There was an interesting editorial on the current issue of BusinessWeek (March 1, 2004, p. 56) titled, “Pyongyang: Will Its Recovery Speed a Deal?” by Rose Brady. This is on the report by several American Asian experts who visited North Korea in January. The bustling, 500-stall private market on Pyongyang’s Tong Il Street … where [...]
Recently, I’ve watched an episode of Boston Public and listened to an interview of Henry Lewis Gates on KQED’s Forum on Affirmative Action, and this got me thinking a bit. So far, my conclusion is that the Affirmative Action program cannot last long solely based on racial criteria. Although I understand where the program came [...]
Just noticed that I’ve been getting hit by msnbot/0.11 (131.107.137.x, it seems). It seems it started on October 6th, 2003, for me. I guess they are getting serious about the search…
A couple of days ago, I found an interesting article on a 27-year-old New Zealand broadcasting school tutor whose recent paper on time seems to have caused controversy in some part of the Physics community. Peter Lynds‘ paper “Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Discontinuity”, which is to be published in August in [...]
On a photo forum I frequent, someone was talking about how some people find his photo interesting while others hate it. This is something I wrote in response. This is true to all modern art. I think it was so before, but the audience was much more limited in size and scope. As you said, [...]
HK Star Leslie Cheung Jumps to Death – Police Source Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (also known in Korea as, Jang, GukYoung) apparently jumped off from a hotel to his own death… on April 1st. The date being, there has been some confusion as to whether this was true or not. But it seems it is. Did [...]
This is something I just thought of, without any scientific proof. Also, this probably just applies to a portion of the carpal tunnel syndrome cases. And, probably I am not the first nor the only person to notice this. My observation: frequent changes between the use of the keyboard and the mouse is bad for [...]
A couple of days ago, I was talking to a friend of mine about the New Year’s Resolutions and things each wants to do most in life. As I was comparing things with my friend’s and also with those things I wanted to do long time ago (like in or before college), I noticed that [...]
I read this article today. There has always been anti-U.S. resentment in Korea since 1980. You can say it’s a love-hate thingy. Some part of the population (maybe most, unconsciously) felt the need of the U.S. military presence. However, some resented having a foreign military effectively controlling one’s own army. This is especially true for [...]
Well, that’s what I feel like shouting when I visit Amazon.com oftentimes. I sometimes go to their “My Recommendation” page and see what they think would interests me. And most of the times, I end up wasting half an hour giving negative feedback to their recommendations so that that feature might be remotely useful. I [...]