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...
ハイキング 御在所岳
今週末は沢登じゃなくて、クライミングもじゃなくて、今回はハイキングに行ってきた。予定は新潟県だったけど、天気予報は悪くて、三重県の御在所になった。僕達が５人で土曜日の午後出発し、滋賀県から鈴鹿スカイライン（４７７号）を走って、山道入口の近くにある道の駅・公園でテントをはった。
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....
