I would just like to wish readers a happy Buddha’s Birthday holiday.
The Iceberg is getting hitched.
Just updated to Wordpress 2.5.1. Wordpress users who haven’t done so yet may wish to do so.
I’ve also added a “Related Posts” section to the end of each post. This is courtesy a plugin written by Robert Marsh of the Society of Jesus. And if you can’t trust a plugin written by a Jesuit, whose [...]
March 30, 2008 – 11:59 am
Just updated to Wordpress 2.5.
If you’re a contributor, you’ll notice quite a few changes “under the hood,” so to speak, but nothing you won’t get used to after a couple of minutes.
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In the Grey Lady, Paul Boutin talks with bloggers with day jobs to get tips on how to run a successful blog.
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Reacting to Metro’s post concerning Korea’s first astronaut, Seoul Buffoon — whose blog I like, actually (Metro, on the other hand, might not) — writes:
The authorities have taken a decision for whatever reason… and the experts opinions are out in full flow. It is a free for all on the Korean blogs. Some male chauvinists [...]
It’s with great sadness that I report that Bill Kapoun has succumbed to his injuries.
I offer my condolences to his family and friends.
February 21, 2008 – 9:23 am
Kim Suneé, Korean-born orphan, traveler, gourmand, magazine editor and now author has a memoir/travel log Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home. One plug for her new book reads:
Kim Sunée’s mysterious origins have given her both the exile’s curse and the exile’s charmed life. This coming of age memoir is brave, [...]
February 6, 2008 – 12:05 am
The thought had been going through my head for quite some time now, but what made it final was what my wife said after she caught me looking at the Hole. It was the day off, there wasn’t anything to do, nothing good on TV after “Heroes” on AFN-K, so while I was taking a quick look [...]
February 4, 2008 – 9:58 pm
Kim Hye-jin of GlobalVoices has an interesting thread that deals with what happens when older ways of thinking and societial conventions encounter the often rebellious youth of today (you know who you are), in Korea. Just how does one draw the line between proper social behaviour and individual rights in a society that has a [...]
February 2, 2008 – 11:41 am
Lee Farrand, a 25-year-old Australian KAD teaching English in Busan, is blogging his experiences there.
Check it out.
January 30, 2008 – 12:20 pm
If you don’t like the new blog design, feel perfectly free to bitch away here.
Now, I realize IE 6 doesn’t do transparency, so the banner looks a bit funny. I’ll try to figure out a solution to this, but to be honest, I have no idea why anyone would be using IE 6 when you [...]
January 25, 2008 – 4:28 pm
UPDATE: After months of not being accessible by KT, and this having worsened over the last two weeks, readers are reporting being able to suddenly get back in from the day this post went up. Something must have worked!
To those of you this may concern, no, Scribblings of the Metropolitician is not offline, but rather [...]
January 12, 2008 – 8:24 am
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
January 7, 2008 – 7:11 pm
Of all the pictures I took this year, I have collected a few of my favorites.
January 5, 2008 – 8:56 am
Have a great weekend, folks.
January 5, 2008 – 8:54 am
In case you haven’t read it yet, check out Sean Hayes’ trashing of an Immigration Bureau official’s earlier op-ed in the Korea Times.
BTW, just to put this on public record, after my own fisking of said column (which I sent to the writer), my office received a threatening phone call from someone claiming to be [...]
December 29, 2007 – 12:57 pm
Make yourself heard.
Oh, and damn, is BioShock spooky. Brilliant stuff, though — who’d have thought of basing a video game on an Ayn Rand novel.
December 27, 2007 – 8:50 am
A very, very brutal week is about to end. Regular posting to resume from today.
December 22, 2007 – 11:32 am
Another weekend, another day at work for Uncle Marmot.
On a positive note, I’ve finally switched my office computer to Ubuntu.
Anyway, discuss amongst yourselves.
