own employees.
• backs were against the wall
• deceptive: I don't like being deceptive with our own employees.
• wiretaps
• schmooze
• scour: They'll schmooze at trade shows, scour legal records, and do other things like that.

Words of Today

ESL Podcast 411 - Eating Junk Food

• hand: pass, give
• while you're up: while you're up, can you hand me the phone?
• softy: a person who could not say no.

"Email writing for English Technical Communication"

• be capable of: This product is capable of serving thousands of terminals, on a single server.
• be in contact with: The first spring arm is in contact with the printing device.
• If you plan to install
• To install 〜, follow ... below: To install the control driver, follow the procedure below:
• Before installing 〜
• When installing 〜
• During the installation process: During the installation process, you will be prompted for the license key.
• When the installation is completed
• When successfully installed
• If the installation failed
• Each time you 〜: Each time you start a session, you will be prompted for your username and pasword.
• While ...ing: While holding down the keyboard's Shift key, use the mouse to click the Next button.

Words of today

From "Email writing for English Technical Communication"

• We are behind schedule in 〜: We are behind schedule in designing the new module.

After nine days off

I took nine days off till last sunday. It was technically four days off, but I was able to take nine days off including holidays. I did intentionally nothing except reading books. I read six books although I thought I could read more.

I also listed up what I should do next week. I realized that I was not recently studying pure programming skills trough the listing. I am programming everyday, but it is just an outputing of my skills. My vacation was worth enough to recognize the necessity of input.

(21:56 - 22:06 10min)

Words of today

• obfuscate: intentionally confuse / Politicians often obfuscate the truth by talking a lot
• defective: incomplete / This is defective merchandise.
• scam: fraud / 詐欺
• micro-deposits: small amount deposits in a bank / 小額預金
• compromise: reveal without the authority / Someone compromised my credit card numbers and pins.
• revoke: break / decimate / 破棄する

Sentences come from Eijiro.

(22:01 - 22:14 13min)

MPK

I've used a passometer known as manpokei (万歩計) in Japanese since last week. My passometer says I walk about 6,500 steps a day in average. The literal meaning of manpokei is "10,000 steps meter". So it puts pressure on me to walk more 3,500 steps a day.

Should I get off the previous station of my station when going home?

(09:16 - 09:26 10min)

Wedding party in geek style

I attended at the Wedding party of my coworker. She is a geek, but I realized her groom was much more geek. Ah no, let's say he was a nerd. He loves trains, idols, comics, games and of course computer.

I have to admit I really enjoyed such a geeky wedding party. It was my first experience that I got their original comic book as a gift (and only one gift) of the party.

Congratz guys :)

(21:32 - 21:38 6min)