Keith Wilkinson's Home Page
25 Oct. 2002 ( Japanese )
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Job
Electrical Engineering (Honors) graduate, registered (Telecoms) Engineer; working in a Test and Measurement/Process Control systems company. Translating (J-E)/technical writing in these fields – also computers, electronics, and physics – since about 1977. Copywriting of sales, advertising and marketing material – and the occasional translating, rewriting, and editing of technical papers – are the most challenging and enjoyable parts of the job. Have also translated/dubbed training videos.
Interests
I enjoy consulting and training in bilingual (E/J) computing – Telecoms and Internet, Word Processing, Graphics and DTP – and upgrading/troubleshooting PC and Mac software and hardware. I find that Internet telephony (such as with Net2Phone and e-Phone) is a good way to keep in touch with friends and relatives. I wish I had more time for browsing the Akihabara computer superstore area (two stops from Tokyo station), for travel (Osaka castle, and its surrounding parks and gardens, is worth a visit), going to hot springs like Arima Onsen (near Sannomiya, Kobe), hiking (Mitake-san near Tokyo, and Oze near Nikko, are favorites), visiting mountain temples like Yamadera (near Yamagata) and Sanzen-In (above Ohara, near Kyoto), listening to jazz standards (like when Hayasaka-san (sax) and Kuroda-san (piano) play together), chorus group concerts, Alistair Cooke's "Letter from America" BBC broadcasts in Real Audio, and reading. I recommend the following:
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Qualifications
I passed the Japanese Grade 2 Radio Amateur Exam. in '82, and the Japanese Language Proficiency Grade 2 Exam. in '87. In '98, I have passed six Microsoft exams – Windows 95, NT Server 4, NT Server 4 in the Enterprise, Exchange Server 5.5, TCP/IP for NT 4, and Networking – and qualified for NT 4.0 MCSE. I passed CISCO CCNA (1.0) in August '99, CCDA in April 2000, and the Microsoft Windows 2000 Prof. exam. in July 2000. I have also completed CISCO CCNP and CCDP (three common exams. plus one CCNP/CCDP specific; passed the three common exams. – Routing, Switching, and Remote Access – in Oct. and Nov. 2000, completed CCNP and CCDP respectively by passing Support in Jan. and Internetwork Design in Mar. 2001); next may do Microsoft MCSA 2000, Windows XP Pro., CISCO CCIP, Oracle 9i DBA or Microsoft MCDBA SQL and Visual Basic exams, or Novell CNA. I'm currently testing Windows XP, Back Office Server 4.5 Beta, Red Hat LINUX 8, VMware and SoftMac 2000.
Memberships/Mailing Lists
I belong to SWET, TechWr-L, Honyaku and JAT, Nihongo-Computing, Tokyo PC and ICA, Kaisha Soc, and ANZCCJ. As of May/June 2002, I'm a Director of JAT and Membership Secretary of SWET.
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Japan Links:
LifeInJapan, MixPizza, BizJapan, Unlimited | Outdoor | Food | Eijiro, Daijirin, Mojibake
More Links:
KansaiTimeOut | J-Guide | NTT | Shodouka | Goo, Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite | Vector, S/Ring
Misc. Links:
Yomiuri | J@pan.Inc | Nikkei | Issho, UFJ, DaveA | ZD, MagMag | Mapoo, AkibaMap
US Links:
Amazon bks | MCPmag. | Win drivers, files | CNET, SoftSeek, ZD s/w lib., Help, Desk | About
Mags/NT/W2K:
ZD PCmag, PC wk | PC World | WinMag | BHS, Republic, Netwk, Sys, FAQ, Secrets
Other:
Info-Mac, TidBits, MacWorld | Netscape, AllWeb, Google, eGroups | Visto | Interland | Bigstep | Market
Web:
Photo(web).net, YaleWebGuide, KillerSites, Stylesheets, NetMech, HTML Tidy, HTML Help, Check
News:
Syd.M-Herald, Melb.Age, Fortune, Multiling | YahooRadio | Dict, Search
Biglobe Japanese e-mail | | Asahi-Net e-mail | Asahi-Net Home Page | | CompuServe Home Page
hits since 2 Jan. 2001. .
