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02-2-2010 by dotorious | » Filed under Food
Tags: Food
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I randomly came across this blog (in Korean) and appreciated the tips. As it turns out, it’s a translation of this article from Photojojo. I agree wholeheartedly with all the points.
The Ten Tastiest Food Photography Tips:
1. Setting
2. Light
3. Color balance
4. Don’t move
5. Shoot a lot
6. Zoom in
7. Preparation
8. Be quick
9. Details
10. Don’t shoot
Interesting… Could LittleSnapper replace good ol’ Snapz Pro X as a screenshot and website capture program? Sure looks pretty.
Tip from here.
12-30-2009 by dotorious | » Filed under Film/Arts/Media
Tags: film, nyt, review
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A film review by A. O. Scott in The New York Times.
Interesting timing. I just returned from a family vacation in Texas, where I saw more mounted animal heads than ever before in my life.
12-21-2009 by dotorious | » Filed under tech
Tags: app, iphone, running, software
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Aside from Mail, Bejeweled 2, Clock, and Facebook (in that order), RunKeeper is one of my most frequently used iPhone apps. The GPS coverage sometimes gets lost in Stanley Park, so my route tracking isn’t always accurate, but when it works, it’s pretty awesome.
Looks like it’s getting even awesomer.
Key changes, according to the developers:
There isn’t much I love more than going for a run on the beach with Puca on cold, wintry days. (Rain isn’t that much fun, though.)
12-15-2009 by dotorious | » Filed under tech
Tags: geek, tech
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Highly recommended:
DISABLE JavaScript in Adobe (both Reader and Acrobat). This can be done simply by going to Preferences in Adobe Reader (or Acrobat or both) and
and UNCLICKING the “Enable Acrobat JavaScript” box.
Why? Because it makes you vulnerable to malicious and virus-infected PDFs. See here for more information. (Looks legit to me.)
12-1-2009 by dotorious | » Filed under tech
Tags: geek, mac, tech
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Download Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin for a much, MUCH better PDF experience. And it’s free for non-commercial use.
Best part for me? Not only is it much faster than Adobe Acrobat plugin, but this plugin allows you to view PDF files right in your browser without having to save a copy of every single PDF file you come across in your downloads folder.
In other words, you can view PDF files in the browser, and if you don’t save it, it stays in the plugin’s cache, which gets cleared when the browser restarts. No clutter, no clean-up.
Of course, if you do want to save a copy of it or print it, or view the file in Preview or open it in Acrobat, that’s just a click away.
11-25-2009 by dotorious | » Filed under News/Activism
Tags: development, Korea/Diaspora, OECD
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The Hankyoreh (here in Korean) reports that the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), a club of donor nations, has accepted South Korea as its 24th member. This makes South Korea a member of all 25 OECD committees, and the first time since the founding of the OECD in 1961 that a formerly aid-receiving nation has become a donor nation. The last time DAC accepted a new member was apparently in 1999, when Greece joined. Korea’s membership is effective as of January 1, 2010.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) said that the DAC member nations placed great significance at Wednesday’s meeting on the admission of South Korea as a nation that has gone from being an aid beneficiary to a donor.
원조 수혜국에서 원조 공여국으로 탈바꿈한 한국의 회원 가입에 큰 의미를 부여했다고 외교통상부는 밝혔다.
Sounds familiar, don’t you think? From mission-receiving country to mission-sending country… And read this part:
Additionally, some 75 percent of all South Korean aid is tied aid, in which assistance is provided on the condition that it is accompanied by South Korean businesses and products, with the goals of expanded exports and resource development. Critics have said this form goes against the spirit of aid, in that it involves selecting areas for support according to South Korean interests rather than what is needed in the recipient nation.
MOFAT has announced plans to reduce the percentage of tied aid to 25 percent by 2015. It also said that it would increase efforts to promote the efficiency of aid, strengthen the link between concessional loans and grant aid, and pursue the enactment of a basic law on ODA.
한국은 원조를 하며 수출확대와 자원개발 등의 목적으로 한국 기업과 상품이 함께 따라가는 것을 조건으로 내거는 ‘구속성 원조’의 비율도 전체 원조의 75%에 이른다. 이는 받는 국가의 요구보다는 한국의 이해에 따라 지원분야를 선정하는 것으로, 원조의 취지에 맞지 않는다는 지적을 받아왔다.
외교부는 “2015년까지 구속성 원조의 비율을 25%로 낮출 계획”이라며 “원조 효율성 제고와 유·무상 원조간 연계 강화, 공적개발원조 기본법 제정 등의 노력을 기울여 나갈 것”이라고 밝혔다.
Here’s a lovely graph that shows the last 10 years of ODA (official development assistance).
The line graph plots South Korea’s Official Development Aid (ODA)-GNI ratio over the past 9 years, while the lower bars shows ODA as US dollar amounts (millions).
Fascinating stuff. Now that my dissertation is finally wrapping up (very soon!) I’ll have more time (hopefully) to read up on the connections between Korea’s world evangelization enterprises and international development aid. I’ve so far focused on the cultural and discursive aspects of developmentalism, but especially given the extent of KOICA and development NGOs’ collusion with evangelical Christian missions (see here), I don’t think I can ignore development economics any longer.
11-25-2009 by dotorious | » Filed under News/Activism
Tags: Academic, dissertation, Personal, presentation
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I’m giving a talk this Friday. I promise it’ll be entertaining! 
CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
Evangelizing Development: Korean/American Missions and Capitalist Deliverance
Ju Hui Judy Han (University of British Columbia)
Friday, November 27
3:30 – 5:00pm
Conference Room #120, C.K. Choi Building
1855 West Mall
Praise for South Korea’s transformation from a “mission-receiving” country to the second largest “mission-sending” country in the world is typically accompanied by applause for Korea’s economic growth and advancement in the capitalist world order. In such triumphant narratives, Korea is seen as having successfully progressed from poverty to prosperity as a result of Christianization and capitalist development. How do Christians missions nurture such faith in capitalist deliverance, and what is at stake in this evangelical-capitalist assemblage at the present moment? This talk draws primarily from ethnographic research of missions inTanzania and Uganda where Korean/American missionaries taught economic development seminars based explicitly on Korea’s Saemaul Undong, a particularly “leader-centered” and austerity-oriented model of modernization from the 1960s and 1970s. I will discuss how the missionaries offered the model as a blueprint for both economic and spiritual progress, recasting its authoritarian roots in Christian terms and using it as a wellspring for a distinctly Korean/American political theology of capitalist development.
11-5-2009 by dotorious | » Filed under Doggies
Tags: dog
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Cool story, with a very cute illustration. I gotta get more practice drawing dogs.
Good Dog, Smart Dog – NYTimes.com
Life as a Labradoodle may sound free and easy, but if you’re Jet, who lives in New Jersey, there is a lot of work to be done.He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has epilepsy, severe anxiety, depression, various phobias and hypoglycemia. Jet has been trained to anticipate seizures, panic attacks and plunging blood sugar and will alert his owner to these things by staring intently at her until she does something about the problem. He will drop a toy in her lap to snap her out of a dissociative state. If she has a seizure, he will position himself so that his body is under her head to cushion a fall.
Jet seems like a genius, but is he really so smart? In fact, is any of it in his brain, or is it mostly in his sniff?
10-29-2009 by dotorious | » Filed under tech
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Copy a word or two from a web page, paste onto a Word document, and what do you see? Sometimes, you’re given a drop-down menu with options like “paste text only” or “match destination formatting.” Other times, you’re just stuck with that 24-pt size purple word in Verdana in the middle of your 11-pt Word document.
Sometimes, when you inadvertently copy and paste text with a little too much formatting, Word goes kaput. I even started pasting the text (especially when it’s a longer passage) into a new Mail message, Command-Shift-T to make it plain text, then copy that to Word.
This happens often enough that I finally went looking for a fix. And found it.
Here’s a simple script that pastes whatever is on the clipboard as plain text, without any style information. It works beautifully. Now I can go back to writing… uh, or at least copying and pasting.
Paste Plain Text AppleScript for Word 2008 (from TidBits)
