Monthly Archive: July 2013

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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...

8

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 0

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。

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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...

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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 0

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...

TeX Live 2013 0

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.

沢登 沢上谷 0

沢登 沢上谷

先週末の日曜日また沢登へ行ってきた。今回の目的は「沢上谷」(そうれだに)だ。色々な友達にすすまれて、とってもキレイな沢だと言われた。じゃ、楽しみにしていま〜す。

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石川県の自然の根絶

何かが変わった。昔(3年前)石川県は大自然な場所だという感じだった。最近それは全くない!

沢登 明王谷と奥ノ深谷 2

沢登 明王谷と奥ノ深谷

京都の近くにある葛川は暑い季節の得毎週末大人気な場所だ。石川県の梅雨から逃げる為に石川県の山会の交流活動の沢登ツアに参加して、昨日明王谷と奥ノ深谷へ行ってきた。

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カタンの開拓者

やっと買った!カタンの開拓者!昔々ウインに住んでいた時よく、ホントによく「カタンの開拓者」というボードゲームをした。

3

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...

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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...

Livaneli Zulfu: Serenade für Nadja 0

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....