Monthly Archive for January, 2007Page 2 of 9

In Ohio

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on January 27, 2007
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3 and a half hours seemed to go by so fast… I guess I’ve been back and forth quite a few times, now.

Home has this ability to make me very… tired. I just hope that I can stay on task while I’m here.

I’m so happy my sister loves her present. Now I want one, haha. The new earbuds are amazing! No need for those silly black covers, ever. And I still can’t believe how small the shuffle actually is!

Yeap, this entry is pretty much pointless. It’s a cop-out post, what can I say.

Tomorrow will be the start of another day. A very VERY productive day. Time for another list, and the start of the month in review. Huzzah… time to rock.

The END?

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on January 26, 2007
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A long day. The end of a LONG day.

Thank you GOD for letting me somehow get through it all.

Work (client #1), Meeting (client #2), Meeting (client #3). This has never happened in one day before. Followed by WIMPE (which I skipped out on for the past two days due to work).

Now… I look forward to a little rest back at home. That’s right, my friends, I’m heading back to Cincinnati until Wednesday. Freaking retainer check on Wednesday, as well as my lovely sister’s birthday. (I want to play with her new shuffle… so pretty…)

I had a chance to hang out with the guys of Campus Oaks 111. I am so thankful that John and I were able to make up so quickly… last time I was at CO 111, there was some tension between us, for some strange reason. I was just being quite the idiot younger brother… Sorry, again, John!

But man, the topics covered in our discussion… were hilarious. I really should visit more… I need some more example Christians I can look up to, especially these brothers in Christ. Yes, I said this with a little bit of sarcasm… tee hee.

I kid. Then, a very needed phone call from a friend to end the night.

There is no other place I should be RIGHT NOW. It’s just a question of… where to next?

One quick thing: I’m learning to let go. Learning to keep killing my selfishness to want to know everything. Need to pray through this one.

Yeap, this what I would call a personal entry. Yeah, there’s absolutely no content in this post. I’m sorry… I have more writing left for tonight…

Just remember… my monthly review is coming up on the 31st. I’ll be sure to post extensively this weekend and the days following. Maybe even hopefully possibly, you’ll see a new design for the site!

CSS Day

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Josh Kim
on January 25, 2007
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http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/ie7-dehacker.html

This has to be the… best… thing I’ve read all day, possibly, all month. It helped me so much in solidifying all the unhappiness and anger at the state of the CSS world… up through the recent release of IE 7.

Today, I sat down with some code I had written for a site I’m doing, and ripped it apart. I came across this really strange bug that happens with using ul and li as navigation. For some reason (well… I kinda saw it coming…), the margin attribute is poorly defined. I have yet to look up the proper behavior from the W3C doc, but I’ll do so tomorrow.

Regardless, since there is a difference between the way Firefox and IE handles this situation, I was actually going to pull out the star-html hack… but lo and behold, this hack does not work anymore for IE 7.

http://24ways.org/2005/avoiding-css-hacks-for-internet-explorer

What is a CSS hack? Such a great read… Time to use method #3… if only I had read the positioniseverything article before this one… see, now I know for a fact hack #1 doesn’t work. And since #2 is a hack… boo.

http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/

Good refresher for anyone that wants to learn more about positioning. I love the images… I love how I don’t have to click on ANYTHING, but just to go from page to page. I hated how for some tutorials how I’d have to go and manually load up the page in a separate page and have to close it back down just to realize I want to open it up again.

Thumbs up, Mr. Mike Hall. I look forward to going through some of your other stuff at brainjar. (Except, I just realized it’s all in ASP. Tee hee…)

This has been more or less a brain dump. I bet I’ll be dreaming in CSS tonight.

And… I need a new category for articles like this. And also, I need to come up with a new method of posting these entries, because I have a feeling more than half the readership at this point doesn’t care about CSS.

This weekend, I hope, I’ll be able to tinker with the site and make sure that the right people get the right content. Xanga/Facebook people need to get the personalized feeds, while social sites or technology-related blogs need to get the nerdy feeds. Yum.

Korean Pun of the Day

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on January 24, 2007
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10:22:19 PM Josh: flat hires? 10:22:20 PM Alex (Autoreply): Stupid flat hires! 10:22:24 PM Josh: those punks 10:22:39 PM Josh: yeah, that was a Korean pun, brought to you by Josh Kim 10:22:41 PM Josh: that is going on the blog

I think only true FOBs will get this one. It’s actually a really bad one.

Hope to write about my CSS journey today later tonight.

Productive Day

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on January 24, 2007
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Been thinking recently.

Wait, that’s the understatement of the year.

Okay, but back to the point of this entry.

One of the many things that I’ve been thinking about… is what the heck I’m doing here, and what the next step is.

My first client job will be done by this weekend. I will make sure of it. Freaking IE bug will no longer stand in my way…

For some reason, today at work I realized only today that there is definitely a benefit in freelancing like this… but the downfalls are just as large.

In this case, the overhead in dealing with three different projects within three different groups is larger than I thought. The barrage of emails alone is quite amazing. Actually, it’s both fun and frustrating from time to time… but slowly, I think I’m realizing that this life might not be for me. Freelancing… just isn’t for me, in the long run it seems.

But for the next couple of months, I think it’ll be fun to rack up some experience like this. I really do enjoy the part-time-ness of freelancing… being able to have a little bit of free time (more so than working full-time) to continue my research of my next set of options.

Here’s where I see my life going: Either I go work for an amazing company and climb the corporate ladder into management OR start a company outright. Now, this plan might include an MBA… which means that I need to start studying for the GMAT.

After this first client work is done, I might have to start studying for it. The deadline for this coming year is March 15th. I already know who to ask for recommendations, so that’s set. Just need to make sure I kill on the GMATs… My work experience will be kind of weak, seeing how MBA students usually go in with about two years of full-time experience… but maybe my “freelancing” as well as all my pertinent part-time work will be clutch.

If I don’t get in (and even if I do get in and decide to go later… or even… not go at all), then I will start looking for a more permanent position. Chicago doesn’t sound too bad… and the Valley is still an option. Cincinnati just doesn’t feel that all right with me… I’m not sure why. I think it’s more or less my desire to keep moving from place to place…

The engineering job fair is on February 8th, and so I have until then to sharpen up some skills. I hope to be pretty well versed in Ruby by that point. CSS will be cake, and JavaScript… I hope… I will have mastered by then. Freaking… get… a web application done… Maybe also by then, I can put down “Fluent in Korean and Japanese”. Must make some serious goals and timetables… and… you guessed it: Lists.

Wow… the next two weeks will be chock-filled with goodness.

Also, I might be going to Cincinnati this weekend for my sister’s birthday. I got her the shuffle… now I want one… Oh my… she’s 18! And I pray she’ll pass the driver’s license exam on her first time, too.

I think that pretty much concludes this amazingly productive day.

Onward to 6 AM!