Well, I’ve done it. I finally migrated to the new Movable Type, and I’m quite happy about the layout and all. I haven’t checked out the new features, but I do think it’s a good piece of work. And I can even sort-of understand it not being free anymore, though I do think it’s a bit hard on users to demand no more than 3 blogs and one author for any one installation. Especially now that Bush is in, I have plans to go ahead with a new website, one that will use multiple-authors (as many as possible) and will …

As I head off to bed, the vote-count in America is still not in, but it looks like Bushie probably will win Ohio and get another chance to drag the Presidency through the international mud. Sadly believable. Oh, America. You might not have been able to do much better, but you could have done marginally better. And on a personal note, I’ve upgraded to MT 3.1, and got my comments problem sorted out, I think. Later this week I’ll see about importing my Korean blog’s contents into the blog, and setting up a blogging schedule with at least one weekly …

Some days all your classes go bad, none of your students want to do even the least bit of work (not even for rather savoury candy), you veer close to telling the wrong person off, and your water heater works even less well than it has been all year. But there’s something to look forward to, at least. Maybe you happen upon a farmer’s stand where you can buy 모과 (papaya) dirt cheap, and they’re firm enough to need to be left till the weekend or so before you eat them. Or maybe you figure out a really good, fun, …

Tonight, my cab driver who took me to the girls’ school where I work twice a week was an interesting fellow. When he picked me up, unlike a lot of guys he knew exactly where I wanted to go, and started talking with me right away. When he asked where I was from and I replied I was from Canada, he observed what a lot of cab drivers observe when they ask me that question: that in Jeonju, a lot of hakwon teachers come from Canada. I asked him how many of them speak Korean with him, and he said …

Isn’t it one of the silliest ideas in the world, that old motto that tells us that “there are two sides to every story”? Most stories have many, many sides and to think that two sides will cover it is just too simplistic. There are not just two sides to any story; there are a whole range of possible viewpoints and understandings of different situations. Most situations are more complex than that, most situations and more challenging than that to resolve. When you recognize this, then nothing is more frustrating than hearing someone say, “Well, you know, every side has …

Lime and I went to a mountain Saturday morning, with tea and fruit in our bags. I also packed a nice woollen blanket for us, and we ended up climbing most of a rather big mountain, as well as crossing the scariest bridge I’ve seen so far in Korea. I also packed my leather jacket in case it got cold, which it didn’t; I regretted bringing the jacket, as it made my bag very heavy and I didn’t use it once! Oh, how it hurt my poor aching back! I have pictures, but they’ll have to wait. Tonight we saw …

Aside from the fact that my MT-Blacklist spamblocker is broken, someow prevent rebuilds to the page when it as turned on, I am finding that there are ridiculous amounts of spam now being posted to my page. (It was 600 posts in the two says I was away from the site.) The solution, I fear, is to install a human checker—you know, one of those things that displays an image and requests the user enter the word in the image, which is too distorted for a spambot to read properly. Expect something like that to appear on the page sometime …