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		<title>The ‘Conversion’ of Missionary Robert Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Outside Work]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A story that is even more dramatic &#8211; and yet somewhat low-key &#8211; than the return of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea is that of Robert Park. Unlike the two female journalists who were captured and detained against their will, 28-year-old Korean-American missionary Robert Park wilfully and single-handedly crossed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Republic of the Long White Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Outside Work]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I commented on the movement to abolish State-level politics in Australia. While the idea of abolishing States and making everything Federal may seem politically impossible at first sight, I held and still do hold a strong view that there is a compelling case for such a movement: reducing overgovernance. And I half-jokingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen of Figure Skating: You are free now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Outside Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[48 hours on, I still have not been able to watch the video of Kim Yu-Na taking the first ever gold (and also podium finish) for Korea in Olympic figure skating. Basically, if you miss live screening on TV and if the country you reside in doesn&#8217;t offer an online service that lets you view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever-shrinking attention span</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Undecided]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language and networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ars Technica discusses an interesting topic in an article titled &#8216;Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed&#8217;:

In 2008, Nicholas Carr took to the pages of The Atlantic to make the provocative case that Google might be &#8220;making us stupid.&#8221; His basic worry was that a reliance on the Web was rewiring his brain, that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash-bashing: For how much longer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jesskim.com/?p=349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In November 2009, I found Click to Flash and put an end to unwanted loading of Flash animations in Web browser windows, at least on my MacBook. Most of the time, Flash meant a waste of time, Internet bandwidth, and CPU power. It was also the number one (if not the only) cause of infuriating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programming free will</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Outside Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jesskim.com/?p=346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to a sermon on the Internet and came to a small yet ground-breaking epiphany, which I can deeply relate to many of my own personal experiences and decisions. Here&#8217;s a well-known passage from the Book of Numbers in GNB, my favourite translation:

(13.30) Caleb silenced the people who were complaining against Moses, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fallacy of marketing via the rumour mill</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Outside Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hardware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drama over the may-or-may-not-come-into-existence Apple Unicorn Tablet is REALLY spiralling out of control.
OK, so Apple is finally announcing the Tablet&#8230; What&#8217;s the problem?

Report: Apple tablet could earn $3 billion in a year
Apple 2010 Earnings Will Likely Be Affected by Tablet
More Hints at Apple&#8217;s Desire to Hold &#8216;iPad&#8217; Trademark for Tablet Device

All this still remains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 years of wishing you the best of good-buys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that Paul Kangas of Nightly Business Report, a PBS production and my favourite television (now over the Internet) programme, had his final appearance as co-anchor on 31 December, 2009, marking the end of his 30-year career on the show.
I have been a fan of both Paul Kangas and his co-anchor Susie Gharib [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 tech predictions (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jesskimcom/~3/fK1qAHnjNBo/340</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Outside Work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s time for 2010 tech predictions. Although there is no shortage of &#8220;authoritative&#8221; predictions for the new year such as ones published by Newsweek, I&#8217;d like to add some &#8220;lighthearted&#8221; ones of my own like I did last time. But before I get to the new ones for 2010, let me briefly reflect on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog post number 102</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Undecided]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without me knowing, the number of posts on my blog has passed the 100 mark. I thought I&#8217;d gather some current analytics just to mark a small personal occasion.


102 posts over 532 days = 1 post every 5.2 days on average


Gap between posts ranging from 0.5 days to 42 days


5 categories, 2 of which have [...]]]></description>
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