Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Should I buy a computer in Korea or at home?

Here is my reply to this question from one of our clients:

Generally, computers are pretty close in price and not too big of a
difference. In regular shops, the Windows is in Korean. However, you can
get that changed at some shops in Itaewon in Seoul, and perhaps some other
places.

What I would suggest (what I have) is to get a laptop. There are some
competitively priced options available that will likely cause you less
stress than your current computer. You'll have everything in English,
you'll be able to bring it wherever you go, and you can get Nespot
internet service in Korea and be able to access the net from just about
any major restaurant, coffee shop, train station and other place in
Korea...so, if you are doing some travel throughout the country, you'll be
able to bring your laptop and stay in touch, update your blog, send pics
home, video Skype with family from some McDonalds in Busan at 3 am (oh,
wait, that was me!)

Jason

Ski Trip 2007

Here is a video taken by Art of some funny stuff at the ski trip. I'll try to get some pics up soon as well.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Up and down

So, I was finally doing some work on fixing the forums at our site today due to excessive spam that we've been receiving. It was a bit complicated and beyond my comfort zone at first, but I was able to code a whole bunch of stuff. Ok...that's nice Jason...very excited...

Next...I try a new tool that lets me erase a bunch of people at once, so I can delete the 150 porn spammers that registered to the site...great.

But...what I ended up doing was deleting the whole bleeping thing! So, everyone's accounts...gone. All the helpful posts that people have put up...gone! Wow...it was not easy to not throw something!

But, what can you do? In this case, nothing. So, we now have a nice, new, empty forum. Hope it doesn't discourage people too much and hopefully it will get busy again.