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This blog is no longer updated.
Since I own the domain name for a couple more years, and the hosting was paid-in-advance, it's still here. But I've moved on to Hawaii, and no longer have the need to publish all the sorts of neat stuff that made up the contents of this website.
If you've linked to me, you are invited to unlink, as your readers will no longer be presented with new content. Thanks, Steve

This is Topic: Blogstuff Following are the News Items published under this Topic.
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Blog link - Index this, Google!
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Google indexes this site every two or three days - and crawls through all my linked content.
StewInKorea
There you go. Google will see your site. Now get back to work.
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Mail this... | Thursday, September 15, 2005
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Milblogger down.
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Chuck Ziegenfuss, of From My Position... / TC Override got nailed by a IED in Iraq yesterday. His wife guest-blogs that it appears that he'll lose a finger or two and have damage to his hand, but was initially concerned only about the status of his 'package'.
Click the link, read some of his archives, and then drop a note of support in the comments.
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Mail this... | Thursday, June 23, 2005
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Administrator notes.
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Blog Silence: Long Trip
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Sorry about the radio silence this month. An installation job at Tango and Walker burned me out. Hopefully, some time off next month will get me back on track.
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Mail this... | Friday, April 29, 2005
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Trackback Spam
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Did the monthly Trackback spam cleanup this afternoon. Added some lines to the .htaccess file, consisting of the nastiest offenders...
<Limit GET>
order deny,allow
deny from 67.15.14.56
deny from 207.248.240.119
deny from 213.56.68.29
deny from 65.165.84.11
deny from 64.5.152.195
deny from 66.249.71.40
deny from 193.251.60.99
deny from 148.244.150.58
deny from 68.190.16.2
</Limit>
That ought to slow 'em down a little.
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Mail this... | Saturday, March 05, 2005
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The State of Blogging
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Via Scoble, the Pew Internet & American Life Project (A non-profit research center studying the social effects of the Internet on Americans) has released a report on the demographics of Blogging.
Specifically, they identify:
- 8 million (of the estimated 120 million American internet users) have created a blog.
- Blog creators tend to be:
• Men: 57% are male
• Young: 48% are under age 30
• Broadband users: 70% have broadband at home
• Internet veterans: 82% have been online for six years or more
• Relatively well off financially: 42% live in households earning over $50,000
• Well educated: 39% have college or graduate degrees
- 38% know what a blog is, 62% did not.
- Only 5% use RSS readers or XML aggregators to read blogs.
Report is available here (pdf).
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Mail this... | Monday, January 03, 2005
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Red Cross donation via Amazon
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If you haven't yet pitched in to help, the squashed Amazon graphic on the left will take you to the American Red Cross' relief page. As I write this, they've collected $2.8 million. Yes, your 10 bucks will help.
Quick code to display this donation box on your website:<!-- Begin Amazon Honor System Paybox -->
<img src="http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/tipbox/A1J1JDQWBS9GWQ/T3MYIILZNTKFV2"
usemap="#T3MYIILZNTKFV2" border="0" alt="Amazon Honor System">
<map name="T3MYIILZNTKFV2">
<area coords="40,100,160,160" href="http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/pay/T3MYIILZNTKFV2" alt="Click Here to Pay" target=_top>
<area coords="23,183,178,195" href="http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/fx/help/how-we-know.html" alt="Learn More" target=_top>
</map>
<!-- End Amazon Honor System Paybox -->
The graphic is 200x200 pixels by default, if you count those types of things.
(Via Brian Sullivan)
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Mail this... | Wednesday, December 29, 2004
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KimcheeGI on Cafe' USA
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On 9 Nov (last Tuesday), the KimcheeGI @ BudaeChigae reported the opening of Cafe' USA - the US Embassy's attempt to allow "Netizins [to] engage in direct dialogue with the U.S. Embassy in Seoul." Today, he reprints an article from YTN that says:"An Internet site established by the U.S. Embassy in Seoul has proven itself a nuisance in an unexpected way, with members of the public using the forum to denounce South Korea's government and president."
Yep. Just like USFK's BBS.
To those who plan to manage comment-heavy websites (you know who you are) - consider using a comment scoring system like slashdot's SlashCode to minimize trolling.
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Mail this... | Tuesday, November 16, 2004
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Follow up from Seoul Computer Club presentation
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On 13 Nov 04, I presented this presentation to the Seoul Computer Club.
During the Q&A period after the presentation, several questions were posed that were not covered during the briefing. Several of these topics are included here:
To start blogging right now, go to www.tblog.com, and enter a username, password (twice), email, and zip code. Recommend you change your timezone to GMT+0900 (Seoul), and select "no" for 15 day demo. Once you've created your account, log in, and start writing. Your blog URL is http://your_user_name.tblog.com - see http://sdcarroll.tblog.com for an example. (Obviously, you'll need to pick a username that isn't used, but easy to remember.)
The difference between a blog and a web page is the frequency in which you update the information on the page. Additionally, it was pointed out that "blogs" in Korean are considered the quite-structured hosting providers (ala cafe.daum.net) while "blogs" in English are the web pages and content of the authors themselves. Note to self: start reading more of them.
You should consider moving your blog to a Content Management System (CMS) when you have many blog authors (e.g. more than a handful), you have an approval criteria (are all posts posted on the main page?), or you have discreet administration requirements (e.g. some folks manage your links, some approve/disapprove articles, and others manage your comments). CMS's have a permissions structure built-in - in PostNuke, I can allow one user (or group of users) manage my banners, and another to manage the layout of the site (left/center/right column content).
If you want to demo several different blogging software packages (or CMS packages), visit OpenSouceCMS.com. The link didn't work from the classroom for some reason. WordPress is popular blogging tool - go ahead and give it a whirl. It will reset itself at the top of the hour (every other hour?).
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Mail this... | Tuesday, November 16, 2004
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Blogging 101
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I'm guest speaking at the Seoul Computer Club on Saturday.
The slides for discussion are available here.
UPDATE: Playing around with .htaccess this week, I redirected around the file. It's now available here.
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Mail this... | Sunday, November 07, 2004
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Trackback
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Added trackback capability to Postnuke today. This page was a big help.
Not enough Postnuke documentation, and since I'm using AutoTheme as well, it was pretty easy to figure out.
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Mail this... | Tuesday, September 21, 2004
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Stuff to read.
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First Post
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This isn't really my first post. About two years ago, I had a really bland Moveable Type blog called "ROKUS RANTS", short on design, long on cynicism. Yeah, imagine that.
So, what's the deal this time? A project at the office introduced me to PostNuke, the awesome content management system running this portal. Since my hosting provider offers point and click install, I figured what the heck, I ought to set this up again.
What's going to be posted here?
- Windows/Exchange and other tech babble.
- Links and comments about stuff I've seen on the 'net in the last few days.
- Links, scripts and other office stuff I need to write down.
- XML, XML, XML. Why? Because it's cool, and over the next few years, it'll revolutionize the way you use the internet.
- Sarcasm to a minimum. But I can't imagine writing about Korea with a straight face.
Advertisements will be introduced for two reasons - if I've bought something or pay for a service, I'll link to it. Whether or not they pay me for a referral will be disclosed. I'm interested in Amazon's Associates program as well - the SDK allows queries directly into their massive databases via SOAP, and I figure I may as well learn that eventually.
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Mail this... | Friday, September 17, 2004
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