Monthly Archives: February 2012

Spicy recommendation XVIII

Another weekend, another curry restaurant. This time I went to Tachikawa and took lunch in a small Indian/Nepalese curry restaurant a few minutes away from the station. The place which is named Ful Bari is quite difficult to find as

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Additive noise

Whenever you measure something you usually repeat these measurements, in order to determine not only the quantity you are looking for but also access its uncertainty. Given that you have measured different quantities and derive a new one from a

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Spicy recommendation XVII

This time I am going to present another Indian(?) restaurant in Higashi-Murayama area. The restaurant is named “NAANBAGAN”, whereas the owner has added “Indian curry and Naan house” to the title as well. The restaurant does not have its own

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Unruly passengers

An unruly passenger on a plane can be somebody between just drunk and a little bit nasty and a highly dangerous terrorist who poses a real threat for the safety of the people on board and on the ground. It

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Spray-on antennas

It may sound like utopia, but Chamtech Operations presented their new nanotechnology-based spray-on antenna technology at Google’s Solve for X forum. This idea is that one sprays the material on any kind of surface and the nanotech particles turn into

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Two-line elements of current GLONASS satellites

The Celestrak page provides a variety of two-line elements (TLE) for different satellites, including orbit information for navigation satellite systems like the Russian GLONASS. Unfortunately, there are more satellites listed in the TLE data-set than are currently operational. E.g. today

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Milk vending machines in Japan

Soft drink vending machines are something that belongs to Japan like burger to the US. In most of the cities you can find such vending machines within a distance of less than 200 m independently where you are. Although the

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The “broken link checker” for WordPress

Yesterday I added a very useful plug-in for this WordPress installation – the broken link checker. Once it is installed it searches all links in posts, pages, etc. and checks if they are still valid. By this nice little tool

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Japanese school building architecture

Almost all public schools in Japan have one thing in common – they look very similar. There is not much difference in the way how the building looks from outside, independently if it is an elementary school, a junior high

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Onsen manners

Last weekend when I went to a nearby Onsen I had a look at the poster which explains all the things one should not do when visiting such a place. Since saunas have recently become popular, many of the typical

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