Foreigners in Japan are evil …
…at least what Tokyo Shinjuku ward belives. They have put out a very nice brochure about how to behave as a foreigner in Japan: English (local copy) and Japanese (local copy). Nothing in there...
Tagged: Society
Armenia and Turkey – Erdoğan did it again
It is 101 years to the day that Turkey started the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide. And Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the populistic and seemingly maniac president of Turkey, does not...
就職活動
昨日僕の大学の契約が切れてしまった。これまで６年半北陸先端科学技術大学院大学で准教授として務めていたが、新年度から延長されないことになった。従って、新しい勤め先を探しているー僕の年齢を見るとあまりよろしくない。５年の件を潜脱した先端大学へ感謝！
Searching for a job
Yesterday my contract with my university JAIST ended. I was working there as Associate Professor for 6.5 years, but the university decided not to extend my contract (financial problems, foreigner in Japan). That means,...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – refugees acceptance
Coming from a country that has taken lots of refugees, especially in the years after the second world war (although not any more), and while living in Japan still feeling connected to Europe and...
Ian Buruma: Wages of Guilt
Since moving to Japan, I got more and more interested in history, especially the recent history of the 20th century. The book I just finished, Ian Buruma (Wiki, home page) Wages of Guilt –...
My unconscious bias
Here is my unconscious bias, probably only one of it, though. Thanks to ANTIFA on Facebook.
SJW attitude in science
Recently, Eric Raymond, famous for is “The Cathedral and the Bazaar“, stepped forward to speak out against mixing social agenda, like equal treatment for everyone outside the white straight group, with meritocracy, the evaluation...
七十年ニュルンベルク裁判と日本の現代史：歴史教科書に書いていない話
1945年11月20日からニュルンベルク裁判が始まった。ちょうど七十年前。これまでニュルンベルク裁判はドイツ人とドイツの社会の意識に強く存在する。オーストリア人の僕は学校の遠足で強制収容所へ行ったり、もちろんニュルンベルク裁判とその後の裁判の歴史を勉強した。
On Lars Wirzenius, Martín Ferrari, and Debian
Now that the tsunami that followed my has passed, I can read through all the nice comments and blogs of other people. I didn’t expect that just writing up some links to posts on...
Looking at the facts: Sarah Sharp’s crusade
Much has been written around the internet about this geeky kernel maintainer Sarah Sharp who left kernel development. I have now spent two hours reading through lkml posts, and want to summarize a few...
6 years in Japan
Exactly 6 years ago, on October 1, 2009, I started my work at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), arriving the previous day in a place not completely unknown, but with...
Multi-boot stick update: TAILS 1.6, SysresCD 4.6.0, GParted 0.23, Debian 8.2
Updates for my multi-boot/multi-purpose USB stick: All components have been updated to the latest versions and I have confirmed that all of them still boot properly – although changes in the grub.cfg file are...
Work-Life Balance at Amazon
Having had personal contact with Amazon employees, and having read the NYT article Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace, I have only a few things to say: Most Japanese companies have...
An amusing lintian error — Lenna
Well, there we are, trying to build another round of TeX Live packages for Debian, just to realize that the lintian error that should have been downgraded to warning (or removed) is still around,...
