Wesley's Tool-Box

There have been several improvements to the site design.

I've been meaning to fill the empty space to the right of the text on each of the sidebar items since, well, it felt empty. So I've now made some icons and put them there. It should blend in nicely with the existing design.

While I was on that, I also made the blue arrows to replace the default ones which are currently visible on the calendar. Speaking of calendar, I adjusted the year/month display method to make it look okay on both English and Korean version of the website. The margins between each rows were changed so that the numbers don't stick so close together.

The problems with width element I had with the design had been pretty much fixed now. It was that some articles (mostly the ones from the old website) were prone to stretch the width of the content pane slightly. Also, on Mozilla-based web browsers, the article view often resulted in incorrect width adjustment, making the page a lot wider than intended. The website stylesheet has been adjusted to remedy these anomalies.

The entrance point to the path to the top of Nogodan is called Seongsamjae. This map shows the details of the 4.7km climbing path from Seongsamjae (lower right) to Nogodan (top left). I have uploaded a cropped higher resolution image of this map.

Even after passing the tollgate, we were still somewhat far away from the main destination, Nogodan, one of the mountains that comprise Jirisan. It is 1,507 meters high, and the name originates from the mountain having the altar (sindan, shortened to 'dan') for Seondoseongmo (honorifically shortened to 'Nogo'). Nogo is the mother of Park Hyeokgeose, the legendary founder of Silla Kingdom (57BC - 935AD).

Last weekend, our family decided to go out for a drive in the vicinity of Jirisan (Mount Jiri) as a summer vacation trip. As usual the trip was to be quick (one day without a sleepover) but efficient.


Dad is at the wheels. He's still quite able to make a long-distance drive, but I hope he doesn't overdo it. 15 years ago he was able to drive all the way from Quebec (Canada) to Florida (USA), a three-day trip (one-way) with 10 hours of driving each day, so our family could visit Disney World. He did do a round trip.

I rode on airplanes more than a hundred times, mostly to visit Ulsan to meet my family. Typically, the ride goes on like this.


Upon arriving at Gimpo International Airport, there's a water fountain next to the entrance. I always ignore this because the subway and/or limousine bus does not arrive with much ample time to spare.