Category: Blogs & Blogging

This is one of the best finds I’ve seen in a long time — prolific, funny, and full of information I hadn’t heard anywhere else. That’s all the more impressive given that blogger Michael Madden was ambitious enough to choose subject matter that most would consider droll, stultifying, opaque, and impervious to verifiable empirical analysis. Not just anyone could begin with material like that and come up with posts like, “Habemus Successor? Or Thaek it to the Limit?.”

It’s been a terrible thing reading Kevin, a/k/a The Big Hominid, describing the terminal cancer of his mom, someone he obviously loves and respects very much. Kevin is a founding father of the Korea blogosphere, one who never really fit into any of the standard categories — who else could manage to bridge the spiritual, philosophical, and scatological the way Kevin does? I’ve never quite managed to meet Kevin, and yet I’m really at a loss to explain just how...

Firefox has been all I ever use since shortly after I got a computer pre-infected with Vista.  Vista causes IE to crash and ate several of my posts.  With Firefox, there are far fewer crashes, but if there is one, I can usually restart and the half-finished post will still be there in WordPress. So with that said, try going to your upper toolbar under Tools/Clear Private Data and then check all of the boxes except “Saved Passwords” and “Offline...

No, my hosting service tells me, this site has not been hacked by Unit 121, although as of now, they’re not sure what the problem is.  Thanks for being patient while we figure this out.  Some of the subdirectories obviously still don’t work. If there’s one piece of advice I can pass along, it’s this:  back of your databases regularly.  You’ll be glad you did.  I know I am. Update:  Fixed?  Fingers crossed ….

Lots of incoming traffic today, but it’s not coming from any other linked url on the internet.  If you’re one of those visitors, would you mind dropping a comment to tell me where you heard about this site?

Would you mind going here and voting up this article? Thank you very much. Update:   It’s working.  Please keep voting it up.  Thanks!

Tomorrow is OFK’s five-year bloggiversary.

Those of us who have missed GI Korea’s blog can rest assured that he’s alive and well. Not so his hosting service. He writes in to report that he should be back up and running in a few days: I would like to thank Joshua for giving me the opportunity to let everyone know what is going on with my site the ROK Drop as well as thank everyone for the e-mails you have been sending wondering what has happened...

Thanks to everyone of every point of view who linked to this post.  Of course, any high traffic post is a mixed blessing.  You get good links and comments and widen the circulation of your ideas, and you also dredge the swamp.   I’d have to say that the  call by  Kos diarist “Gramarye”  for prayers for Michelle Malkin’s death (and after her blog linked this one) sets a new low.  Seriously: According to her blog, “Take me now, Lord. My...

[Update, 31 May 08:   China Hand publishes a retraction: In a comment on Arms Control Wonk in 2007, I made the statement that the website Onefreekorea had apparently received an advance copy of a government ruling concerning Banco Delta Asia. I inferred this from my reading of the timestamp on the OFK post, which I believed indicated that the post had been put up the day before the ruling was officially announced and publicly available. OFK’s proprietor has advised...

If you’re about to buy a new computer pre-installed with that virus called Vista, here’s some friendly advice: don’t. XP users have heard too many chilling stories from relatives and friends about Vista upgrades that have gone badly. The graphics chip that couldn’t handle Vista’s whizzy special effects. The long delays as it loaded. The applications that ran at slower speeds. The printers, scanners and other hardware peripherals, which work dandily with XP, that lacked the necessary software, the drivers,...

One of the K-blogosphere’s very finest, Andy Jackson, a/k/a The Flying Yangban, has just become the proud father of an 8-pound baby boy. You want to see a picture, you say? Andy and the lovely Lady Yangban are already the parents of an adorable little girl, Adelia. Congratulations to them both.

NK Econ Watch should have been on there long ago. That deficiency has been corrected. I don’t agree with him on a lot of issues, but he still has a fantastic blog that I read daily. My next aggregator addition will be the North Korea Monitor, once he gets an RSS feed.