Shotwell vs. digiKam
How to manage your photos? – That is probably the biggest question for anyone doing anything with a photo camera. As resolutions of cameras grow, the data we have to manage is ever growing....
Foreigners in Japan are evil …
…at least what Tokyo Shinjuku ward belives. They have put out a very nice brochure about how to behave as a foreigner in Japan: English (local copy) and Japanese (local copy). Nothing in there...
TeX Live 2016 (pretest) hits Debian/unstable
The sources of TeX Live binaries are now (hopefully) frozen, and barring unpleasant surprises, these will be code going into the final release (one fix for luatex is coming, though). Thus, I thought it...
Gaming: The Room series
After having finished Monument Valley and some spin-offs, Google Play suggested me The Room series games (The Room, The Room II, Room III), classical puzzle games with a common theme – one needs to...
ハリー・ポッターとアズカバンの囚人 (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Yeah, another book finished in Japanese, the third Harry Potter book, Prisoner of Azkaban. Took me quite some time, but thanks to a good Kobo ebook reader and my own enriched dictionary reading is...
Yubikey NEO
Two Factor authentication and general improvement of my security infrastructure was long on my todo list. Some month ago I finally purchased a Yubikey NEO from Yubico and try to consistently use it as...
Gödel and Daemons – an excursion into literature
Explaining Gödel’s theorems to students is a pain. Period. How can those poor creatures crank their mind around a Completeness and an Incompleteness Proof… I understand that. But then, there are brave souls using...
Armenia and Turkey – Erdoğan did it again
It is 101 years to the day that Turkey started the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide. And Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the populistic and seemingly maniac president of Turkey, does not...
GnuPG notes: subkeys, yubikey, gpg1 vs gpg2
Switching from one GnuPG master key to the usage of subkeys was long on my list of things I wanted to do, but never came around. With the advent of a YubiKey NEO in...
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...
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,...
