Jonathan Dresner has hosted our first Asian History Carnival. This bi-monthly blog carnival will collect excellent blog entries related to Asian history that have appeared online. Check it out and spread the good word. He is also looking for hosts of future carnivals.
Orac has the newest history carnival hosted here: History Carnival 16. Find out more at the History Carnival blog for info on past and future contributions. This is a great way to get a look at interesting history postings up and around the web.
I have returned to Boston and moved into a new apartment here in Cambridge. School to begin in one week and lots of things to do. It was a wonderful summer. I felt I made significant progress in Korean, had a productive (except I completely abandoned my attempt to teach myself German) but also wonderfully [...]
Two Korean friends, Seyeon and Youngsoo, visited me for a few days in Stavanger before continuing their month of travel around Europe. I treated them to some outdoor fun, a stroll around old Stavanger, and splashed about in a forest lake nearby my apartment. We rode the Clipper tour boat into the beautiful Lysefjorden and [...]
ChinaJapan.org Down My host for my ChinaJapan.org site had a crash and had no functional backups. They handled the whole thing with complete incompetence which I will be describing at major hosting forums to warn future customers. I’m going to be moving the site to another host where I am hosting Muninn and FrogInAWell along [...]
Sunday was hiking day. I have been biking around islands recently, but it was time to head to the mountains for a nice day trip. Joining my uncle, cousins, and a number of friends, we took the ferry to Tau, and drove to one of my favorite places to hike in this area: Trollkjeften. I [...]
I hopped on my bicycle and left Saturday afternoon to go on another elaborate reading/biking adventure. I decided to go to Kvitsøy which is a small island full of historical relics which is accessible by ferry about 30 minutes bike ride from my home. My uncle Thomas’ last question to me as I left the [...]
While enjoying my daily musli this morning, I was amused to find this written on my milk carton: “Fordi vi nordmenn ikke er spesielt bortskjemte når det gjelder sollys, har vi beriket TineMelk Ekstra Lett med vitamin D.” “Because we Norwegians aren’t exactly spoiled when it comes to getting sunlight, we have enriched Extra Low-fat [...]
I have never looked closely at the Norwegian laws regarding things like adoption, maternal/paternal leave, and marriage. I repeat what I hear from friends, when other friends ask, but never really knew the details. Thanks to some colorful charts in yesterday’s Stavanger Aftenblad, I got a little bit of a better understanding, all of my [...]
After my adventures at the city archive, I checked the sky to confirm decent weather and embarked on this afternoon’s biking adventure. I packed a book on Norwegian treason trials and took the bus out to Mosterøy, which is just north of Stavanger’s peninsula and reachable by tunnel and bus. For anyone making the same [...]