Monthly Archives: May 2008
Being interesting and other great characteristics of a popular Blogger
ProBlogger.com, a blog about blogging tells us the “12 Traits of Successful Bloggers” or what I call, relatively intuitive concepts to anybody who is interesting enough to be read by the masses. Well, they most know something since they have … Continue reading
Filed under Business practices, Entrepreneurial life, SEM
Clam Chowder, Fish & Chips and Knife Noodles
Food. It’s why we live. Lately, it’s been one of the bigger inspirations for me traveling. Yes, it’s very good to see friends and family, but when you’re savoring every spoonful of hat $11 a bowl Duke’s clam chowder, you’re … Continue reading
Radio outside the U.S.
Being in Korea and “outside the U.S.”, you’re prohibited from listening to radio stations when you go to their websites and click on links like “download live now” or “stream the live broadcast now.” The basic fact of it is … Continue reading
Filed under Business practices, Communications, Globalization, Great finds, Stupid, USA
Saying or writing “hello” in Korean
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: In response to the one of the higher referrals to my site via the search phrase: “thank you in Korean”, I thought I’d write … Continue reading
Filed under Advice, Communications, Education, Globalization, Korea life, Learning Korean
A warning to the large Internet companies: it’s a consumer driven world now
The Customer is the Company. Inc. magazine (a small business focused publication) this month profiles a small business producing T-shirts. Why a T-shirt company? Well, it would seem it’s not the most innovative product line vs. the million and a … Continue reading
Filed under Business practices, Communications, Opinions, Random thoughts
Free long distance phone minutes…
No, this isn’t a scam, but I just have a few bucks for the first lucky person to use them. About $7-8 bucks are remaining on this phone card I only used a little in Seattle. It will expire by … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Communications, Random thoughts, Telecommunications, Traveling
Inventing the craze behind Social Networks was hard work…
I predicted this — yes, it’s like Ross on the sitcom Friends saying he invented the phrase “Who got milk?” However, I really did. I was visualizing how the whole Social Network space was going to explode and still have … Continue reading
Filed under Entrepreneurial life, Impressive, Interesting..., Opinions, Random thoughts, USA
More support for Older Korean women (ajumas) being TOUGH
On my recent visit back home, I had the pleasure of eating with my 72 year old aunt – my mom’s older sister. We ate at a soon-doo-boo restaurant in Tacoma and talked about some of the issues she’s dealing … Continue reading
Filed under Random thoughts
7 days in 7 hours…
Wow, the past week felt literally like several hours vs. several days. I’m a bit sad that it couldn’t be longer. I barely saw my friends and family. It was great literally hanging out for a long lunch at Duke’s … Continue reading
Filed under Random thoughts, Relationships, Seattle, USA
Tele-rape: when local telecom companies conspire with phone card companies
I’ll be editing this when I have more time back in Korea, but I just had to write something about this when fresh in my mind… I just flew into Seattle yesterday to visit family. I’ll be leaving soon, but … Continue reading
Filed under Random thoughts
Out of the office: and out of the country…
Spending time with some friends in the states now… Sometimes you realize friends you’ve been with since childhood are your best relationships in your life. Good seeing you guys, B
Filed under Random thoughts, USA
I helped Facebook drop 10% last month
So, the following Mashable Social Networking News story says Facebook is down 10% in April. http://mashable.com/2008/05/20/facebook-traffic-decline/ I have to admit that I’m part of the problem. I haven’t been visiting Facebook as often as I was at the beginning of … Continue reading
Top 25 Pages in Facebook: Obama, Victoria Secret’s PINK, and Nutella to name a few
Top three are: 1. Barack Obama http://www.facebook.com/barackobama?ref=pdb 2. The Chris Moyles Show http://www.facebook.com/thechrismoylesshow?ref=pdb 3. Apple Students http://www.facebook.com/pages/Apple-Students/11147074409?ref=pdb Others include: Victoria’s Secret PINK, Daft Punk, Jabbawockeez, and the Foo Fighters‘s Facebook pages.
Filed under Celebrities, Communications, Entertainment, Facebook, Interesting..., Lists
Thwarted by something interesting…
Do you ever find yourself on a website or webpage wondering “How in the heck did I get here?” I just had one of those moments when I was on a Journalist organization promoting it’s business/industry website. What was I thinking? Well, … Continue reading
Filed under Random thoughts
Was looking for something humorous, but found this best man’s speech instead…
Lots of views and it claims to be one of the best best men’s speeches on Youtube. I don’t know about it being the funniest, but this reminded me a lot of my speech last year for my buddy Sun.
