Poll Topics

So I am sure that we have all noticed quite a lot of Russians here on LJ in the last year or so.  I heard that LJ was sold to a Russian company who has been promoting it to the Russian Speaking market ( Read more... )

I went through some of my tags today and deleted quite a few.  Most of them were just irrelevant or my interests changed.  However some of them were based off news items that I thought I would be writing about a lot more.

One example is Bhutto.  When Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007 many of us thought that ( Read more... )

Poll Journalist vs Blogger

I am now Twittering as you can see by the above badge.  As I as setting this up I realized something.  I am an early adopter of technology.  I got on myspace.com when it first started.  But what always seems to happen is what happened with twitter.  I get excited about a new website, sign up, and get set up only to find out that no one that i know ( Read more... )

I am sick of rapping about the news, and I realize I have been neglecting the part of the mission statement where  I am supposed to be talking about life in South Korea.  SoI have come up with this self imposed 30in30 Challenge:  Give me your questions about Korea.

What do you want to know?  What the weather is like?  Are the chicks teh hawt?  Do ( Read more... )

#3 Find a blog of someone living in a country where they could be imprisoned or killed

I qualify for this one. In Korea you can be easily sued for posting anything about a person or a company that could be seen as insulting. I also have no disillusions that should the day arise that I was important enough to be noticed, my visa would be ( Read more... )

FYI now you can listen to my blogs via odiogo.  Click here for the stream and here to listen to individual posts (the last one is actually kinda funny in the voice used) This should make getting through your 30 in 30 reading that much easier when you can slap it on your iPod and go.  I encourage all of you to do the same and post the rss feeds.

You ( Read more... )

A cross post from my EFLclassroom.ning.com blog. Which is here.  Basically the story is that today I noticed a post about an online graduate school and I looked into it was was disgusted with what I found.  The best part is that I late found what this dude was saying on a Christian forum which completely undermined his claims that KEISIE is a ( Read more... )

Poll Bold words from a bold blogger When I do not have many links, I am now making a couple of words in a paragraph bold.  I am am doing this for three reasons.  First because I am under the assumption that making certain words bold makes something easier to read.  I have no reason for this but I have been assuming this to be true.

Second I know that often my posts are long and ( Read more... )