About
About the blog
auTAKU (oh-tah-koo) is primarily about my interests as an Australian otaku and Japanophile. You’ll mostly see content relating to things like anime, figures, videogames and technology, as well as Japan and its culture.
About the blogger
My name is Steve and I’m a 23 year-old living in Western Australia. I’m currently undertaking a Bachelor of Asian Studies at university, specialising in Japanese language.
Exchange links
If you’d like me to add you to my blogroll, go ahead and leave a comment. Of course, I’d appreciate it if you returned the favour! If you’ve already added me to your blogroll just let me know and I’ll be sure to get you on mine right away. If you have a fancy-pants image-based blogroll, you can ask me for a specific size or feel free to just re-size the banner at the top of the page to suit your needs.
I’ll be happy to do a banner exchange with you. Would it be possible to have one with 200×60 size ?
For now i’ll add you to my links.
Thanks! You can use this banner if you’d like:
I’ve added you to my blogroll. ^^
Thank you
Let’s exchange links
and, of course, come visit my blog if you’re free 
I’m adding you to my blogroll now. ^^
Added you already, THANKS!
Thank you!
I’m a newbee in the blogosphere but i added you because i’ve found your posts interesting. I’ll surely visit you again.
Feel free to add me …. or not
Adding you to my blogroll now. Thanks! ^^
Thanks Steve
Add you to my blog roll, good to see more Aussie otakus around, perhaps a meet at the next Supernova?
Depends on which one! I live in Perth, so I’ll definitely be at the next one here but I can’t really say about any of the others, haha.
Aww nuts, I live on the Eastern side, so I’ll be attempting to attend those ones. Who knows I may pay a visit to Perth’s one in the future if the occasion calls for it ^.^
If there was an Aussie-otaku-blogger meet-up I’m sure it would be over East… I wouldn’t mind coming and seeing what the conventions are like over there at some point actually, so who knows!
Oh you wouldn’t happen to have twitter or anything would you?
Yep!
twitter.com/slowdescent
Would like to have a banner exchange with you.
If it’s alright with you, yours would be up before 2am ( +8 GMT )
I’d be happy to! I’m adding you to my blogroll now. If you need a banner image, please let me know the exact size you need and I’ll make one or just copy/re-size the banner at the top of the page for yourself. ^^
Hello Steve, Got yours up and running at the main page. If you feel a need to change the banner. The size would be 180 x 45.
Thanks =D
Hi Steve,
I’m trying to put the Tokyo.JapanTimes RSS feed on my wordpress.com hosted site invisiblegaijin.com. I’m using the RSS Feed Widget but it returns an error. Are you using this widget or taking another approach? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
InvisibleGaijin
I’m just using wordpress.com’s standard RSS widget. If you have trouble getting it to show up correctly, try changing the start of the feed address from “feed://” to “http://”. Once I did that, it worked with no issues, so give it a shot!
Hi Steve,
Thank you very much for the reply. I just figured it out – I was given an incorrect URL in the pre-launch phase. I viewed the source on your page and noticed the difference. Changed the URL and it works!
Thanks!
InvisibleGaijin.com