KokeBlog = Kokeb + Blog

무버블 타입 모바일 페이지

2012-03-02T16:07:06Z

이번 역시 삽질의 연속이었으나 다년간의 눈썰미 덕에 모바일 페이지 구성을 어렵지 않게 마쳤다. 아이폰을 포함 주위의 거의 모든 전화기로 시험한 결과 정상 동작함. 휴대 기기로 접근하면 자동으로 모바일 페이지가 보인다. 일반 환경에서는 접속 경로에 따라 모바일 페이지 또는 일반 페이지를 볼 수 있다.

모바일 페이지 경로는 http://kokeb.net/m/ 이다.
Mid-Century Mobile을 참고하여 모바일 페이지 작성함

페이스북 다음 디아스포라

2012-02-25T15:49:30Z

디아스포라(Diaspora) 폿(Pod)을 하나 심었다. 한번 설치해 봐야겠다 해서 시작을 했는데, 겨우 마무리! 작년에 도메인 사서 설치와 시험을 끝낸 상태였는데, 호스팅 업체가 본의 아니게 먹튀를 하는 바람에 다시 설치함. 현재 호스팅 업체는 가격 대비 만족. 거의 육 개월 만에 작은 프로젝 하나 끝냄.

앞으로는 페이스북 대신 디아스포라로! (kokeb@PodMob.NET)

디아스포라에 대해 알고 싶은 분은 아래 링크 눌러주세요.

Jump to another Movable Type; very easy with version 5.12!

2011-06-24T10:18:54Z

Transition to Movable Type 5.0x was a little burdensome to do this and that. Today's transition was just on the fly. What I have done was melting Movable Type tar ball under cgi directory. Then, initial logon triggered upgrade process resulting in successful migration gracefully. That's all!

This is the first post published from Movable Type 5.12 to see if it works.

The first term Chinese class review (Mandarin)

2010-08-01T16:28:11Z

Three months beginner's class finished last Friday. Regardless of fluency or literacy, one of the greatest achievement from this term is that I marked only one day absence (make-up class was offered, fortunately) and that I did not skip any home assignment. Such a good student! :-D

Simplified Chinese characters should still come with pinyin typeface to pronounce properly. Simple greetings, basic grammars, and pronunciation with proper toning are at my fingertips. The entire course plan guides me to three more terms (consecutive nine months, too long journey though) to get ready for minimal daily conversation. In other words, I can say, "I just started three months ago. I just got involved as a novice."

I did not put my name on the next term roster to have a kind of break. So many affairs challenging, compelling, obligatory from office to home are awaiting me these days. Furthermore, my brain is inundated with enormous amount of vocabularies from English, Amharic, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. (mother tongue also needs some improvement this moment)

It's high time for me to sink heat on my CPU. I have to forget what I had learned so far to recollect them some day even though this strategy may be adverse to the principle of forgetting curve by Hermann Ebbinghaus. Or, my brain will become walking explosive. :-D

No more daunting long URLs!

2010-08-01T15:55:09Z

Two forwarders easy to remember as well as simple to type, now, go public to access photos at flickr.com and videos at youtube.com.

http://photo.kokeb.net: taking you to Flickr photo archive
http://video.kokeb.net: taking you to YouTube video clips

I don't need to let others know daunting long URLs any more. Some script glues (I'm still a software engineer in this standpoint!) with DNS update enabled automatic forwarding. This flexible script shall be also applied to future forwarding items by adding as many as needed.

Enjoy my photos and videos with me!

kokeb.net on Action Streams 2.3 :-D

2010-07-29T13:21:03Z

No recent care on my blog platform, Movable Type 5.02 as of today, kept me away from proper update in the platform itself and relevant gadgets. I realized that Action Streams 2.3 released a month ago by locating this page.

Action Streams 2.3 is now on operation in place of Action Streams 2.1 (interim release) deployed upon the migration to Movable Type 5.

Horticulture? cultivation? farming?; patience and diligence in essence

2010-07-28T14:51:31Z

People often say, "Farming is one of faithful labors in this world." We can harvest the field as much as we plough, seed, care, and do our best involving patience as well as thorough diligence. This citing shall apply to my farming these days. Undergoing harsh pain over the couple of months with some matter, I could not work on farming at all. At the same time, the last blog post here lasted nearly two months. Anyway,

Recent torrent rainfall and soaring temperature had slashed my farm block seriously. Wet ground could not sustain maize to fall down over hot pepper and tomato section. Their growth is now in stuck. Repetition of rain and sunshine led excessive growth of lettuce varieties making them inedible.

I spent last weekend in erecting maize stems, fixing sustaining poles for tomato and hot pepper, and eradicating overgrown lettuce. I could get considerable amount of maize crops while cutting off broken maize stems. Hot peppers and tomatoes seemed to need more time to get ripe. Another month will make the remaining ready for harvest by a rule of thumb.

In a month, I will be completely re-plowing my block for autumn vegetables such as cabbage, radish, and so forth. The first half of farming season is nearly at an end this moment. The yield was not so bad in comparison with that during the first half of the last year. However, last year's experience in farming did not help much toward higher yield rate, I think. Knowledge from experience is one thing and doing what I know is totally another.

Simply speaking, this circumstance came from lack of patience and diligence!

Green peas are creeping over the ground!

2010-06-02T16:34:51Z

This is attributed to a lazy farmer, Hyok Kim. :-D Anomaly in climate does not make sense any more. Erecting them with strings across stakes should be the highest priority task upon the next visit.

I spent more than half an hour in watering my block. It looks like a farm at last.

Farming 2010; the same but challenging

2010-05-16T13:35:43Z

Last year's great experience from weekend family farm led me to another challenge right after move-out to new home. Beginning March, I went around so many places to locate the best family farm nearby new house. I paid yearly rental for a farm block out of five candidates April. This post is a story from "getting started" to "up-to-date" development.

This year's land space is bigger by 1.5 times than previous one at SanBon. Per-square rental fee is higher approximately by 1.5 times, too. Land shape is long bar type whereas last year's was nearly square.

One of the lessons learnt last year is that I have to focus on manageable number of varieties on a farm block. Planting, eradicating in case of failure, and their repetition over so many varieties took so much amount of time seriously. Another lesson is that lettuce yield resulted in oversupply for my family. With these two key experiences, I partitioned the farm block roughly into four pieces; green pea block (30%), maize block (30%), tomato/chilly block (25%), and lettuce block (15%). Then, stake planting followed.

As of today, all blocks are going well without any risky symptom yet because most of environmental conditions seem to be identical to or better than those last year; easy access to water supply, no need to shape farm block itself (initial plowing done by landlord), no need to mix fertilizer (done by landlord, too), and so on.

However, one unforeseen circumstance may impact on crop yield as well as the success of this year's farming in the long run. That is anomaly in Korea's climate. I never experienced such terrible weathers during this season since my birth; harsh up-and-down in temperature, high wind, lack of sunshine, and so forth. Weather forecast confirms such kind of anomalies all through this year.

For instance, early seedlings from other's blocks are already suffering from early blossom, early drop, and no or weak ovary. In my case, most varieties got started with direct seeding to escape from early mature. It was a sort of strategic and right decision that I had never tried last year, at least, until now. However, I'm sure that the more difficulties will await me. That's why I have to go through another challenge this year dealing with weekend farming.

왕 초보 발코니(베란다) 정원!

2010-05-16T09:49:49Z

보름 여 작업 끝에 베란다 정원을 완성했다. 주말에만 작업을 했으니 실제로는 4-5일 정도. 건장한 남자 두 명이 투입된 나름대로 힘든 작업이었다. 처음에는 화원이나 조경 업체에 맡기려고 했으나 제시하는 비용이 수백 만원 수준이라 직접 해보기로 했다. 인터네트에 자료들이 많은데다 재료 역시 통신 판매로 쉽게 구할 수 있어 100만원에 훨씬 못 미치는 비용에 완성했다. 매 주말마다 온몸이 쑤시는 고통을 겪어야 했으나 해 놓고 보니 뿌듯하다. 작업 도중에 삽질한 것을 감안해 베란다 정원 꾸미기 순서를 정리해 본다.

순서를 정리하면 대략 아래와 같다.

1단계: 방수 비닐 깔기, 배수판 깔기, 부직포 깔기
2단계: 화단 조성 (흙, 담장 등 설치)
3단계: 나무/꽃 심기, 장식하기 (마사토, 자갈 도포 등)

1, 2단계에 들어가는 비용은 정해져 있다. 화단 크기만 잘 계산하면 된다. 3단계인 심기, 장식하기 과정에서는 개인 취향에 따라 수 만원에서 수 십 만원 이상 들어갈 수 있다.

1단계: 화단 크기만 정해져 있으면 구매와 설치가 그냥 된다. 바닥 면적을 기준으로 계산하되 화단 높이까지 감안해야 한다. 마감처리를 위해 여유 있게 크기를 정할 수도 있다. 예를 들어 흙이나 물 넘침을 방지하기 위해 비닐을 화단 위로 약간 높게 올릴 수도 있다.

웬만한 바닥은 방수가 이미 되어 있기 때문에, 방수 비닐은 방수 목적보다 바닥 면의 오염 방지가 더 커 보인다. 바닥 면 기준으로 세 겹 깐다. 위에 말한 것처럼 높이와 여분을 적당해 조절해야 한다. 그 위에 배수판을 깔고, 그 위에 부직포를 두세 겹 깔면 된다. 구배(배수)를 감안하여 배수 위치를 잘 고민해야 한다.

2단계: 무엇을 심을지 대략 결정해야 한다. 나무 심을 예정이면 수종에 따라 충분한 뿌리 공간을 확보해 줘야 한다. 바닥 면적은 이미 알고 있으니까 흙 깊이 대략 계산해 보면 흙이 들어갈 공간의 부피가 계산된다. 부피 계산되면 1.5~2배 수준의 흙을 구입하면 된다. 배수판 등에 의해 내적이 줄어들지만 흙 들이 붓다 보면 다져 지면서 한도 끝도 없이 들어간다. 또한 배양토 실제 양이 겉면에 표시된 것보다 적다. 이걸 예상 못해 동네 꽃가게에 흙 사러 몇 번을 갔는지...... ㅎㅎ

화단에 사용할 흙은 여러 기능성 흙을 조합해야 하는데 (직접 그렇게 할까도 계획 했음) 전문가가 아닌 이상 너무 번거롭다. 이미 배합이 되어 있는 배양토를 사면 된다. 원예용이라고 써 있는 것이면 된다. 사러 가서 물어봐도 되고.

화단 높이 이상으로 흙을 쌓으려면 나무나 플라스틱으로 된 담장을 사서 높이를 유지하면 된다. 담장을 지지 하는 데는 공사판에서 쓰는 막 벽돌을 사용했다. 담을 세우고 화단 안에 벽돌을 적당히 쌓아 고정한 후 흙을 부으면 된다.

3단계: 왕 초보인지라 뭘 심어야 할 지도 난감했다. 화단 크기를 확실히 계산해서 꽃나무 시장에 갔다. 여러 사장님들 도움으로 일부 싸게 일부 바가지 쓰고 샀다. 첫 번째, 실내 또는 베란다에 적합한지 확인해야 한다. 아무리 아름다운 나무도 베란다에서 하루도 할 수 없다면 꽝! 두 번째, 화단 깊이. 화단 깊이가 사려고 하는 나무의 뿌리 깊이를 감당할 수 있는지. 셋 째, 물 주는 주기. 화단 넓은 면에 여러 종류의 나무와 꽃을 심게 된다. 당근, 물 주는 주기가 대략 일치해야 한다.

수종이나 꽃의 심는 방법에 맞춰 심고 나서, 마사토를 덮는다. 물 줄 때마다 흙이 흘러 내리지 않게 하는 것이 최대 목적이다. 그리고 나서 자갈 장식을 한다. 수반, 어항, 분수 등의 장식은 취향에 따라...... 끝!

참고로, 꽃나무는 도매 시장에서 싸면 조금 싸다. 흥정을 잘못하면 더 비쌀 수도 있지만. 양재 꽃 시장을 도매 시장으로 알고 있었는데 돌아다녀 보니 소매 시장에 가깝다. 47번 국도 주암교와 LG전자 서초 캠퍼스 사이에 과천화훼 직판장이 있다. 과천 쪽에서 간다고 가정하면 진행 방향 오른쪽이다. 도로변이라 잘 안 보이는데 해당 구간 내에서 아무 곳에서나 우회전 해 들어가면 무지 큰 시장이 펼쳐져 있다. 화훼 자재 없는 것이 없고 꽃나무 없는 것이 없다. 다만, 진짜 도매라 그런지 꽃은 한 판씩 팔고 현금만 받는다. 깡 시골처럼 보이는데 구내에 농협 현금 지급기도 있다. 돈과 현금 카드만 있으면 된다. ^_^;

또 한가지! 물 주는 주기 때문에 같이 심기가 곤란한 것은 그냥 화분 째 올려 놓아도 된다.

How can I cancel justhost.com account? SUCKS!

2010-03-02T16:41:04Z

I never dreamt of suffering from lousy deals with justhost dot com again. The nightmare just started with an invoice a month ago. The document charged me annual hosting fee with several options identical to what I have signed up February 2009.

Some dissatisfaction made me leave the hosting service around April 2009. Then, I thought that everything was settled down without any problem. I got confirmation of account cancellation. That was why I could get prorated refund by proper credit card transaction.

I dropped so many lines of appeal that I was not a subscriber any more. Billing department answered for my messages with bureaucratic comments generated by automated reply system. Several staffs responded in person, however, next reply was neglected same way. They insisted that my account was still active because I had not done cancellation process last year. I could not believe it. I wondered how the account was active. If so, what was the refund that I got last year?

Whether my account was still active or not, I did not want to pay for unwanted hosting service. I requested them to cancel the account with full refund every day and night. I did not utilize any facilities from justhost.com, of course. In the long run, they processed my request with PRORATED refund in a month. What an appalling customer care?

What I am afraid of now is that they may charge me next year again. That must not happen, however.

Migration to Movable Type 5; painful but hopeful

2010-01-14T17:06:54Z

Keeping user's own data consistently requires painful process always, for example, in front of software update and/or hosting relocation. This is (was) also the case with Movable Type to some extent. Shortly speaking, this blog post rendered from Movable Type 5 platform in success. Let me share my experience how I managed to migrate from version 4 to brand new 5 with all articles as well as custom templates.

First of all, here are my configurations that you may want to know about.

Old configuration

Movable Type 4.3x
ActionStream 2.1
Cumulus 1.2

New configuration

Movable 5.01
ActionStream 2.1 (MAKE SURE to get it from here or refer to forum Q&A)
Cumulus 1.2 (the same as from old configuration)

In brief, I tried these steps

Back up entries (menu "Export Entries" from old installation)
Create new database for Movable Type 5 (kept Movable Type 4 database untouched)
Install fresh Movable Type 5 (kept Movable Type 4 installation untouched) with plugins
Import entries (menu "Import Entries") at new installation
Copy custom template from Movable Type 4 to 5 MANUALLY (copy & paste; labor intensive but sure bet)
Copy configuration of plugin(s) as needed (the same as above)

Above procedure is just one out of numerous ways you may think of. My goal was to populate old articles with Movable Type 5 by fresh installation. Automated upgrade from Movable Type 4, you may choose if you don't want to be bothered about complexity of migration over fresh installation.

I (also you, probably) encountered two hurdles in the middle of migration. One was incompatibility of ActionStream 2.1. Resolution was already here (just download version 5 aware port!). The other was how to import entries because the dashboard did not show me any clue how to do. Now, let's dive into details and workaround which I escaped from stalemate with.

Upon the first sign-in after the installation process, one special blog (new term called "Website" from Movable Type 5) will be available. It is a kind of an aggregator or integral point of its dependent blogs. That's why no "Import Entries" menu can be seen from it.

Just leave this Website untouched for a while. Re-configure the "website" if needed in the future. Then, create a blog under that "website". You will be asked about template set, directory locations, and so forth by the same way you would be on previous installations. Once a new blog is created under the "website", it will bring you all facilities familiar with us. We can see a menu, "Import Entries"

Due to this "website" scheme and the procedure I tried above, your blog ID will be "2" instead of "1" taken by the "website." In most cases on previous Movable Type distributions, the first blog should take blog ID "1", however. This situation will make archive cache corrupt on search engines without any doubt. Configure mod_rewrite (.htaccess) or something like that if corruption matters to you seriously. I did not touch anything because search engines would refresh their cache in the long run. :-)

Except two issues above (action stream compatibility and entry import), everything will be favorable for experienced users in Movable Type installation. I hope this helps. One good news is that new Movable Type now supports "Export theme" facilitating custom templates archive and making it available as a part of blog theme pool in automated manner. No more copy & paste!!

Switching over to iPhone; joy of mobility

2010-01-03T15:25:09Z

One of my recent jokes with colleagues and friends was, "Everything is ready with me except an iPhone." All services as well as facilities that I had subscribed and run were mobile aware and ready to interconnect with mobile devices. The first photo upload dates back to August 2006 at flickr. The first blog post was made April 2005. Others around that time.

With the start of iPhone service a month ago, I signed up subscription plan with black colored handset. The iPhone enabled me to access Internet services from wherever I am. There is no change in services that I would enjoy; however, there is dramatic change in the way of using them with the help of Wi-Fi or 3G network omnipresent.

It's time to say bye-bye to this old handset below. Huh, nearly 5 years with me.

Opening 86th month at Siemens

2009-10-31T18:26:48Z

Seven years and one month. This is the duration of my stay at Siemens. I joined Siemens Ultrasound Group Korea (SUGK) on October 1, 2002. Official division name now is Siemens Ultrasound Systems Korea (SUSKO) since October 2007. Beginning 86th month, I added some old shots for Flickr to recall unforgettable memory so far. (Those shots remind me that so many colleagues left Siemens, too)

Clearing Message Boxes

2009-10-28T15:41:23Z

Having intended not to put a post on this blog for a while (long while as a result, though), I used to devote myself to another challenging things. The last post dated May 29 remained latest post here. :-D The challenging things were near at an end beginning September. However, I could not completely finalize them since the end of the month. "Decision and focus" policy failed in the long run. "Get all, then manage them" I took.

Breaking the silence today, I updated status of services which I had been involved in. Absence from there led the stacking of messages I did not reply to yet. Feedbacks from friends as well as unknown others were responded gently because they were ignored thoroughly so far. There is something notable upon status updates.

Twitter: several became followers who I did not know. I wonder whether I can drop my on-time trace to share with them. Anyway, Twitter should be operational for them. :-D
Plaxo: a certain friend's network suggested several job offers with private email. Headhunters tried to reach me. I did not respond, however. I am still alive on a job market as a hunter's prospective prey or bait :-)
Linkedin: Colleagues updated their networks with me.
YouTube: Channel view marked over 1,500. I realized that my videos were being watched by friends and YouTube folks AT ANY RATE. I can't stop YouTube-ing.
Flickr: Several shots became other's favorites. Somebody pulled the naked David shot for his or her blog. Another person requested me to permit the use of one of my toilet shots by courtesy. The shot does not require permission as long as it is used properly against Creative Common License. It may appear on a certain magazine. (I will let you know when available, Dear readers!)
Mar.gar.in/delicious: nothing special; I just did not do anything.
Facebook/Hi5/Tagged: I could not manage them. So so so many messages :-) However, "Get all, then manage them" discipline will work soon.
Other services I would rarely visit: no idea yet; delete or do something