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It’s the long weekend, and I’m back to looking for a job. I’m looking for a lot of things, some answers, an apology, happiness…

With all the time I’ve spent at Blenz or at home sitting in front of my laptop, I decided to clean up my inbox and blitzkrieg through some RSS feeds, I think I’m subscribed to a few too many to keep up anymore…

As a result I will once again post a collection of stuff that all three of my readers might be interested in, maybe they’ll even leave a friggin’ comment. I’m tired of talking to myself or nobody at all. People send me emails about this blog, usually random strangers, but comments are all too rare.

Guy Kawasaki probably holds the title for blogger I’ve linked to the most. I learned about Guy during my MBA, so I can’t say I didn’t learn anything at the Sauder School of Business. I just wish the lessons weren’t so hard and the price I was forced to pay wasn’t so very, very, high…

Guy is a big fan of the founder of PlentyOfFish.com, which is an online dating site. I won’t lie, sometime in the past I must have signed up for Yahoo personals or some other similar site. I’ve never used PlentyOfFish but one of my roommates has. She is always online and has a very active social life, unlike some people I could mention.  I’m not sure she has the longest term relationships with the people she meets online, but she definitely meets new people.

I still haven’t recovered from the last person I fell for, and even the wee Chinese lass at my gym may prove completely unattainable, I don’t think she is likely to be on PlentyOfFish.com…

Vox hasn’t exactly killed MySpace, I would say among real people I know, Facebook is winning, but I’m older, among the high school and younger or a less scholastic crowd MySpace is probably still winning in North America. As I mentioned previously Facebook can handle non-Latin character sets, this means it doesn’t need a totally Chinese version for instance. Anyway Vox has started sending out a newsletter, Xing already does this. Not much happens in my network on either of those services.

The Asian Currency Crisis or the IMF Crisis if you ask some Koreans was about ten years ago, here is a look back at what Korea, Thailand, and others have done to try and recover.

It was Native Culture Week or something recently, as a result there was a huge stage set up on the lawn of the Art Gallery and lots of noise generated for about five straight days. Little known fact, I’m 1/64th Native. At the right family reunion, Elders from my tribe come and some of my cousins look like me with blond hair and blue eyes, others have a lot darker skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. I dug up these two online sources about the small tribe that my grandmother could probably claim status from if she lived on a tiny island near Chemanius.

I’m not sure how, or where, but I found an article on Texan authorities arresting seven former MySpace users who were pedophiles, or child pornographers, or just not good people.

I discovered a blog called Beyond Robson about the goings on in Vancouver, which exists Beyond Robson Street, they were even recruiting writers not long ago, but I’ve got bigger concerns…

I stumbled upon an article on stereotypes in Asian American culture including pressure put on females to conform to certain body types, the rise of elective plastic surgery…

Unionists in Korea see the introduction of Daylight Savings Time as a move by management and the government to make workers work more.

Be careful what you say and do at Karaoke bars, especially in Korea.

This entry was originaly posted on July 2nd, 2007, it was last edited on February 27th, 2013 and is filed under: BC, Internet, Korea, Online Social Networks, Vancouver and tagged: Asian, body image, Guy Kawasaki, job search, jobseeker, Koreans, MySpace, PlentyOfFish, Vox, Xing.