Thank you for creating this website! I have been absent from the other discussion groups because neither Yahoo nor Google allows me to log in from my old reduced-emissions Mac. Klaus's site in Germany doesn't even allow me on from my husband's Windows, so I am entirely grateful to Paul for the updates that reach me through the denjiha nanmin group.
I love this site! It comes up right away, without the five-minute delay I get at most sites that still let me visit. So please do not try to jazz this up too much! I know it is sexy to have all the latest thingamabobs, but I think most of us will be grateful for a site (at last!) without them, and you can always link people to the sites with the nice features.
My best regards to everyone at EMF Refugee! You've been a godsend. Paul, you are an angel!
I haven't been to the Gauss Network's meetings at all in more than a year. I still get the newsletter, but don't even read it because I am so busy (mostly farmwork, but also regular work writing a series on Confucianism and Sociopathy). There is considerable conversation recently on their community correspondence, which I receive and scan through. What I ought to do is commit myself to posting a monthly, and perhaps even weekly update on what is happening at Gauss.
Recently, I read in one post that a professor at one of Japan's universities (Prof. Kazuo Sakai at Meiji University) has designed a class to teach use of keitais, so everyone in the classroom has to bring one. As long as this is an optional course, I suppose it's not a big issue. I'd hate to see it implemented as a compulsory subject for training children in modern life, which is what I suspect the professor is calling for. There have been suggestions to ban cell phone use in class, of course, because they are a terrible distraction. It's only reasonable to ban them! It amazes me that teachers everywhere seem to tolerate them.
I caught one of my students using one under the table (easy to spot) and explained once more why I needed cell phones to be either switched off or placed in a bag away from the front of the class. I never saw that student again. (Good riddance.)