Announcement

Well guess what!

I’m not at the West Wing cluster today!!! yay!!!! haha

The reason as to why I’m not at the West Wing cluster today is somewhat similar to the announcement that I’m about to make to all CMU students…

The Hunt library is now open 24 hours for the remainder of the fall semester!

So yes… It’s 5:44 am and yes, I played around with Photo Booth again some time in the night, and yes, I’m not sleeping. But NO! I’m NOT at the West Wing cluster! haha.
I’m at the first floor next to “The MAGGIE MURPH Cafe” (which is closed anyway from the students ODing on double shots), writing this blog post up into my beloved WordPress that keeps me in contact with myself from the future to the past. (whatever the heck I was trying to say there…)

So yeah! I’m probably going to be writing my midnight posts from the Library now. In fact, I might just as well move in here because you can sleep here too! The power sleep thing that’s here next to the tables is amazing… I just tried it out; not slept in it though, yet it’s the best thing ever. It actually rotates and moves and vibrates and lights up inside to wake you up once the timer is done. Hilariously nice.

Anyhow, I was just thinking that I should post pictures up here as well. It seems so bland to see my blog without any visual impact. After all, the layout isn’t helping either, eh? Red and Black and no pictures. Just words. It all adds up to no fun. Anyway, I’m probably going to radically change my blog soon. Maybe I should’ve just not said anything at all because I might not do anything about it, but whatever. Right? haha

So here’s the deal CMUers!

The Hunt Library is now open 24 hours until the end of the fall semester!!!!!!!
Make good use of it!

NCJ V3 – CMU

I made a new “version” of my blog.
It’s now called V4 – CMU2 (Start of Sophomore year soon!)

New blog! I’ll officially start blogging after finals…

Web Services

Did you guys hear???
WordPress now offers 3gb of space! Yay!!!
I can finally stop looking for some web server to host my files (as long as I don’t use the 3gb soon)

This is how Cyworld probably beat all other services in Korea. First off it’s free, as long as you don’t buy “acorns” to dress up your avatars, decorate your miniroom, show originality in your story room, or change “skins” for your “minihompy.” In fact, this is exactly how Cyworld mainly makes money out of the users. They make people pay to decorate their homepages to supposedly express themselves (the word supposedly because it is more of an image you want people to see of you). On the bright side, Cyworld does not impose any limitations on file space for movies/pictures/blogs etc. You can have a homepage that looks dull, but full of content without limits.

Facebook has similar characteristics… Only that having the option to only upload 60 pictures per album seems rather… stupid… Oh, did I mention how much I despise the stupid 3rd party apps such as “superwall,” “zombie,” “Hot or not,” or “Texas Hold’em”? The good news in this area is that Facebook plans to make a link in everyone’s profile that “expands.” This basically means that 3rd party applications are hidden from your profile from others and there is a link for “extended profile” which is basically “show all the 3rd party crap.”

Sonific

Interesting service…
But how come everything I find is piano-melody based songs? I’m so confused…

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I figured out that there are songs, which are… songs. It just turns out that the artists that I want to hear don’t have actual songs/AR. What they posted isn’t technically MR either but… just some instrumental thing… weird….

Social Networking

Lately, there are so many social networking sites emerging (and sadly fading away). I visited myspace in a long time and noticed how it was “dead.” No “friends” of mine use the service anymore… (despite the fact that they upgraded many parts of the service) In blogging, xanga was my first ever blog, but apparantly no one uses it anymore so it seemed useless to update it often, yet I still do. It’s more like a public posting site for Grace to read. Yet I decided to keep both xanga and myspace updated. 
In the new emerging networking sites, the main one seems to be Facebook. I liked the fact that there is finally a networking site that is US based used by all my “western friends” that offers unlimited photo space. However, with the much poking (and one should poke them back for proper manners) and different applications that seems to be flooded including useless “zombie” applications, it is annoying the heck out of me.
The one that I’m most loyal to, it seems, is Cyworld.

Cyworld, for those who don’t know is:

a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications a subsidiary of SK Telecom. Literally translated, “Cy” can mean “cyber”, but is also a play on the Korean word for relationship, so it could also mean “relationship.” It pioneered the concept of personal virtual space in 1999. (wikipedia)
They also launched a US version which is: us.cyworld.com

Cyworld is used by a lot of Koreans to post pictures, videos, blogs/diary, and leave comments like the wall function in Facebook. For the few possible Korean readers, I hope you become my “ilchon” in my cyworld. The address (if anyone is curious -_-) is cyworld.com/nackchoon.

Anyway, what I try to say here is that I hope there is a worldwide social networking site that everyone uses so that I can communicate and keep contact with everyone that I’ve met in my life…

Internet

Yesterday, a note arrived from TV Cable, the ISP of my internet service.

The message claimed that TV Cable is doubling my internet speed (which was previously 1Mbit) as a Christmas present! I simply had to reset my cable modem.

So I checked out my new internet speed and here it is:

WordPress

I decided to use wordpress again.
So, welcome ^__^

To start a fresh new start, I deleted all the previous posts and am starting this as if it’s a new blog.

My first ever blog, xanga, will probably remain online though.