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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-25

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by Philip Gowman on 25 January, 2010

in Bae Doo-na, Bloggers and newspeople, Celebs, Film, Film reviews and comment, Food & Drink, Foreigners in Korea, Fusion music, Geek stuff, History & heritage, Jeju-do, K-pop rock and indie, Koreans in UK, New York, Park Chan-wook, Sport, Twitter Tweets, Western classical music

Finally finished my top 10 K-films of the decade post. It took forever. 2003 was a good year! Post will be up on Tuesday. 12:57 PM Jan 22nd from web
Big article on Kimchi going global in the Washington Post http://bit.ly/89sKtf (HT: Marmot) 1:16 PM Jan 22nd from bit.ly
Trying to figure out why LKL is offline [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-04

4 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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DPRK “suspended due to strange activity”. If only it was that easy! @kcna_dprk Twitter account is no longer active. Shame. I was trying to find the New Year Joint Editorial | 8:36 PM Jan 3rd from web
Top 10 ROK Drop Stories of 2009 http://bit.ly/7KiEV6 and ROK Drop’s pick of the decade http://bit.ly/7aYjGm. Good memory refreshers [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-10

10 August 2009 Boryeong Mudfest
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Check out Urban Sketchers Seoul. It’s what it says on the tin. Great sketches and watercolours, constantly refreshed: http://bit.ly/rVVyF #
Feeling guilty that I don’t read Anna’s blog enough. Check out Dringe Augh’s track from July’s Music Alliance Pact: http://bit.ly/v6CYl #
Does Epik High have the same language coach as the Wonder Girls? “-t you” ≠ “choo” [...]

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Welcome to LKL 4.2

18 September 2008 Geek stuff
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Welcome to LKL 4.2. Regular readers will have noticed the design change I made over the weekend, which I’ve been playing with on my test site for a while.
In the past I’ve consciously kept the LKL front page as boring-looking as possible: when I launch the front page at work I don’t want to be [...]

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Another tweak

19 August 2008 Geek stuff
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So soon after the release of v4, here’s 4.1. My brain has been unable to stop fretting over getting better navigability on this site, including encouraging people to read more than the one article they land on when they google-search for a pic of Super Junior. First came the related post list a few days [...]

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Welcome to LKL v4

17 August 2008 Geek stuff
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It may not look like a big change, but it’s been exercising my mind for a few weeks.
The underlying change is an upgrade of my blog templates to take advantage of all the latest functionality of WP2.6. LKL’s look and feel is based on Scott Wallick’s plaintxt templates. Scott faithfully upgrades his templates to keep [...]

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I think we’re just about done

5 April 2008 Geek stuff

So I think I’ve now stabilised things at my new webhost. I can now start thinking about all the improvements I’ve been meaning to try, including:

Improving the navigation with drop-down menus to make browsing easier. Maybe people might stay and have a look round once they’ve found their picture of Super Junior.
Finding the right combination [...]

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Optimise your website. Lose readers. Gain revenue

5 April 2008 Geek stuff

A lot was going on in LKL during March. I’ve been setting up test blogs on my server; I’ve been testing new plugins; I’ve been exporting my database and reimporting it every which way. I’ve been playing with different versions of WordPress. All this in preparation for the move.
I also installed the All-in-one SEO pack.

Some [...]

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The LKL move, or, how I moved webhosts, changed my URI, cleaned up my database and
upgraded my WordPress installation in ten not very easy steps

5 April 2008 Geek stuff

… and why I haven’t been posting much content over the past few weeks.
It may seem strange to offer a “how-to-move-your-website” article when my own upgrade was less than seamless. Part of my trouble was that I was trying to do several things at once.

Move webhost from a shared host to my own Virtual Private [...]

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Moving WordPress from a shared host to a VPS

5 April 2008 Geek stuff

Many of the lessons I learned moving to my new VPS could apply to moving between any shared webhosts. I’ve got a separate post on that here. This post is all about the additional lessons relevant to moving up a step on the webhosting ladder.
First, an obvious lesson. It’s scary. In my first attempt, I [...]

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LKL has (crash) landed

31 March 2008 Geek stuff

If you can read this post on my website, it’s because, magically, I’ve managed to land LKL at the right airport. I might even have landed on the right runway. But I know in advance that I’ll have skidded off the end of the runway, or might have damaged the gantry on the terminal building. [...]

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LKL is on the move (again)

30 March 2008 Geek stuff

You may have noticed a significant drop-off in content over the past few weeks, and particularly over the Easter weekend. That’s because I’ve finally been turning my mind to moving the site to a new webhost. I know I’m going to encounter all sorts of problems, and I’ve been doing dummy runs of the move [...]

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New Year’s resolutions

2 January 2008 2007 year-end posts

1 I will free myself from the daily post
Having managed to maintain one post per day for the past 15 months or so, even when on holiday, I’ve now proved to myself I can do it. To be honest, it’s never been much of a struggle to find something to write about, [...]

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Dokkaebi ate my post

13 September 2007 Geek stuff

I’m not sure what happened to today’s post. I definitely wrote it last night, and scheduled it for publication this lunchtime, but somehow it’s vanished into the ether. It’s nowhere to be found in the database; google desktop hasn’t cached it; and altogether it’s as if yesterday’s labours were in vain. I’ll just have to [...]

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Upgrade to WP2.2.3 completed

9 September 2007 Geek stuff

Please report any bugs by leaving a comment below. Apologies for the temporary disruption.

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