All in a Day

I finished reading a really good book today. Happy happy.But you need to wait for my end-of-April reviews to hear more.
I am finally deep into reworking my Korean superheroes story. So far, it’s just small edits and collating the comments from my crit group — the comments I happen to agree with, anyway — but [...]

Hacking SK (Sky) Phones?

Anyone know anything about hacking an SK (Sky UM-7000 series) phone?
After a long search, I’ve discovered that:

Like every other website in Korea, it requires a Korean national ID, and the foreigner IDs don’t work.
The website could register me by some alternate means, but it’s a rigmarole involving me having a freaking “sponsor” — just so [...]

Yi So-yeon

I figure as possible the biggest anglophone hard-SF geek in Korea, I should at least mention this on my blog.
The Korea Times reported on Yi So-yeon recently, who may be the first Korean astronaut. I don’t know the other guy, but having seen the podcasted video interviews with her on SeoulGlow (which are worth [...]

Sniffly, Snowy, All Installed

Today, for some reason, I got me a bad case of the sniffles. I think it was maybe a very brief early wake-up a few hours after I finally got to sleep. But it may have something to do with dust in the new apartment. I’ve been busy and haven’t done much sweeping or mopping [...]

Mac vs. Windows vs. The Other Guy: Think Prophylactics and Full Potential

So this mailing list I’m on is caught up in one of its repeating discussion-obsessions.
The Mac fanatics are arguing the points of the Mac. The Windows users are responding, mostly in terms of how much better Windows is for gaming. I am reading it on my little Linux machine.
Outside my window, I can hear one [...]

Ms. Dewey

Ms. Dewey
is a really weird search engine… but, I think, is probably a decent model for the kind of thing we’ll be seeing as bandwidth pipes get wider and wider. But I hope they get a little more intelligent, so they’re not pestering me to enter new searches while I’m reading the results from [...]

Wartime Rape, Seen Scientifically

I’ve been researching the Comfort Women issue (most recently, having completed George Hicks’ book on the subject), and ever since I read Jared Diamond’s The Third Chimpanzee, and more recently, since I got into a discussion about rape in the comments section of this post, I’ve been thinking a lot about rape in terms [...]

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