News

2010
Nov 5	Questions Generated by Japanese Students of English has been added to the Publications section.
Sep 17	Hardware and software update of the Cache domain is complete. Web services are being provided by two headless Mac Mini computers, one running Mac OS X Server. One book and one article have been added to the publication list and an article on UK Police Jargon to the library.
2009
Mar 09	School of Commerce faculty offices have moved from Building 9 to the newly reconstructed Building 11. The servers hosting the Moodle course support system and other educational facilities are now located in Building 11, and this move has necessitated allocation of new IP addresses. The domain names of the servers remain unchanged. The move provided an opportunity to make some signficant hardware and software updates to the domain servers, some of which are still incomplete. The system should be completely functional by the start of the new academic year in April.
2007
May 26	A complete set of Donald L. Philippi's Technical Japanese Translation newsletter is now available on this site.
Apr 05	The first four issues of Donald L. Philippi's Technical Japanese Translation newsletter have been added to this site. Further issues will be posted as the work of scanning and conversion continues.
2006
Mar 20	The entire site has been updated. All pages are now XHMTL-compliant and formatted using CSS. Course Management Systems has been added to the Publications section.
2005
Nov 04	A Visit to Bateman's has been added to the Publications section. The Useful Links page has been removed.
2004
Aug 12	I shall be away from Japan for twelve months, visiting Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I can be reached at my usual email address.
May 14	Automatic forwarding of email sent to my old mn.waseda.ac.jp address ended in March 2004. The only valid address is the one accessible from the top page of this site.
2003
	The lack of activity on this site is a reflection of increasing use of the experimental domain which hosts numerous course-related portals and bulletin boards.
2002
May 10	Quotations in Network Messages has been added to the Publications section.
May 09	Electronic Network Communication has been added to the Publications section.
May 06	The Formatting of Network Messages has been added to the Publications section.
May 01	Language Shift in Australia and Canada has been added to the Publications section and revisions made to the two papers uploaded last month (see below). The CSS superscript tags did not display correctly on Netscape 4.x browsers.
Apr 10	Two papers have been added to the Publications section: The Literature of British India and Rudyard Kipling's 'The Ballad of East and West'. Unlike previous HTML conversions, these two papers were formatted using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Any comments about legibility would be much appreciated.
2000
Oct 09	In addition to the student forums on my office server, I've created an English Q&A forum. Please post any queries you might have about English or English usage, and I'll try to answer them as quickly as possible.
Sep 30	Basic chat/forum services are available on my office server and visitors are welcome to drop by and leave messages. Also, I've added a couple of relatively new search sites to the links page and removed one that was showing its age.
1999
Jun 15	Because of the cancellation of today's classes, students taking the Oral Expression course will be asked to submit a short additional assignment. Content and format of the assignment will be announced next week.
May 15	The Email Guidelines pages have been moved from demon.co.uk and are now available on this server. I've corrected a few mistakes, and will be adding two or three pages in the near future. Please check back from time to time.
Mar 28	An HTML version of "Language Choice", a short essay on multilingualism, has been added to the Publications page.
Feb 01	Although the Links page still features links to a number of online English-language newspapers, they have been made redundant by the excellent Internet Public Library site, which maintains an exhaustive list of links to newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Highly recommended!
1998
Nov 02	The English I (Conversation) class on Monday, Nov 17 (Period 3) will be held in the No. 3 Computer Room in Building 12. Details of the change will be given during the regular Nov 10 lesson.
Oct 30	I'm considering setting up an inter-class, inter-university mailing list for all students who are taking (or have taken) one of my network communication courses. If you have any ideas about guidelines for the list, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
Jul 14	Another useful resource for students taking email classes is the Beginner's Guide to Effective Email. Strongly recommended.
Apr 28	There will be no Effective Writing class on Thursday, May 1. However, the deadline for Assignment 1 remains unchanged, and students must send their email introductions before noon on that day. The period for Assignment 2 will be May 1 to May 8. Please do not send Assignment 2 until you have received (and read!) an email announcement giving details of the content and format.
Apr 22	Students taking my Effective Writing email class may be interested in some Email Guidelines I've posted. The guidelines include sample messages and a find-the-mistakes quiz.
1997
Nov 28	The usual Thursday assignment for the Effective Writing class will be given on Monday, December 2, and the deadline for submissions will be noon on the following Monday.
Nov 25	By way of experiment, I've created an HTML version of a short essay entitled "Armageddon and the New Age" and linked it to the Publications page.
Nov 23	Several new links have been added to the Links page. The new Infoseek search engine looks very good indeed, and metasearch sites such as all4one and MetaCrawler promise to make Web searches even more quick and efficient.
Nov 14	Seminar presentations have been pushed back one week. The first presentation will be on Nov 21, and subsequent presentations at one-week intervals.