Got an email from my sis, 수빈, that she now has a baby girl! 5 months old.

Learning some 한글 must have worked. All the more reason to go visit Korea soon and study 한글 every night. :-)

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http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/bloggy.htm

if theres one trend that i despise it’s the rise of the Make Money Blogging blogs.

im going to be headed to austin for sxsw in about 10 days and i know im gonna run into people who are either gonna ask me for tips on how to make money blogging or introduce me to some of these make money bloggers and im just gonna take another sip of beer and head back to the bbq. (lol)

theres a word for people who try to make real money blogging.

its the same word they have for people who try to make real money fucking. (haha!)

lost.

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From http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=hangul

Hangul is the Korean alphabet. It was devised by King Sejong sometime around 1446, when he realized that Chinese was simply too complex for the average joe to learn. Its brilliance is only apparent when you study Korean: it’s 100% phonetic (*) , the characters themselves are simple to write. Indeed, one of the initial criticisms of Hangul (1) was that it was too simple to learn – REAL men learned Chinese ideograms. For this reason, widespread use of Hangul did not come about until the 20th century, as a result of national pride.

Hangul is, as another noder put it, easy to learn, given the proper attitude. The first step is to execute that anal-retentive English teacher that lives in your forebrain as Korean is nothing like English. If you want to learn Korean, the first step is to throw out any English grammar you’ve learned.

The second step is to remember, you are learning an alphabet; by themselves, these are not individual words or any of that crazy Japanese stuff

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I’ve just made a desktop wallpaper in 한글 so it’d be easy for me to look at the wallpaper and study.

Link is available here for downloading.

WordPressDash

Cool!

from Wikipedia.

Interesting read!

Nonverbal communication (NVC) is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. Such messages can be communicated through gesture; body language or posture; facial expression and eye contact; object communication such as clothing, hairstyles or even architecture; symbols and infographics. Speech may also contain nonverbal elements known as paralanguage, including voice quality, emotion and speaking style, as well as prosodic features such as rhythm, intonation and stress. Likewise, written texts have nonverbal elements such as handwriting style, spatial arrangement of words, or the use of emoticons.

No verbal communication? no problem. :-)

I’ve registered for the SXSW conference, purchased plane tickets and reserved a hotel room. Now I need an interpreter.

Information as follows:

What: Google Party
Where: Light Bar
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Date: Saturday, March 8th
Purpose: acquaintances, networking and social
Capacity: 300 to 400 people

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Billing will be taken care of by Director of Deaf Interpreting Services in Palo Alto. More details will be given after a successful confirmation. If interested, please email to nkester |at| gmail dot com. Also, there will be further interpreting opportunities to follow.

Thanks and look forward to meet you!

My name is Na, Jong-il

:-)

I’ve finally found a simple solution on how to publish in non-western characters like Chinese, Japanese or Korean. After looking for some plugins, most of them are for translating languages or require some kind of modifications to the template, which I thought was totally unnecessary. So I remained patient, keep looking and eventually did I find a way!

There are four easy steps to accomplish this.

1) go to the wp-config file in your wordpress directory.

2) you will see this line:

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

3) put a comment, //, to the beginning of lines:

//define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

This deactivates character encoding in the database that holds entries.

4) Save and exit.

And you’re all done! happy multilingual-ing. :-)

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Interesting image. Must have taken some time to draw the image.

Success.

http://www.freevocabulary.com/ – “Speak and write with an Ivy League graduate’s vocabulary!”

Great, found a site to improve my vocabulary. :-)

It’s my goal to go to each one. I’ve already gone to some. One thing I’m a little proud of doing was getting all on five bridges around the bay area. Cool!

*update* I’ve gone to all of those except for San Francisco Zoo and the new museum.

from SFtravel.com

Alcatraz Island boat rides and prison tours – Alcatraz Island prison is an incredible experience which can be seen from private charters or toured from Alcatraz boat tours. Cruise the beautiful Bay on a guided boat ride galore & see beautiful views of the bay and Marin County.

Muir Woods – Beautiful forests; same place where Star Wars:New Hope was shot in, with those Ewoks. Ha.

Fisherman’s Wharf – great tourist place, fresh crabs off the markets, clam chowder. Great place to be people-watching, which I love doing.

Napa Valley Wine Country – The world’s premier wine growing region is a great way to enjoy sunny Napa wine tastings or ride the Napa Valley Wine Train.

Union Square Shopping – If you really must shop, go here– but you may want to avoid the hordes of pushy crowds. The 2nd biggest tourist trap in the City with a brand new San Francisco shopping center.

AT&T baseball stadium – where San Francisco Giants play at

Candlestick Stadium – where 49ers play

San Francisco Zoo – Great family activity with reasonable temperatures, lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes, a petting zoo and more….

Castro District – Gay Village Celebrate one of America’s largest gay communities in the sunny Castro district.
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Inside Korea

Complete control by the government.