Home
feed

Content

file: July 2008

General
2008-07-24 :: mark

Okay, really just my iPod touch. But still, I’m sure this is the 10,000th “from my iPhone” post on the Internet. So be it, it’s still kinda neat.
Holy crap. This is my 100th post. Wow.

 ::  Read on

Internet + Software
2008-07-20 :: mark

Ah, the beauty of open source software. This is a long post that started with a simple problem. At work, we live behind the Great Olin Firewall (GOF). I checked out some code from an internal Subversion repository over HTTP. Now, I’m outside the GOF and I want to commit some important changes. We have [...]

1 comment  ::  Read on

Internet
2008-07-20 :: mark

No one in Korea uses a Macintosh. Thus, it makes perfect sense that they would not support Mac OS X in any web applications or public services, such as city-wide wireless. One such provider is Korea Telecom’s NESPOT service. This is the nearly-ubiquitous blanket of wireless that covers much of Seoul. From your Universities, to [...]

 ::  Read on

Travel
2008-07-20 :: mark

I’ve been here for about a month, working, living, and generally absorbing as much of Korea as I can. Here are a few random observations that I’ve noted. And yes, they generalize a lot about an entire culture. Think of it as an outsider’s snapshot of Korea.

Smoking seems to be more prevalent here than in [...]

 ::  Read on