Various works

[Ben Bullock]

I've been doing some work on the CGI converter scripts at www.sljfaq.org/cgi/ and have made a few changes.

* minidic.cgi links removed

First of all, I noticed that many of the links to kanji.sljfaq.org were going through the old page minidic.cgi on pages like

https://www.sljfaq.org/cgi/name-kanji.cgi

so I have changed those links so that they now go to kanji.sljfaq.org/redirect/ instead. Doing a search for this on the text part of the site at www.sljfaq.org/afaq/, I found that the links there also go through the obsolete minidic.cgi, so I have updated the FAQ pages with the newer /redirect/ links.

* Verb inflection page improvements

I have been working on the Japanese verb inflection page

https://www.sljfaq.org/cgi/verb-inflect.cgi

I improved the instructional text and the CSS layout as well as adding a link to the WWWJDIC entry for the verb in the reply when a user enters a verb. See for example

https://www.sljfaq.org/cgi/verb-inflect.cgi?verb=tsunagaru&ot=both

The link is after the words "inflections of" at the top.

* Bad kanji

In testing out the name kanji application I found a few more bad characters which I've added to the list, which is online here:

https://www.lemoda.net/japanese/offensive-kanji/index.html

* Other

I'm considering merging the verb deinflecter into the verb inflection and then the user can just enter a verb in any form into a single box. This seems more intuitive, and my research indicates that the verb deinflection is getting almost no use at the moment.

[Ben Bullock]

Further to this, I have also done a rebuild of the kanjivg server at kanji.sljfaq.org so that its random kanji generator doesn't generate any bad words.

My flickr account /bnz/ was also deleted by Flickr after a long-winded episode of relentless nagging emails about upgrading to "pro", and so I have had to delete all the DIY and other photograph pages at www.lemoda.net. I still have all the photos on hard drives, so when I get around to it I will try to reinstate these pages using self-hosted images, but at the moment they are just a mess of broken links to deleted images, so it is best to remove them until I have time enough to restore to the former glory. I also had to remove these from other places.