ssh (or telnet) on the Kobo Glo
The Kobo Glo is a very nice device, but it lacks besides other things the ability to make screen shots. And it does not have an ssh or telnet server activated, so you cannot...
Being gaijin in Japan
Today something strange happened: for the first time in more than 3 years I have been here in Japan I was treated not like a Gaijin that wants to rob, steal, or cheat, but...
Debian TeX Live binaries updated to 2013.20130722.31261-1
As mentioned in the previous , I have now also uploaded a new version of texlive-bin, based on svn branch branch2013 in the TeX Live svn repository. This includes the following changes from upstream...
Debian TeX Live release 2013.20130722-1
Yesterday I have uploaded a set of new packages for TeX Live to the Debian archive. The release is based on the tlnet checkout from 2013-07-22. Version number is 2013.20130722-1. This is the first...
Kobo Glo firmware 2.8.1 and kobohack-j
[For update blog entries see for an update for firmware 2.10, and for 3.1.1]. I recently reported about how to . One of the items was installing optimized libraries compiled from the kobohack-j project....
River climbing Dainichi-sawa
Another hot weekend, another sawa (river) to climb. This time it is the Dainichi-sawa 大日沢 in Ishikawa. Sawa-nobori, or river climbing, is a sport practiced mostly in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. In Europe and...
Internals of TeX Live 2: multi-updmap
As a follow-up on a previous post on , today something that is not so internal, but still something that hasn’t found wide knowledge: The new operation mode of updmap: reading all updmap.cfg files.
Internals of TeX Live 1: stacked versus non-stacked files, texmf.cnf adaptions
I thought about writing a series of entries about internals of the TeX Live ecosystem. Background is that there is a big need for packaging TeX Live for Distributions. I gave a talk on...
Upgrading the Kobo Glo
Due to permanent fights over my Kindle Paperwhite, I decided to get another eBook Reader, the Kobo Glo (warning – from Japan you will be automatically redirected to the Japanese page at rakuten), so...
Pride, July 4, and Nationality
Today is July 4, the day when many Americans blare out their pride of being American. And as always on this days, I ask myself, why on earth? In fact, this pride on nationality...
Zülfü Livaneli – Serenade für Nadja
It happens very rarely that a book moves me so deeply that I have to cry. This book by the Turkish multi-talent Zülfü Livaneli (musician, author, columnist, film director, …) is one of them....
ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
Hurray! I just finished my first full book in Japanese: ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石. I got the book from pottermore.com shop, the only place to get eBook versions of Harry Potter. I , since the PotterMore shop...
TeX Live 2013 released
In the last hours Karl Berry has finally put the release 2013 of TeX Live online. That means that new installations from tlnet will use the 2013 package base. But be warned, mirror updates...
The Pain of DRM
There is this new book you really want to read, published in Germany, hard to get in Japan, but there is a eBook version, so you are happy. You purchase the eBook happily (for...
de Jong: Schriftwechsel and Lunde: CJKV Information Processing
The following two books cover two very different, though somehow related topics. Stephanie & Ralf de Jong’s Schriftwechsel (in German!) introduces basic principles of typography and especially font design. What sets it apart for...
Starship Titanic/Kawakyu – Douglas Adams – Towel Day
Today is Towel Day, the annual celebration of the author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). So today – honoring Douglas Adams incredible creations – I want to present the famous Starship Kawakyu – upps, Starship Titanic...
