Keith Wilkinson's Home Page
5 Oct. 2003 (Main Site)
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Job
Electrical Engineering (Honors) graduate from Canterbury, 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). I passed the Microsoft Windows XP Pro. exam in May 2003, the Windows 2000 Server and Managing a Windows 2000 Network exams in June 2003 to complete Microsoft MCSA; next may do CISCO CCIP, Oracle 9i DBA or Microsoft MCDBA SQL and Visual Basic exams. I'm currently testing SoftMac 2000, VMware, Red Hat LINUX 9, and PHP / MySQL running on Apache.
Memberships/Mailing Lists
I belong to SWET, TechWr-L, Honyaku and JAT, Nihongo-Computing, Tokyo PC and ICA, ANZCCJ, and Kaisha Soc. As of June 2003, I'm Membership Secretary of SWET and VP Web of ICA, also a past Director and Membership Secretary of JAT.
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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, UMJ | 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 | Netmarket
Web:
Photo(web).net, YaleWebGuide, KillerSites, Stylesheets, NetMech, HTML Tidy, HTML Help, Check
News:
Syd.M-Herald, Melb.Age, Fortune, Multiling | YahooRadio | Dict, Search
CompuServe e-mail | | Asahi-net Japanese e-mail | Asahi-net Home Page | | Biglobe Home Page
hits since 22 July 2000.
