Slick Google Map Plugin for WordPress
(Update: renamed to Slick Google Map Plugin!) For long time I have used the Comprehensive Google Map Plugin by Alexander Zagniotov. Unfortunately, it has been abandoned by the author, and as last step migration...
映画の広告：標的の村
最近琉球と沖縄の歴史について、いろんな本を読んでいた：ノーマ・フィールドの「[p2p slug="dying-emperor-chibana-hinomaru"]天皇の逝く国で[/p2p]」、知花昌一の[p2p slug="chibana-shoichi-burning-the-rising-sun"]焼き捨てられた日の丸[/p2p]。
Movie: Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Vol. I
Art? Pornography? Comedy? Shocker? Hard to say – the first volume of the new Lars von Trier movie Nymphomaniac (IMdB, Wiki) defies any characterization – as usual for von Trier. This first part of...
山スキー：御世仏山 (Ski tour Miyobutsu-san)
パウダー、パウダー、パウダー。その上、近いし、斜度はつまらなくないし、天気も最高だったし、まるで、完璧な山の一日だった！五箇山の御世仏山（みよぶつさん）はこれから好きな山になりそうだ。
Alan Lightman – The Accidental Universe
Recommended by one of my favorite blogs, Brain Pickings, as one of the best books of 2014, and written by physicist and novelist Alan Lightman (Wiki, MIT page), I immediately bought the book (eBook...
長崎県での観光１：長崎市
年末年始の休みの時、長崎県へ行ってきた。４年前クライミング旅の時少し長崎市に入ったけど、あの時の観光が足りなかったから、もう一度ゆっくり長崎県を「検査」した。年末年始の旅行者の大発生（僕らは含まれて！）のため、自由席の電車移動は結構大変だったけど、８時間の旅の後、無事に長崎市に着いた。
Charlie Hebdo attack
The killing of journalists at Charlie Hebdo by islamic extremists yesterday is another sad point. Around the world, caricaturists answer with design in memoriam the death at Charlie Hebdo. I am well aware that...
Two years of blogging
It has been more or less two years that I started to regularly write on this blog. High time to look back and take a short review. Including the posts moved over from the...
Chibana Shoichi – Burning the Rising Sun
At first I wanted to write my own review of this book, where the author describes his story of taking down and burning the Hinomaru during a Softball Competition Opening Ceremony in Okinawa. I...
明けましておめでとうございます！
ちょっと遅いけど、読者の皆様、明けましておめでとうございます！今年もよろしくお願いします。A bit late though, but I wish all the readers a Happy New Year 2015! Hope to see you around in this year.
Fixing (Debian, X, PDF viewer) font setup for Japanese
I have been experiencing crazy switches in my fonts displayed in the browser, in applications, etc. In particular, stuff written in Japanese was displayed with Chinese characters instead of Japanese. The differences are subtle,...
立山見る雨晴への遠足
友だちとの忘年会が遅くまで続いたから、３人は自宅で泊まってくれて、一緒に朝食を食べてから、急に「氷見へ行って、立山を見よう！」という感じになった。反対もあまりなく、ゆっくり出発して、下道富山湾まで運転した。
