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I hope to visit Japan in the next month to get an opportunity to really experience the culture and language, and hopefully use some of it to apply towards making the conventions even better. Places I definitely plan to visit are: Harujuku - For all the crazy fashions Kyoto - For all the temples and heritage A Maid Cafe Maybe I'd get the courage to go to a host club, lol, probably not.

If you're a regular user of the internet like I am, you just might care about what the future of your internet looks like. If you want to guarantee a free and open internet, then you need to support a few fundamental ideas.

One of the best parts about being a computer scientist (can I just say scientist.) is getting to use my computer skills to make awesome things that make the conventions better. One of the biggest is the convention registration system cons.

Monica Rial is an ultra popular voice actress known for characters like Mey-Rin in Black Butler, Mirajane in Fairy Tail, and Shiro in Deadman Wonderland. She is one of the main characters in countless anime, those are just the characters that I actually have seen the shows for.

Looking back, I made a list of Iowa City Owl's top stories ever - stories that generally had 100 times more views than any others. What they had in common, was at least one stand-out factor: a) Few newspapers were writing about the subject, yet a lot of people were searching for it or b) The story was excellently written or took on a very fresh perspective, and a lot of people were searching for it Here's the list: July 15, 2012 - Two Girls Still Missing in Iowa May 30, 2012 - DC Comics Changes Character's Sexuality.

Last week I posted about how to work towards getting a better quality score in Google Adwords, and since then I've been experimenting even more. Here are some more tips in addition to what I've previously written about.

Lately I've been spending some time making a lot of pretty awesome updates to MaiOtaku (mispelled as MyOtaku). The greatest thing about targeting an anime demographic is that so many people are online all the time.

I'm sure everyone is looking for information on this, so I'll give you some insight into all the things I've discovered while advertising for Anime Midwest in Chicago. These tips are ones that I've discovered after a ton of research, not the usual stuff.

The city of Troy, Michigan was facing a budget shortfall, and was considering closing the Troy Public Library for lack of funds. Even though the necessary revenues could be raised through a miniscule tax increase, powerful anti-tax groups in the area were organized against it.

Education is an issue that I couldn't feel more strongly about, and every time I read either a positive or negative education story, it causes a surge in my veins. There is absolutely nothing more important than the education of our youngest generation, and yet our schools are rife with apathy, repetition, and destructive thinking.