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Renegade:
Hi Renegade,

Thanks! I just took advantage of your offer. Strangely, I kept getting error messages about visiting from an unauthorized site but have since received confirmation that my registration code will be issued. Don't know if this is an issue at your end or mine.-Darwin (October 08, 2005, 06:00 PM)
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Hmm... Strange... It was well tested. What browser are you using? There shouldn't be any problems, but if I can reproduce it, I can fix it. Are you using some kind of a proxy or firewall?

How's life in Seoul? I spent four years there ('96 through 2000) and have fond memories of it. I quite often think about returning. My boys are half Korean and their hal-monie lives in Seoul, so my wife and I might just do it!

Mike
-Darwin (October 08, 2005, 06:00 PM)
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Well, I've been here since early 1996, so being as that's about 10 years now, I must like it ;)

Things are pretty good here. Every once in a while I get someone asking about North Korea, but that's all just a sham. NK is nothing more than a bunch of professional brinksmen trying to get attention like a 5-year old child throwing a temper tantrum.

Were you in Seoul? There are only 2 places in Korea:


* Seoul
* Shigol (the country-side) ;)
I used to live in Chinju in Kyoungsang Namdo and in Taejon. Both were complete hicks-villes. Well, Taejon is a big city, but that doesn't stop people from being super conservative.

Seoul is really changing. Well, Korea changes so fast it isn't funny, and you must have seen that when you lived here. But right now Seoul is actually slowly turning into a livable place. The mayor of Seoul now is doing a great job of making Seoul a nicer place to be. He's got a huge task, but he's doing well. There's chatter about him running for president here.

If you do visit, make sure to look me up for a beer or three :)

Cheers,

Ryan

Darwin:
Hi Renegade,

This reply is a bit late - I spent most of the last four or five days troubleshooting problems with my WinXP installation (as it turned out, it was Yahoo Desktop Search indexing my drive that was causing my problems - including BSOD).

Regarding the license error that I reported, I am running Maxthon behind ZoneAlarm Pro (latest build) and access the Internet via a proxy (GhostSurf Platinum). However, I did try disabling the firewall and the proxy with no luck, though as I stated, registration did work despite the error message as I received my license via e-mail within about 5 minutes.

I was in Seoul - Mapo, Chongno-3-ga and finally Kil-dong, though I spent the entire four years working for Sisa-yong-o-sa in Chongno. I really miss the markets and hiking in the mountains outside Seoul. My wife, my mother-in-law and our pug used to go for long walks and picnics on Sundays. Somehow, we never find time for that kind of outing now that we've settled in Canada (Vancouver Island). Strange, because nature is so accessible here. I guess we just take it for granted.

Anyway, I will definitely look you up next time I'm in Korea. I am craving al-tang and Cass lager. Strange, but true.

Best,

Mike

Nighted:
Thanks Renegade!  :D I'll try this compression utility.

Also, if you read this I'm curious to know why you were asking if there are any language learners here...do you have any interesting advice to those trying to learn another language? I need to learn Italian myself...

Thanks again!

Renegade:
Thanks Renegade!  :D I'll try this compression utility.

Also, if you read this I'm curious to know why you were asking if there are any language learners here...do you have any interesting advice to those trying to learn another language? I need to learn Italian myself...

Thanks again!
-Nighted (October 22, 2005, 09:18 AM)
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I hope you like ALZip & ALTools  :)  The Eggheads are just so cute. I've got an Illustrator file of tons of characters. JaeBeom is the designer that did them.

Regarding language learning, I've been wanting to make a  language learning version of GDT as it is perfect for slowing down audio to better understand speech that is a bit too fast. Not very useful if you're fluent, but great for listening exercises for language learners.

I finally started Korean classes (well... they start next week) and I'll be ripping the CDs from the text book to MP3 so that I can use GDT to help me through the rough spots when listening.

I do a lot of translation at work sometimes for our software, and I really need to improve my vocabulary. But that's a slow process, and I've been really bad about not actually studying -- hence, I had to join a class to finally motivate me. Maybe I can sell GDT to some of the other students there :)

The only bad thing about taking Korean language classes is that most of the students are Japanese, and since Korean and Japanese grammar is so similar, and so many words are shared, they learn really fast. They really leave us poor white-boys in the dust scratching our heads  :huh:  Chinese students are the same - they know all the vocabulary already, or 70% anyways.

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