Note to all gamers: the PDF of Marc Miller’s Traveller is free at DriveThruRPG this month.
Month: September 2005
Weird Linkage — What’s This All About?
I’m not making a link on purpose, since I have a weird suspicion about the function of this, but I wanted to ask: why the hell would this organization put a link to my homepage on their index? http://www.3marketeersproductions.com/newhomepage/index.php And the contact page seems only to include info about their mailing list. I just don’t get why the hell they’re linking to me. And there’s a link to my site on an Optometrist’s Association Home Page, too. WTF?
Bandwidth, Woah! Cool!
Woah! Okay, this was a shocker for me! This morning I got a notice from my website host noting that I am getting close to exceeding my monthly bandwidth. This is just from normal traffic, which I’m supposing means that I’m accumulating a stable of readers I don’t know about. Well, or something. Earlier in September, I got a spike in traffic, and my bandwidth was through the roof on that day. Now I KNOW that a link from a major blog would just kill my site in a day or two: well, or else I’d shell out big money …
A Question and A Weird Observation
I’ve got a question: does anyone know whether the Japanese “taiko” drum has a long tradition of Korean performers? Does the drum’s presence in Korean music predate Japanese occupation? How popular is it in Korea today? I went to pick up some tickets for the Sori Festival this week, and stayed around to see the opening night pre-Fest party. (The real Opening Concert is tomorrow night, and since I have a night class, I’ll have to miss it! But I have tickets to a ton of other great shows this week, thanks to the pass I was given for doing …
For Chapter Two of Inside English…
This is one of the first teaching resources I’ve uploaded in a while. I got used to emailing them to myself and downloading, and now that I think of it I should upload a bunch of those files in a batch, with a list of what kinds of resources they are. But I’ll start by trying to cultivate a habit uploading new things as I create them. This quizlet deals with the passive, and with holidays. (That’s book themes for you.) If you want to check it out, please read the rest of this post.
If I Don’t Post Much For the Next Week…
… it’s because I’m soaking up all the foreign music at the Jeonju Sori Festival. Thanks to some editing I did for the Festival, I have a pass and that means free music from abroad and that means a very happy Gord.
This week’s F5
I don’t know why, but I cannot load Rob’s F5 question blog at my home. I mean, I can do it with an anonymous proxy like unipeak, but not without one. I cannot imagine why Hanaro Telecom would choose to block Rob’s site, so I’m guessing it’s some glitch in another blockage, which I can’t do much about. But anyway, I’ve had trouble connecting there and I’ve also been dreadfully busy, which is why I haven’t posted anything lately under the Friday Five section of the blog. But today, I’m picking up with the most recent question, a headache of …
Go Liquid
Comedy that’s just wrong somehow: liquidgeneration.com, courtesy (a long time ago) of my co-worker Mike).
Sign Up. Don’t Miss Out!
Blogs used to be fully public sites mainly for sharing links. Some people decided to bare it all, in public, and post everything and anything on their minds, in their lives, and so on. Well, people have gotten fired for this, in the past few years, though that doesn’t really worry me. And people get into social trouble for this, though that, too, doesn’t really worry me. What concerns me is really the function of MY blog. You see, sometimes it’s a diary. Sometimes it’s a pressure valve that lets me vent steam. Sometimes it’s my personal notebook, or a …
Hanaro? More Like HanaNO.
Argh! I am strongly considering changing Internet Service Providers. I feel like a fool paying each month and having–since the end of summer, basically–such poor-quality service. If anyone knows a really good ISP in Korea, and would like to recommend on, I’m all ears. Because, you know, when you use the internet everyday, and when you’re paying almost W40,000 a month (almost forty dollars) for internet service, you find it extremely frustrating to have your connection go down for, oh, half a day here and half a day there. This is what I’ve been experiencing lately. Now, the Hanaro staff …