Stephen Hucker

Want to know where the weather is anywhere in the world?

In Google type

weather [city name]

eg weather ulsan
weather heywood australia

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.

https://stephenhucker.com/blog/gallery/konglish

In my photo album I am now keeping photos of all Konglish signs I see

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

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

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

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

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.

Recently when viewing https://www.stephenhucker.com/blog/ I have had problems.

Specifically it keeps asking me to download the webpage like it is a program.

This never occurs on
– Firefox or any Mozilla based browser
– On OS X web browsers such as Safari
– On any Windows machine with Service Pack 2 on it.

Service Pack Two, or the lack of it seems to be the issue.
This is extremely important to me as any potential viewer of my blog is likely to NOT be technically sophisticated and most people I know have not applied Service Pack Two.
This applies to some computer people as well because there are problems with Service Pack Two.

UPDATE: http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24423
The link above explains how to solve the problem. The problem is now solved

Slyck News – Top 10 LokiTorrent.com Alternatives
Top 10 LokiTorrent.com Alternatives
February 11, 2005
Cory Higgins

This list is not meant to be an absolute. Instead, it has been developed to give those seeking alternatives to the now closed LokiTorrent.com some choices. I hope this list will lead to debate, and posting of other good alternatives. Enjoy!

10. BTsite.tk – No Registration Required

While not an actual Torrent site, this site indexes the many Torrent sites out there on the net. No Torrent fan can do without this one!

9. TorrentKube.org – No Registration Required

This new comer has a nice layout and offers quite a few Torrents. The webmaster also claims the site is hosted in China where it%u2019s nice and safe from the likes of the MPAA

8. ShareLive.com – Registration Required

Sharelive has been around for a long time as far as Torrent sites go. It suffered a long period of downtime but is back in full force now. You will also find hashlinks to files on various other networks here.

7. Torrentz.com – No Registration Required

This great Torrent site was forced to close down for awhile due to legal troubles. However it has returned with a new, safe overseas host. Torrentz features a nice, easy to use layout and an ever growing amount of content.

6. TV-Swarm.com – No Registration Required

TV-Swarm is your one stop Torrent spot for new TV episodes. High quality HDTV and PDTV rips of all the newest shows are posted often within a few short hours of there airing.

5. TorrentPortal.com – No Registration Required

This site has a nice strait forward easy to use interface and offers a nice selection of Torrents – will probably see a large influx of users with Loki going down.

4. TorrentBox.com – No Registration Required

A site very similar to TorrentPortal. Worth checking out for sure, shows much promise.

3. ThePirateBay.org – Registration Required

If you want to be part of a site that will stand up to the MPAA, this site is for you. Has been around for some time and doesn%u2019t appear to have any plans on closing anytime soon. Nice layout and a real wealth of content.

2. ISOHunt.com – No Registration Required

This is one of two sites that will be competing for the crown of king of Torrents. Nice easy to use search interface. A must stop webpage for Torrent fans.

1. TorrentSpy.com – No Registration Required

TorrentSpy looks to be the front runner in the race to be the %u201Cnext Loki%u201D. Its%u2019 easy to use search interface and in depth library of Torrents makes it easy for anyone to find whatever they might need. It has also been around for awhile and doesn%u2019t look to be closing its doors anytime soon.

Currently reading Roadmap to Korean

Tomorrow, Saturday, I will compile a list of web references for learning Korean. Sunday before the wedding (not mine, my Haidong Gumdo instructors) I will make a timetable for study.
Monday and Tuesday I will actually do some study.

First day, practise all the writing and typing of Hanguel
mayby more, but no sense getting ambitious