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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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