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。
Another great book of Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) that I devoured in shortest time – South of the Border, West of the Sun (国境の南、太陽の西). It turns around the development from childhood to adulthood of the...
After recently, we released another version 1.5.1, which makes the Windows builds run on UNC path, too. We also improved our binary distribution mechanism and now provide ready built binaries for Windows, Mac, and...
After a long business trip to Europe, here a big round of updates for all of TeX Live/Debian. Besides updating the usual bunch of packages from CTAN, this upload also brings a new set...
Today I got the booklet: JAIST Outline 2014-2015, and I found a very interesting table at the end of the pamphlet, listing the international staff members. Reading through it, I wondered what has happened...
Laurent Binet’s HHhH – Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich – a great book about one of the many dark chapters of the Second World War, diluted by the author’s affectation and self-infatuations. The book tells...
A group of young people from Teheran have been convicted for producing the following nice video of them dancing to the song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams. Convicted to 91 lashes and six months in...
These UK trains drive me crazy. This morning in particular South West Trains. So I have a off-peak return ticket. For those not comfortable with the UK train booking system: Getting a train ticket...
Yesterday we have finally released CafeOBJ 1.5.0. This marks a great step forward in a long development history of this algebraic specification and verification language. To quote from our README: CafeOBJ is a new...
After a retracted firmware (3.5.0), an intermediate firmware (3.7.0) targetting the new unit H2O, there is now a new firmware for all devices (3.8.0). This firmware includes support that was previously available in patched...
I am long time user of Plex, on my laptop, on my TV via RasPlex, on my iPhone. It is a great product. Recently even ChromeCast works with it, so it is the perfect...
Sometimes there are movies that leave you thinking about different interpretations over and over again. Yesterday evening, we watched one of them, Neil Jordan‘s Mona Lisa from 1986. Described as classy kitsch by the...
TeX Live has a yearly release schedule, and while normal packages are updated on a daily basis, updates to binaries are not done during one year. But development continues in our TeX Live svn...
Sony seems to believe they can ignore the UEFI standards. As I have written in the on booting, Sony messes up the EFI boot setting on every boot. I did a hard core test,...
Recently, in the Japan Times I am getting to my door every day, I found a book review that stirred my interest: Katsuhiko Takahashi (高橋克彦) – The Case of the Sharaku Murders (写楽殺人事件), for...
About a month has passed and there is a new upload of Debian/TeX Live, the second upload after the . Most important is a fix to thumbpdf which wasn’t working anymore due to a...
Kobo has shipped another update of the firmware for their devices, new version is 3.5.0. Most important fix it seems is for the “light-on-after-sleep” bug, which botched my battery a few times. Another fix...
