Gaming: Monument Valley
With a small baby invading your lifestyle, not much time for other activities is left over, especially for gaming. Most of the times even using my computer is a one-hand-action. In these times mobile...
Yearly Archive: 2016
TeX Live 2016 pretest and Debian packages
Preparation for the release of TeX Live 2016 have started some time ago with the freeze of updates in TeX Live 2015. Yesterday we announced the official start of the pretest period. That means...
就職活動
昨日僕の大学の契約が切れてしまった。これまで６年半北陸先端科学技術大学院大学で准教授として務めていたが、新年度から延長されないことになった。従って、新しい勤め先を探しているー僕の年齢を見るとあまりよろしくない。５年の件を潜脱した先端大学へ感謝！
Searching for a job
Yesterday my contract with my university JAIST ended. I was working there as Associate Professor for 6.5 years, but the university decided not to extend my contract (financial problems, foreigner in Japan). That means,...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20160320-1 and biber 2.4-1
About one month has passed and here is the usual updated of TeX Live packages for Debian, this time also with an update to biber to accompany the updated version of biblatex. This will...
Debian/TeX Live full update 20160223
Only one week has passed since the update, and there is already a new one? The explanation is simple: consolidation of packages and preparation for 2016. The update comprises of uploads of texlive-base, texlive-lang,...
Switching from iOS to Android
This article starts a series of blogs on my ventures into Android land after having used iOS devices for 6 years. I have never been a strong believer in the Apple ecosystem, and my...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – refugees acceptance
Coming from a country that has taken lots of refugees, especially in the years after the second world war (although not any more), and while living in Japan still feeling connected to Europe and...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20160215-1
About one month has passed and here is the usual updated of TeX Live packages for Debian. While I am not really calling for testers at the moment, building of preliminary packages for TeX...
OpenPHT 1.5.1 for Debian/sid
I have updated the openpht repository with builds of OpenPHT 1.5.1 for Debian/sid for both amd64 and i386 architecture. For those who have forgotten it, OpenPHT is the open source fork of Plex Home...
Gaming: The Talos Principle – Road to Gehenna
After finishing the I immediately started to play the extension Road to Gehenna, but was derailed near completion by the incredible . Now that I finally managed to escape from the test chambers my...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20160117-1 and biber 2.3-1
About one month has passed and here is the usual updated of TeX Live packages for Debian, this time also with an update to biber to accompany the updated version of biblatex. Nothing spectacular...
Gaming: Portal Stories: Mel
The last days, after about 20 hours of gameplay, I have finally finished Portal Stories: Mel, the single player mod for Portal 2. After having played and , I have to say this one...
CJK fonts and Ghostscript: cjk-gs-integrate release 20160115.0
I have made a new release of , the script that searches for all kind of CJK fonts, and makes them available to Ghostscript (and if asked for also to TeX by linking). The...
