The last three days I was able to enjoy some wonderful sun in a Japan where the summer was already supposed to have ended. Friday was spent with my friends Jaehwan, Sayaka, Lars, and Lars’ bicycling partner Tamara going to see an exhibition of a North Korean spy ship that had been sunk by Japan. [...]
Ok, for a long time now I have wanted to switch the encoding for Muninn to Unicode so that I can easily display Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. I love the PostNuke software, but it isn’t good for everything. One thing it isn’t good for is support sites like the one at support.postnuke.com. An article based [...]
For my own reference and notes to others who might be interested some of the issues involved in transferring muninn: -The new server, a reseller account at bestreseller.com has Fantastico which can install all sorts of things including PostNuke (which the Muninn blog runs on) -I installed a default PostNuke install, no prob -took me [...]
My mother’s web site continues to grow in leaps and bounds. For those who don’t know, she has created a massive reference site for information about war sailors during World War II, merchant marine ships, convoys which handled supplies during the war, and especially the role of Norwegian ships. Her interest was sparked when she [...]
I have spent a full week focused on reading, and haven’t allowed any programming distract me. I try to divide my time between my Korean study, Japanese readings in history, and more theoretical stuff mostly written in English. In this last category I’m currently stumbling through Wittgenstein and Derrida and Partha Chaterjee’s Nationalist Thought and [...]