Monthly Archives: February 2009

Breaking down some basic words in Korean for a reader

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Dan Massicotte asks if I could: It would be awesome, if you broke down how … Continue reading

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Filed under Education, Korea life, Learning Korean

What Eight Academy Awards can do for your website traffic…

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Slumdog Millionaire just won 8 Academy awards on Sunday night.  So, the world was all … Continue reading

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Filed under Entertainment, Search Engine Management, SEM, Video

Tags which wreak havoc on WordPress templates

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: I think I finally figured it out. I’ve already found that copying content/text from … Continue reading

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Filed under Advice, Interesting..., Opinions, Random finds, Technology, Theories by Brandon, Web Dev

Studying for the AP exams for free? From Korea? Top 5 study tips

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: A past student of mine asked for some help studying for his AP Exams: Economics, … Continue reading

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Filed under Advice, Education, Great finds, Great sites, Impressive, Interesting..., Korea life, Lists, Online projects, Opinions, Studying, USA

Expect the won to drop to 1300 to the dollar by year end

An International Herald article and Goldman Sachs report says so from last week.

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How do you like this look?

Just activated the “Freshy” template for my blog.  Please feel free to let me know what you think!  Thanks for visiting!!!

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One possible root to America’s lack of educational prowess

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Something just reminded me about the “education” focused nature of countries here in the East.  … Continue reading

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Janet Jackson’s going to have some competition soon possibly Han Sungjoo

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Do you remember the exposed breast incident in 2004 during the Super Bowl XXXVIII where … Continue reading

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Filed under Entertainment, Interesting Images, Korea life, korean pop, Korean women, Opinions, SEM, Theories by Brandon

‘Dat Darn (WordPress) Blogs of the Day “special formula” is hard to figure out…

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: As wordpress.com’s “Blogs of the Day” growing blogs list page says, they throw up the … Continue reading

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Customer Service Contact information is still a pain to get – even in Korea: Case in point – SK Broadband

If you liked the post, feel free to bookmark it: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: I recently moved.  I’ll definitely be posting about the experience here because it’s literally the 5th time I’ve moved here … Continue reading

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Filed under Advice, Business practices, Customer Service, Korea life, Opinions, Sneaky, Stupid, Unfortunate

If, then… I wish someone would develop a contingency software tool!

Save this to read later: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Many of us work hard — very hard for that matter.  We’re willing to put many hours into our work and at times are incredibly … Continue reading

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Writing addresses in Korea: How to write an address to someone in Korea

Save this to view later: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: It would seem quite obvious that when you address things from the West that you start with a person’s name, then the street address, moving … Continue reading

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Filed under Expat, Globalization, Interesting..., Korea life, Learning Korean, Real Estate

Are the selfless really selfish?

Save this for later viewing/reading: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: At lunch with the other executives the othe day, we were sitting around after finishing our food for a few minutes discussing some work issues.  … Continue reading

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Filed under Interesting reads, Interesting..., My writings, Philosophy, Random thoughts, Theories by Brandon

Proud of myself…

It’s not often you can boast about being proud of what you do.  Lately, I feel like I am definitely maturing and being less afraid of saying what “should be said.”  At times, you back down since you know conflict … Continue reading

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Filed under Busan stuff, Korea life, Korean women, Random thoughts, Relationships, Stupid, Theories by Brandon, Unfortunate

Notice changes in your gmail recently?

The buttons strung along above your emails used to have rounded buttons for deleting, archiving, and reporting spam.  More importantly, you could label the emails.  However, they added a nice feature where you simply just “move” the emails to a … Continue reading

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