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Three years have passed since the big earthquake, followed by an enormous tsunami, hit the north-eastern coast of Japan, destroying the lives and livelihood of thousands of people. It also set of the biggest...
Once again a book that I bought inspired by the NPR’s Book Concierge for 2013 is Howard Norman‘s autobiographic collection of memories named I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place. Born to a mixture...
Another book that I bought inspired by the NPR’s Book Concierge for 2013 is Karen Russell’s collection of short stories named Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Karen Russell is one of the young new...
Nowadays the eBooks market contributes a ever growing share to publishers revenue. According to the BookStats report 2013, it constitutes about 20% of the whole book market in the US (source: Association of American...
Another month, another upload of Debian/TeX Live packages has hit the Debian servers this moment, and will find its way around the globe in the next hours. The new version is based on tlnet...
Publish or Perish is a well known phrase describing the life of us scientists at the university – publish as much and as quickly as possible, or you perish! Many things have been written...
I have lived about 2.5 years in Italy, more specific in Siena. And till today I have many good friends there. During my time in Italy I learned quite a bit of Italian, or...
During the long flight from Narita to Vienna I spent some time with a game called “Brain Teaser”. Math, general knowledge was ok, but in the section of analytic I failed badly. Let us...
This blog used the theme Tarski from the very beginning. But I somehow felt I want to have a different design, more adaptive for mobile devices, and so I went for the hunt. My...
After some calm period a new firmware for the Kobos, all of them. The latest one being 3.2.0. The new firmware brings several changes to the handling of selection and related operations like highlighting,...
Another book that I bought inspired by the NPR’s Book Concierge for 2013 is Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. It is the first novel of the Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. In 2010 she won...
Another month, another upload of Debian/TeX Live packages has hit the Debian servers this moment, and will find its way around the globe in the next hours. The new version is based on tlnet...
During our trip to the we had the great chance to visit the Grand Canyon. Although it was a long ride through the desert, it was worth every minute. I have seen so many...
Climbing in Joshua Tree National Park is different. Although I have been climbing in a similar area, Yosemite, some years before, when we visited Joshua Tree National Park during our , I again was...
During the of Tomokawa Kazuki I attended last weekend, one of the songs caught my attention – it was the song Runaway lad (家出青年). He spoke a lot about (against) atomic reactors, and this...
(日本語版の為、「これ」と「これ」を見て下さい。) Last sunday the first Kibagata Forum was held. Aim of this meeting is the protection of the Kibagata and its surroundings during the construction of the Hokuriku-Shinkansen from Matto direction Fukui. As already...
