Monthly Archives: January 2010

New JLPT 2010 – 新しい日本語能力試験

After my experience with the last Japanese language examination I am still waiting for the results. Since I am pretty sure that I did not pass I have checked already the organizers homepage as I knew that the test will

Posted in Japanese

The World’s Most Delayed Airports

Forbes magazine has ranked the airports which have the most delaying flights. And.. oh wonder.. Beijing international made it to number one, followed by Dubai and Moscow. Good to know when planning my next trip to Europe. Rome ranks fifth, although my

Posted in travel

Playstation 3 hacked

The guy who has hacked the ipone, is now spending a lot of his time to do the same with the PS3. According to his latest blog entries he is making good progress and successfully carried out memory transfers. Now,

Posted in computer, programming

Rainbow on my foot

Some people (female ones – otherwise its weird I believe) paint there nails with various colours to make their foot appear more fashionable. I can’t understand why someone would do so, unless she is wearing sandals which show the toes.

Posted in sports

Spicy recommendation III

Today I went to MITRA II for lunch. I have been already to the “mother restaurant”, i.e. MITRA in Kunitachi, but the 2nd one is definitely better. Not only that is has (for my tongue) better curries, but they are

Posted in Spicy recommendation

A good day does not start with a swollen foot …

How to say? Yesterday, while playing badminton I made one stupid move and my foot got twisted. I could hear some sound, like cracking peanuts, and then I stopped playing. Directly after the accident I could walk and run without

Posted in sports

Bibtex for WordPress

In order to directly produce good looking references inside WordPress, I found the bib2html plug-in which does a pretty good job. Just upload your latest bibliography file in BibTex format and include one paper, parts of or your complete bibliography

Posted in computer, paper

No more updates for Fedora 10

Around end of December the support for Fedora 10 has been stopped and no more updates are available via YUM. That brings me into a pretty miserable situation since I can’t / won’t switch to F11 or F12 as they

Posted in computer, programming

Who’s who – and who is tricked?

Other than real scam (see prior post) I am also receiving emails of this kind Dear T. Hobiger, is my pleasure to inform you that you are being considered for inclusion in the upcoming 2011 Edition of Who’s Who in

Posted in Uncategorized

Spicy recommendation II

Like a few months before I was curious about eating some spicy food. I got a book about Ramen (a kind of noodle book) restaurants in Tokyo and I found a selection of places where a very spicy version of

Posted in Food, Japanese, Spicy recommendation
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