Month: March 2005

My Wiki

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Well as mentioned before I was deciding which Wiki was best for me.
Well I have decided, DokuWiki is the winner!

You can see it here, https://www.stephenhucker.com/blog/wiki/

Not exactly very exciting is it?
So what will I use it for? Basically as a place to store all my notes on a particular subject. When I get new information I can update the Wiki easily.
Why not use my blog for this (what you are reading now) ? Mainly because a blog is not designed to be used as a reference source. It is wonderful as a diary where the latest entry is at the top and old entries are at the bottom. But that means this post which is at the top of the blog when I first wrote it will soon disappear from the front page.

When you run a reference site you want it to be like a book.
You know if you go to Chapter 2, it will always be in the same place. Wikis are like that. But unlike books you can easily update each ‘chapter’

What is a Wiki? –> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Wiki

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Thinking of using a Wiki for my course notes / design

Have finalized the choice down to

Twiki
dokuwiki
mediawiki

Twiki has a lot of support and is flat file based.
dokuwiki is also excellent, simple design and flat file based.
MediWiki is the wiki engine used for the www.wikimedia.com site. Very featured pack. But big size and requires MySQL.

My Korean Wedding

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No, not my wedding, my first Korean wedding.
Their wedding …. congratulations to the happy couple

My Haidong Gumdo instructor getting married

My Haidong Gumdo instructor got married on Sunday, 27th of March.
It is very different to the weddings I have attended in Australia.

In Australia the wedding is usually held in a small church close to where one of the couple lives. If the couple are not religious then a celebrant conducts the wedding (instead of a priest) and the wedding is not at a church, but in a park, or even in someones backyard!

In Korea it is different.
There are these hudge multi-story wedding halls scattered around each city.
You book a hall on one of the floors for about 90 minutes. You have the wedding.
Then you leave and the next wedding group files in, sort of a wedding production line.

When you arrive at the wedding hall there is a table in front of the hall where the wedding is. At the table are people who sign you in and accept the gifts for the couple (cold hard cash in an envelope)

More pictures of the happy event

My first snowfight

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Korean weather is weird.
I thought that winter was over! Yet from February through now it has seemed colder then December or January.
Last Saturday night the East coast of Korea, particularly the Busan-Ulsan corridor received a very heavy snowfall.
A lot of the snow had melted by Sunday, then froze again on Sunday night making conditions for motorists treacherous.
So what has this got to do with a snowfight?
Well there was snow at school on Monday. After lunch some of the students had a snowfight. Since I have never been in a snowfight I had to join in.

One word –> F.U.N

A Time Map of Korea [History]

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This nifty little animation is a visualization of the history of Korea in the first millenium AD. It depicts the the growth and transformation of the different kingdoms, using color-coded graphics in a geographical context, to illustrate the historical evolution of the first unified Korean state.

http://www.ecai.org/Area/AreaTeamExamples/Korea/KoreaHistoryAnimation.html

IQ “Test”

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http://www.risingstarkaraoke.com/monday_test.html

Have a go at this test. I got 8 out of 11.
It’s quite funny, especially when you get an answer wrong.

The quizz whilst intended to be humerous, is a good reading comprehension test.

It can be used as an exercise in careful reading, as all the answers are trick questions. What do I mean by trick questions? Take the test and see what I mean.

For us non Americians, there are some questions that we might have trouble with, eg baseball innings.