New Debian TeX Live upload
Today I have uploaded a new release of Debian TeX Live. The current release is based on TeX Live’s tlnet as of 2013-09-05, and the Debian release is 2013.20130905-1. Besides the usual bunch of...
Biber and BibLaTeX in Debian (and Open Source)
Finally after long time Debian got an uptodate release of Biber. Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX. In recent times, including the last release of Debian (wheezy) the Biber program is...
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis – フリッツ・ラングのメトロポリス
Finally, the new version of Metropolis has arrived. It contains the material found in 2008 in Argentina, extending the previously known footage. The movie is one of my favorites, from 1927 by Fritz Lang,...
Debian, Virtualbox, and Linux kernel >= 3.7 (3.10)
Since I am always compiling my own kernel, I am often suffering from uncompilable VirtualBox kernel modules. The code that comes with Debian/unstable is unfortunately targetting old releases of the Linux kernel. Compiling it...
Recipe: Tiramisu in Japan – an experiment
Yesterday we had visitors, so I decided to try out Tiramisu. Now, normally Tiramisu is made with Mascarpone, a rare beast in Japan, especially in Ishikawa (hint: if someone knows a place where to...
沢登 桧谷 九頭竜川水系打波川
先週末また沢になった：福井県の桧谷。金曜日の大雨でちょっと水量の心配と朝の雨なのに、５時半に出発し、白峰用福井県に入って、１７３号の県道の一番奥までの駐車場に７時半位に着いた。着いた時、まだ雨が降っていた。どうする？
End of three years in Magae
Today I have returned the key to my flat in Magae. Three years, since August 2010, I have been living there. I really got to like the neighborhood, the view onto the school, the...
Canyoning in Kurobe
Canyoning – very popular in Europe, not very known in Japan. While I have been climbing up rivers quite some time (see these blog entries), last weekend I had the first time the chance...
Tateyama in summer
I have been climbing Tateyama already many times, but always in the snow season. So when last weekend it finally climbed up there for the first time during peak season, actually on the Obon-weekend...
Japanese politics
Fukushima is back, contaminated water is released into the sea. Let us use this opportunity to discuss a bit Japanese politics. It fits quite well with the 68th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Being...
沢登り ワ谷 奥医王山
８月なのに、低い山の沢を登ってきた。虫が多くて、特にアブもいっぱいの時沢に入らない方がいいかな〜と疑問したのに、結局すごくいい沢を登って、あまり虫がなくて、とても面白い一日になった。
Kobo Abe – The Face of Another
I just finished another book of Kobo Abe (安部公房), called “The Face of Another” (他人の顔). It is the story of a person whose face got severely damaged in an accident, and who builds a...
Reading Japanese: Kindle Paperwhite versus Kobo Glo
There are already a lot of articles out there in the net comparing the two devices. Having quite similar specs I found that the reading experience with both units is very similar, as long...
