Wesley's Tool-Box

Maps for Japan on Google Map seem to be provided by a Japanese map company already. The sad thing about it is, of course, because of that, even Korea Strait is marked 'Sea of Japan' (see the body of water between Korea and Japan; Koreans prefer to call the vast sea next to the Korean peninsula 'East Sea').

The other sad thing is, Google Map still lacks any Korean maps. Yes, there are various websites that have online map of Korea, but they're not as cross-platform happy. I hope to see Google Map sign a contract with a local map maker to have the map filled in.

Cookies go to those who find Dokdo on the map above.

Click here to see the actual map.

The last bits of translated stuff from the Korean version of the old site have now been integrated to this place. There weren't all that many, of course - only three articles had ever been translated. If I'm not doing translation of the old stuff now, at least I didn't need to ditch the ones that had already been done.

I think I'll have to modify the old site so that anyone connecting to that place is automatically redirected to here.

I've sprinkled the static pages... stuff like the 'about' and 'profile' pages, that is... with helpful photos. People said all text and no photo looks boring, so I dug up some relevant photos and placed them next to each paragraph. It look pretty now.

And shortly after that was done, I also finished creating the Korean versions of those static pages. Visitors from Korea no longer need to read the English version. Even with the photos the text just doesn't get absorbed very well for a lot of readers so this would certainly be a welcome addition. Now the only thing the website isn't in Korean is most of the articles. I'm not sure when or if they will be translated.

Tonight had a very nice showing of the full moon on clear skies. I took several shots, but it turned out that the first one looked the best. This photo is taken with my Sanyo VPC-C4 camera at full zoom (5.8x) with infinite focus lock. It's about the best I can do without using a telescope.

Using the new plug-in I made, I have now moved some links to the top part of the page to act as some sort of a navigation bar. I may experiment with this for a while. Also, the gray background behind the contents was a real downer, so I had it changed to a bluish tone that matches the overall feel of the website. I have tweaked the behaviour of the hyperlinks slightly as well - the underline appears only when the mouse hovers on it.

Overall, most of the things I wanted to see on the website are now settled into place. I'm getting really accustomed to this blog system now. The two other websites that are still left on the old website might be integrated to this place as well. I'm not sure.