Gower Peninsula – Oxwich Bay and Worm’s Head
The second time this year that I could visit Swansea. During the first time I visited several places around the and more . This time we spend the weekend mainly on the Gower, namely...
The second time this year that I could visit Swansea. During the first time I visited several places around the and more . This time we spend the weekend mainly on the Gower, namely...
During our visit to Swansea we made a side trip to Bath, as I was invited to give a lecture at Bath University. Before returning we had a bit of time for sightseeing in...
I just finished the absolutely stunning and incredible great “The Swarm” (web page of the book, WikiPedia entry) from Franz Schätzing. A book of more than thousand pages where the tension never stops. A...
Just short time ago the kobohack-j maintainer has uploaded a new version kobohack-j-131116.zip of his package that updates several libraries of the Kobo firmware, and on, my request, also includes a fixed openssl binary....
Not much time has passed since was released, and here we are with another round, called 3.0.0. Although already late I booted up my laptop to try it out. Not many changes I found...
Another month, another upload of Debian/TeX Live packages, new version is based on tlnet from 2013-11-11. Not much new with respect to Debian packaging, but a notable addition to TeX Live itself, and thus...
More for my own rememberance here is how I did set up a development environment for compiling programs for my Kobo (running firmware version 2.10.0 atm). Why would one do that? One of the...
On the mobileread forum the link to the new firmware 2.10 for the Kobo Glo was just posted. I tried it out immediately. Normal operation The new items I found after upgrading from 2.8.1:...
It might look boring to outsiders to go every year the same Hakusan Superrindo and to Shirakawago, but during the Momiji season, when the leaves are getting these wonderful colors (even for a color-weak...
Closing remarks and report from the conference dinner of the TUG 2013 in Tokyo. For the first see , for the second , and for the third , and for the last day ....
Some remarks about the last day of the TUG 2013 in Tokyo. For the first see , for the second , and for the third . The last day brought a wild mixture of...
Here now the recollections from the third day, the excursion day, of the TUG 2013 in Tokyo. For the first see , for the second see The third day of the conference was dedicated...
Here now the recollections from the second day of the TUG 2013 in Tokyo. For the first see The second day brought a big part on graphics, two excellent tutorials on Japanese typefaces and...
I just returned from the TUG 2013 in Tokyo, a great event. Here are my personal comments on the different presentations and activities, starting with the first day. First the cold facts: 4 days,...
先週の第34回TeX Users Group年次大会の遠足の時初めて書道触れた。その前筆を使う事がただ一度だった。今回自分で墨を作ってから、練習した。難しかった。思ったよりすごく難しかった!一回自分でやると、書道先生の天才を少しわかってきた。好きになったから、絶対に書道練習を続ける。
From Wednesday next week on the 34th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group will bring together over 150 TeX users, TeX experts, typographiles, book lovers, font designers, etc. A dense program with talks...