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Reflections|Projections 2007

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Here comes the yearly fun that is: Reflections|Projections 2007. People that I’d like to hear from are…

I think all the other ones don’t really apply to me, but then again, I might visit them. Last year I got a chance to hear from Max Levchin from Slide and PayPal, and it was really interesting. I’m kinda sad I didn’t see Joel Spolsky of FogBugz nor Jawed Karim, the third YouTube guy.

Here’s to a wonderful, nerdy weekend!

UIUC Express Email hasn’t changed much…

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on October 3, 2007
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Wow. This thing really hasn’t changed over 5 years. It’s still got this 90s era color/table/frame scheme, and just… doesn’t sit right in terms of design. It’s not aging well.

Why do I bring this up? I’m just checking if I have to forward my UIUC student account to a new address. I just got an email address with NCSA, and so I need to make sure that all is right in my little electronic world.

Thank goodness I made the switch to Gmail all those years ago… September 9th 2005 was when I got my first piece of email. The funny thing is, I stopped backing up my emails on a hard drive because of the simple fact that Gmail does it all so very well. And because of this, there’s absolutely no way I can use any other email provider (unless Gmail decides to create an exporter of some sort).

Hooray for vendor lockdown… The same goes for Google Reader, where there are just mountains of data on what I’ve read in the past and what I’ve starred: is there any solution out there that will let me export data out?

Why… Hello there, Sun!

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on March 27, 2007
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Blast it. It’s another all nighter. And for what?

After a rousing exercise routine (backs and shoulders), I decided to go home.

I was nearing ISR, then suddenly… I decided to poke around a bit. A “little” bit turned into “quite” a bit.

I felt like I haven’t seen these guys in weeks. Two weeks, actually, since last week was Spring Break for them, as well as the week before… well… I was busy.

The first thing I run into… what the heck… it’s a group of people trying to imitate Bae Seul Gi’s Bokko Dance. Quite random. Then I visited the Knox/Das/Liao palace in Wardall. Then stopped by the business major’s studying in Wardall lounge.

Oh, the funny thing is how two random strangers pointed out that my earbuds were Sennheiser CX-300’s. I guess it pays to be… particular about your earbuds. Indeed, I’m loving these.

Then… I ended up debugging Brian Chung’s MP for a few minutes. Man, I missed the good ol’ days when I had to get down and dirty with C in ECE 199 (now called ECE 190). I’m not lying: I actually do. It’s kinda funny, but it seems as though you think you’re not going to miss it ever… and you end up missing it quite a bit.

But all my garbage electrical engineering classes? Yes. I will always not miss them. Ever.

It seems like the ECE/CS course load at UIUC is getting weirder. I don’t know if I should say harder or easier, but I think it’s becoming more relevant. Looking at the CS coursework: I feel like I want to go back for a BA in CS… all the classes look so fun!

And… indeed… it is 4:30 AM.

I have yet to write a good entry… this is getting quite annoying…

Someone or Something Lit Something…

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on March 10, 2007
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… under my butt.

It’s been a while, no? Lots of things little and big things have been keeping me busy.

I have no idea where this energy came from. And no, it’s not the Dew. I haven’t touched that stuff since the all-nighter I pulled on Thursday/Friday. (oh man, let me tell you, that was one awesome 3 hour nap in between…)

I think I might have to attribute it to the change in weather. It’s finally getting warm, and I finally don’t have to worry if I won’t be able get my car out of the heaping mountains of snow. I can finally step outside without feeling like I need to figure out the optimal path through warm heated buildings.

It might also have to do with the Issue(s) that have been plaguing my mind. Lots of relational issues have been resolved (at least, on my side). I’m not sure if I’m going to touch on this more publicly, but just know that a certain peace have entered into my heart, enabling me to let go of things that should have been let go and to learn things that should have been learned. Thank you, to those that have helped and listened and prayed. To sum up, just know that I’m continuing to fight the good fight, and striving to grow through it all.

It also might have to do with how my sister is now going to be coming to UIUC for her pre-law/philosophy major. I actually have to start looking for a small house/condo for us to live in… (*ahem*whichmeansImightbeherenextyear*ahem*) and I also have a feeling that our family might be looking to move towards Illinois, whether it be here or up in Chicago. Long story short, things have been set into motion.

Thank goodness for the realization that it’s time to keep moving, to keep forward.

Lots to plan tonight… if I don’t watch 300. Yikes.

Rethinking

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on January 30, 2007
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Still in Cincinnati. I definitely cleared up a lot of things on the to do list, from canceling cable internet to driving the family SUV to get it fixed to dealing with the college loan people to tracking down all the tax-related paperwork my parents and I need. I really wanted to see if I could get this retainer check done and over with so I can drive back to Illinois. It might be I really am going to be here until Wednesday.

I wasn’t able to get a whole lot of work done: Still feels like I’m on a vacation. Rather than working, I’ve been catching up on a few TV shows here and there (Battlestar Galactica, I’m so behind) and reading quite a bit of the Bible. Right, that and continuing to think where my life will take me.

To tell you the truth, I’m excited. I don’t know what I’ll be doing after 5 months. I don’t think I can stress this enough: I’ve never had a time in my life that I wasn’t 110% sure what the next step was to be. I guess it comes with the territory of actually being able to support oneself, but it also comes with being kinda self-employed.

I will be having an interview with the good MBA people at UIUC on the 19th of February. More or less a information session… and that’s what I’m looking for, more information. As soon as I get back on campus, I’ll be yoinking some GMAT books from the great Library we have. Looks like I have to write four essays, two pages max per question, for the application. Yikes. Too bad I like to write.

Personal Finance is too fun. Learning more about retirement planning… so much fun. I know for a fact I’ll be maxing out my Roth IRA very soon. Huzzah for that. If only I had some kind of system that could help me transfer some of what I’ve learned to the world…

Right. Blogs.

Still thinking over what I want to do with this blog.

“Christian Coding Korean” was what I wanted to go with. But I want to add even more to it… I’m stretching my subject areas too far as it is. Not only am I going to be writing for people, but I’m actually going to be using the blog to retain information; to help me remember what I’ve researched and learned through my browsing the Interweb.

But I’m interested in so much… Does Josh Kim dot Org just stay that way? A site just devoted to whatever the heck I’m interested in at that moment in time? But that means… I’m going to be writing endlessly…

I mean, I can sit here and write “personal” posts continuously, with a Bible open before me, going through verse by verse, just being convicted through every verse. But that’s not very productive, in the sense that I’m not meant to be doing that: It’s not like I’ve been called to some sort of a blog ministry.

I guess the problem is I’m not the best at anything. I’m just okay with a lot of things. But I like being okay at a lot of things… If there was something I learned in college (other than the subject matter), it was that one of the most important things in life is not being the best at something, but to create something to be best at. For some reason, that entrepreneurial spirit was sown.

But what to reap? What am I using as nutrients. Hopefully, massive amounts of learning and research on my own. But it can’t be my own. I must ask for help… from others and from God. Asking help from God is easy (okay, sometimes… after humility takes place). Dealing with people, though… that’s another story.

Where the heck am I? I feel like I just wrote like 2 pages and got nowhere.

Right, back to the point. Rethinking.

If I want to use the blog as a passive income generator, I need to make sure that it can be used that way. I guess I need to crank out more worthwhile posts in terms of the subject area I choose, whatever they may be.

Oh man, that’s going to require some category reorganization. Retagging, also. And I’m still thinking about ripping the RSS feeds into categories that make more sense.

Things could be easier if I just started to create more domain names, and just created content based on each… hmm…