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 ==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ====
 
-On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add goodies such as
+On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add little goodies such as
 
- * a grid view for photos
- * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs
- * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3"
- * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which you can use to create thumbnails floating on the right or left
+ * a grid view for photos;
+ * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs;
+ * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3";
+ * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which I'm using to produce
+ floating thumbnails on the side of pages without resorting to HTML
 
-These should make the wiki markup much lighter.  As usual, these additions resulted in
-simplification of the codebase rather than code bloat :-)
+These new features will make my wiki markup even lighter than before.
+Moreover, these additions actually resulted in further //simplification//
+of the codebase rather than code bloat.  Way to go!
 
 {{{
 git diff --stat v3.0..HEAD geekigeeki.py
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 ==== Guided tour ====
 
+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour/00038.jpg|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright|The Yutaki Waterfalls}}
+
 Pictures of our day-long [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour]] are now online.
 Our friendly guide, the Buddhist monk whose name I forgot, answered many of our pending questions
 about Japanese traditions and religion.  Hiking through these sacred mountains and woods was an
 enjoyable experience.
 
-{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour/00038.jpg|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright|The Yutaki Waterfalls}}
-
 TODO: assemble a good video from all the scenes I took along the way
 
 ==== Nikko Temple Area ====
@@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ One would expect to grow bored of Shinto and Buddhist temples after seeing many
 all over Japan, but visiting the Nikko temple area was once again an extraordinary experience.
 And I could finally spot a few [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko]]s too!
 
-{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=800}}
+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=640}}
 
 === April 27th ===