Stephen Hucker

Today I am going to purchase a second generation Ipod Mini.

UPDATE:When I got to the store I was happy, the price was only 200,000 won! Cool 🙂 But, when I opened the box, I noticed it had an AC adapter and a firewire cable. This means it is the old, original iPod Mini.
So I did not buy it as I want the extended battery life. Interestingly when I tried to turn the iPod on the battery was flat. Has it been sitting in a box for a year and the battery has failed? Or is this normal?
I went to Homeplus and checked out a iPod there and the same thing happened with the battery.
Anyway my iPod will arive on Tuesday, it will cost 230,000 won. I wonder if the battery is flat or not? The battery at most will only be two months old b/c it is a new battery for this model of the iPod mini.

Apple Australia – iPod Mini
Apple Korea – iPod Mini

http://www.ipodlounge.com – Fantastic resource for iPods
iPod Lounger review of second generation iPods

I am quite excited about this. I always told myself that while iPods are nice they are a little expensive. But Apple’s pricing has changed for the better now.
The second generation iPod introduced a new 6 gb hard drive and much better battery life. The model with the old 4 gb drive is now priced much less.
So I have decided to get one. It costs 230,000 won (Korean) or AUD $300

iPod mini autopsy – Pictures of the iPod Mini …. N.A.K.E.D and with all its bits hanging out 🙂

iTunes XHMTL playlist is a great little program for Windows or Macintosh OS X.
What it does is let you create a web page with a list of all of your songs or a list of any of your playlists. You can then put that list up on your website.

TECHNICAL: Python on Powweb
I wanted to find out if Python (A programming language like PHP or Perl) could be run on my web provider, Powweb
It seems it can:

I just happened to check if Powweb supported Python scripts. I guess I can put up some scripts now.

* Python is installed on Powweb at /usr/local/bin/python

* It is version 2.2.2. I had to add:
AddHandler cgi-script py
to cgi-bin/.htaccess to get it to run. This apparently gets you execution through suexec, since I was able to run it with 700.

UPDATE, 17/2/2005 @ 2:32pm

I got Python working on my web service provider Powweb using the above technique. Some test scripts wouldn’t work with the ‘.py’ extension but ‘.cgi’ was fine. I think I need to modify something in my .htaccess file to read the .py extensions fine.

I ran a script SnakeCharmer on the server to see which modules were installed. I was impressed to find that they are running the latest Python version 2.4 and it looks like all the modules are installed.
# posted by julian : 11:13 PM

http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=28076&highlight=python

http://oranckay.net/blog/?theDate=200503241

Hardly news, but some Koreans have been wanting to artificially construct a “Chinatown” in Seoul and recent mention of the idea at the Marmot’s Discussion Group inspired me to recall to myself my knowledge of the Chinese minority and personal experience with Chinese friends in Korea. These are not organized thoughts in any way, they were almost a comment on another blog that I’ve decided to bore you with here….

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Some interesting websites. (http://www.ianalbert.com/me/links.php)

Slashdot News for nerds.
BoingBoing My favorite ‘blog.
MetaFilter Community run ‘blog.
Gizmodo ‘Blog about the torrent of gadgets coming out.
Little Fluffy Industries ‘Blog of online Flash games. Indispensible for those needing to dispense of time.
Updated daily
Salon Excellent, excellent online magazine.
Straight Dope Answers to life’s important questions.
Brickbats at Reason Daily absurd (and angering) headlines.
Plastic Intelligent sociopolitical discussion and ‘blog site.
Odd Todd That one unemployed guy. Lots of daily updated content.
Engrish Examples of bad Japanese-to-English translations.
Moco Loco Contemporary design ‘blog. Shiny, angular interior design elements.
Songs to Wear Pants to Premise: people submit brief, bizarre song ideas, this guy records them. Fantastic site.
David Sirota A daily guest on the O’Franken Factor, his ‘blog dispels right-wing myths.
Updated MWF
Penny Arcade Video game themed comic strip.
Rock and Roll Confidential Home of the Daily Douchebag.
Updated every few days
Memepool Odd links to things that are odd and that are things.
5ives Lists of five things.
Bad News Hughes An inordinately enjoyable personal diary of indignities.
Updated weekly
The Onion The venerable satirical newspaper.
Book of Ratings Hilarious ratings of bizarre things, by one of them Brunching Shuttlecocks fellers.
Homestar Runner Funny, funny flash cartoons. Check out Strongbad Emails
Slow Wave Comic strip based on the crazy dreams of readers.
White Ninja Comics I can’t explain the appeal of this strip. Updated tuesdays and saturdays.
Updated monthly
Copper Excellent web comic. Needs to update more often!
Tinfoil.com Wax cylinder recording of the month. Listen to actual Edison cylinders from ~1900.
Updated next to never
Emotion Eric Eric conveys an emotion!

“That’s the way the industry moves: from Europe to Japan, Japan to Korea, and now from Korea to China,” Tsao says. “It’s got to happen.”

China Shipbuilding `Juggernaut’ Gains on Leaders Japan, Korea
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=aB9E3jJm15cc

March 22 (Bloomberg) — Five years ago, He Baoxin was putting the finishing touches on a ship small enough to fit through the Panama Canal. Now his company is making a vessel five times that size to service offshore oil and gas rigs.

“We’re building ships now that we could only dream of five years ago,” says He, 48, who runs Shanghai-based Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., China’s largest shipyard.

With leading yards worldwide at full capacity until 2008, China’s rise in market share has come at the expense of such publicly traded shipbuilders as South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Japan’s Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. China, the world’s No. 3 shipbuilder, raised its share of new orders by 2 percent to 17 percent last year and won its first contract to build liquefied gas tankers.

“In volume, China can overtake the Koreans by 2015,”

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Ten minutes ago there was an earthquake of Japan. I was in my apartment and the building started to shake. It was quite frightening. Fortunally it was over as quickly as it started.
So now I have been in an earthquake (a very small one) and have had snowfights. That would have never happened in Melbourne.

Found an interesting dictionary on the net, so here it is:

Korean Words
http://www.geocities.com/idontevencarenomore/dictionary.html

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(?´¬ß‚Ä??¨¬ù¬¥) ?™¬?‚Ǩ?´‚Ä?¬§
crazy, mad, insane
syn. ?´¬è?í?´‚Ä?¬§

For more see https://stephenhucker.com/blog/wiki/korean:slang

Interesting game for mature learners
http://www.torgodevil.com/archives/00001431.htm
Ice breaker.
I’ve been really bad about learning the names of my adult students so far. I’m the person that happens to be new to the mix, most of these classes had been together before, or so I had thought.

Today we started a “childhood memories” unit, and no one was willing to answer the questions in class because they weren’t comfortable sharing their answers in front of everyone else. Instead of calling on everyone repeatedly to get answers, I decided to try a sort of game.

I had everyone write their fonded childhood memory on a piece of paper, then turn it in to me. Then, when I had collected them all, I wrote a synopsis of what they had given me on the white board for everyone else to read. I didn’t write who had written what memory, that was the game.

I forced the class to stand up and mingle. They had to go back and forth, asking each other questions using the sentences on the board to try to narrow down who had written each statement. I even added my own statement, so I had to play the game too. I got started mingling and found out that most of the other students didn’t know each other’s name either.

Here I had gone making an assumption, and it turned out that they were in the same boat I was. They had to ask each others names as well as their memory. I didn’t feel as bad, but I only learned one or two more names today as a result. Seeing the classes only twice a week, and seeing some of the students multiple times at different locations, while others only occasionally has really made my task much harder.

Watched Ocean’s 12 today. I quite enjoyed it. The plot was certaintly predictible but as I was tired that was a plus. A simple movie that requires no intellect to enjoy it.
So I did.

Next up, 2046

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