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。
Using nautilus-sendto extensions, the nautilus-sendto program allows sending selected objects to various targets, like mail programs, removable devices, bluetooth tools etc. Unfortunately it is not possible to easily add targets to this menu. There...
I recently moved and consolidated the web presence (photos, blog, etc), see this , to www.hostpapa.eu. Up till a few days ago they provided sftp, that is secure ftp upload options. This has been...
Last weekend was a special weekend out of many reasons, one of it was that I could attend a so called “Liederabend”, an evening of songs from Brahms, performed by a friend of mine...
Finally done, uploading event comments from Shotwell to Piwigo. My favorite photo editor and management program is Shotwell, written for the GNOME desktop but usable under any desktop environment. For my web gallery I...
Minabe in Wakayama-ken (和歌山県みなべ町) is famous for its Ume trees. The Umeboshi from Minabe are paticularly famous. The second day of our trip around Minabe was dedicated to the Ume garden 梅林 there. For...
The area around Shirahama 白浜 in the south of Wakayama-ken 和歌山県 not only boasts a warm and friendly climate, but also spectacular scenery and excellent Ume. Last weekend I could spend two days in this...
I just finished another book of Murakami Haruki, 1Q84. It is a spectacular book, more than 1000 pages (published in print in three volumes), which I couldn’t stop reading. The tension never stops, the...
During my stay (for work) in Swansea I explored this beautiful castle ruin and its surroundings a bit. Unfortunately it was a rainy day, so the photos are a bit dull.
Six years ago I visited a colleague in Swansea, Wales, and for a full week we were working without a break. It happened that besides the university campus I didn’t see anything else. Now...
Amazon advertises that the Kindle with 3G can access the store and the purchased books in more than 100 (or 150) countries of the world (see http://client0.cellmaps.com/viewer.html). Well, unless you buy a Kindle in...
Ice climbing from Ishikawa always means a long trip, as we have lots of snow, but not lots of ice. In January I went ice climbing to Yukawa, a nice place in Nagano-ken near...
Some time ago a friend posted a link to a nice new product of Switzerland, shaping a knife like the panorama of the swiss alps. The project is called Panorama Knife. Of course I...
Recently a friend of mine obtained a Garmin eTrex30 in the normal, that is not Japanese variant. Though my friend’s English is excellent, while mountaineering one normally prefers to work in one’s native language....
Up to recently my web site was at the logic.at server. That was a completely outdated and hopeless page, and I used it for nothing but distributing files. At the same time I was...
The first ski tour in the new year, we were blessed by wonderful weather. In the beginning it looked a bit bleak, rain falling, warm temperatures, not enough snow. So the five of us...
You can get a Japanese-Japanese dictionary for free on the Kindle, but if you want to have translations, I recommend this Japanese-English dictionary. After having purchased and installed it on the Kindle, got to...
