It is now exactly 5 years ago that I entered an airplane on September 30th, 2006 in order to start my JSPS Post-Doc fellowship in Kashima, Japan. After two years there I am now already three years in Tokyo and…
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Five years in Japan
Online LaTex formula generator
I happens quite often that I need to insert an equation in one of my presentation slides or posters. Although either OpenOffice or Powerpoint have some way to present formulas or equations, their quality and appeal is quite poor. For…
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The power of the sun
This summer is hot. Not only hot, but for me it appears to be endless and every morning starts with temperatures around 30 degrees. This I am sweating when I go to the office, I sweat when I go outside…
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Mikan water ice
A few week ago I wrote about an orange ice that comes in a kind of plastic tube. Yesterday, I discovered the セブンプレミアム みかんシャーベット (Premium Mikan Sherbet”) which is exclusively sold in 7-eleven stores. This water ice comes in three handy…
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The ice (beer) jokki
During this year’s hot summer one kitchen equipment pays off totally – the ice beer jokki. A few years ago I bought this plastic glass that can be filled with up to 350ml of drinks for about 5 EUR in…
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R.I.P. my Nanospeed 4500
Yesterday’s badminton game was the last for my Nanospeed 4500 racket. I played this racket for almost three years and I really liked it. But since it got a small crack last year, I bought a replacement about 10 months…
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10,000 visitors
When checking my page counter this morning I saw that this blog had its ten thousandth visitor on September 1st. I know that this is quite poor compared to other pages and 10,000 visitors is nothing to normal blogs that…
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About NVIDIA CUDA and Fedora life cycles
Most of my real-time stuff (mainly signal processing) runs on the GPU and I really like CUDA because it is as simple as C or C++ but allows you to tune your graphic card to get the maximum performance you…
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Gyūdon chain restaurants
Gyūdon is a popular Japanese dish that consists of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onions. Beside the large Western style fast-food chains also Gyūdon restaurants spread through the country under the franchise system. Thereby, the following big…
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