Flying Yangban

Egad

I just switched to Typepad's free service and they stuck me with a very unYangban-like design.  I will have to see what I can do to improve things a bit around here.

UPDATE:  This old theme will have to do for now.  For some reason, this thing survived the switch to the free service but the theme I was actually using did not.

Changes at the ol' blog

Just a couple of programming notes.

• My new public issues-oriented blogging home is over at Asian Correspondent.  Please adjust links accordingly.  I plan to keep this blog just for more personal posts (as a kind of halfway between my Facebook account and my serious writing.  If you are one of the handful of people who still drop by from time to time, please adjust your links.
• The sister blogs for this site (Republicans Abroad-Korea and South Korean Politics and Elections) are going to be closed in early December as I switch programs at Typepad.  Some of the sidebar content and perhaps a couple of posts from them will be transfered to here.

That is all.

Updating some graphics

just a little house keeping

Updating the old blog roll

My wife and baby will not be home until about 10:00 this evening and I got most of my backlog of work done yesterday, so I find myself with enough time on my hands to update ye olde blog roll.

Blogs that died

I'm Korean......... Yet I'm not (stopped posting)

Korea Mediator (gone)

Free North Korea (gone and replaced by some North Korean shopping site)

Kushibo-e Kibun  (I had hoped he would come back but I guess 'sock-puppetgate' and the move to Hawaii killed that blog.)

Asia's Security Perils (gone)

Plunge Pontificates (stopped posting but will go back up as soon as he is active again)

Moving right along

The Korea Liberator is no more but Joshua has restarted the old One Free Korea.

Mystery Pollster has been folded into Pollster.com.

I moved Cathartidae from the Korea roll because he moved from Korea.  His blog is in the non-Asian roll.

One New Blog

Seoul Hero is run by an English teacher who, shockingly enough, is a trained linguist.

UPDATE:  Another new blog

North Korean Economy Watch

Oh....... nevermind

It turns out that this blog will not close (but thanks for the love in any case).  I am keeping the Republicans Abroad-Korea blog open and it turns out that I can also keep this one open with the same plan (I have downgraded my service at Typepad).

However, my 'public' blogging will still be at the Marmot's Hole with this space reserved for personal stuff like baby pictures.

The Jeongja is closed

It is official, this blog is closed for business.  I want to thank both of my loyal readers for reading my rants over the years.

Between growing work commitments, taking care of a growing family and trying to take my writing in a new direction*, I just do not have time to keep this blog at a level I think is worthwhile.  So, this is most likely my last post here.

I will keep writing at the Marmot's Hole and I want to improve on my anemic production at  TCS Daily.  I also hope to start writing for a few other publications.  If all goes well, my upcoming piece with Campaigns & Elections magazine will be the start of my working with more 'mainstream' media.  Time will tell.

The Yangban has died, but the shadow of the Yangban will remain for some time.  I need to work a few things out (such as moving pictures to a new host and finding a home for the seldom used Republicans Abroad blog) but you might as well kill any links you have to me.

*Yes, I have become one of those big-headed bloggers who now thinks he is 'writing' rather than blogging.  OK, not really, but I do want to develope some writing skills and perhaps make writing at least a part-time gig.

The Jeongja is slowly closing

I have decided to close this blog once the lease runs out in October.

While I like having my own little piece of cyberspace, family and work obligations are eating into my free time and I need to prioritize. 

Most of my future posting will be at the Marmot's Hole, where I do not have to worry about site maintenance issues.  I will still post here a couple of times a weeks until the end.

Porn ad

I have been informed by a couple of readers (including my mom!) that there is a porn ad in my right side bar.  Sorry about that. 

I have removed all ads until I can find out from Typepad what the deal is.

Typepad is under a nasty DOS attack.  Maybe the two are somehow related.

Go check out my cousin's blog

I just found out that my cousin has a blog.

I just found out that my cousin lives in Oregon.

I Need to keep in touch with my relatives more.

He lives in Portland, which is OK as cities go, but is the least cool part of Oregon.

Anyway, if you like poetry and prose be sure to check out The Hungry Writer, which will soon be on my blog-roll.

Frankly, most of the stuff he writes sails right by me, which is why this blog is full of political hatchet jobs instead of deep introspection.

Changing the line-up

Its that time again.  Time to take some blogs off the role and add some others.

As usual, the only criteria for getting on my roll is being a blog that I would like to read at least once in a while. 

One Free Korea and DPRK Studies (along with the Asianist) have fused to become The Korea Liberator.  Links have been adjusted accordingly.

Master commenter Sperwer has his own blog now.

Max Watson has upped his game and now has one of the finest photo-blogs I have seen.  I should have linked to it long ago.