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...
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...
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 – 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...