Ian Buruma: Wages of Guilt
Since moving to Japan, I got more and more interested in history, especially the recent history of the 20th century. The book I just finished, Ian Buruma (Wiki, home page) Wages of Guilt –...
Yearly Archive: 2016
10 years TeX Live in Debian
I recently dug through my history of involvement with TeX (Live), and found out that in January there are a lot of “anniversaries” I should celebrate: 14 years ago I started building binaries for...
Kobo firmware 3.19.5761 mega update (KSM, nickel patch, ssh, fonts)
Since 3.18.0 there have been two new firmwares for the Kobo eInk devices. For the very recently released firmware release 3.19.5761 I have updated my collection of patches and features. As with previous mega-package,...
WordPress 4.4 and older themes – how to break backward compatibility
Since quite some time I was wondering why my blog suddenly does not display a title in the browser bar. Hmm, Of course I thought I broke something, but it turned out that this...
Fighting with IPv6
During the last weeks I finally got my hands dirty with IPv6. A comment on my blog and an email informed me that my server (hosting this blog) is not reachable via IPv6, albeit...
シエナのチェルトサ・ディ・ポンティニャノ（Certosa di Pontignano, Siena）
１２月は出張ばかり：最初いつものスウォンジーだったけど、その後久しぶりに昔住んでいたシエナへ。シエナの近くにあるチェルトサ・ディ・ポンティニャノ（Certosa di Pontignano）において去年なくなったシエナの先生の記念学会が行った。
TeX Live security improvements
Today I committed a set of changes to the TeX Live subversion repository that should pave the way for better security handling in the future. Work is underway to use strong cryptographic signatures to...
Best Wishes for 2016
Happy New Year 2016. I wish all the readers of this blog, and everyone else, a good start into 2016, may some of your wishes and hopes become true! あけましておめでとうございます。このブログの読者の皆様も他の人も、皆に良い２０１６年になり、いくつかの希望と望みが実現しますように祈っています。
