NK Econ Watch has the latest about Red Star, the DPRK's new operating system.  The article features a sort of hands on written up by a Russian student at Kim Jeong Il University.  Here are the highlights.

*The system is clearly more focused on limited citizens use of the internet and severely limits systems abilities to the bare minimum to complete ( Read more... )

's computer is not working.  He has taken the printer hostage and threated to exicute it unless the computer engages in 6-party talks with other vested household items in the region.  However the computer maintains that it does not interface with terrorists.  Its time to make an example out of the washing machine so that it may know that I mean

( Pictures from Shark Dive Part III )

The monitor on my laptop stopped working again.  This means I can not call out to the US and updates will be sporadic.  I have a new computer at my dads house, but I think I will wait until I go there in August to pick it up.  I might had to mail the thrice damned broken computer to the US to get it fixed.  I am just not sure how that would work ( Read more... )

30in30 this year was a lost cause. It was sort of doomed from the beginning as I was so very busy this year. Between hours and hours of overtime, trips to Dokdo, and paintball, it was never very realistic ( Read more... )

I am back Illinois, staying with my dad, for now.  Except for the cash crunch, drama, and computer problems I have been really enjoying myself.  Reading, working out, and sun tanning in the afternoon.

I havent been posting lately because my new laptop is still busted.  When I first got it about 2 months ago it was giving me a blue screen of death.  ( Read more... )