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Josh Kim dot Org: A New Direction

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Josh Kim
on January 29, 2008
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I don’t know if you’ve visited the site in the last week or so (which is perfectly fine with me, I love feeds), but I’ve been experimenting with different themes, looking at different plug-ins, and learning about the Wordpress structure.

I’ve finally ended up with K2 for the theme. The less upkeep I have to do in between versions, the better, and K2 helps with a lot of the administration. Also, it comes with a lot of things built in, like a beautiful archive page system, as well as some ajax components. There are some flaws (like the ajax search sometimes doesn’t do anything), but I’m looking to fix those myself, and maybe even submit the patches.

So What Is This Blog About Now?

As time passes, I’ve realized that this blog needs to become a lot less personal, but at the same time not so professional. And so, the subtitle has changed to include “Web Development & Technology”. This covers pretty much everything I would talk about… from something frivolous (I’m almost to 5K groupies with Guitar Hero 3… So close) to something more important (my company is picking up steam, and I’m having a great time managing/developing).

I’m going to have to start retagging some things, as well as moving some posts here and there to streamline the experience. I’m well on my way to bringing some of my older posts, just to keep public because they were once public. It’s a nice historical backlog of how stupid I was, and it’ll keep me in check.

The personal stuff, well, I think they might make a comeback somewhere else. Just not here. I’ll post not short posts on the links of interest, but more thought-out articles.

Upcoming Post Topics

  • The Status of Status
  • FeedSt: The Death of a Project
  • Desktop vs Hybrid vs Web Applications
  • Prism: The Future of Applications?
  • MAMP + Whatever: Why Not Installable Web Applications?
  • Polling on the Internet

I hope to post on about half of these in the upcoming week. We’ll see…

Josh Kim: Founder, CEO, Developer of HanMeta, LLC

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Josh Kim
on January 10, 2008
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On paper, this was a fact on December 17th, 2007. I am the proud owner of a sole-member LLC through the state of Delaware.

But now, after having thought about it for about a month, it really really hit me: I own a company. After months and months of reading and learning… I did it.

But enough of resting on my laurels (I did so about 5 seconds)… I have taxes to worry about. I have costs and profits (no profits yet, but hopefully profits more so than costs in the future) to project. I might soon be having actual employees, to whom I will pay nothing because I have nothing to give them: Just baskets of hope, and an awesome rollercoaster ride of a good time.

Heck, I might end up founding yet another company with the project I’m working on.

What Do You Do?

“Internet Application Development” is what I told Uncle Sam.

No, I’m not just going to “manage”. But alas, I love the business side. I love the numbers, the rules, the forms… it’s like a perfectionist’s dream.

At the same time, I love the art of programming… of diving deep into the sea of code, manipulating the bits, the lines of code to get something useful out of the electrons.

Basically, my goal is to be the ultimate technical manager possible. Tech first, than manager. This is extremely important to me.

Yes, I’m sure you know that we’re working on a project. But in case that doesn’t go well, there are other things coming in the pipeline for HanMeta. For one, I hope to start up another blog with more of a web development/business focus… not so technical as I get here with some of the nerdier things, but maybe even a chronicle of how things are coming along at HanMeta. Another, maybe possibly restart that freelancing/consulting side of my life I stopped a couple months back.

So What?

The reason why I write this is because I needed a summary of the situation for me. I was having a real hard time dealing with how I should continue with the project HanMeta is working on. I was so caught up with the roadblocks of keeping the company aligned with the rules and regulations of this fine country to realize a little too late (or maybe it was just the right moment…?) that I need to get back to programming.

With this blog post, I hope to cement the title of this entry in my head.

I am Founder. I am CEO. I am Developer.

Now time to be one.

Day in the Life of Josh Kim

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Josh Kim
on October 22, 2007
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Today’s Events, so far

7 AM - Alarm Rings

7:26 - Wake up a second time (Randomly Fell Asleep)

7:41 - Wake up a third time (15 minute alarm from iPhone)

7:45 - Forcibly pushed out of bed, Cereal

8:15 - Arrive to work on Blades

12:35 - Lunch (Hickory Rivers)

1:30 - Back to work

4:00 - Blade in the rain home

4:30 - Grab an apple, Drive and pick up Dean

4:35 - WIMPE (Chest and Triceps)

6:00 - Drop Dean at Qdoba

6:45 - Finish Dinner (Leftover delicious pasta)

7:00 - UPS to pick up package, Chuek’s place to pick up his books

7:30 - Union with Dean and Cheuk. Meeting with Amir by phone about the project.

8:15 - Meeting Ends. Start watching some YouTube video with Brin and Page.

9 - Feeds, blah blah blah.

9:30 - The Blogging Starts Now

Today’s Events, to come

10:30 - Continue reading The Art of the Start and Founders at Work

11 - Turn off computer… Okay, didn’t happen.

12 - Sleep? Or more reading…

Why Did I Just Post This?

I love packed days. I feel like I’m going to have a very good night’s rest tonight because of it.

Of course, today’s invigorating schedule was brought on by this weekend. Spending some quality times with some quality people helped me refocus and figure out a lot of things in my life. As if that is something new to report… so much to learn about this thing called “life”.

Whew. Time flew by. Good night, world.