Joshua Tree and Grand Canyon – New Year 2013/14
I finally manage to write a few things up on our trip to America over New Year. This time a group of 4.5 Japanese (4 Japanese and me) plus two friends from Austria met...
Author: Norbert Preining
Tomokawa Kazuki – Within the Country of Falling Cherry Blossoms (友川かずき・桜の国の散る中を)
Another one of the sad and powerful songs of Tomokawa Kazuki (Wikipedia). The song Within the Country of Falling Cherry Blossoms which also gave the title of the album. A strange interlude between sweet...
Debian/TeX Live 2013.20140123-1
Another month, another upload of Debian/TeX Live packages has hit the Debian servers. The new version is based on tlnet from 2014-01-23. Please see this for my plans for 2014. Currently I am waiting...
Kobo Glo kobohack-j 140113
A new release of the kobohack-j package brings the addition of parted (partition manager) and the necessary libuuid, as well as updates to freetype (2.5.2), libpng (1.6.8), and sqlite (3.8.2). Installation is as usual...
Konstantin Wecker – Was passierte in den Jahren
One of the songs that comes back to me again and again, and always leaving me touched to the core, is Konstantin Wecker‘s Was passierte in den Jahren. There is one sentence that always...
Philip K Dick – Second Variety
Another short story I recently finished if by well-and-still-not-so-well-known Philip K Dick. He is in some sense well known, as many extremely popular movies are based on his works, examples are Blade Runner, Total...
Yoko Ogawa – Revenge
One of the books I got from the recommendations at NPR’s Book Concierge for 2013 before leaving for the US was Yoko Ogawa‘s Revenge. Famous for her book The Housekeeper and the Professor, she...
Save Lake Kiba
Everyone knows that the Shinkansen is coming to Hokuriku. But do you know that the Shinkansen line as planned will destroy one of the last nature reserves on the coast line, the Lake Kiba...
Arizona in the evening
Pete Murray from the radio, evening light on wide land, the eye wanders over silent landscapes, all kind of memories like a stream around me – I miss this wideness of the landscape, in...
Merry Christmas – メリークリスマス
I wish all the readers a Merry Christmas, some peaceful last days in the year 2013, and happy and successful new year 2014. Thanks for reading and commenting, and see you in the New...
Quatre frères – ヘーゼルナッツの洋菓子
オーストリアにクリスマスを今日１２月２４日の晩祝いする伝統だ。夜家族が集まって、一緒に歌を歌って、宴会して、プレセントをやり取りする。それと、１２月の「アドベント」という期間にずっといろなクッキーとお菓子を食べている。
Debian/TeX Live 2013.20131219-1
Another month, another upload of Debian/TeX Live packages has hit the Debian servers. The new version is based on tlnet from 2013-12-19. Before listing the updated and new stuff, here are my plans for...
Kobo Glo firmware 3.1.1 et al.
And another one – they are quick. But slowly it seems to settle. After releasing , , 3.0.1, and in short time, now we are at 3.1.1. And it brought a few improvements. Firmware...
Tomokawa Kazuki – Circus
I am sick of happy J-POP! I have have enough from girls in miniskirts jumping around to computer generated music! So I am starting a series on Japanese music which one will not hear...
Salon des vins des Vignerons Indépendants – Paris
先月パリの出張中珍しい機会があった：ワイン・プロの友達と一緒にパリで行った「Salon des vins des Vignerons Indépendants」へ行った。簡単に自主のぶどう園丁が千社以上、ワインの種類が一万種以上、全て無料の味聞き。
Kobo firmware 3.1.0 – kobohack-j – kobo-patcher
And again a new firmware from Kobo. After releasing , , and 3.0.1 in short time, now we are at 3.1.0. Here some short updates on my usual set. Firmware: for Kobo AuroHD/GLO 3.1.0...
