イタリアのボーゼンの美しい山
今年の夏北イタリアのボーゼンで行うESSLLI 2016で教えって居る。毎日の午前中講義があるので、なかなか長いエクスカーションができなかったけど、一日の午後ボーゼンの近くのハイクをした。
Yearly Archive: 2016
Debian/TeX Live 2016.20160819-1
A new – and unplanned – release in quick succession. I have uploaded testing packages to experimental which incorporate tex4ht into the TeX Live packages, but somehow the tex4ht transitional updated slipped into sid,...
Suki Kim – Without You, There Is No Us
A book that goes further behind the walls that surround North Korea than anything else I have seen. Suki Kim managed to squeeze herself, American-Korean, into a English teaching job at the Pyongyang University...
Debian/TeX Live 2016.20160805-1
TUG 2016 is over, and I have returned from a wonderful trip to Toronto and Maine. High time to release a new checkout of the TeX Live packages. After that I will probably need...
TUG 2016 – Day 4 – Books, ooh Books (and Boats)
Talks have been finished, and as a special present to the participants, Pavneet has organized an excursion that probably was one of the best I ever had. First we visited the Toronto Reference Library...
TUG 2016 – Day 3 – Stories and Histories
The last day of TUG 2016, or at least the last day of talks, brought four one-hour talks from special guests, and several others, where many talks told us personal stories and various histories....
TUG 2016 – Day 2 – Figures to Fonts
The second day of TUG 2016 was again full of interesting talks spanning from user experiences to highly technical details about astrological chart drawing, and graphical user interfaces to TikZ to the invited talk...
TUG 2016 – Day 1 – Routers and Reading
The first day of the real conference started with an excellent overview of what one can do with TeX, spanning from traditional scientific journal styles to generating router configuration for cruising ships. All this...
TUG 2016 – Day 0 – Books and Beers
The second pre-conference day was dedicated to books and beers, with a visit to an exquisite print studio, and a beer tasting session at one of the craft breweries in Canada. In addition we...
TUG 2016 – Day -1 – Wines and Waters
This years TUG is held in Toronto, Canada, and our incredible host Pavneet has managed to put together an busy program of excursions and events around the real conference. The -1st day (yeah, you...
Yukio Mishima – The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A masterpiece of modern Japanese literature: Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺). The fictional story about the very real arson attack that destroyed the Golden Pavilion in 1950. A bit...
Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human
Japanese authors have a tendency to commit suicide, it seems. I have read Ryunosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, at 35), Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, at 45), and also Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, at 39). Their...
Jonas Jonasson – The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Just finished my first book of Jonas Jonasson, a Swedish journalist and author. Most famous for his book The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, but author of two others. The...
Michael Köhlmeier: Zwei Herren am Strand
This recent book of the Austrian author Michael Köhlmeier, Zwei Herren am Strand (Hanser Verlag), spins a story about an imaginative friendship between Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill. While there might not as be...
OpenPHT 1.6.2 for Debian/sid
I have updated the openpht repository with builds of OpenPHT 1.6.2 for Debian/sid for both amd64 and i386 architecture. For those who have forgotten it, OpenPHT is the open source fork of Plex Home...
