Here are links to sites where you can get daily or weekly news about Korea in English language. I thought it might be helpful.
Arirang TV is more like TV Guide for Korean entertainment content, but it's useful for getting a feel for what Koreans are watching and listening to.
Using Technorati, I found Adam Vandenberg linking to my Lotsa Strings post. Interestingly enough, he confused me with Don Box. Amused, I looked at his resume and found Crass, a 6502 cross assembler written in Python. Boy, looking at those 6502 code sure brings back memories. After 6502, working with 8088 was like wearing Dockers Mobile Pants: pockets everywhere.
The Three Gorges Dam in China, biggest dam ever, is being filled. I regret not having been to Three Gorges for I'll never see it in my life time. When I was growing up in Korea, I read about the Three Gorges from the classic Chinese novel Three Kingdoms (a book read by every single Korean at least once) and other Chinese novels translated into Korean. The place was well known for its beauty and history of battles raged around the area.
The Chinese govenment is destroying not only the environment, but also history and tourism. It's worse than filling Grand Canyon.
Python 2.2 bugfix version 2.2.3 is out. I probably won't be upgrading unless I run into one of 40 bugs fixed in this release. Quite a number of my projects involve native code and, to debug those native code, I need to make debug builds of Python and Win32com binaries. Too much work for too little return. I'll wait for 2.3 final.
I am having some friends over today for a Korean B-B-Q. Yumm! Great weather too. Blue sky with not a single cloud. You folks have a great weekend too.
Good insults are as memorable as good poems, definitely more entertaining, and arguably good for relieving stress. In Korea, there was an old lady who improved her restaurant business by insulting her customers. The customers like being insulted so much, they came from far away just to get insulted by her.
Here is a particularly nice string of insults from Tim Bray. Say them out loud to enjoy it fully:
"They are the offspring of dogs without genitals and maggots fed only on the excreta of diseased lizards."
"May Bolivian drug lords seize their only daughter as hostages in a tense geopolitical drama."
"May their next cruise-ship vacation remembered for the simultaneous outbreak of Norwalk Virus, an crunching encounter with an uncharted reef, and a record-breaking series of Nor’wester gales."
"May ruthless investment bankers place their retirement savings in airline shares."
"A green, crapulent, morbid, fulminating, metastasizing pox upon them!"
Bravo, Tim, Bravo! I wish newspapers would print good insults like they do cartoons. We are ignoring a large chunk of culture and history here you know. If you have good insults, send them my way. I'll try to print a collection of them once a week as Sunday Insults.
Don Park's Weekly Habit 