Monthly Archives: March 2010

Mango beer

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — No Comments ↓

According to this newspaper article (in Japanese) a company will use the mangos grown in Mayazaki prefecture to make beer out of it. Of course the fruit will be only used to add some additional taste, beside the usual beer…

Posted in Drink, Japanese

日本漢字能力検定

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — No Comments ↓

Beside the JPLT which tests all language skills (listening, reading and grammar) there is also the so-called KANKEN (漢検), which is designed for Japanese pupil ranging from elementary to high school and above. Other than the JLPT, which is held…

Posted in Japanese

Why you should travel only with carry-on luggage

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — No Comments ↓

Here’s an official announcement saying that yearly 25 million bags get lost or at least are not loaded on the plane. That’s amazing. Half of the items, get lost during aircraft transfer, but already on the second place (16%) ranks…

Posted in travel

CUDA 3.0 under Fedora 12

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — No Comments ↓

NVIDIA has now officially released its new toolkit (version 3.0). I installed it under Fedora 12 after commenting out three lines in math_functions.h (similar as described in a prior post). Compilation went pretty smooth, but results looked weird. E.g. FFTs…

Posted in computer, programming

Spicy recommendation IV

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — No Comments ↓

This time I am writing about a rather bad experience with one curry restaurant. The name is ハバカーる and the small restaurant is located in Kokubunji. Although they are specialized on curry, their food tastes totally different from what one…

Posted in Food, Spicy recommendation

Highlighting text in received mails (Thunderbird)

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — No Comments ↓

Here’s a nice add-on for Thunderbird which allows you to highlight phrases in your mails. It does not work with the latest version of Thunderbird out of the box, but after a small hack (just open the xpi archive and…

Posted in computer, Japanese, programming

New cop car for the US

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — No Comments ↓

The US are surely not the country where the most environmental friendly cars are sold (and used), but concerning the selection of their police car they always have a good sense to equip their cops with powerful looking cars. Ford…

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What about a five billion USD loan?

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — 2 Comments ↓

In priori posts (here and here) I have written about scam, but what reached my mailbox today beats all the prior attempts and brings scam to a new league of ridiculousness. Here’s the content DearSir/Madam, I represent the greatbusiness empire…

Posted in computer

Estimates for the value of my homepage

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — 2 Comments ↓

Since more than three years I am running hobiger.org and I was curious about how much one could earn by selling this domain. So here’s a list of prices together with the source of each estimate http://www.websiteoutlook.com $1408.9 http://www.glurk.com $346…

Posted in computer

Kile for LaTex

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Thomas Hobiger — No Comments ↓

In the last days I had to prepare several abstracts for a meeting using a given LaTex template. Usually, I do all the texting and formatting in Gedit, but for some reasons I noticed that with my latest Fedora 12…

Posted in computer, paper, programming