EU Software Patent Directive Adopted

That's sad...
In Japan, the government isn't monolithtic currently. Someone said 'we progress pro patent policy, to against other countries (especially China)', but another one said 'patent stops a innovation'. From pessimist's view, I believe Japan will progress patent policy even if it has a problem.
Some Japanese companies have nasty software patents, such as emulator patent holder -- Nintendo.

Hitsumabushi

Hitsumabushi is local dish at Nagoya, Japan. Base materials are grilled+flavoured eel, rice in bowl. Unique point of Hitsumabushi is that there are three step to eat this.

1. Eat rice and eel 1/3 part.
2. Next, put seasoning (sliced welsh onion, sesame, wasabi, laver) into bowl and mix, then eat 1/3 part.
3. Finally pour hot soup (with dried bonito stock) into bowl and eat.

Other dishes are miso soup with tofu and wakame (seawood), and Japanese pickles of cucumber. This Japaese pickles is called 'Nuka-duke', name after materials are put into('duke') rice bran ('nuka').

Face photo

I found my picture from Debconf4 album. Photographer is gotom, thanks!
I noticed gimp already became 2.2 but am disappointed its usability wasn't improved. And I met segmentation fault when I chose some blur filters...

Chiaotzu

I made 50 chiaotzu today. Half (pork meat, shiitake mushroom, bok choy, garlic, ginger, pepper, potato starch, til oil) is for boiled, half (plus 'nira', like shallot but has strong smell) is broiled (baked? how to call for Chiaotzu?) We ate all of them, hew!