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Sanshin notation uses kanji as a form of tablature: each glyph corresponds to a unique position on a particular string on the fingerboard.

I spent a lot of time programming in Java last week.

I didn’t do very much last week, which is probably why I haven’t got around to writing this until now.

Thursday was yet another hottest day of the year, which reminds me of a classic Simpsons bit: BART: This is the worst day of my life.

I spent Monday doing nothing, watching TV series, taking a nap, and by the evening I felt mostly recovered from the previous weekend’s exertions.

Befell that, in that season on a day, In Southwark at the Tabard as I lay, Ready to wenden on my pilgrimage To Canterbury with devout coráge, At night was come into that hostelry Well nine and twenty in a company Of sundry folk, by áventure y-fall In fell…

I’ve met Matz once, I think, at EuRuKo in Krakow in 2010.

I didn’t have to spend five days cycling across the country to and from a festival.

Strictly speaking, I didn’t have to cycle all the way back from Electromagnetic Field – I could have cycled as far as a convenient station and taken a train the rest of the way – but I was mentally committed to finishing what I’d started.

Here are some notes and materials to accompany my talk from Electromagnetic Field 2026.