How to make Umeshu
The Japanese Umeshu, a kind of plum liquor, is a very special delicacy. Incomparable to the rubbish you get at the Chinese restaurant. We got a huge box of young plums from friends living...
Author: Norbert Preining
Movie: Now You See Me
Yesterday evening we watched a movie rented over at GEO, which to my surprise was quite funny. It is “Now You See Me” (offical website, Wikipedia, IMdB). Turning around four gifted magicians that pull...
沢登 五箇山の美ヶ谷
最近天候は本当にまつい！平日晴れているけど、週末は雨だ。今週末谷川岳の計画だけど、又、３回目中止になった。その代わりに沢へ。午後雨が振りそうなので、短い沢を選び、朝入って、昼までに戻るつもりだった。真澄さんが選んだ沢は五箇山の美ヶ谷だった。
Debian/TeX Live 2014.20140626-1
The first upload after the . About a month has passed since the last packages have been uploaded, and the backlog of the freeze period has slowly decreased, meaning loads of updates! I cannot...
The Joy of Lisp
It has been a long time that I haven’t programmed Lisp, but due to my involvement in , I recently have re-started to program Lisp, in particular Common Lisp, which is the implementation language...
TeX Live 2014 released
Get the champagne out of the fridge, call your typographic friends, make a party – TeX Live 2014 has been released. Announcement has been delayed to give CTAN a chance to catch up, so...
Vienna Summer of Logic
This year we, the Kurt Gödel Society, are organizing the biggest event in the history of logic – the Vienna Summer of Logic. 12 conferences and many workshops, expected number of participants around 2500....
オーストリアのダールボ・ジャムと自家製のパン
やっと妻は見つけてくれた：オーストリアのダールボ「d’arbo」ジャム。大体毎朝パンとジャムを食べている僕らは、美味しいジャムをいつも探している。「美味しい」というのは、ジャムに対して、簡単な事だ：実の割合が高ければ高い方が美味しい！
(Debian) pristine-tar and how to *not* do packaging
Pristine-tar is a nice tool when packaging for Debian in a git repository. The basic idea is that when checking in a new upstream tarball into the upstream branch, some hash information and binary...
医王山県立自然公園：箱屋谷山・トンビ岩・三蛇ヶ滝
先週末東京の友達が来てくれて、一緒にハイキングした。新しい場所へ行きたかったから、他の友人のおすすめの通り、医王山県立自然公園へ向かっていた。この公園はすぐ金大の後ろなので、とっても便利で、綺麗な環境の公園。
25 years of Tiananmen Square Massacre
This night, 25 years ago, Chinese troops stormed the Tiananmen square, assaulting peaceful protesters who had gathered here over the previous two weeks, causing casualities, injuries, and above all lost hopes. Lost hopes for...
