生も死もひとつのブランコの分岐点においてゆらゆらそのゆれをほほえんで見ているしかないのですね。
Exactly 100 years ago the first genocide of the 20th century started: The Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks. The Ottoman empire, the predecessor of Turkey, ordered the deportation and execution of...
The well known writer Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) – I have blogged about several of his books – also provides some kind of counseling service. He is running his advice page 村上さんのところ. The readers can...
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress (, WordPress plugin dir) to the WordPress servers. This release incorporates lots of security related fixes by Rüdiger Schulz, bit thanks to him. PiwigoPress supported from...
Update 2015-05-04: 1.3.7 is gone from the repository, and locations have changed depending on sid or jessie in use, please see for Version 1.4.0. Recently Plex Plex Home Theater was updated to 1.3.7 fixing...
While developing the script to integrate , we found a strange discrepancy between different versions of GhostScript. With the Yu fonts as distributed with OSX, newer versions of GhostScript crash, while my relatively old...
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress (, WordPress plugin dir) to the WordPress servers. This release fixes a long open bug. Some time ago I added the feature to download images from...
After long discussions on the MacTeX mailing list, and thanks to much work of many contributors, I can finally announce the CJK font integration script for GhostScript. While far from perfect, especially because GhostScript...
Some time ago I posted a few articles on internals of TeX Live, which might be of interest for the general user, too: and . With and the pretest for 2015 about to start,...
So there we are, each year around April TeX Live gets frozen. Today’s update was the last of TeX Live 2014. From now on we concentrate on updating binaries and packaging in preparation for...
Now that my teaching season has started, I need to produce slides and handouts for lots of lectures. For saving paper I print the handouts in 2-up, so two slides per page. Till now...
Prized and highly recommended here and there, I finally came around to read Hitomi Kanehara‘s (金原 ひとみ) short novel Snakes and Earrings, which won the Akutagawa prize in 2003, and was made into a...
As I am still in Hawaii, I don’t want to spend too much time in front of the computer, so here are only some short impressions from our stay on the Big Island. What...
I just have pushed a new version of the Slick Google Map plugin for WordPress to the servers. There are not many changes, but one that has been requested already in the ancestor, the...
TeX Live 2015 is still a few months of, but one of the things I am planning for it is to rewrite fmtutil in Perl, and change its functionality slightly. This follows the rewrite...
I have created a new tutorial for CafeOBJ that will introduce users to functional programming the CafeOBJ way, in particular list processing and programming. We introduce lists, and define functions on them: length, append,...
After long and painful back and forth, we finally uploaded Sigil to Debian. Sigil is a great multi-platform epub editor. First time the intention to package was uttered was in 2010, see bug 590180,...
