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Category Archives: Blogging
Blog Upgrades
May 3, 2008 – 1:43 pm
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 [...]
Wordpress 2.5
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.
NYT on Successful Blogging
March 26, 2008 – 4:01 pm
In the Grey Lady, Paul Boutin talks with bloggers with day jobs to get tips on how to run a successful blog.
William Kapoun Passes Away
March 9, 2008 – 6:37 pm
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.
Trail of Crumbs . . .
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, [...]
Going on Vacation
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 [...]
Old Ways, New Thoughts . . .
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 [...]
Blog in Busan
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.
Wanna Bitch About the New Blog Design?
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 [...]
A Quick Note to Metropolitician Readers
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 [...]
Top Shots of 2007
January 7, 2008 – 7:11 pm
Of all the pictures I took this year, I have collected a few of my favorites.
Marmot’s Open Thread #31
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.
Regular Posting to Start from Today
December 27, 2007 – 8:50 am
A very, very brutal week is about to end. Regular posting to resume from today.
Marmot’s Open Thread #30
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.
The Police and Blog Restrictions
December 17, 2007 – 1:23 pm
There is an interesting article at the JoongAng Ilbo about how blogging — along with online speech — has been restricted by the authorities in South Korea in an attempt to control stifle discussion regarding the 2007 presidential campaign. Per one blogger:
. . . I was trying to analyze who Lee Myung-bak is. What I [...]
