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...
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...
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 –...
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...
