Cold, in more than one way. The venue - Seaside House - is very enthusiastic about its state of the art air conditioning. As a result I'...

We're coming up to the end of the second week at OCNC, and I'm starting to feel a little cooped up. We spend every day in the same b...

We had sunday off, and went on a group excursion to Churaumi aquarium north of here. I haven't been to many such places, but I have a h...

One of the main jobs of the tutors at OCNC was to give afternoon tutorials on various simulation software; general tools like Python and Mat...

Things start fairly late here; breakfast is from before eight and the sessions don't start until 9:30. I get up before seven as usual, a...

I'm going to Okinawa tomorrow - yes, again, but this time it's all work, not play. I'll work as tutor at the OCNC summer school...

Nazar is a good Turkish restaurant in Shinsaibashi, Osaka. We go there now and again, though not very often - we unfortunately don't ha...