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Confession: I don’t shoot in black and white. I can’t remember if my Canon Ixy 800IS can even shoot grayscale, but I know my Nikon D70s can’t. That’s ok. I prefer to shoot in color and remove the color, anyway.

Here’s an example I shot at a mountain temple in Beijing, back in April of this year. (I still have a lot of pics from China to put up, but I am working on that.) But for now, check this out. Compare the color and grayscale versions…

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One of the students in one of my senior classes is a master of Shiatsu, the Japanese style of acupressure massage. Last Monday, I had my first treatment. It was amazing! I was having some trouble with my leg again, because it was so tight that it was cramping and making my tendon sore. But now it is great.

Like acupuncture, it is a subtle art, so you should find someone who really knows what you are doing. But if you can, it is amazing. My hip was out of place and I was as stiff as a board. But at the end, my hip and spine were in perfect alignment, and I had no tension in my body…

Chiropractors can do a lot, but if they only adjust your bones and your muscles are still tight, your bones will quickly move out of place. But if your muscles are lose and your circulation flows properly, you can really feel the difference. I’ll be going again this week.

I have decided to keep The Wayfarer Blog on its original site, at: http://www.the-wayfarer.net.

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I recently wrote that I would be moving this site from its current site to a new address on wordpress.com.

After some serious thought, I have decided not to move my blog.

I have played around with wordpress.com blogs in the past, and they are wonderful. If you are looking for a free, but powerful way to blog, you should really look into it. That’s why I figured it would be just as good. And under different circumstances, it might be. But I ran into two problems that are deal-breakers for me:

1. I didn’t realize how important some of the plugins and features that I take for granted on this site were, until I didn’t have them;
2. More importantly, some of my viewers were not able to view my blog, because wordpress.com blogs are blocked by many firewalls. I actually experienced this at my high school. I couldn’t view my blog. Some countries, schools, and businesses block all wordpress.com blogs from that site. But, as far as I know, this site has not been blocked. (It’s is so vanilla and non-controversial, that I doubt anyone would bother blocking it.)

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This isn’t a tech blog, and I don’t often post tutorials about how to do things online, but I was trying to explain this to a couple family members recently, and I decided to share this quick tip with any of my readers who use gmail. I actually wrote most of this almost two weeks ago, but got busy with work and never posted it…

As many of you who know me are aware, I am a huge fan of gmail, for so many reasons. There are so many powerful and convenient options and features loaded into gmail. One of the features that many people do not take advantage of the added security that HTTPS offers. Whenever you log into webmail or complete an online purchase, you use HTTPS. With most webmail services, you log in with HTTPS, but it usually returns to regular HTTP after you have logged in. Now gmail lets you stay logged in to HTTPS all the time, if you need the added security.

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Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ve renewed my Flickr Pro membership, so you can see all of my pictures again. I will start uploading all my new ones when I have time…

Here is the link to my photos.

Wow, if this is real, this guy has a real future in the NBA.

(Or maybe NASA.)

Time flies when you’re having fun.
It’s trite, but true. In fact, it flies even when you’re not having fun…

Five years ago today, at around this time, give or take, I arrived in Japan for the first time. I came here to satisfy my curiosity, and to see where life would take me. Although I haven’t accomplished all the goals I set for myself, I have had many experiences, and I’ve learned a lot. I suppose a lot of the things I learned were not what I would have imagined, but that is ok, too.

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Update: I will not be moving to wordpress.com. Please continue to visit this site.

Please update your bookmarks. Effective immediately, I am moving this site, and all its contents, to its new home at http://thewayfarerblog.wordpress.com/.

As you may recall, I originally began The Wayfarer Blog on blogger.com. (Unfortunately, the first few posts I put up there were lost.) I decided to host my own domain so I could learn more about website maintenance, and so I could have complete freedom to design and develop my site. Although I have enjoyed the challenge of building and maintaining my own website, I would rather spend time on other areas of my life now. (I will sacrifice a little creative control over the way my site looks, but I will not lose sleep trying to find the errors in my rather shaky CSS skills!)

Also, although it is rather cheap to host my own site, free platforms like blogger.com and wordpress.com have improved tremendously. For someone like me, whose main purpose is to share pictures and ideas with family and friends (as well as anyone who stumbles onto this site), free is nice.

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