Things are settling down a bit around here. As I thought I haven't had the energy to write anything longish, but I did post the occasion...

Newly-minted Ph.D. Dave (fun blog) has a post on doing a Ph.D. in Japan . As he actually went and did exactly this, his perspective is of c...

(Note: for personal reasons posting may be light to non-existent for a while.) You have a laptop. A good one, only two years old, and most...

I've finally finished "火車" ("Fire Engine" perhaps? It's a little subtle) after a whole year . That's not a s...

I got a question recently in a comment about doing a PhD in Japan: Hello, I found this blog while looking for OIST. I was wondering if yo...

The Golden Week holidays are over, and with that, so is spring. The spring here in Osaka is beautiful but all too short — just a month ago I...

It's the Golden Week holidays — well, I'm at work today and tomorrow — and I'm trying to catch up on things. Here's a blog p...