How did news of this ever manage to get past me?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/

Yeah baby. Yeah.

If you know a Korean, chances are decent that he or she’s a Kim. Kim is the most common surname in Korea. But that doesn’t mean every other guy you find will be a Kim. When you break it down to percentages, Kims make up about 21.6% of the Korean population, followed by the Lees at about 14.8%.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name

That roughly rounds out to about 1/5. So yeah, you might think that’s still a bit generic. Being a Kim myself, so did I. Being a James Kim on top of that, I feel very much like a generic Korean American. Now the part that most of you (including yours truly) didn’t know is that there are different types of Kim. When I say different types, I am referring to the different clans.

Although they share the same surname of Kim, the different clans originated in different areas of Korea and grew to become what they are today. In total, there are 348 different Kim clans. Of those, a few make up the majority of the Kims.

They are, as of the 2000 census:

Gim-hae Kims with ~4.1 million people
Gyeong-ju Kims with ~1.7 million
Gwang-san Kims with ~.8 million
Kim-nyung Kims with ~.5 million
Goo-an-dong Kims with ~.4 million

These five clans alone make up about 60-70% of the Kims you see today. I personally belong to the Gyeongju clan. The Gyeongju Kims are descended from Silla, one of the ruling families of Korea from 57BC to 935AD. The Gyeongju clan is also known for their striking good looks and their wicked charm. *wink*
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(Korean_name)

So there you have it, I am part of the 2nd most common variety of the 1st most common Koreans. I’m clearly not generic.

CVみたいけど、実は、このビヂオの理由が全然分からないんだ。豆の犬が出て、かわいい声で変なことをしゃべるんだ。見ればとっても面白い気分が出るよ。ヨツベの中に他の豆しばビデオもこの面白い感じだよ。

So there’s a bunch of these videos around, where a bean dog comes out with that child-like voice and says something totally random and awkward. I don’t really understand why, I just find them pretty funny. This particular bean says for 1 second of kissing, you pass millions of germs to and fro. heh.

Here’s some more:
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So, I’ve upgraded to 2.7. I mostly see cosmetic changes, so I can’t really say it’s better or anything.

As for East Asian language support, I still had a problem getting the characters to properly display, even after I installed the necessary .mo files. The .mo files “localize” your WordPress installation, and will change your sidebar text and date headers to whichever language you have selected. Beyond that, I don’t know what they do. They appear to have no effect on the text of the posts themselves.

In order to get East Asian text to display properly, I still find the easiest solution is to remove the following lines of code from your wp-config file:

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

It defines the character set your WP will use to create the database. I don’t know how this affects material from the DB displays, but it does.

After having removed it, I see no ill effects, and I’ve done this since version 2.6.3!