Sophie's Blog: A girl from Mars

Tribute to Steve Jobs from Mr. President

2011-10-06T12:11:00.001+09:00

“Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.

The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.”

iPhone 5 to Feature Apple Friend Locator?

2011-10-06T05:04:00.007+09:00

http://www.iphonefaq.org/

By Bob Bhatnagar - Published December 24th 2010 - 00:37 in Apple

Recently revealed patents point to Apple developing a native location reporting app that would make it possible to broadcast your iPhone location to friends and see who's nearby. The patent, filed in June 2009, is titled "Push-Based Location Update" and is credited to four Apple engineers.

The Friend Locator app would track users based on their iTunes account login, and feature voluntary privacy controls such as blocking individual users from seeing your location. Those who have their iPhone set to push location updates will be listed along with their location and the distance, or as a push pin on a map.

Location services can be set to automatically update the service or use only manual updates similar to a Foursquare check in. Apple is competing directly against Google's Latitude service, which finally launched in the App Store last week. Apple had said it was evaluating the app and they were concerned it could confuse users of the built-in Maps application. Google Latitude boasts nine million active users.

When it comes to location services and GPS, speculation has centered on Apple's recent acquisitions of mapping companies Placebase and Poly9. Recent reports have indicated that Apple might offer a native navigation app that would speak directions to iPhone owners for free. With this patent on the books, it seems that the Apple Geo Team has its hands full developing a variety of new built-in features for a future iOS devices.

The iPhone 5 is expected to ship in summer 2011. Apple could include Friend Locator and voice navigation applications on the next generation device, however the company normally keeps tight-lipped until several months before a new product is available. Stay tuned for updates on new location services coming to future iOS releases.

Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

2011-07-30T22:05:00.013+09:00

I think it is funny that how people are so easy to judge and point out other people's flaws. However, if the people in the world focused more on themselves rather than judging people or worrying about what everyone else is doing, then things would be much different, I believe.

In the book "How to win friends & influence people", there is the1st principle Dale Carnegie addressed, which is, "Don't criticize, condemn or complain".

Critisisms are useless, because it could put the person against you and then make the person trying to make excuses to defense himself or herself against what he or she was told.
Condemning is risky, because it would hurt the person's pride and damage one's importance or contribution in the world as a human being and finally would lead to resentment. (I would feel strong resentment and deeply condemn the person if someone would condemn me.)
Complaints cannot solve issues and are not helpful to improve or progress, either.

If you are asked to evaluate someone else in your company or from your friends,
Do not criticize, condemn or complain.

Let's make things better!

A Story about one young man transformed entire store

2010-09-30T12:16:00.003+09:00

"The Simple Truths of Service" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDrmFolx2wc&feature=player_embedded)
- Inspired by Johnny the Bagger
- By Jen Blanchard & Barbara Glanz

Johnny the Bagger
A Few years ago, I was hired by a large supermarket chain to lead a customer service program - to build customer loyalty.
During my speech I said "Every one of you can make a difference and create memories for your customers that will motivate them to come back"
How?
"Put your personal signature on the job"
Think about something you can do for your customer to make them feel special - a memory that will make them come back"

About a month after I had spoken, I received a call from a nineteen-year-old bagger named Johnny.
He proudly informed me he was a Down Syndrome individual and told me his story.
"I liked what you talked about:" he said "but at first I didn't think I could do anything special for our customers"
"then I had an idea" Johnny said,
"Every night after work, I'd come home and find a thought for the day"
"If I can't find a saying I like, " he added, "I just think one up!"
When Johnny had a good "Thought for the Day" his Dad helped him set it up on the computer and print multiple copies.
Johnny cut out each quote and signed his name on the back. Then he'd bring them to work the next day.
"When I finish bagging someone's groceries, I put my thought for the day in their bag and say, "Thanks for shopping with us."
It touched me to think that this young man - with a job most people would say is not important - had made it important by creating precious memories for all his customers.

A month later the store manager called me….
"You won't believe what happened. When I was making my rounds today, I found Johnny's checkout line was three times longer than anyone else's ! It went all the way down the frizzed food aisle. So I quickly announced. 'We need more cashiers; get more lanes open!' as I tried to get people to change lanes. But no one would move. They said, 'No it's okay - we want to be in Johnny's lane - we want his "Thought for the Day",
The store manger continued, "It was a joy to watch Johnny delight the customers"
"I got a lump in my throat when one woman said, ' I used to shape at your store once a week, but now I come in every time I go by, because I want to get Johnny's "Thought for the Day."

A few months later, the manager called me again…
Johnny has transformed our store.
Now when the floral department has a broken flower or unused corsage, they find an elderly woman or a little girl and pin it on them."
Everyone's having a lot of fun creating memories.
Our customer are talking about us…they're coming back, and bring their friends,
A wonderful spirit of service spread throughout the entire store and all because Johnny choose to make a difference
Johnny's idea wasn't nearly as innovative as it was loving. It came from his heart - it was real. That's what touched his customers, his peers…and those who read this story.
Great service comes from the heart....
Will you be a Johnny today?

Here is the youtube link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOZPlt3Ha0Y&feature=related

Life Explorer

2010-09-01T02:56:00.003+09:00

I never know where the life takes me.
Sometimes I had so much fun with my job, colleague, friends and family.
Since I moved to States, I observed people here in Pittsburgh , especially Carnegie Mellon University students and faculties, and I learned from them the spirit of "Share - any information, any experience, any tips ..so on and so forth" and "Explorer" Which does not mean vega bonding life but means "be initiative" or "make mistakes".
Life is full of freedom with limited resources like time and money, opportunities with responsibilities, challenges with risks.
Yes, I took the risk when I came here, but I explored student life here in Pittsburgh, software architect in San Francisco, and back to School as a faculty in CMU.
Yes, my life has been full of opportunities and choices I could get.
Still I have no idea where I will end up, but It could not better than my current life.

Motivation vs. Mamangement

2010-06-19T08:49:00.001+09:00

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/kor/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

사회과학이 밝혀낸 사실은 비지니스에서 하고 있는 것과 차이가 있습니다. 사회과학이 밝혀낸 사실은 다음과 같습니다. 하나 : 비지니스의 자연스러운 부분으로 여겨졌던 20세기 식의 보상을 통한 동기 부여 방식은 아주, 굉장히, 좁은 범위에서만 적용 가능하다. 둘 : 이러한 if-then 보상은 창의성을 파괴한다. 셋 : 높은 성과의 비밀은 보상과 처벌에 있는 것이 아니라, 내재적인 욕구에 기인한다. 자신의 것을 하고 싶어하는 욕망, 자신에게 중요한 것을 하고 싶어 하는 욕망,

그리고 여기가 가장 중요합니다. 우리는 이미 그것을 알고 있다. 과학은 우리 마음 속에 알고 있는 것을 확인하는 것 뿐이다. 그러니, 이제 우리가 사회과학과 비지니스가 알고 있는 괴리를 고쳐 나간다면, 우리의 동기 부여라는 개념을 21세기에 활용한다면, 이 게으르고, 위험하고, 관념적인 채찍과 당근을 벗어난다면, 우리의 비지니스를 더 강력하게 할 수 있고, 수 많은 촛불 문제를 풀 수 있으며, 그리고 아마, 아마도, 혹시라도, 세상을 바꿀 수 있습니다.

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외적 동기 유발자와 내적 동기 유발자의 효과에 대해서 연구를 했습니다. 그 관점에서 말씀 드리자면, 현재의 인센티브 효과는 전혀 효과가 없습니다. 이러한 사회과학 실험의 결과를 보면 사회과학에서 밝혀진 사실과 비지니스에서 통용되는 사실의 괴리를 발견하게 됩니다. 또한 우리의 비지니스 운영 시스템이 어떻게 사람에게 동기를 부여하고, 인재를 활용할 것인지에 대한 비지니스의 기반이 되는 가정들과 규약들이 -- 완전히 당근과 채찍 같은 외적인 동기부여 효과에만 기대고 있다는 것은 굉장히 위험한 일입니다. 이런 생각은 20세기 때의 작업에 적합한 생각입니다. 하지만 21세기의 업무들은, 보상과 처벌 같은 방식은 효과가 없습니다. 대개 효과가 없고, 때때로 역효과를 냅니다.

여기서 사회과학이 밝혀낸 사실과 비지니스에서 하고 있는 것의 차이가 나타납니다. 제가 걱정되는 것은, 우리가 지금 경제 위기의 어려운 상황에 있어, 너무나 많은 조직들이 능력과 사람에 대한 제도를 결정하는데 있어 진부하고 검증되지도 않은 전제에 기반한 가정을 과학적인 실험의 결과보다 더 신뢰하고 사용한다는 것입니다. 그리고 정말로 이 경제 위기에서 탈출하고자 한다면, 정말로 21세기 식의 개념적인 문제를 해결하는데 높은 성과를 보이고자 한다면, 사람에 대해 더 달콤한 당근으로 유혹하고, 혹은 더 가혹한 처벌로 위협하는 등의 잘못된 결정을 하지 않아야 합니다. 우리는 완전히 새로운 방법으로 접근해야 합니다.

좋은 소식은, 동기 부여에 대해 연구하던 과학자들이 우리에게 새로운 관점을 가져다 주었다는 것 입니다. 내재적인 동기 부여에 훨씬 더 강조를 둔 관점입니다. 자신의 문제가 되기 때문에, 좋아해서, 재미있어서, 또는 중요한 것의 일부여서 하고자 하는 욕망에 관련된 것입니다. 제 생각에, 비지니스에 대한 새로운 운영 시스템은 세 가지 요소를 축으로 해서 돌아갑니다. 주도성, 전문성, 그리고 목적입니다. 주도성은 우리 삶의 방향을 결정하고 싶어하는 욕망입니다. 전문성은 의미 있는 것에 좀 더 잘 하고자 하는 욕망입니다. 목적은 우리 자신보다 더 큰 무언가를 향한 뭔가 하고 싶다는 열망입니다. 이것들이 우리들이 완전히 새로운 비지니스 운영 시스템을 구성하기 위한 요소입니다.

오늘 여기에서는 주도성에 대해서 얘기하고자 합니다. 20세기에는 관리라는 개념이 등장했습니다. 관리라는 개념은 자연적이지 않습니다. 관리는 -- 나무 같은 것이 아니라, 텔레비전 세트 같은 것입니다. 아시겠죠? 누군가 만들어 낸 것입니다. 그리고 그것이 영원히 작용 할 것이라 생각 할 수 없습니다. 관리는 좋은 것입니다. 단순히 복종하기를 원한다면 전통적인 관리의 개념은 매우 좋은 것입니다. 하지만 무언가에 기여하고, 자기주도적으로 더 잘 하고 싶다면 그렇지 않습니다.

REST API design

2010-06-16T06:31:00.002+09:00

I worked on REST API project for three months from this January to March.
And Project was hold from April 4th up to recently.
However, It Returns Back! I am excited to finish this project end of July.
Our application is basic mobile banking - login, MFA (multi factor authentication), check Checking/Savings/Credit/Loan accounts (account summary , balance, due date, etc), check transaction histories per account, Single Transfer, Scheduled Transfer, Bill Pay, Scheduled Bill Pay (for occurring charge), ATM/Bank Locator, Contact Us, Rates (bank's product and service's fee, rate, rule policy).

For three months , two full time engineer worked on Every use case except for Bill Pay (Bill pay is not processed internally, it should go to 3rd party Bill Pay Provider) , and one full time engineer worked on Bill Pay only.

We finished almost every basic requirements except for minor enhancement (support for multiple Calendar including Gregorian and XMLGregorian) and multiple currency) and multiple Bill Pay provider.

Within 6weeks (1.5 months) we should provide another Bill Pay provider's integration and some enhancement regarding to processing and utility. In the mean while, configuration should be changed from Key value pair to XML based config file format for better maintenance (Rather than key value pair based properties file, XML file is way slow but XML is more easy to maintain by adding meaningful and intuitive entity name and entity value). And also we need to apply some enhancements while we've got requirements from customer center and business unit.

Excited? Of course ~ From April to Mid June (before I went to WWDC 2010) I worked as a O&M engineer to add some enhancement from customer center and business unit which was not fun at all. But I've learned urgent end user's requirement and business unit's requirement thoroughly.

Now, this project I've worked on three months, is related with Well designed application architecture which covers mechanism and industrial standards such as OFX, REST and so on.

It's going to be Fun project

한명숙 총리님 힘내세요

2010-05-17T13:51:00.003+09:00

iPad user experience

2010-04-11T09:52:00.003+09:00

Finally I've got the iPad and now I am writing this article with my iPad. Whenever I was in the meeting or conference I wanted to have something easy to type and smaller than laptop in my hand but I could not find any useful devices so far. iPad is the device I was looking for and this is an amazing, beautiful and super fun device I ever had. .....except for virtual keyboard. Especially in horizontal mode, each key is rather bigger than my finger and also bigger than my hard apple keyboard. There are a little bit wider spaces between keys and thus it causes typing errors and the fill- in screen is rather small than in the viewer mode. I felt whenever I type in the input field or text area automatically target areas or input fields shrinks down a little bit and the virtual keyboard pops up in an enormous size. Who did design this virtual keyboard...????? This is pretty annoying situation: I lean on the couch, I want to write something but it is hard to read whenever I am typing and With both hands I am making key in errors with the huge virtual keyboard, and thus I ended up typing with two fingers. Oh, Please apple virtual keyboard designer, " consider my finger size in a horizontal modes!

iPhone Mobile Web icon

2010-04-07T03:52:00.004+09:00

With Add to "Home Screen" feature by iPhone, any website can easily expand to Mobile web page by adding 57*57 image (png).

This is easy step.
1. Create your own icon (57*57 png format)
Create a 57x57 PNG.
Name it "apple-touch-icon.png"

How to create icon (glassy 57*57 png format)
http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/InternetWeb/Conceptual/iPhoneWebAppHIG/MetricsLayout/MetricsLayout.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007900-CH6-SW31

2. locate this icon on Root on your website

Throw it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root of your server, the root of your web documents.)

3. Add link tag on your landing page

Here is the information
How to add icon on the website
http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

add link tag
href="http://url/images/twitter_57.png" rel="apple-touch-icon"

4. Nothing to do - Safari works for you
t's basically just a 57x57 pixel PNG image with no special effects applied. The device itself will add rounded corners, a drop-shadow, and a glassy reflection

CruiseControl

2010-04-06T02:15:00.001+09:00

Continuous Integration With Cruise Control

Outline
0. Overview
1. Subclipse For Eclipse
2. Auomated Builds
3. Auomated Testing
4. Auomated Deployment

0. Overview
Problem Statement

Developing, building, testing, and deploying software presents a set of challenges as changes to the software are introduced.
Different versions of files must be tracked and tagged so there can be a snapshot of the software at a particular time. Without a snapshot, there is no point by which to know what version of the software is released.
Broken builds wastes time and money. In a team environment, developers often work on the same source files simultaneously. And if a developer does not have the latest working set of files, his or her build may break. Secondly, a developer may forget check in his or her changes, breaking the build for everyone. If the second case happens in a multinational corporation, much more time is lost due to developers working at different hours.
When a build is successful, new changes introduced in the build may break its intended functionality. Regression tests can catch when new changes break the intended functionality.

The Solution

The solution is to have a tight and continuous integrated development, build, test, and deployment environment as the software code is updated; errors or failures at any step of the cycle should inform interested parties so the failure can be addressed immediately. By immediately fixing the failure, it does not hold up other team members from continuing their work. One particular proposal is to integrate SVN, Subclipse (SVN plugin for Eclipse), Ant build scripts, and Cruise Control into the development, build, test, and deployment processes.
SVN can be used to manage different versions of the software, from each file to the entire project. Projects can be tagged, branched, and later merged back into the main line. However, SVN is commandline based and is not user friendly since developers have to type SVN operations by hand. Using the Subclipse plugin for Eclipse, the developer can interact with the code under development and SVN from a GUI perspective.
As code is checked into SVN, Cruise Control can automate builds at certain time intervals using Ant build scripts. Email alerts will be sent out to interested parties with each successful or failed build so that problems in the build can be addressed immediately.
Automated testing can be done in two ways. First, Cruise Control can be setup to run JUnit tests associated with each Java class. Of course, JUnit test cases would have to be written. Secondly, scripts can be written to run regression tests, such as Selenium test suites, whenever a new application is deployed or at scheduled intervals.
Cruise Control can be extended to process automated deployment of successful builds. TBD.

1 Subclipse For Eclipse
1.1 Installation

After starting up Eclipse, install the Subclipse plugin by selecting the menu item Help-->Install New Software. Type in the url http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x in the "Work With" textfield and follow the installation wizard.

1.2 SVN Operations

Before starting, we must create a new project checked out from SVN. Select File-->New-->SVN-->Checkout Projects From SVN.

Then create a new SVN repository to checkout from or select from an existing one.

Once the project is checked out in Eclipse, the developer can modify files and Commit them to SVN. Other common operations include updating to the latest revisions (HEAD), synchronizing with the repository, and working off of branches and tags.

To create a branch, select Team-->Branch/Tag and enter the url where the branch should be created.

To switch to a branch, select Team-->Switch To A Branch/Tag/Revision.

After work on the branch is done, merging the branch code back into the main line can be done by selecting Team-->Merge. From the Merge GUI, select "Reintegrate a branch".

2 Automated Builds
2.1 Ant build.xml File

The Ant build.xml file contains properties and tragets. Properties are key-value pairs. Targets are instructions on how to carry out tasks in the build process. Sometimes, targets have dependencies on other targets to be executed first. In the build.xml file below, the "main" target depends on other targets such as clean, copy, compile, war, and delete all of which are executed in the order listed.

This build.xml file will be used by Cruise Control to carry out the build.
2.2 Configuring Automated Builds in Cruise Control

To enable automated builds, modify Cruise Control's config.xml file by adding the particular SVN project parameters. There are many configuration parameters to set but there are a few noteworthy ones to highlight. First is the svnbootstrapper parameter which specifies to do an svn update on the project or file prior to each build attempt. The svn modificationset parameter instructs Cruise Control to check with svn to detect any modifications since the last build. If there are modifications, then the schedule parameter specifies how to do the build. In the example config.xml file below, ant is called on the build.xml file executing the main target. The artifactspublisher specifies the file created from the build. Who to email after each build attempt can be specified in the email parameter.

2.2Cruise Control UI

The Cruise Control UI is straighforward. From the Dashboard, a list of projects and the status of their last build is displayed. To view details builds for a particular project, click on that project. For a particular build, the user can view modifications of source files since the last build, the build log, test results, and any errors and warnings. To force a build, click on the cirucluar arrow.

Selenium

2010-04-06T01:47:00.000+09:00

[Test] SIT with Selenium
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Automated SIT For DI

Outline

0. Overview
1. Configure SIT Web Application
2. Generating Test Scripts For Each FI
3. Running SIT
4. Detailed Installation Guide
0. Overview
SIT is automated with the SIT web application making calls to the Selenium IDE and Remote Control (RC) tools. Test scripts (suites) can be recorded with the Selenium IDE (a plugin to firefox) and executed with Selenium RC at the command line via Java. To perform full SIT, many test suites need to be executed and the results need to be displayed in an organized way. A user interface (web application) has been written to interface with the Selenium IDE and RC as well as the output results from Selenium. This document explains how to configure the SIT web application, configure SIT scripts for an FI (Financial Institution), run the scripts (through the web app), and how to view the results.
The user takes the following steps to automate SIT for FI’s.

Configure SIT Web User Interface
Generate Test Scripts For Each FI
Run SITon FIs
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1. Configure SIT Web Application
The SIT web application comes as a war file, sit.war. After grabbing the sit.war file from cruise control, place the sit.war file under Tomcat’s webapps directory. Click on the sit.war file link in cruise control to save it locally.

Another way to get the sit.war file is to build it by checking out the code from svn and run ant on build.xml against the main target.

Tomcat will explode the sit.war file in the directory structure below.

The SIT web application consists of jsp, java class, and image files. Deploy these files under tomcat’s webapps directory in a folder called “sit”:

WEB-INF directory containing compiled java class files
img directory containing images
batchfiles directory containing Windows batch files calling test scripts
testcases directory containing Selenium test scripts
testresults directory containing Selenium test results
tsgen directory containing scripts to automate creation of Selenium test cases
afidashboard.jsp UI to interact with each FI
selectTests.jsp selects which test to run for an FI
testit.jsp tests, displays results for each FI
build.xml ant build file to build sit.war
Install the following on the client machine:

Selenium IDE and RC
Firefox
ActivePerl for Windows
Tomcat for Windows
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2. Generating Test Scripts For Each FI
tsgen.pl and the properties file are part of the SIT web application that got exploded from the sit.war file. Open a command prompt and cd into the tsgen directtory. To generate test scripts for the SIT web application to execute, run the following command:
C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.20\webapps\sit\tsgen perl tsgen.pl properties\propertiesFile
The input to tsgen.pl is a properties file (sample properties files for usecu and vantage west) containing FI specific settings and input parameters to the generated test scripts. After creating a new properties file, please check the file into svn for the project DI_Autoscripts.

2.1 Properties

# template source directory and where to deploy testcases

templatedirtg directory where template test scripts reside
testcasedirtg directory where testcases should be deployed to under webapps directory
# backslashes are escaped (for compatibility with Perl)
# info for batch files

finametg fi name
ibsitetg url to ib site
mbsitetg mobile banking url
testresultsdirtg directory where test results should be deployed to
seleniumservertg file path to selenium-server.jar file
# batch files source and destination

templatebatchdirtg directory containing template batch files
destbatchdirtg directory where batch files should be deployed to
# Test script specific info

# premium bank or not

ispremiumtg true for premium, false for basic bank
## below substitutions in test scripts
### login info

timeoutsg number of milliseconds to wait for a web page to load before timing out
usernamesg username to log in as
passwordsg password for user
mfasuccesssg mfa answers (space separated between each answer)
finamesg finame
invalidUsernamesg value to input as invalid username
invalidUsernameSpecialsg invalid username with special characters
passwordSpecialsg invalid password with special characters
#contact us

phonenumbersg fi phone number
contactfinamesg fi full name
address1sg fi address 1
emailaddrsg fi email address
cityStateZipsg fi city, state, zipcode
# values “typed in” for tests 01-02-*

checkingsg regular expression matchng checking account name
savingssg regular expression matching savings account name
dateSpecialCharssg date with special characters
transactionStartDatesg start date for transaction search
transactionEndDatesg end date for transaction search
# test 01-02-03

transactionnamesg transaction name to look for
#test 01-03-02

loantransactionnamesg loan transaction name
loannamesg regular expression for loan name
#test-1-04-02 transfers, dates also used for payments

futuretransferdatesg future transfer date
futuretransferdatenodashsg future transfer date without the dashes
invalidamountsg invalid amoutn for transfer
pastdatesg past date for transfer
# making payments, 01-05-01

payeesg regular expression for payee name
weekenddatessg weekend date for payment
validpaymonthdatesg valid month and date
# pending payments, 01-05-02

paydatechangesg change payment date to this date
paydatechangemonthdatesg payment date text to look for (month and date)
# location search, test 01-06-02

citysearch2sg city name to search for
statesearch2sg state location belongs in
zipsearch2sg zip code of location
#rates, test 01-06-03

ratessg comma separated rates links
Names for checking, savings, loans, and loan transaction name can be expressed as a regular expresssion. In particular, the checking and savings name should be written in a way to match both the account and tranfers pages. A rule of thumb would be to ignore the numbers at end of the names. Then use the “*” characters to eat up the beginning and end parts of the name.

For example, on the transfers page, the checking account name is “71: PREMIUM CHECKING:7,000″. The same account is displayed in the accounts page as “PREMIUM CHECKING #71″. A regular expression to use for the checing account name can be “*CHECKING*”.

On the accounts page:

On the transfers page:

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3. Running SIT
3.1 Runing Selected SIT Testcases on Single FI
To run selected (and possibly the full) SIT test suite, access the SIT Dashboard page. For the local machine, go to http://localhost:8080/sit/afidashboard.jsp. The dashboard shows FI’s available for testing and status of the last run.

Mouseclick the selenium icon next to the FI’s name to go to the test selection screen for that FI.

Now select which test cases to run or to run the full test suite, toggle the checkall checkbox at the top. Press the “Run SIT” button to automate SIT on the selected test cases.

After the test run, the user will be taken to a page displaying the results of full SIT test. Each row in the table list the results of a set of testcases and corresponding result files. Click on a particular results file to view detailed results of that particular testcase.

Click on the Dashboard button to return to the dashboard.

Clicking on a particular test results file will take the user to detailed information about that particular testcase.

3.2 Full SIT on Selected FIs
To run SIT on selected FIs, the user can select the checkbox next to each FI or select all FIs to test by toggling the checkbox on the top. After selecting FIs to test, the user then clicks on the “Run SIT” button.

After running SIT on many FIs, the user will be taken back to the dashboard.

3.3 Viewing Test Results
To view test results for a particular FI, click on the file image in the same row as the FI’s name.

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4. Detailed Installation Guide

SVN

2010-04-02T08:31:00.004+09:00

Subversion Client installation

1. Team > Subversion > Checkout

2. On below screen, click the OK button.

3. After checking license, click the OK button.

4. Click the Restart button to restart Netbeans.

Subversion connection
1. Select Team > Subversion > Checkout.

2. Repository URL : svn://203.235.223.66/trunk/DI_Framework/common/di
Type User and Password, and then click the Next button.

3. Select the Browse button on local Folder section.

4. Select di > src, and then click the OK button.

5. Click the Finish button.

6. Click the close button.

Net Beans Setup

2010-04-02T06:17:00.012+09:00

1. On below installation screen, click the Customize button.

NetBeans installation

2. Click the apache tomcat check box, and then press the OK button.

3. After ensuring configuration, click the Next button.

4. After checking License check box, click the Next button.

5. After checking the install and JDK location, click the Next button.

6. After checking the install location, click the Next button.

7. Click the Install button.

8. The installation is proceeding.

9. On below screen, click the Finish button.

NetBeans development
Project create
1. File > New Project

2. Select Java > Java Class Library, and then click the Next button.

3. Input “di’ on Project Name field, and then click the Finish button.

4. The creation of di project is completed.

2010-03-01T13:42:00.003+09:00

Let’s take a minute here to talk about the new Applications Processor Core. Apple has chosen to go from the ARM 11 Samsung S3C6400 to the ARM A8 Samsung S5PC100 with this device.

iPhone 3Gs Block Diagram - In Progress

This is the single largest difference between the 3G and the 3Gs. Firstly the manufacturing process has been chopped from 90nm to 65nm. Pipeline depth has been boosted to 13 – stage from 8. More importantly the clock speed of this newer processor rolls in at 600MHz – opposed to the 412MHz core of the old – obsolete 3G. Samsung has also doubled the quantity of L1 cache from 16 to 32KB.

None of this even takes the new PowerVR graphics core into consideration. Apple is clearly thinking along the lines of a gaming device for this puppy. The SGX is fully programmable – like the graphics card on your PC or mac. Expect some sweet gaming action in the near future.

@ 200MHz the SGX can pop 7M triangles/second and render 250M pixels/sec. That’s roughly 7 times the performance of the old, “obsolete” MBX.

It’s kind of like comparing your old 486 to a Pentium.

Moving around the rest of the PCB – it’s easy to notice the similarities with the previous 3G device. The Power Amp wins once again went to Triquint and Skyworks. We also see the NAND flash going to Toshiba – which as far as phoneWreck is concerned is fairly surprising. The battery has been bumped from the previous 1150mAH to 1219mAH – a much needed upgrade. Only time will tell if Apple’s claim of increased battery life will hold.

Once again the psuedo SRAM win goes to Numonyx. The BaseBand Processor appears to have similar markings to the previous 3G therefore we can assume it’s an Infineon. This has been paired with the Infineon PMIC. The Applications Processor mentioned Earlier (Samsung S5PC100) is paired with a PMIC courtesy of what appears to be NXP. It’s mounted with a DDR SDRAM coming in at 256MB.

True to form, Apple has re-branded some of the higher profile IC’s we’re very interested in. We’ll be performing some more thorough analysis further identify these. Make sure to follow Dr.Wreck’s twitter or subscribe to the RSS for updates!

Underneath the logic board we have a little surprise! A new combo chip from Broadcom (BCM4325) This puppy packs 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth 2.1 (+EDR and FM). This is a fairly substantial change from the Marvel and CSR combo on the old – obsolete 3G.

We’ve received some rumours and speculation about the other devices we weren’t able to ID. There is a guess from a few readers that the GPS chip may be the same as on the previous 3G – the Infinieon Hammerhead II. This may be true but the new package is a different size – this means that it could incorporate the compass hardware as well.

That said, we’ve had some rumours that the compass chip is the Asahi Kasei – AK8973. We’ll still have to do some more digging!

We’re currently in the process of performing a much more thorough analysis. Keep checking back for more details as they come – we’ll most likely be putting this device through it’s paces to see how it stacks up with the Palm Pre and BlackBerry Bold & Storm.

Thanks again to the wonderful people at ifixit for gracing us with these great photos! If you want to see how it’s taken apart, make sure to check out their teardown.

Stay tuned and keep wrecking!

Dr.Wreck

iphone - http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3579&p=2

2010-03-01T13:04:00.001+09:00

Enter the ARM Cortex A8
This past weekend Palm introduced its highly anticipated Pre. While I’m still working on my review of the Pre, I can say that it’s the closest thing to an iPhone since Apple first unveiled the product two summers ago. In many ways the Pre is lacking in areas that the iPhone has honestly perfected, but in others the Pre easily surpasses Apple’s best.

One such area is raw performance. While both the iPhone and iPhone 3G use the same old CPU/GPU, the Pre uses TI’s OMAP 3430 processor. The 3430, like the SoC Apple uses, has both a CPU and GPU on the same package. Instead of the ARM11 and the PowerVR MBX-Lite however, the OMAP 3430 uses an ARM Cortex A8 core and a PowerVR SGX GPU. Both are significant improvements over what was in the original iPhone.

Thankfully, Apple fans don’t have to be outclassed for long - the newly announced iPhone 3GS uses a comparable CPU/GPU pair.

Although unannounced, the iPhone 3GS uses (again) a Samsung SoC but this time instead of the ARM11 + MBX-Lite combo it’s got a Cortex A8 and PowerVR SGX; just like the Pre.

A derivative of this is what you'll find in the iPhone 3GS

If the ARM11 is like a modern day 486 with a very high clock speed, the Cortex A8 is like a modern day Pentium. The A8 lengthens the integer pipeline to 13 stages, enabling its 600MHz clock speed (what I’m hearing the 3GS runs at). The Cortex A8 also widens the processor; the chip is now a two-issue in-order core, capable of fetching, decoding and executing two RISC instructions in parallel.

The ARM11 processor in the iPhone/iPhone 3G has a basic vector floating point unit, but the A8 adds a much more advanced SIMD engine called NEON. The A8 also has twice as many double precision FP registers as the ARM11. The addition of NEON and the improved vector FPU in the A8 makes the processor much less like the original Pentium and much more like Intel’s Atom. Granted, Atom is significantly faster than the A8, but it also draws much more power.

Caches also get a significant improvement. I believe Apple will be using a derivative of Samsung’s S5PC100, which has a 32KB/32KB L1 cache (I/D, we may see a 16KB/16KB config instead) and a 256KB L2 cache. The L2 cache, as you’ll remember from the first section, is a new addition to the A8; the ARM11 core didn’t have an L2.

iPhone 3G (ARM11) iPhone 3GS (ARM Cortex A8)
Manufacturing Process 90nm 65nm
Architecture In-Order In-Order
Issue Width 1-issue 2-issue
Pipeline Depth 8-stage 13-stage
Clock Speed 412MHz 600MHz
L1 Cache Size 16KB I-Cache + 16KB D-Cache 32KB I-Cache + 32KB D-Cache
L2 Cache Size N/A 256KB

The combination of higher clock speeds, more cache and a dual-issue front end results in a much faster processor. Apple claims the real world performance of the iPhone 3GS can be up to 2x faster than the iPhone 3G, and I believe that’s quite feasible.

The new SoC is built on a 65nm manufacturing process, down from 90nm in the original hardware. However, power consumption should still be higher for the new SoC compared to the old one. ARM’s own site lists ~0.25mW per MHz for the ARM11 core but < 0.59mW per MHz for the A8. That’s for a 650MHz low power A8 core and I’m expecting 600MHz for the 3GS, that’s at most 3x the power consumption of the CPU in the original iPhone. So how can Apple promise better battery life?

The thing about these comparisons is that they don’t show the full picture. With the same battery capacity, running at full speed, the new iPhone 3GS would run out of juice faster than the existing iPhone 3G. But that’s rarely how people use their phones. Chances are that you’ll perform a few tasks before putting the phone back to sleep, and what matters then is how quickly you can complete those tasks.

Just under nine years ago Intel talked about a technology called Quick Start. Let me quote from our IDF 2000 Day 2 coverage (wow, that was a while ago):

“"Intel has figured out that it is best to use full CPU power for a split second to finish a task and then put the CPU to idle as this conserves battery life the best. Although one may suspect that when running complex operations the CPU would not have time to go idle, this is not the case. To illustrate this point, Intel used an example of DVD playback. Very stressful on the system as a whole, Intel's quick start technology allows the CPU to "hurry up" and perform the DVD decoding operations and then go idle until the frame is displayed to screen and the next scene needs to be calculated. This saves battery life because, although the system may require 3 watts or so to "hurry up", the power consumption goes down near .25 watts when idle. By averaging these two numbers, one can quickly see how quick start can extend battery life."”

The A8’s power consumption has to be well under that 3x max I quoted above, and the iPhone 3GS needs to be more than just 2x faster at executing instructions, but if possible then it’s quite feasible for the faster A8 to draw more instantaneous power but draw less power on average than the ARM11 core in the original iPhone.

iPhone Hardware

2010-03-01T11:17:00.001+09:00

The iPhone's Motherboard(s) The motherboard in the iPhone is very compact; it is actually composed of two separate PCBs that are sandwiched together.

The upper left hand corner of the picture is the PCB sandwich that makes the iPhone tick; the black slot you're seeing here is for the SIM card; the cable port on the lower left of the motherboard appears to be the LCD interface. The topmost PCB appears to have the 802.11b/g wireless controller as well as most of the other microprocessors necessary for the cell phone aspects of the iPhone:

Note that we've removed the EMI shield from the top of this PCB layer in order to show off the individual components.

The lower PCB layer features the 4GB MLC NAND Flash (made by Samsung), as well as the iPhone's main processor. Two of the chips on this board have Apple logos on them, the larger of the two appears to be the iPhone's ARM processor manufactured by Samsung.

We suspect that it may be Samsung's S3C6400 based on the ARM1176 core, however some readers have written us stating that it's more likely to be the S3C2460; judging by the model numbers on the chip itself, the ARM processor may be a part of a multi-chip package that includes 1Gbit of system memory, for running the iPhone's OS. The K4X1G153PC-XGC3 is a Samsung part number, indicating a 1Gbit memory device, but it is placed on the same package as the ARM processor itself.

Current Status

2009-12-08T03:36:00.002+09:00

I am working on developing iPhone Library to use cross-project. It is fun and worthy to invest as a personal perspective and so does company. Without violating any Apple App store policy, I need to raise source code reusability and productivity.

President Roh's Death

2009-05-31T01:46:00.001+09:00

자신의 전임자의 서거로 당황한 한국 대통령
(Aujourd'hui la Corée / 마리 드크루아 / 2009-05-25)

Le président coréen embarassé par le suicide de son prédécesseur
le 25/5/2009 à 9h08 par Marie Decroix (Aujourd'hui la Corée)

C'est l'histoire d'une vieille haine. En 1997, Lee Myung Bak et Roh Moo-hyun se sont affrontés pour le siège de député de la circonscription de Jongno, dans le centre de Séoul. Lee Myung-Bak l'emporte au terme d'une campagne très difficile. Mais son élection est invalidée sur plainte de son adversaire, pour dépenses électorales excessives... Résultat, c'est Roh Moo-hyun qui obtient le siège de la circonscription la plus convoitée du pays. La haine entre les deux hommes est scellée.

이것은 오래 묵은 원한의 역사이다. 1997년, 이명박과 노무현은 서울 한복판의 종로 선거구를 놓고 대결했다. 이명박이 아주 어렵게 승리했지만, 그의 당선은 선거비용의 과다지출에 대한 그의 반대파의 문제제기로 무효가 되었다. 결국, 이 나라에서 가장 탐나는 이 선거구의 국회의원 자리는 노무현에게 돌아갔다. 이렇게 두 사람간의 증오가 싹튼 것이다.

Alors, lorsque Lee Myung Bak entre à la maison bleue, le siège de la présidence coréenne, pour remplacer Roh Moo-hyun, début 2008, le nouveau président a soif de vengeance.

이렇게 2008년초 노무현을 승계하면서 한국 대통령 직위를 수행하기 위해 이명박이 청와대에 입성한 순간, 이 신임 대통령은 복수의 갈증을 느꼈다.

Vengeance judiciaire, en lançant les procureurs aux trousses de Roh, dans une affaire de corruption présumée. La femme de l'ancien président aurait touché 1 millions de dollars d'un homme d'affaire. "Un prêt" affirme Roh. "Corruption" pensent les procureurs, qui lancent des mandats d'amener contre l'ancien président et tous ses proches. Son épouse devait être interrogée quelques heures après son suicide.

이렇게 부패사건에 대한 검찰수사가 노무현을 압박하면서 사법적 복수극이 시작된 것이다. 전 영부인이 한 사업가로부터 백만불을 받은 것 같다. 이는 노씨에게는 대출이었고, 검찰에게는 부패였다. 그리고 검찰은 노 전대통령과 그의 측근들에 대한 조사를 시작한 것이다. 그가 자살하지 않았다면, 그의 아내는 원래 몇시간 뒤 소환 예정이었다.

Ce qui est frappant dans le traitement de cette affaire judiciaire, c'est l'absence totale de secret de l'instruction, l'ensemble des éléments fournis par le parquet se retrouvant dans les médias. et c'est l'attitude de ces médias, justement, reprenant sans nuance l'ensemble des informations fournies par les procureurs, faisant même des shows en direct des auditions des témoins, bref condamnant sans appel l'ancien président avant même qu'il puisse être entendu.

이번 부패사건의 검찰 수사에서 놀랄만한 점은 수사의 비밀이 전혀 지켜지지 않았다는 점이며, 검찰이 제공한 모든 수사내용이 언론에 그대로 공표되었다. 언론은 검찰이 제공하는 모든 정보를 아무 비판없이 지면에 실었고, 마치 법정에서 피고인 심문을 생중계하듯 한 것이며, 여기서 피고인인 전직 대통령이 그 혐의 사실을 듣기도 전에 그를 단죄시 한 것이다. [ 역자주 -사실상의 언론 지면을 통한 재판이었지만, 검찰과 언론의 기소만 있지, 노무현의 변론은 없었던, 일방적 노무현 죽이기 였다고 생각된다.]

Roh Moo-hyun l'avait bien compris, lorsqu'il explique dans sa note son suicide. Il sait que ses proches vont tous être atteints, les uns après les autres, et que même si il a toujours nié la corruption, ses dénégations ne peuvent atténuer la honte qui s'étend sur sa famille.

그의 유서에서 노무현은 이를 고발했고, 그는 이러한 상황을 잘 이해하고 있었다. 그는 자신의 측근들이 차례로 모두 피해를 당할 것이라는 점을 알고 있었고, 그가 그의 부패혐의를 부정하고 있지만, 그의 혐의사실 부인이 그의 가족 전체에 대한 망신을 고조 시킬 것이라는 점을 알고 있었던 것이다.

Ces critiques sur la responsabilité du pouvoir dans la mort de l'ancien président, on ne les lit pas dans la presse coréenne. On ne les entend pas à la télévision.
Les médias sud-coréens sont ainsi tous contrôlés par les Chaebols, favorables à Lee Myung-Bak, lui même un ex de Hyundai. Il est frappant que depuis le suicide, toutes les télévisions se contente de diffuser les conférences de presse officielles de la police, des médecins, de la maison bleues. On n'entend jamais les Coréens qui par dizaines de milliers viennent lui rendre hommage dans son village, à 500 kilomètres de Séoul. A l'exception de MBC, seul média "rebelle" qui a explicitement évoqué la "revanche politique" à l'origine du drame.

전임 대통령의 서거에 대한 권력의 책임에 대한 이러한 비판들은 한국 신문에서는 찾아볼 수 없다. 텔레비전에서도 마찬가지다. 한국 언론은 이명박을 지지하는 재벌의 통제하에 있고, 이명박은 재벌 현대그룹 출신이다. 노무현 서거이후, 모든 텔레비전들이 경찰,의사,청와대의 공식발표들만을 그대로 보도하는 것으로 만족하는 것은 놀랄만한 일이다. 서울에서 500km 떨어진 그의 고향마을에서 조문 중인 수십만의 한국인의 목소리는 언론에 의해 무시당하고 있다. 투쟁 중인 미디어 문화방송을 제외하고 말이다. 이 방송만이 이 드라마의 기원인 « 정치 보복 »을 명시적으로 상기시켜주고 있다.

Sur internet le ton est bien différent. On montre comment des milliers de policiers ont bloqué le centre de Séoul, à Jongno, pour empêcher les manifestations à la mémoire de Roh Myun-hyun, qui auraient pu se transformer en protestation contre le pouvoir.

하지만, 인터넷 상에서의 상황은 매우 다르다. 네티즌들은 어떻게 수천명의 경찰들이 서울의 도심 한복판인 종로에서 노무현을 추모하는 시위를 방해하기 위해 이곳을 봉쇄 중인지 잘 보여주고 있으며, 이는 권력에 대항하는 저항으로 전환될 수도 있는 성질의 것이다.

On montre aussi comment le président du Parlement coréen, fidèle de Lee, a été empêché de voir le corps de Roh par la foule en colère.

네티즌들은 또한 이씨에게 충성하는 한국의 국회의장이 분노한 시민들이 노무현을 추모하는 것을 어떻게 방해했는지 잘 제시하고 있다.

Quelques heures après la mort de l'ancien président, le procureur de Séoul a annoncé la fin de toute investigation sur la corruption présumée de sa famille.

전직 대통령이 서거한 뒤 몇시간 후에, 서울의 검찰은 그의 가족의 부패혐의에 대한 모든 수사를 종결한다고 발표했다.

*출처 : http://www.aujourdhuilacoree.com/actualites-coree-le-president-coreen-embarasse-par-le-suicide-de-son-predecesseur-1594.asp?1=1

Captain, My Captain, My president was killed by Korean Government.

2009-05-27T11:46:00.001+09:00

님의 침묵(沈默) - 만해 한용운

님은 갔습니다. 아아, 사랑하는 나의 님은 갔습니다.
푸른 산빛을 깨치고 단풍나무 숲을 향하여 난 작은 길을 걸어서, 차마 떨치고 갔습니다.
황금(黃金)의 꽃같이 굳고 빛나든 옛 맹서(盟誓)는 차디찬 티끌이 되어서 한숨의 미풍(微風)에 날아갔습니다.
날카로운 첫 키스의 추억(追憶)은 나의 운명(運命)의 지침(指針)을 돌려 놓고, 뒷걸음쳐서 사라졌습니다.
나는 향기로운 님의 말소리에 귀먹고, 꽃다운 님의 얼굴에 눈멀었습니다.
사랑도 사람의 일이라, 만날 때에 미리 떠날 것을 염려하고 경계하지 아니한 것은 아니지만, 이별은 뜻밖의 일이 되고, 놀란 가슴은 새로운 슬픔에 터집니다.
그러나 이별을 쓸데없는 눈물의 원천(源泉)을 만들고 마는 것은 스스로 사랑을 깨치는 것인 줄 아는 까닭에, 걷잡을 수 없는 슬픔의 힘을 옮겨서 새 희망(希望)의 정수박이에 들어부었습니다.
우리는 만날 때에 떠날 것을 염려하는 것과 같이, 떠날 때에 다시 만날 것을 믿습니다.
아아, 님은 갔지마는 나는 님을 보내지 아니하였습니다.
제 곡조를 못 이기는 사랑의 노래는 님의 침묵(沈默)을 휩싸고 돕니다.

The Silence of Love by 만해 한용운

Love is gone, gone is my love.
Tearing himself away from me he has gone
on a little path that stretches in the splendor
of a green hill into the autumn/tinted woods.
Our last oath, shining and enduring
like a gold-mosaicked flower,
has turned to cold ashes, blown away in the breath of wind.
I remember his poignant first kiss and its memory has wrought
a complete change in my destiny,
then withdrawn into oblivion.
I hear not his sweet voice; I see not his fair looks.
Since it is human to love, I alert, dreaded
a parting to come when we met.
The separation came so suddenly
it broke my heart with renewed sorrow.
Yet, I know parting can only destroy our love
if it causes futile tears to fall.
I would rather transfer the surge of this sorrow
onto the summit of hopefulness.
As we dread parting when we meet, so,
we promise to meet again when we part.
Though my love is gone, I am not parted from love;
an untiring love/song envelops the silence of love.

Jubilee Night Discussion

2009-02-18T15:26:00.003+09:00

When a bad guy threaten to kill your children or family, can you praise the guy?
(Refer Roman Chap13:17-21
Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.
IF it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
Do not take "Revenge", but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written:
"It is mine to AVENGE; I will REPAY." says the Lord.
On the Contrary:
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him:
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.)

Here is the answer. However, what if the bad guy is a "Psycopath" and the bad guy could never feel guilty or sympathy instead, the bad guy only feels satisfaction in murdering "innocent" people.
Do I have to stay and just depend on God , watching the bad guy killing my children or family?
OF course, I cannot determine whether the bad guy is a Psychopath or not.
Of course, I can die for him and let the judge to my God.
I am pretty OK, but I cannot watch someone be killed in front of my eye.
Revenge or I would say "Protection" is inevitable, I guess.

Here is my question, I cannot solve this.
Friends, Can you share your wisdom?

Jubilee 2009 - Break Session 2 Technology

2009-02-18T11:12:00.001+09:00

4. Saturday Break Session2
topic: consolidation of technology and spirituality by Jack swearangen
Wii is used as a rehap device (electron phalography? emotion recognition)
Mindflex: it control movements of objects by electrical device in brain
Technological vs. Socialogical vs Biblical
Social & spiritual impacts of surveilance; it speed up social application

Biblical requires progressive transformation
Bring healing, creation->Fall->redemption

Technology Assessment: Spiritual/Environmental/Social/Psychological("Separation")
1)Spiritual: humans from God
2)Environmental: humans from culture
3)Social: humans from other humans
4)Psychological: humans from themselves

Redemption: Substantial 4-fold healing
Consummution(?) In the book "Invisible hand"
Technological solution introduces new problems

Healing: Aesthetic/Social/Spiritual/Environmental
We want to be nor Technophobia(phobia:fear) nor Technophilla(Philla:love)
But we want to develop the culture and restore Salome in the God's world

Jubilee 2009- Singleness and Spirituality

2009-02-18T11:11:00.002+09:00

1. Breaksession1 Singleness and Spirituality by Abbie Smith
Currently, single is regraded as "impartiality" in the church.

But church is a body of Christ. (Corinthians 고린도전서 ch12: 12-27), each part of the body is each human being, every part is important and unified to embody, union of the father, life of the body.

Sexuality, literally means "being a man/woman" .There is no need of fear or to defeat sexuality.
Human being has,in nature, a longing or the desire of hug, sleep, eat, thirst and connect(related).
Nothing is wring with singleness.

However, I could not solve my own question. What about the loneliness?
I think "loneliness" is an eternal friend of human being, I mean, "loneliness" is inevitable feeling even though one can marry or have children. I saw many lonely married couples. Human, in nature, feels lonely.... always.
However, how can I embrace the "loneliness" for my life? ( I don't want to say "overcome" , I'd rather say "embrace")
This is the first question I could not solve.

Whenever I feel loneliness, I want to make a phone call to someone and then I open the cell phone and look up my phone lists but I don't have any one to call.
Just a few minute talk ,whatever the topic is, is enough for those times.
But I don't want to express my feeling to friends in order not to infect my negative feeling to them and I can't pray because I think those feelings are too minor to talk to the God.

I may want just a few-minutes talk or just hanging out for a couple of time or just one hug. But nothing is happened always, instead I get to bed and fall to sleep... always.

Humans are lonely. I know,
God is our friend. I know,
But sometimes I miss human's voice or shoulder. Is it bad or is it good?
Still I cannot solve this.

Jubilee 2009

2009-02-18T09:23:00.007+09:00

1. Friday General Session 1
ex) The city of angel: to be a human in God's world is thankful .
Thanksgiving gratitude=belief vs. Ingratitude/unbelief
How to live thankfully,
Thank you God.

2.Friday General Session2
Perception of popular culture by Gave Lyons
ex) Film "Saved"
Survey of perception of Christianity shows people's prejudice about christian. We can say viewpoints by non-christian are as bellows.
- judgmental
- Hypocritical
- Get saved (Converting others)
- Sheltered
- too political

These are misled, mistaken:
- separation from the culture
- uncritical embrace of modernism
We'd better focus on "How to live(Convergence)" by including "Culture"

We have to transform these images; We become a Christian who is:
- GRACEFUL
- relational
- Solution oriented (e.g. His own sun had a "down syndrom", he initiated a happy life of "down syndrom" children to prohibit from being aborted. Because most of "down syndrom"child are not born due to abortion. He gaved the parents a hope and a wisdom.

3. Friday General Session3
Culture maker Story1 "Kiva" by Jesicca
Kiva's business model is basically Micro finance, Micro loan based model.
Kiva basically provides a internet Market place between "Internet loaner" and "Micro finance investment Partner", however "Kiva" is more focusing on building MFI network by connecting human to human network. Their strategy is briefly, "focus on Individual" and "good word" by internet users. For example, internet users created Kivapedia and office in Secondlife for Kiva.

1. Saturday general session1
Roman ch.7
Sin is a destructive power, seductive force against love of father.

2. Saturday General session2
Cultural Maker Story 2 - Bill Strickland
He gave a life, hope and spirit to Pittsburgh Southside District Kids (Most of them are too poor to get good education, or barely educated, and do not have any jobs)
He designed and developed a very special school which is surrounded by bright sunlights, flowers and fountains(water).
He inspired "enthusiasm" from Poor kids.
His book: Make Impossible Possible.

3. Saturday General Session3
Cultural Maker Story 3
Posture(Cultivate/Create) vs. Gesture(Condemn/Critique/Copy/Consume)

3. Saturday Break Session3
Excelling in the Education you wanted: A faith and Culture Devotional by Kelly Kullberg and David Kullberg
John ch.17:03, true vine and root , sustainable tree

4.Saturday Night
-"Become a NEW neighbor"
We'd better care for relationship, love each other.
All of us are equal.
We must love our neighbors as OURSELVES.

-Reconcile all things , a peace and healing
-vocation/calling: Listen to THE CALL
-Reorder Love/Lies -->heartsonmind.com

-God is a good communicator and our good friend.
= loneliness is inevitable.

5.Small things over and over again makes big difference.
How many hours will it take ? -10,000 hours
- 1hours/day will take 10years, 2 hours will take 15years and 8hours/day will take 4 years.
- Masters require discipline, Discipline requires TIME.
- My 10,000 hours can make NEW capacity

6. Break Session 4: Living Deep in a Shallow world by emmaus@streets.org
1) How do I live --> Mica 3:18
-live justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God
2) Who am I called to show mercy?
3) How do I walk humbly with God

7. Sunday Morning: Every Square Inch by Abraham Kiper
Kingdom is not coming yet but as a witness of coming his kingdom, we must fortaste (gives a taste) for coming life of the kingdom of the God
- Community of generosity, simplicity , and truth

8. Wrap up
1) What is one thing you start doing?
(Think small)
2) What is one thing you stop doing?

Jubilee 2009 @ Pittsburgh Westin

2009-02-16T06:23:00.006+09:00

Brief Overview

I asked some questions thru Jubilee workshop and solved some of them and had been rethinking still.

One thing I start doing from now on is to read spiritual books and articles "every day".
So far, I just depended upon Tuesday Bible Study and Sunday Church service.
But I should absorb more precious words but with my heart not with by my brain.
I do want to have more spiritual time for myself and social time for my neighbor.

One thing I stop doing from now on is to do meaningless internet surfing and meaningless killing time any more.
My time was "passed" meaninglessly just because I don't want to feel lonely or curious about Korean news, especially TV show, actors' and actress's gossips and dead news. But I didn't focus on myself too much. It was meaningless time.
I don't want to exhaust myself physically and emotionally any more.

Instead, I do want to have my 10,000 hours for myself , for my neighbor and for better world from now on.
This is what I earned and what I decided from Jubilee 2009.

I realized (or I can say restored myself), I am not "nothing", I can do "something" for myself, for my neighbor and for my glorious kingdom of my Lord, my God even though I am a student but I have time, passion, energy, sympathy and my God in my heart. I can do and I can transform the future someday or from now on.

This is what I realized and what I heard from my God in Jubilee 2009.
I am so blessed, and I love Jesus Christ so much.

Hello, Mr.President

2009-01-21T02:02:00.005+09:00

Today is the inauguration day of United States.
This is the moment, turning point to new advent, new leadership, new era of United States, perhaps new era of earth.
Bye Bush, and Hello Mr.President Obama!

Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and the nation's first African-American president Tuesday. This is a transcript of his prepared speech by CNN,

My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to our founding documents.
So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land -- a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the fainthearted -- for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path toward prosperity and freedom.
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.
For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.

For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.
Time and again, these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -- that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act -- not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions -- who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them -- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account -- to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day -- because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control -- and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart -- not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.
Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.
We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort -- even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West: Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment -- a moment that will define a generation -- it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility -- a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
This is the price and the promise of citizenship.
This is the source of our confidence -- the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.
This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed -- why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.
So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:
"Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive... that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]."
America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested, we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back, nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Thank you, God bless you, God bless the United States of America.

The 3rd Gender: Engineering Student

2008-12-01T07:34:00.014+09:00

There are three kinds of gender on this earth; Male, Female and Engineering student.
Engineering students who already married or who is in a relationship (not with a dog or game title but with a human being) are excluded from this 3rd gender.

The commonality of engineering student is as follows.
1. There is no relationship in their lives, as there was , and there will be. No, No, No and forever
2. Instead, there are several ways of self-playing such as video game, facebook, blogging, Nintendo wii , text messaging, cartoon and so on. There is a rumor they created "dead on the bed" or "dead on the sofa" game, which means a person lies on the bed or sofa without doing anything including eating at all all day long, especially all weekends.
3. There are no marks on their calendars such as Lover's birthday, Christmas Eve, New year's Eve, Valentine's day
4. They hate couples, especially library couples. - Library couples are really annoying!! Get away and go somewhere...
5. They sometimes enjoy social dancing because this is the only allowed tim to hug or tough the other gender - Engineering students vs. Female, Engineering Students vs. Male, or sometimes Engineering students vs. Engineering students-
6. They like stalking, googling personal lives and peeping through face book.
7. They are lonely but they don't know how to express or resolve their feeling, even more, they don't want to admit their lonely feeling, they want to take this as part of their lives. Engineering students are lonely ....really...
8. They don't know how to spend their free time or holiday without work or computer.
9. They want a RELATIONSHIP. But they don;t know how to initiate. Therefore, it will not happen to them. Never and Ever.
10. Engineering students believe that they can make the world better than before by contributing creative engineering theory. (engineering: can be applied more than twice in a same manner) But the world would not be changed by engineering people but could be changed by business people. However, I am the one of them who believe engineers should contribute the world. (not world peace by Miss Universe, but fun/convenient world). Without this belief, engineer's life is only tragedy because we cannot make our partner happy!!

I found this works well in my territory, not only South Korea but also States, Pittsburgh.
I AM one of engineering student. Therefore, It will not happen to me, never and ever.
What a wonderful WORLD!!!

PittStop rocked.

2008-11-26T02:26:00.002+09:00

PittStop.....I didn't know what the swing is before starting Swing in this September. I thought Swing is a just JAVA framework to build GUI easily. However, I started Swing dance since this september, now I can do some jitterbug, lindy, balboa, blues (sometimes, with good leaders).
And I worked as one of the volunteers for PittStop Lindy Exchange workshop in Pittsburgh. It was amazing, amazing experience to meet swingers from outside Pittsburgh, they were from Ohio, York, DC, NewYork, Cleveland, Erie,Portland OR, Seattle WA, and many many cities.
I did lots of, lots of fun with them and made friends with them.
And now, I feel like I became a member of Pittsburgh community by working hardly with many volunteers. We worked from 1:00 pm to 6:00am and we olny slept for 4 or 5hours per day. I want to say thank you PittStop committe members - Lisa T, Linda gale, Lisa M, Bary, Anders, Joe, Dena, Laura, Jackery, David, Elizabath, Barbara and so on - They accepted and gave me an opportunity to work with , many rides to every locations and big hug. Like the song, I L-O-V-E Pittsburgh so much.

"a new dawn of American leadership."

2008-11-06T05:50:00.001+09:00

Full text from Obama's President Election speech==========================

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.

A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Senator McCain.Senator McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.

I congratulate him; I congratulate Governor Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.

I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton ... and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years ... the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady ... Michelle Obama.Sasha and Malia ... I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us ...to the new White House.

And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure.To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I am grateful to them.

And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe ... the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best — the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.To my chief strategist David Axelrod ... who's been a partner with me every step of the way.To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics ... you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy ... who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.It grew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

This is your victory.

And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me.
You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.

There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

I promise you, we as a people will get there.
AUDIENCE: Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!

OBAMA: There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.
This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.

It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.

Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

To those — to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons — because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.
AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.
AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that We Shall Overcome. Yes we can.
AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.

And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.Yes we can.AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves — if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.

This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope.
And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

In the beginning of New America era

2008-11-06T05:06:00.003+09:00

I saw American president election yesterday from 6:00pm to 11:00pm.
And I watched past Republican supporting states turned to blue.

At 11:00 pm, CNN announced "Barack Obama , Mr. president " and electoral vote results was 285 : 134. (now 338:162)

He is the first African-American president in United states and the only black senator in current government. He was just exposed to the media from 2004 President Candidate supporting speech expressing "One unity" for United States. And 3 years later, he was elected President candidate in Democratic party and finally became Mr.President one year after.

This is the memorable moment in the history, not only in the United States but also in the earth. He will be the symbolic president that no nation has ever had before - minority race, liberal politician, despite of lack of experience but beloved by young supporters/minority people/ ex-republican / rich and poor/ old and young/ Hispanic and white.

I am not a US citizen, and I am not a part of this historical moment, but I am deeply touched by this memorable moment and his speech - opportunity, unyielding hope, one united states, new spirit of responsibility and most of all his and Obama camp's "Yes, We CAN".

He gave the people "hope for change" and he succeeded to show the people a new American dream - anyone can be the president of united states, even though he is one of the African-American people, his father is not US citizen, his grand father and mother live in Kenya but American citizen supported him and elected him as Mr. President.

American people will remember that they were a part of this history forever , and I will remember I watched this memorable moment in Pittsburgh, PA.

Lindy Workshop - Jazz movement

2008-10-15T12:50:00.002+09:00

Swing Steps for Competition

2008-10-15T12:39:00.002+09:00

1.Basic

Swing-out

Tuck-In with Under-arm turn (Leader /Follower)

Tuck-In with free turn

Double Tuck-in

2.8 count variation

8 count basic in place

8 count turning

8 count with open-break

8 count under-arm turn left/right

3. footwork

Sugar foot - Chicken walks

Simple Sugar push

Turing Sugar push

Chicken Swivel

Peek-a-boo/Stop-and-go

Balboa, Lindy, Jitterbug

2008-10-08T07:53:00.001+09:00

Balboa
Balboa is a smooth dance done in tightly closed couple position with subtle but striking footwork.
It's perfect for those fast numbers, and will fit well with both jitterbug and Lindy dancing.
It can be maniplated from the basic bal (balboa) to Bal-swing such as
basics, cross-overs, break-time, lollies, and throw-outs.

Lindy Hop
Lindy Hop is the original swing dance style from the 1930's and 1940's.
It's wildly popular in Europe and is the style of choice on the coasts: East Coast swing vs. West Coast swing.
This high energy style incorporates a distinctive, jazzy blend of footwork and kick variations.

Jitterbug
the basic 6 count footwork, several simple turns, fancy turns, smooth leads and hot moves of swing dance.

Swing Lindy Workshop - Intermediate

2008-10-07T03:50:00.002+09:00

From Charles and Kristein

1. Swing out- linear vs. circular

2. Stretch Boeing Boeing with tension

1,2 Stretch & kick step (3&4) ,

1,2 turn(3&4) & Stop (at five)

3. Frankie Step

1) Bow & swing out(twist) -> circle->triple->chacha->twist ->triple turn

2) Circle-> Shake + double turn (shake) -> triple /watching

3) 1,2, 3&4 (inner turn) point (in)/5, point(out)/6, point(in,in,in) 7&8

4. Make Kristein happy

Slide(drible) out seven & eight

shake shake (one two/rock step) -> triple (3,4,5) -> walk/walk(5,6)

slide(drible)-> shake shake

slide(drible) -> shake shake

swing out (slide /5,6) -> walk walk ->triple triple

spin turn (one two // three triple 3,4,5,6 turn) + 7 &8

5. Texas (linear/circular triple + triple + (rock step) or (swing out)

Swing , Latin, and Classic Dance

2008-10-01T03:52:00.005+09:00

I joined the "Magic step", the KAIST dance community, by learning and doing "Sports dance". There are two kinds of dances in "sports dance", one is Latin dance category, and the other is Classic dance. In Latin dance, there are five different style of dances - ChaCha, Rumba, Jive, Samba, and Pasodoble and there are also five different style in class dance such as Waltz, Vienna Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango and Quick step.
I started to learn swing dance since Sep. 2008 - currently I've learned Lindy, Balboa and east coast swing. Lindy is much more like Jive, especially foot work and 8 counts. But the difference between Latin and swing is the "dynamics". In Latin, the male and the female or ,what we call, the leader and the follower should have follow routine steps first and then both of them can manipulate just based on general routine steps. But in swing, the female, or the follower, can only follow the leader's movement whatever he choose. It's really dynamic and more fun!!!
I really , really like Swing and this is another happiness what I could enjoy in Pittsburgh.

Swing(Balboa) Lesson from Lisa

2008-10-01T02:43:00.002+09:00

1. Basic Foot work (up-hold)

Step-step(together)-hold-step

2. Break Time Foot work(down-hold)

Step(Travel)-Step(together)-step(travel back)- hold

3. 8 count and basic

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 & step-step(together)-hold-step)

Swing (Lindy Hop) Lesson from Lisa

2008-10-01T02:34:00.003+09:00

1) 22th, September

Swing out (1 -2 -triple step - 5 - 6 - triple step, stress on 4 and 8)

Swing out to side by side (1-2-triple step - rock-step - triple step)

From Side by side back to swing out (1-2-triple step-5-6- triple step)

2) 29th, September

Side by Side and Rocks (1-2-triple step-rock-rock-triple step)

Side by side and Glides (leads stepping back on 5,6,7,8) (1-2-triple step-F walk-F walk-triple step)

Free Spin (Follower's outside turn)(1-2-triple step-side-side-triple turn)

GUI tip

2008-09-27T05:03:00.001+09:00

Method1-Java in 21 Days uses recipe 1a
1) Subclass JFrame
a) Implement ActionListener
b) Private class implements ActionListener
c) Private static class implements ActionListener
d) Anonymous class implements ActionListener

Method2-Head first Java uses recipe 2b(J's favorite)
2) Don’t subclass anything
a) Implement ActionListener
b) Private class implements ActionListener
c) Private static class implements ActionListener
d) Anonymous class implements ActionListener

Swing City - Pittsburgh

2008-09-20T06:45:00.002+09:00

Day by day, I am enjoying the Pittsburgh Life - especially, swing dance.

There is a place to learn swing dance in Pittsburgh - Wightman Center, near by CVS at Wilkinson Avenue.

Every Thursday and Saturday, since last week, I attended beginner class at Wightman Center.

Different style by different people, but It's very exciting to dance with different style. Someone who already used at Latin dance would like to dance like Chacha, and someone would like to enjoy west coast swing style although other people dance east coast swing. I am a fan of Latin style.....more powerful and more formal than swing. Sometimes I enjoy the complex, free swing step but...I'd better enjoy expected step and style....

Anyway, my new life in Pittsburgh was started with Swing city since 9th September.

2008-07-13T11:41:00.003+09:00

1.
"내 비밀은 이런 거야. 매우 간단한 거지. 오로지 마음으로 보아야만 정확하게 볼 수 있다는 거야. 가장 중요한 것은 눈에는 보이지 않는 법이야."

2.
"네 장미꽃을 그렇게 소중하게 만든 것은, 그 꽃을 위해 네가 소비한 시간이란다." "내가 나의 장미꽃을 위해 소비한 시간이라..." 잘 기억하기 위해 어린 왕자가 말했다

3.
" 그러나 네가 나를 기르고 길들이면 우린 서로 떨어질 수 없게 돼.넌 나에게 이 세상에서 단 하나뿐인 사람이 되고 난 너에게 둘도없는 친구가 될테니까."

4.
"나를 길들여줘...가령 오후 4시네 네가 온다면나는 3시부터 행복해지기 시작할거야...

그러나 만일,
네가 무턱대고 아무때나 찾아오면
난 언제부터 마음의 준비를 해야할지 모르니까..."

5.
"나는 해 지는 풍경이 좋아.우리 해지는 구경하러 가...""그렇지만 기다려야 해.""뭘 기다려?""해가 지길 기다려야 한단 말이야."

6.
사막은 아름다와. 사막이 아름다운건
어디엔가 우물이 숨어있기 때문이야. 눈으로는 찾을 수 없어, 마음으로 찾아야 해.

7.
"세상에서 가장 어려운일이 뭔지아니?"
"흠... 글쎄요. 돈버는일? 밥먹는일?"
"세상에서 가장 어려운일은 사람이 사람의 마음을 얻는일이란다.
각각의 얼굴만큼 다양한 각양각색의 마음을...
순간에도 수만가지의 생각이 떠오르는데
그 바람같은 마음이 머물게 한다는건 정말 어려운거란다."

8.
"지금은 슬프겠지만
그 슬픔이 가시고 나면(슬픔은 가시는 거니까) 넌 언제까지나 내 동무로 있을거고, 나와 함께 웃고 싶어 질꺼야."

9.
"사람들은 이 진리를 잊어버렸어."
여우가 말했다. "하지만 넌 그것을 잊어서는 안돼. 넌 네가 길들인 것에 대해 언제까지나 책임을 지어야 하는 거야. 넌 네 장미에 대해 책임이 있어..."
"난 나의 장미에 대해 책임이 있어." 잘 기억하기 위해 어린 왕자가 되뇌었다.

10.
다른 사람에게는 결코 열어주지 않는 문을...
당신에게만 열어주는 사람이 있다면
그 사람이야 말로... 당신의 진정한 친구이다.

김진명의 킹 메이커

2008-06-04T07:09:00.001+09:00

[직격인터뷰]김진명 “2004 美대선 킹메이커는 저였어요”
2007 07/17 뉴스메이커 733호
이른 아침부터 굵은 장대비가 억수같이 내리꽂던 7월 4일. 소설가 김진명(50)을 만나기 위해 길을 나섰다. 그의 신작 ‘킹메이커’가 논란을 불러일으키고 있기 때문이다. ‘킹메이커’는 노무현 대통령이 친미 성향의 이명박을 대통령으로 만들려는 미국 CIA의 공작에 맞서 현재 미국연방구치소에 수감된 김경준을 연말 대선 직전 국내로 송환하려는 시도를 다루고 있다. 김경준은 이명박 후보의 연루의혹이 제기된 옵셔널벤처스코리아(BBK투자자문 후신) 주가조작사건의 주범이다. 이 소설이 범상치 않은 이유는 대선주자들의 실명을 거론하며 소문으로 돌고 있는 그들을 둘러싼 무성한 흉허물을 직접적으로 들먹이고 있기 때문이다. 뿐만 아니라 작가 자신은 2004년 미국 대통령 선거에서 부시가 당선되는 데 결정적 기여를 했다고 책 서두에서 주장하고 있다. 김진명은 “당시 케리에게 약 6%를 리드당하고 있던 부시에게 내가 북한 핵과 관련해 모종의 제안을 했고 부시는 즉각 승낙의 신호를 보내옴으로써 선거에서 이길 수 있었다”고 밝혔다(소설 속에서는 ‘킹메이커’로 등장하는 인물 앨런 차가 작가 자신을 투영한 것이라고 했다). 장대비를 뚫고 김진명이 있는 충북 제천까지 내려가는 동안 혼란스러웠던 이유다. 의구심은 3시간 가까이 진행한 인터뷰를 끝내고 서울로 돌아오는 길에도 사라지지 않았다. 그러나 김진명은 인터뷰 중 거듭 “I’m Sure”라며 자신의 말이 진실임을 확언했다. 그는 소설 ‘킹메이커’를 불과 보름 만에 완성했다고 말했다. - 책 서두에, 2004년 6월 부시에게 북한 핵을 평화적으로 해결할 수 있는 이미지를 부여하면 케리에게 뒤지고 있던 그가 역전할 것으로 보고 모종의 제안을 했고 그게 받아들여졌다고 주장했다. 어떤 선을 통해 부시에게 제안했다는 것인가.“아직 살아 있는 루트(경로)이기 때문에 공개하기 어렵다. 부시는 6월 25일 당시 미국 국무장관이었던 콜린 파월에게 ‘이념과 체제가 다르지만 우리는 북한과 세계평화를 위해 협조할 용의가 있다’는 성명을 발표하게 했다. 또 같은 날 안보보좌관 곤돌리사 라이스가 특별기 편으로 한국에 왔다. 곤돌리사는 당시 다른 나라를 들르지 않고 한국만 왔는데 특별한 방한 이유가 없었다. 그저 몇 시간 동안 한국에 머물다 간 게 다였다. 이게 내가 보낸 제안에 부시가 보내온 신호다. 당시 부시는 독선적이고 오만한 이미지 때문에 케리에게 뒤져 있었다. 또 이라크전쟁 후 전투기를 괌의 엔더슨 기지로 옮겨 평양을 폭격하는 훈련을 했다. 때문에 부시가 다른 전쟁, 즉 북한 침략을 준비하는 것이 아니냐는 우려가 국내외적으로 컸다. 난 부시가 북한 핵문제를 총 한 방 안 쓰고, 피 한 방울 안 흘리고 해결한다면 선거에서 온건한 이미지를 회복해 당선될 것이라 확신했다. 당시 난 미국이 북한에 온건한 메시지를 전하면 북한 김정일도 대량살상무기와 관련해 미국과 대화할 수 있다는 메시지를 발표하게 할 수 있다고 했다. 하지만 김정일을 접촉하는 데 실패해 절반의 성공만 거둔 셈이다.”- 왜 실패했나.“처음엔 외교문제에 관한한 김정일의 오른팔인 한성렬 북한 유엔대표부 부대사(현재 북한 군축평화연구소 대리소장)를 통해 김정일을 움직이려고 했다. 한 부대사에게 지금 당신이 여기에 있을 때가 아니지 않느냐며 빨리 평양에 가라고 주문했다. 하지만 그는 일이 잘못되면 숙청당할까봐 하지 않았다. 난 박근혜 당시 한나라당 대표를 찾아갔다. 그가 2002년 평양을 방문했을 때 김정일과 특이한 스킨십(공식적인 딱딱한 분위기가 아닌 화기애애한 의미로 말함)을 이루었다고 봤기 때문이다. 마침 박근혜도 곤돌리사 라이스의 돌발적 방한과 콜린 파월의 비상한 성명 발표를 매우 이상하게 생각했다고 말했다. 난 비서실장을 물러가게 하고 그 내막을 이야기했다. 그리고 평양에 올라가서 김정일을 설득하라고 권유했다. 김정일에게 ‘오빠’라 부르며 미국과 핵무기에 대해 진지하게 대화할 용의가 있다고 발표하게 만들라고 주문했다. 그러면 한반도가 미국 대통령을 뽑는 것이 되고 한반도의 도움으로 대통령에 당선된 인물은 임기 내내 한반도를 위해 많은 일을 할 것이라고 설득했다. 하지만 박근혜는 당시 한나라당 대표라는 자리에 대한 부담감 때문인지 결국 평양에 가지 않았다.”- 이 소설의 주요 인물 중 하나는 케이준으로 명명된 김경준이다. 김경준의 한국 송환이 늦어지고 있는 이유가 미국 CIA의 음모 때문이라고 믿는 것인가.“미국은 반미성향의 노무현이 정권을 잡으면서 힘들었기 때문에 이번엔 친미대통령이 되기를 바란다. CIA는 한발 더 나아가는데 거기에 걸린 게 김경준이다. 김경준은 송환재판을 두 번 받았고 그때마다 한국 송환이 판결됐다. 그런데 재산과 관련된 재판에서는 한 판사로부터 이해할 수 없는 판결이 나왔다. 김경준이 한국에서 훔쳐간 돈이 적법하다는 것이다. 그래서 김경준이 3년여간 한국에 못 온 것이다. CIA가 개입하지 않았다면 있을 수 없는 일이다. 만약 이명박이 대통령에 뽑히면 미국은 한국 대통령의 약점을 잡고 있는 셈이니 국내 정치에 더 개입할 수 있다.”- 소설에는 김경준의 누나인 에리카 김과 이명박의 염문설이 나온다. 명예훼손으로 고소고발당할 수도 있을 것 같은데. “이명박과 에리카 김의 스캔들은 5~6년 전부터 LA 교민사회에 파다했다. 이명박이 무엇에 홀리지 않은 한 왜 한국에 뿌리도 없는 30대 초반의 김경준에게 수백억의 돈을 투자했다고 생각하나. 에리카김과 이명박은 미국에서 만나 어울렸고, 에리카 김이 명문대를 졸업한 자기 동생이 있으니 이명박에게 잘 돌봐달라고 한 것이다. 그렇지 않고서야 달리 설명할 방법이 없다. 난 2005년과 2006년 LA에 가서 이를 직접 취재했다. 이명박과 에리카김의 스캔들에 대해 언론이 제기하지 못하니까 작가인 내가 한 것이다. 내 이야기가 잘못 됐으면 날 명예훼손으로 고소하라고 하라.”- 박근혜와 최태민 목사가 그렇고 그런 사이이며 둘 사이에 숨겨놓은 애까지 있다는 소문까지 책에서 거론했다.
“박근혜와 최태민 목사 사이의 아이 이야기는 내가 지어낸 것이다. 때문에 난 박근혜가 명예훼손으로 내게 소송을 거는 게 옳다고 생각한다. 내가 이 책을 쓴 목적은 개개인의 약점을 드러내고자 한 게 아니다. 2004년처럼 의혹이나 악소문 때문에 선거가 좌우되지 않기를 바라는 마음에서다. 의혹이나 흑색선전에 대처하는 사회적 검증문화를 정립하는 게 무엇보다 중요하다. 그런 면에서 이명박이 ‘소이부답(笑而不答, 웃기만 하고 대답하지 않는다)’이라고 말한 것은 말도 안 된다. 어쩌면 그 말에 화가 나 소설을 쓴 건지도 모른다. 박근혜의 경우는 그가 모든 검증을 받아들이겠다고 했으니, 내가 최고의 악소문을 만들어낸 것이다. 그가 어떻게 받아들이는지 보고 싶었고, 그가 소문의 진상을 당당히 밝히면 난 그에게 공개 사과할 것이다.”- 정치권의 반응은 없나.“없다. 왜냐하면 반응을 보이는 즉시 추락이기 때문이다. 그들과 관련된 내용은 팩트(사실)이기 때문이다. 그들이 숨기고 싶은 것을 내가 이야기한 것이다.”- 전작 ‘나비야 청산 가자’도 그렇고 이번 소설도 손학규를 지지하는 것처럼 비친다. 김대중 전대통령의 발언형식을 빌어 대선 주자 중 유일하게 손학규를 긍정적으로 묘사했다. “선거는 국민의 책임이 크다. 국민의 역량만큼 지도자를 뽑는 것이기 때문이다. 후진국은 고무신과 막걸리에 선거판이 갈리고 선진국은 누가 더 역량 있는지를 가늠해 인재를 뽑는다. 우리나라 국민의 투표수준은 낮다. 정치풍토를 모르기 때문이다. 한 사람이 보통 사람으로 출발해 대통령이 되기까지 어떤 과정을 거치는지 몰라 괜찮은 사람을 뽑지 못한다. 선전이나 힘에 좌우돼 제대로 판을 읽지 못한다. 이명박은 어떤 면에서는 대통령이 되기 힘든 사람인데 지지율이 높다는 게 이를 입증하는 것이다. 이런 정치풍토에서 손학규라는 사람이 대선 후보 반열에 올랐다는 것은 기적과 같은 일이다. 이명박은 많은 돈과 명성으로, 박근혜는 경북 대구의 절대적 지지로, 정동영은 그 뒤에 김대중이 있다. 하지만 손학규는 그런 후광이 없다. 10여 년간 정치를 하고도 2억 몇천짜리 아파트 한 채가 재산의 전부다. 그걸 북돋울 필요가 있다. 언론은 강자 편이어서 이를 드러내지 않기 때문에 작가인 나라도 거론하는 것이다. 결코 손학규를 지지해서가 아니다.”- 손학규 후보와 친분이 있나.“국내정치 특히 선거를 이대로 두면 안 되겠다 생각할 때 국내 정치인을 두루 만나본 적이 있다. 2005년과 2006년의 일이다. 그때 이명박, 고건, 손학규 등 대다수의 후보를 만났다. 그때 한 번 만난 게 전부다.”- 손학규가 범여권의 대선후보로 낙점될 것으로 보나.“난 ‘나비야 청산가자’를 쓸 때 이미 손학규가 여권으로 갈 줄 알았다. 정치가 뭐고 힘이 뭔지 아는 사람은 보인다. 손학규가 범여권의 후보가 되는 것은 당연하다. 김대중은 선거의 귀재다. 노무현을 당선시킨 것도 그다. 이번 선거도 김대중이 쥐락펴락할 것이다. 이번 대선의 본질은 반노무현이다. 노무현 하면 사람들이 두드러기를 일으켜 한나라당 지지율이 높은 것이다. 그런데 정동영, 김근태, 김혁규, 이해찬은 모두 노무현과 살을 섞은 사람들 아니냐. 객관적으로 보면 손학규가 범여로 넘어가지 않으면 선거가 안 되는 것이다. 누구보다 김대중이 이를 잘 알고 있다. 손학규가 가장 어려움을 겪던 시기에 북한과의 자리를 만들어준 게 김대중이다. 김대중은 당시 ‘북한에서는 손학규를 참 좋아한다’고 말했다. 손학규가 범여로 갔기 때문에 흥행이 되는 것이고 만약 여권 후보들이 손학규를 이용만 한다면 결국 선거를 망치는 일이 될 것이다.”- 이번 선거의 전망을 어떻게 보나.“이명박이 한나라당 경선에서 박근혜를 이기지 못할 것으로 본다. 우리나라 국민은 지도자에 대해 윤리의식이 강하다. 한두 건도 아니고 이명박은 살아온 인생 자체가 지도자와 거리가 멀다. 최소한 노무현 정도는 돼야지 이명박이 대통령이 되면 나라가 안 선다. 난 박근혜와 손학규의 싸움이 될 것으로 본다. 두 사람 중 누가 되면 좋겠다는 마음은 아직 정하지 않았다.”- 소설을 통해 2008년 미국 대통령 선거에 북한의 플루토늄 20㎏을 활용해야 한다고 주장했다. 또 직접 나서겠다는 것인가. “북한의 플루토늄 20㎏만 활용하면 한반도가 미국 대통령을 선택할 수 있는데 누구도 나서지 않고 있으니 갑갑하다. 북한은 지금 어쩔 수 없이 핵포기의 수순을 밟고 있다. 원자로를 폐쇄하고 나면 이미 확보한 플루토늄 20㎏을 어떻게 하느냐의 문제가 대두된다. 이때 우리가 공화당 후보든 민주당 후보든 한 사람을 평양으로 불러 김정일이 직접 그의 팔에 안겨주게 하거나 그가 미국으로 가져가거나 남한의 기술자를 불러 북한에서 해체하는 것을 감독하고 떠나거나 하게 하면 그는 미국 대통령에 당선될 것이다. 미국이 골머리를 앓는 가장 큰 외교문제는 북한 핵문제이기 때문이다. 그럼 한반도가 미국 대통령을 뽑게 되는 것이고 한반도의 도움을 얻은 미국 대통령은 8년의 임기 동안 한반도를 위해 엄청난 노력을 기울일 것이다. 이번 대선에서 누가 대통령이 되든 나는 이 문제를 종용할 것이다. 하지만 정부가 나서지 않는다면 내가 또 움직일 것이다.” <글·박주연 기자 jypark@kyunghyang.com><사진·김세구 기자 k39@kyunghyang.com>

Paper Submission

2008-05-05T06:23:00.005+09:00

This is SOA usability and webservice usability and documentation paper poster.
The paper is submitted to SD SOA and VL/HCC.

Coolest Professor in CMU

2008-05-05T01:49:00.007+09:00

We have Anthony Lattanze in Software Engineering Program. He is most popular professor in terms of his enormous experience in Software Architecture and Product Line.

His lecture is , in my opinion, a masterpeice in Software Engineering area.

Software Engineering is a complicated, over-stuructured , and composed of too much principles and concepts. However, he explaines everything in a well-organized and simple way.

I think his talent is comming from ways of thinking, attitudes toward the world and cultures, and nature-born living style.

He lives 1 or 2 hours away from CMU, most Coolest and peaceful place.

He taught how to pull the trigger to his two sons because, he believes if they are used at how to handle a dangerous weapon, then they can conqueor and control , not being afraid of it as well.

This sounds "complexity vs. divide & conqueor" principles in Software Engineering area to me.

He is a living Indian in Pittsburgh.

I enjoyed his two classes a lot, received great comments from final project. Everytime I feel lots of energies and enormous enthusiasm from him. He is a really really cool professor in CMU.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

2008-05-05T00:57:00.004+09:00

1. April 25th. Thursday 6:00~8:00PM

I went to PSO to hear "Chee-yun"'s play.

She played Mozart's Concerto No.3 in G major with her violin and Schumann's Symphony No3. in E-flot major. It's gracefull and soft but dynamic play.

This brillient player was born in Korea. She is a very entertaining person and really really kind enough to take picture with anyone.

2. May 2nd, Friday 8:00~10:00 P

First play was Ralph vaughan williams' Symphony No.4 in Fminor. I have no idea about this music. This is the first time I can hear the play. However, a conductor of PSO explained every stage, allegro, andante, scherzo and finale with very strong russian accent (It sounds to me).

That was great.

And then Beethoven's "Emperor" - Concert No.5

I enjoed this very much , especially most powerful play I ever see in PSO.

All the people gave them a big, big hands. It's COOL.

The general structure of a writing piece

2008-04-28T22:26:00.003+09:00

The general structure of a writing piece
- Introduction
- what are you taling of ?
- What are you taiking about it?
- Why now?
- so what?
- conclusion

Lessons from Steve Jobs

2008-04-16T20:37:00.002+09:00

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
“We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”

“I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”
“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
“There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

China or India

2008-04-10T07:03:00.001+09:00

Where do we have to invest, China or India? There are three reasons to invest in China rather than India.

First, China leads India in terms of economy growth rate; therefore, we can expect much more return on investments than India. China's GDP totaled 3,100 billion U.S. dollars in the year of 2007, up to 11 percent over the same period last year, according to the China National Bank. However, India raised GDP growth of 8.7 percent, up to 928billion dollars in total GDP according to the Reserve Bank of India. This economic data appears to be sustainable until two or three years after, as we have seen so far.

Second, China leads India in terms of market size; therefore, we can expect much more opportunities than India. China’s GDP per person was 2,280 dollars in the year of 2007; on the other hand, India’s GDP per person was 830 dollars in the same year according to National Bank. As the China’s economy grows, the brand market will grows as well. This means that international brand market will grows much more rapidly in China than in India. In addition, because China is the site for the next Olympic Games, all the global companies will invest or try to enter this attractive market by the year of 2010.

Third, China’s dominant industry is manufacturing; however, India is strong in technology and IT services high value industry, but is obviously not a high volume industry. Typically, service industry does not rely on high, intensive capital, on which China’s manufacturing industry has relied to a great extent. By this reason, a large number of foreign investments are turning toward China, and we need to move forward with the same reason.

In conclusion, in terms of growth rate, market size, and the event of Beijing Olympic, to invest China is the best choice. The decision of China investment is most critical to the growth of our company and the right decision will lead us to be a global leader.

How to prepare Good meeting

2008-04-08T22:56:00.004+09:00

0. Do we really need a meeting?
1. Purpose
- critical issues
2. Agenda
- 1page
- grouping topics
- prioritize topics
- Keep track on time (time keeper) + notes (Note taker)
- Responsibilities
3. People
- pick right participants
4. Place + Time
- Bad Time: lunch, at 5:00PM, Friday afternoon, Monday early morning
- Best Time: Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday morning
- don't bring high sugar stuff, pasta, pizza
- Place: adequate size, depends on group size, visual aids
- Time: don't over 2 hours
5. Invite /DRAFT Agenda
- please review, comment about attached draft agenda
6. Resend with changes/ P
- based on all sets, well-prepared to the meeting
7. Arrive Early
- host should arrive early.
8. Start on Time
9. Set the Tone
10. Run the meeting
11. Meeting Minustes/Meeting Summary
12. Actions

7 things employee want most to be happy at work

2008-04-07T22:26:00.002+09:00

Ask bosses what makes employee happy at work, and many are likely to think in terms of tangible rewards: a good salary, a pleasant office, generous benefits.
1. Appreciation
2. Respect
3. Trust
4. Individual growth
5. A good boss
6. Compatible co-workers
7. A sense of purpose
By Marlilyn Gardner

Interview Tip

2008-04-03T23:11:00.002+09:00

1) Dress Attire / Hair / Good Appearance/ Posture/ Charm / Pleasant
2) Resume : Right Upfront by two hands
3) Interrupted behavior/ Eye Contact
4) Asset Points (Weaving asset points)
5) Memorable Story/ Differentiation
6) Company Knowledge
7) Enthusiasm/ Potential / Simple/ Engage / Enjoy
8) Action Statement - I created/developed/improved ....
9) Result Oriented/ Add Quatative number
10) How handle difficult question/situation
11) Ask Good Question ; Poze/ Scilence/ At the end
12) Specific Story about team skill (worst team experience )
13) Hardworking
14) Handle salary question, elogance
15) Ask Next step; Ask email address
16) Last chabge; Ending(Handshake), Ask Next Step

Steve Job's Presentation Tip

2008-01-28T21:56:00.001+09:00

1. Set the theme.
2. Demonstrate enthusiasm.
3. Provide an outline.
4. Make numbers meaningful.
5. Try for an unforgettable moment.
6. Create visual slides.
7. Give 'em a show.
8. Don't sweat the small stuff.
9. Sell the benefit.
10. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.

When to use Passive

2008-01-23T23:42:00.000+09:00

1) When you don't know who did the action
2) when your readers don't care who did the action
3) when you don't want the readers to know who did the action
4) when the receiver of action is more important than the doer of the action
5) when you wish to be less confrontational

Goal with SMART

2008-01-23T23:30:00.000+09:00

To make good plan, one should make good goal.
There are famous tool to make good goal.
SMART
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-Bound

SOA

2008-01-21T20:01:00.000+09:00

Biz View: a set of services that a business wants to expose to their customers and partners, or other portions of the organization
Architecture view: a set of architectural principles, patterns and criteria which address characteristics such as modularity, encapsulation, loose coupling, separation of concerns, reuse, composability and single implementation
Implementation View: a programming model complete with standards, tools and technologies such as Web Services
An SOA is composed of multiple layers. At the heart of the SOA is the Service Model that defines Services and Components that realize them

Service modeling – what we model
Layer 1 which is the bottom layer describes operational systems. This layer contains existing systems or applications including existing CRM and ERP packaged applications, legacy applications and “older” object-oriented system implementations as well as business intelligence applications. The composite layered architecture of an SOA can leverage existing systems, integrate them using service-oriented integration.
Layer 2 is the component layer which used container–based technologies and designs used in typical component-based development.
Layer 3 provides for the mechanism to take enterprise scale components, business unit specific components and in some cases project specific components and provides services through their interfaces. The interfaces get exported out as service descriptions in this layer, where services exist in isolation or as composite services.
Level 4 is an evolution of service composition into flows or choreographies of services bundled into a flow to act as an application. These applications support specific use-cases and business processes. Here, visual flow composition tools such as WebSphere WBI-Modeler can be used for design of application flow.
Layer 5, the presentation layer is usually out of scope for an SOA. However, it is depicted because some recent standards such as Web Services for remote Portlets version 2.0 may indeed leverage Web Services at the application interface or presentation level. It is also important to note that SOA decouples the user interface from the components.
Layer 6 enables the integration of services through the introduction of a reliable and intelligent routing, protocol mediation, and other transformation mechanisms often described as the Enterprise Service Bus .
Layer7 ensures quality of service through sense-and–respond mechanisms and tools that monitor the health of SOA applications, including the all important standards implementations of WS-Management.

Human Computation and Louis von Ahn

2008-01-16T22:25:00.000+09:00

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143&q=luis+von+ahn&pr=goog-sl

Luis von Ahn, he is a really, really, really genius!!!
I studied MPEG1,2 4 and MPEG7 10 years ago.
But still how to abstract specific objects from image and how to describe the relevant objects are open problem in image processing area.
But he solved this by "human computation" concept.

His main idea is like this;
let people compute for opem problem which computer cannot solved yet.
But use the people with fun and for free!
He is one of the Cooooooolest guy , a professor of CMU , as I ever met.....
(I'm going to have his class in this semester!!!!)

His PhD thesis was CAPTCHA (A program that can tell whether it suers is a human or a computer) in 2005.
a program that can generate and grade test that:
A.most humans can pass
B.current computer programs cannot pass

The official CAPTCHA site : http://www.captcha.net/
http://recaptcha.net/
Human Computation : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/research.html
Luis von Ahn:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/

Simplicity and Separation of Concern

2008-01-15T06:44:00.000+09:00

"One of the most degenerative tendencies of the last forty years is the belief that if you are understandable, you are vulgar." by Peter Drucker

"Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use think, convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they've known since childhood. Real leaders don't need clutter. People mush have the self-confidence to be clear, precise, to be sure that every person in their organization - highest to lowest - understands what the business is trying to achieve. But it is not easy.You cannot believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they are simple, people will think they are simple minded. In reality, of course, it is just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple." by Jack Welch.

I 100% agreed about Jack Welch's last expression; "Clear minded people are the most simple".
Software architect is one of very hard occupation in the world, I think.
There are too many constraints in the company and technology and too many uncertainties in the business policy. However, software architect should make architectural decision and meet many different business objectives. And architectural decision should be reasonable, objective, and meet stake holder's totally different views; CEO wants numbers, CTO wants reliability, developers want codes, designers want lots of diagrams.....Although this complex and different perspectives, software architect make "simple" architectural decision. Simple architecture is the key for architectural decision. I paraded Yoda's saying in the movie "Star Wars", "May the force be with you."; My favorites :-) !!!

Foundation Facility

2008-01-14T19:22:00.000+09:00

JMS
Java Messaging service offers a unified wrapper over queuing mechanisms. The framework wraps the JMS implementation and provides methods for applications to use this service without knowledge of the underlying queuing mechanism or the JMS API. The JMS API offers a asynchronous send and receive mechanisms and also a synchronous send and receive mechanism for application clients. The synchronous implementation is a convenience implementation which calls the send and then the receive methods with an appropriate timeout. The mechanism uses the JMS correlation id to associate the request and the response. The framework also implements a wrapper over a JMS Topic thereby allowing an application to work in a publish subscribe mode.
Logging
This supports for reporting application events into persistent storage areas. Logging provides precise context about a run of the application. Once inserted into the code, the generation of logging output requires no human intervention. Second, log output can be saved in a persistent medium to be studied at a later time.
Rules
It provide flexibility to application design and development by externalizing dynamic business logic. As some areas of the business are more susceptible to change than others. It is important to therefore have a mechanism that allows an application to identify areas that are likely to change and externalize the logic contained within them. This changes should be managed is a such a manner that there is no to less development effort required. It uses code generator to generate rule classes. Rule classes run in the same address space as the application program. This enhances performance as rule classes run in the same address space and use the same thread of execution, they share the transaction database session context for data. This avoids reads from database for data that is already loaded. Rules can also be dynamically changed by integrating with dynamic class loader.
Dynamic class loading:
This facilitates deployment of business rules dynamically without stopping the application server. Rules as mentioned above are business logic that changes frequently and needs to be deployed on the application server without restarting the application server. Rules are deployed as jar files in the application server, any changes to the rules would negotiate a re-deployment of the jar files. Currently it is not recommended that the hot deployment option of the application server be used. This is because the application server vendors claim that it might cause potential synchronization problems with the deployed application and might cause deployed applications to be deleted or modified incorrectly.Custom class loader load classes directly from the disk. It scans a pre-defined area on the file system for changed files based on time stamp. Clients already in middle of a method call will continue to use the old class, while new clients will receive an object from the changed class. It checks for modified classes on configurable time based interval.
Configuration:
It supports for retrieving of application parameters defined in properties file. It synchronizes with the changes made to the application parameters while the application is running. This component uses caching and logging architectural mechanisms. Configuration allows for providing set of properties in a different properties file to
Helpers
The Framework offers various helper functions to facilitate the building of framework components. These components are expected to be re-used across various other sophisticated framework facilities or components.The following helpers are available as part of the framework. These facilities are implemented as helpers as any improvements to these facilities can be done in a central place benefiting all framework components that use them. For example, if there are changes to reflection helper to leverage performance enhancements to the next version of J2SE, then all components will benefit from the same. Similarly the XML Helper wraps the DOM implementation of Xerxes and provides an easy to use interface. The XML Helper includes some significant performance enhancements in the way commonly used XPath (/Customer/Name/) expressions are evaluated. It uses a custom mechanism for these kind of expressions instead of the much slower XPath API. XPath API is still supported for the complete XPath specification.
Error and Exception Mechanism:
This architectural mechanism handles application errors and loggs them as per standard strategy. Error handling supports for multi-lingual error messages for the same error codes. Two named exceptions viz FrameworkException and BusinessException are provided to be used to denote any application errors. Unique error code is assigned with each exception to identify the error.
Service locator
This is a deviation of the standard service locator pattern. It provides transparent object access to applications or other framework components. The service locator abstracts the service discovery process. This discovers a service based on a set of configuration parameters provided. This will then return an object of the service based on the parameter defined. The service locator handles the discovery of JNDI services apart from specific services like EJBs, JMS handles and POJOs. It caches JNDI resources to avoid lookups for each invocation.
Alert
This architectural service provides mechanism for sending alerts for an event. Events needs to be registered with alert service. Event handlers are implemented that handles the event. Support for alerting by SMS and Email is provided using SMS and Mail helper architectural components. Events have information as required by it’s event handler. Client provides those information in the Event and does not need to know about the recipients and mode of alerts. Event handler identifies the list of recipients and modes of sending alert. Alerts are sent asynchronously where client does not wait until alert is sent.
Reporting for batches
This architectural service is a wrapper over third party, OZ reporting, tool and provides option to plug-in another reporting tool in future without change in the client code. OLTP reports will continue in the same style as the existing KB system. Mainly this service is used by batch. Report service supports two modes of execution, synchronous and asynchronous. In asynchronous execution mode, the client request a report and then poll for the status based on the report task ID that was provided when requesting a report. In synchronous execution mode, the client waits for the completion of the report.
Mail
Mail component provides facility to send an email. Mail shields client from internals of sending email. Client is not required to know about the details on how to send mails. Mail component currently is used by Alert. Mail component currently inserts a record in a table owned by e-business team. E-business team finally reads records from the table and sends mail using their existing mail gateway.
SMS
SMS component provides facility to send a SMS. SMS shields client from internals of sending SMS. Client is not required to know about the details on how to send SMS. SMS component currently is used by Alert. SMS component currently inserts a record in a table owned by e-business team. E-business team finally reads records from the table and sends SMS using their existing SMS gateway.
Data Compression
Data compression implements a simplified API over the GZIP implementation. This mechanism can be used to compress data being transferred from the channel tier to the application tier or from the client to the channel tier. This mechanism can be used where-in the available bandwidth mandates a data compression mechanism. By implementing a standard compression algorithm, the data compression mechanism allows even third-party applications to compress data.
Charset Conversion
This supports for conversion from EBCDIC character set to ASCII character set and vice versa. Client code need not code for character conversion every time instead they can use this component.
FTP helper
FTP helper assists in listing and exchanging files between two servers. This uses the Apache commons FTP library, but makes modifications to the open-source library by providing support for the IBM mainframe file system. Files are exchanged using FTP protocol where host runs FTP service. This component consists of a convenience GUI which shows the progress of the files downloaded or uploaded. Client can get the listing of files on host system using this component. This component supports DBCS.
File Parser
This architectural mechanism provides a uniform approach for parsing of ASCII flat files. It supports position based and delimiter based file parsing. It returns the parsed file as a domain object thus freeing developer from file IO operations. Provision for returning domain objects after each record is parsed or in batch of records is provided so as to maximize memory utilisation as per the application need. It supports two models for parsing viz push and pull. Push model parse pre-configured number of records and send to the client as domain object. Pull model waits for client to request to parse the file sequentially in batches. Client receives an handle to lazy fetch which can be iterated through to generate next batch of records.
Bootstrap
This architectural component assist in initializing required services or components in application server before any client request can be serviced. It also helps in improving performance by ensuring globally required services are initialized and available when required rather than loading them at the time of request. In the channel tier, where there is a web container, a bootstrap Servlet is used. In the application server, which is not expected to host a web-container, this component uses the custom API provided by application server. Hence this component is coupled with application server and is currently available for use in IBM Websphere application server for the application tier.
Data Access Service
This architectural mechanism allows access to the persistent store. It is wrapper on Hibernate ORM that provides XML based mapping of objects to relational mapping. It uses IOC (inversion of control) to keep the connection handles encapsulated from a developer and internally uses a reference counting mechanism to finally close database connection. It throws named exceptions to flag application developers of exceptions that can be handled like no data found.
Batch-Shared OLTP
The framework includes a high performing batch framework. The batch framework will provide application developers a platform to assemble business components to be used in a batch mode. The batch framework provides abstract classes for batch application development. The batch framework uses JMS to stream batch jobs. The batch framework does not use custom threads, but rather uses JMS as the threading mechanism to achieve parallelism in a batch job. A batch job can be distributed across not just processes (JVMs) but across servers (or machines). This provides a lot of flexibility in distributing a job. A batch job can therefore be run on the same server as the OLTP or can be run on a different server. It is also possible to introduce new servers for just batch processing, thereby improving the scalability of the batch framework.
The framework provides an abstract batch data class, which can be extended to set the data for the batch process. The developer therefore needs to extend the class for the batch data. Once the data set has been coded for a particular batch process, then the application developer will need to map the batch data set with the input for the process component that needs to be used for the batch process. To actually execute the batch process, the application developer will need to register the batch process using the batch processing administration GUI provided.
PL/SQL Batch Process
The batch framework also provides a PL/SQL version of the batch framework. The PL/SQL version does not share the OLTP process components or the business common services, but provides a simple high performing batch framework in PL/SQL. PL/SQL offers a “near data processing” batch framework. This framework will provide a high batch throughput on a lower system configuration due to the inherent benefits of processing near the data. This framework will need source code duplication and will increase the maintenance effort of the application. Though this will increase the maintenance effort, this framework cannot be written off as it provides a very high batch throughput. For extremely time critical batch processing, this framework may need to be used. The actual usage of the same will depend on the specific requirements for the application.

Framework

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Framework implements J2EE-based OLTP, batch, and foundation architecture as technical environment of J2EE development. it provides a development environment where application developers focus on the business process development.The framework components are split into 2 sections, the architectural mechanisms and the integration mechanisms. Architectural Mechanisms are framework infrastructure components. Integration mechanism are components which can be used for integrating systems

1) Channel Tier

This tier provides various protocol services for communication with Presentation. Converts different message formats to internal standard formats, check validity, and supports posting to hosts that provides actual business services. Features of the channel tier are as below:• Handles multiple request protocols • Comprehensive connectivity to a large variety of systems• Uses Asynchronous IO for TCP/IP • Configurable audit logging with pre and post formatted inputs and outputs• Plug-in support for validations• Re-use validations across transactions• Push data to a client via TCP/IP for long running transactions.

2) Biz Tier

Biz tier comprises of Service Orchestrator, Service Provider and Data abstraction components. Message router in channel tier forward the message to Service orchestrator.

a. Service Orchestrator

This sub component deals with invocation of appropriate service provider for the transaction being sent by message router. It comprises of message listener, transaction coordinator, service command, and process orchestrator.Message Listener is implemented as a message driven bean and provides mechanism for receiving transaction from message router in channel tier. Process orchestrator manages the invocation of one or more than one service commands to execute transaction. Services are invoked synchronously. Process orchestrator caches the work flow information from the repository.Service command converts XML message to the DTO java object as required by service provider which executes the transaction. Service command then invokes service provider using the DTO java object. Following figure shows the flow of transaction within Service orchestrator.

b. Service Provider

This component comprises of process component, EIS wrapper, referential component or domain component. Service provider manages the business processes for the transaction. Service provider communicates with the back end systems that provides the business functionality. Data required by host system is provided by service provider by formatting or generating data from the available data with transaction. Data is retrieved from database using referential component. EIS wrapper acts as a proxy for allowing back end services to be invoked by service provider.

c. System Integration Mechanisms

Component in the service provider communicate with multiple host system via system interface. System interface allows for a standard mechanism for clients to connect to host systems. The system interface consists of a basic interface which is used by clients to communicate with different back-end systems. An interface to a specific back-end system can be obtained via a System interface factory. The system interface factory will create an instance of the appropriate back-end system connector and return the interface for the same. The system interface handles this posting of the reversal, which is completely independent of any application developer intervention. In case the reversal transaction so posted fails, then the transaction is marked as pending reversal in a local log. The log is a database table. When a user initiates another transaction, the reversal transaction is attempted again. This auto reversal function assumes that the host system will return a success for a reversal transaction for which the original transaction does not exist. The auto reversal function will not handle any failures for the reversals sent.

3) J2EE Fundamental Facility

Fundamental facility provides sets of architectural services and architectural classes that can be used for building an application or framework.

What level of education is required to understand my blog?

2008-01-11T12:52:00.000+09:00

How do they evaluate my blog?I tried to my other blog (written in Korean, but most of contents are open source framework including "Hibernate", "Spring" and other UML and Software architecture artifact) but they evaluate as "high school" (http://blog.naver.com/tooth2)I cannot understand what their criteria is...is it English only?

PAN technology overview

2008-01-10T21:40:00.000+09:00

Sensors can be combined with WPAN(wireless personal area network) technology to access or communicate with Distributed Environment.

There are several WPAN technologies available; Bluetooth, UWB(Ultra-wide band), and Zigbee.
Bluetooth is nowadays well-known technology.
UWB technology is one of the wireless transmission technology, it can deliver digital data with lower power, more data using wide-spread spectrum in short range. Zigbee is also alternative , it has low complexity for design, low cost, the price is rather cheaper than Bluetooth low power consumption. However its data rate is low , maximum 250kbps,

RFID + WSN Application

2008-01-10T20:56:00.000+09:00

What would be the future application for RFID and wireless sensor network technology?

Since the US government invested 19$ budget in 2004, several projects have been researched by military service and research institute.
WSN will be used in DoD, health Care, transportation, Industrial Automation, Retail Industry, manufacturing, retail/supply chain, environment , disaster prevention and home network as well.
DoD
If mote can be spread out in enemy's area using remote-controlled spy plane, the mote can make communication network and activate the sensors then it can detect vehicle and its route. There are many research project which are sponsored by military, Vanderbuilt college has researched about ‘Shooter Localization’ project for military purpose and Ohio Sate university has researched about ‘Line in the Sand’ project to figure out enemy’s movement based on vibration sensors and UCLA has developed ‘Power Aware Distributed Systems’ based on vibration and actuator sensors in enemy’s area.
Environment
- Using temperature, humidity, heat, location, vibration sensors, application can detect and control environment in real time and prevent and efficient response when the fire or collapse is occurred.
Disaster Prevention
- Application can decide and notify disaster based on sensing data analysis
Health care
- Application can detect and analyze patients health from bio sensors which can collect pulse, temperature and blood pressure of patient. Through this application, doctors can monitor, diagnose and prescribe the patient in distant when emergency occurs.
If temperature sensor and humidity sensors are attached to blood or anti-cancer medicines, this application can provide right temperature and humidity and raise down blood disposal ratio.
Transportation
- Using vibration, actuator, application can detect crash or traffic and control traffic congestion efficiently in real time.
Retail/Supply Chain
If WSN technology is combined with RFID, then RFID/WSN can be applied retail/supply chain management area very efficiently. RFID will be used in Identification/Access &Tracking, . sensor network can collect, analyze, transmit to monitor & control.
These applications will be commercialized soon according to sensor node manufacturing company such as SAIC (Science Application International Co.) , Dust Networks , Sensicast System

Smart Dust

2008-01-10T20:43:00.000+09:00

One of the sensor node technology is Smart Dust, it can be utilized as tiny sensor node. Smart Dust technology was originally developed in the mid 1990’s at university research institutions, the University of California, Berkeley, for defense and intelligence applications. As the research world rallied around the concept of “Smart Dust” ,the first project was conducted by Kris Pister, a Professor at UC Berkeley and founder and CTO of Dust Networks, universities and research institutions worldwide started to take a closer look at the impact of ubiquitous sensing and control. Smart Dust (Silicon Mote) can collect , analyze data and transmit them to 30m range distance by wireless
SmartDust was designed in very small Silicon Mote and integrated with SoC and solar-cell technology in early days.

Intel Mote
One component of the sensor node is low-power CPU, this component has been developed by Intel, ARM, and Motorola. Intel developed motes which use micro processor based on ARM 32bit CPU , as following image shows Intel Mote . It has 64KB RAM, 512 KB memory and 12MHz CPU clock. RF Module is based on 2.4GHz Blue tooth which is developed by Zeevo, and its transmit ration is up to maximum 720kbps.

Problems and other approach
However, the sensor node technology has still outstanding issues such as sensor size , battery life cycle, cost for installation and data accuracy. To solve these issues many research and development project is still going on. By the Dust technologies, current sensor mote size is as small as 1cent, however, it can be recognized by eye, so it can easily exposed to enemy or general human beings who may regard it as “dust” and throw it away.
Second, limitation of battery life cycle can be an obstacle for the deployment. To extend battery’s life cycle there are several approaches has been researched and developed. In initial stage, it is proposed instead of battery, that solar cell is used. However, solar cell cannot minimized mote size and not efficient in energy transformation. Since then, instead on solar cell, acoustic noise and kinetic energy by vibration between the motes are replaced.
l Solar cell
l Energy source from human body (Temperature)
l Source from building(heat)
l Kinetic Energy (by Vibration, by Motion
l Acoustic Noise

Nowadays, other approach for better life cycle is researched by communication engineering area, which is to optimize sensor network To minimize battery exchange cost, there are several efficient communication routing protocol is proposed for example, SMedia Access Control by prof. Wei Ye.
Third, sensor mote’s price is not cheap. Recently, MEMS technology has dramatically led to the development of ultra small in size, low-power, low-cost sensor devices. However, cost is shrink down from 50$/mote to 1$/mote. Still, it will cost huge amount of money to apply and create sensor network in real world.

RFID application use case model + domain model

2008-01-10T20:14:00.000+09:00

Problem statement

The problem context of requirements analysis for an asset tracking system using RFID technology. The system will track important assets and entities in the hospital (pharmaceuticals, supplies, durable medical equipment, patients, doctors, nurses, etc.) and provide specific user interfaces that are tailored for particular kinds of asset tracking.

1) Supply Tracker (search inventory, display inventory, order supplies, update inventory) - primarily used by an individual playing the role of Purchaser
2) People Tracker (admit patient, register visitor, discharge patient, register staff, query person location, monitor visitors, monitor ward) - primarily used by Nurses, Administrative Staff and Security Personnel

Approach
Through this project approach can be summarized as following :

1) Construct questionnaires for various stakeholders

2) Make a list of use cases (brief format) and initial prioritization

3) Develop fully-dressed use cases for high-priority use cases

4) Describe UML use case model for fully-dressed use cases

5) Describe UML system sequence diagram for each fully-dressed use case

6) Describe UML domain model

Use Case Model
1) Supply Tracker Application

2) People Tracker Application

The business value of the system is driven by several current issues which are of concern :
- Unauthorized visitor access (e.g. risk of drug theft or infant abduction)
- More effective inventory management
- More effective shared use of high-demand capital equipment (e.g. sonogram machines)

Domain Model
In this problem context, key concerns are RFID tag , People Registration /Asset Registration and Location Event. The others are duplicated information from HR, e-Records and e-Logistics system which is originally managed patient’s medical information, employee’s detail information and asset’s information. By applying “separation of concerns” concept, key abstraction can shows this domain characteristics concisely, however, with other entity can describe well enough to understand this domain as well. Key abstraction (yellow) will be designed first in design stage and others will be designed later and be consistent with existing environment.
E-records is the master domain of patient’s medical information. HR is the master domain of employee’s information such as department, special occupation, and position. E-Logistics is the master domain of asset’s information such as asset category (disposable supplies, expensive equipment, etc) and earned date , earned price, and etc. These entity should be consistent with original master entity in HR, e-Records, and e-Logistics. To meet consistency, in design stage, these entities should be designed to meet their original domain’s design specification such as database schema, interface specification and etc.

RFID application proposal for Hospital

2008-01-10T19:18:00.000+09:00

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to propose the high level application recommendation for a hospital to be adopted as the RFID technology blueprint for the hospital, cost of recommended application and IT deployment strategy are also part of a sequence of deployment plan following 5-years time frame.

This proposal contains:

(1) Review of RFID technologies applicable to the health care industry, including an assessment of RFID devices, readers and support systems applicable to a hospital
(2) Recommendation of the ten best applications of RFID for a hospital using the four criteria
(3) Recommendation of the ten solution deployment strategy for the next five years
(4) Estimation of deployment costs for recommended solution including RFID devices and support systems.

Specifically out of scope are systems and the networks architecture on which they run and the management of these systems and operation systems. However it is expected that the cost estimation of recommended solution will need assumption of generic architecture which can be applied to the implementation plan of these systems.

Problem Statement

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (http://www.fda.gov/) is requiring drug companies to enhance the safety and security of the U.S. drug supply by 2007 using radio-frequency identification (RFID). As described by the FDA, this is "a state-of-the-art technology that uses electronic tags on product packaging to allow manufacturers and distributors to more precisely keep track of drug products as they move through the supply chain." The client wants to be able to satisfy FDA requirements for drug tracking within its hospitals, which will require it to install RFID readers.

When the client wants to use RFID throughout the hospital for many different purposes, including patient identification, billing, surgical safety, personnel location and, of course, drug tracking. The client understands that it will be able to control some of the RFID systems, such as patient identification, but for others it must remain compatible with RFID tags coming from outside entities, such as drug companies. The client also sees RFID as the beginning of "ubiquitous computing" in the medical field.

The client understands ubiquitous computing to mean that in the future numerous computers and chips will be embedded in the walls of rooms, in surgical instruments, laboratory apparatus, patient blood sample containers, employees badges, patient wristbands - essentially all over the hospital. These devices can interconnect through wireless technology to form a vast network of computers and sensors that will allow automation of many functions now performed manually, such as capture of billing information. It expects that this technology will be able to improve the efficiency and safety of health care delivery.

The question that the client asked which set of technologies should be used, how can it be sure to be compatible with outside products having RFIDs, and what future applications can be developed to

(1) increase profit,

(2) promote safety,

(3) improve the speed and quality of health care delivery; and

(4) comply with FDA regulations regarding RFID in drug packaging.
The client is looking for a far-ranging, creative implementation of RFID-based ubiquitous computing in its hospitals. It will also need to understand the cost of various alternatives.

Summary of Result

To drive Health-care transformation this project would focus on using new technologies and leveraging the electronic health record for more effective patient care, easier communication for hospital staff and better efficiency. Technologies to be employed will include: wireless handheld devices for connection to electronic health records; radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags for tracking personnel, equipment and patients; and monitoring devices in patient rooms to alert nurses of patient status.

The ten applications
1. Ready to Go, will provide emergency check before ambulance leaving
2. Operation Monitoring will improve patient safety by check and monitoring before/while operation
3. Surgical Instrument/Equipment management system will provide the status of surgical instrument – for e.g. Sterilization/contamination/infection and etc.
4. Patient Tracking will provide patient we will look through in next slides and protect infant stolen by real-time notification as well.

5. Employ Tracking will provide employer's location information and notification to doctors and nurses when they are called.
6. Drug Tracking is the FDA compliance Application and also provide drug inventory as well.
7. Sample/Organ Management will provide Identification and speed up test center’s billing process as well.
8. e-Patient Medical Record will provide right Medication and Speed up diagnosis process as well 9. Home Nursing System will provide 24hours home care service for special patient like diabetic patient etc.
10.Patient Guidance system will protect elderly or blind people getting lost in the hospital and provide navigation information by headset.

RFID technology overview

2008-01-10T18:30:00.000+09:00

Ubiquitous, as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, means “existing or being everywhere at the same time”. Based on this, ubiquitous computing is the computing environment that is everywhere; it is in the environment surrounding us and becomes part of our life, and as the technology is almost transparent to us, it does not become a distraction. As RFID provides a way of making “things communicate with other things” (understanding things as machines, products, etc.), people can just live their lives and let the technology work by itself.

Freqeuncy issue

The 3 main frequencies used for RFID purposes are: HF(13.56 MHz), UHF(860 MHz – 930 MHz), and Ultra UHF( 2.45 GHz). The first one fits in the category of High Frequency (HF) and the other two in the Ultra High Frequency category (UHF). Generally speaking, by using a higher frequency you can improve a tag reader's ability to read many co-located tags because of the higher data transfer rate, reducing the chance of collision. [07/want04] It is also possible to read tags at bigger distances (up to 100 meters with active RFIDs) while increasing the frequency.

HF is cheaper than UHF technology and HF can be recommended for most of the applications, especially when a large number of tags/readers are required. If the application is going to be used within the hospital, HF can be recommended for cost reasons as well. For drug tracking UHF can be recommened , because the need of interoperability with other health centers and the FDA.
If a further range of operation is needed or tag size is not important, probably 900MHz frequency can be recommended. If more functions are needed, 2.45GHz frequency can be recommended because it is easier to integrate with sensors and has more functions, but cannot be used inside operation rooms or near people with pacemakers.
When mobility is a must, portable readers should be used. These machines have their own operating system and usually have the ability to send data to a central computer through a wireless connection. Otherwise, fixed readers should be used (portable readers cost 2-5 times of a fixed one).
HF has a lot of advantages in size and antenna design, but has a very short operation range. On the contrary, 900MHz offers a very long range and a great tolerance to interference (medium to water/metal) but a bigger tag size and more complex antenna design. The 2.45GHz also has very small size tag, but it is not so tolerant to interference as 900MHz and has a shorter range, although the antenna design is a little bit easier. Both HF and 900MHz should be able to work with metal/water and avoid most of interference, and their bigger differences are in size and range.

Data Standardization issue

Several standards / proposals might be used within these frequencies, including ISO 14443, ISO 15693, ISO 18000 and EPCglobal, which has its origin in the MIT Auto-ID Labs.

Even though the Japanese ubiquitous ID protocol implementation has gathered strong allies like Microsoft and Hitachi, and is trying to became an RFID standard, EPCglobal’s UHF Class 1 Gen 2 is in a much more advanced stage and has already become a part of ISO 18000-6. This standard defines the use of the 860 MHz – 930 MHz spectrum.
The EPCglobal standard defines the EPC code within its Architecture Framework. Other important standards are the ONS (to locate authoritative metadata and services) and the EPCIS (provides a service interface to access information from the central DB or repository).
The EPC is defined by EPCglobal as a code to identify the manufacturer, the type and unique id of a given product. It uses 96 bits, where 38 are for identifying its serial number (see table below). That means it can have 2^38 (270+ billion) unique serial numbers for each product and company. EPCglobal Tag Data Standards Version 1.3 defines all these details.

RFID tag with Material issue

There are certain limitations when using RFID tags on liquids and metals. According to research, UHF use would be more appropriate than HF for the pharmaceutical industry in order to avoid these limitations. Several kinds of antennas can be used in order to satisfy a specific need. In one of Impinj's technical documents, some of their models are described, including one that is specially interesting for the pharmaceutical world; the PaperClip Antenna, that can be used everywhere, even in water. [10/impinj06]But as this is a (relatively) new technology, new problems arise.

Privacy and Security Issue

Privacy and security issues are covered in many ways, ranging from manual deactivation of the RFID tag to sophisticated public key protocols or hash functions, that require the tag to have processing capacities. Encryption technology is developed so far for privacy concern, this technology provided authentication, privacy, integrity and non- repudiation: [ohkubo05, anshel06]
-Smart tags
-PKI capable tags
-Anonymous-ID scheme
-Tag with lightweight circuits: i.e. hash function
- Algebraic Eraser

Book: Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

2008-01-10T06:43:00.000+09:00

!---From Wikipedia----
Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, on Alice's birthday (May 4),[1] uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night),[2] uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.

This book was reported that many software architect and software engineering people got insight from it.

Mobile Banking Domain Model (Analysis Model)

2008-01-08T23:53:00.000+09:00

This system design is the implementation for mobile banking application. The scope and main function of the system as belows.
1) User registration as mobile baking services
2) Basic authentication: log-in, log-out
3) View user’s bank accounts
4) Transfer money
5) Alert (Add/delete/check)

User can be classified based on trader Type; Casual Trader, Frequent Trader, and Day Trader
Casual Trader may have no fixed data plan but pay for Data packets and use several times usage per month. Frequent Trader can have unlimited data plan, need ticker's information. Day Trader can have unlimited data plan, need ticker's information and daily trading transaction service.Trader can be enhanced by defining trader Type and its transaction fee.
Account can be categorized billing account for bill payment service, bank account such as savings and check account and stock account for stock trading.
Alert can be enhanced by defining Alert Method such as SMS, RSS, and Email.

Mobile Banking Site map

2008-01-08T22:27:00.000+09:00

Mobile Banking Application starts with "Main" menu which provide “My Account” , “Transfer” and “Alert” Service. Next step, “My profile” will provide manage Contacts. The site diagram is that it begins with Main menu that displays four services in the main menu: My Accounts, Transfer, Alert and My Profile
Before the users move to 'the select menu', the user is needed to perform login or register according to the type: returning user or new user.
The site has one integrated success and error page. When each transaction or process is completed, they go to success page( success.jsp ) if user complete the process, the system displays error page ( error.jsp ) if ) if user input the wrong data, information or make it incomplete during the banking process. This success and error page is common to all pages available.
Each use case has the redirection to the designated pages.

PON (Passive Optical Network) Technology review

2008-01-08T21:57:00.000+09:00

PON (Passive Optical Network) is gradually establishing itself as an important part of broadband access technologies, which is fiber to the premises network architecture, FTTH (Fiber to the home). PON has several characteristics such as Simplicity (1: Multi) : PON consists of OLT (Optical Line Termination) and ONUs(Optical Network Lines) , no electronics or active link in field.

Why PON is important? PON can reduced operation cost in terms of below aspects
- High reliability
- Reduced power expenses
- Shorter installation times

There are several PON related technologies; B-PON, E-PON, and G-PON.

1) BPON: ATM based PON technology [Standard: ITU-T G.983]
• BPON maps all traffic to ATM sells
• ATM cells fit into BPON TC frames
• Can use Ethernet uplink

2) EPON: Ethernet based PON technology [Standard: IEEE 820.3ah]
• EPON is based on Ethernet Bearer, Symmetrical bi-directional 1Gbps
• Optical network can be split and delivered to 16ONUs
• End user can transmit packets by TDM. • Efficient for IP-based interactive and high speed data service.
• Easy to deploy with existing Gigabit Ethernet networks with last mile to the home
- In Asian Market, Japan and Korea, GEPON is dominant due to Re-use of Ethernet
- However, in North America TDM or ATM based network bearer is not efficient for EPON

3) GPON: ATM + Ethernet hybrid technology [Standard: ITU-T G.984]
• Address rates greater than 1 Giga byte/s
• Multi-service technology with Cell, Packet and TDM mapping
• Support ATM-only, Packet-only (variable length burst), and Mixed-mode framing
• GPON draws on the B-PON series
• Main Player in US market: Verizon (Nation-wide Deployed), AT&T, Bell South
•Advantage on downloads, efficiency, security, well support on TDM services (voice, data or video service) and QoS.
• Due to the existing ATM networks in US, fairly easy to deploy GPON with a large customer requirements.
• By 2008, North America will account for 43 percent of worldwide PON revenues where GPON dominates.

Telecom network technology vs application review

2008-01-08T14:20:00.000+09:00

Data network technologies are compared in terms of data rate against required data rates. Since Simple Short Messaging service(SMS) is limited with data size 100 bytes and with data rates at 14.4kbps, 2nd generation wireless data technology is mainly based on plain text limited at 14.4kbps. HPCSD and IS-95A are the relevant technologies for 2G.
Downloading ring tones and accessing the Internet with cell-phone modem mode requires more than above data rates up to 56kbps. GPRS and IS-95B can deliver these application with 56 kbps data rates.

With introduction for network technology, to apply these wireless technology, feasibility for mobile banking application will be studied as well . So it will be recommended to adopt technology for mobile banking application.

For example, relatively low data rate technology such as IS-95 A/B and GPRS will not be recommended for mobile banking application if application needs higher than 56kbps data rate.

Because secure data exchanging like mobile banking or image and mp3 downloading via "Wireless Internet" requires more than 100kbps data rates. 2G is not fit for deliver these applications. Since 2.5G is available via CDMA 20001X and EDGE which can deliver more than 153kbps up to 384kbps data rate, mobile banking application and various multimedia service can be commercialized and realized.

Since 3G network has been deployed, video streaming and video telephony which are sensitive in data latency, are available. Thus 3rd generation technology standard EVDO and EDGE/WCDMA realized video telephony, mobile TV service and fluent multimedia service in Asia and North America. Beyond 3G technologies such as HSDPA/HSUPA and EVDO revision B enables wireless broadband access, Multimedia Messaging Service, video chat, mobile TV, and other streaming services. For example, Verizon wireless started mobile TV service (VCast) in several cities including New York using HSDPA network.

If we have a look on 3rd generation technology adoption of USA market operators, AT&T adopted HSDPA in 2004 while T-mobile adopted HSDPA in 2006. Verizon Wireless adopted EVDO in 2005 while Sprint adopted EVDO in 2005.

Telecom Network Technology Review

2008-01-08T13:42:00.000+09:00

Wireless technology evolved from the fist generation for exclusive analog voice communication network to the 4th generation for All- IP network.

The first generation technology is analogue voice communication only, TACS is dominant technology in Europe, AMPS in dominant technology in U.S. After that, wireless technology was involved to the 2nd generation of wireless technology which can deliver data at 14.4kbps rate and digital voice traffic. GSM is dominant in Europe, IS-95A/B and TDMA are dominant in US market. IS-95A, which use CDMA technology developed by Qualcomm, can deliver data traffic at 14.4kbps, and IS-95B can deliver data traffic at 56kbps rate. Since these 2G technology were deployed, the wireless user can access Internet using cell-phone’s modem mode.

As the needs for "Wireless Internet" grows higher and higher, the network technology evolved to the second and a half technology which can deliver more higher bandwidth for data traffic. GPRS is dominant 2.5G technology in Europe, which can deliver data with 56kbps, however, CDMA 2000(IS-95C) , dominant in Asia market, can deliver data traffic up to about 153kbps.
These 2.5G technology enabled wireless data market more fluently and it can provide various multimedia messaging with animation and colorful image or picture against just simple text only SMS.

As the needs for multimedia and various application grows higher and higher, 3G technology started to be developed by two big organization, which are 3GPP and 3GPP2. 3GPP is a WCDMA supporting group for 3G technology, 3GPP2 is a CDMA20001X supporting group for 3G. In United Sates, AT&T and T-mobile are 3GPP supporting service provider, and Verizon wireless and Sprint are 3GPP2 supporting service provider.

3G technology enabled fluent multimedia service such as video downloading & streaming, video telephony, game, and various multimedia contents due to high bandwidth. CDMA2000 1X-EVDO can deliver data more than 153kbps and up to 2Mbps for exclusive user in a cell. Now CDMA2000-3X with EVDO revision A/B are deployed and it can deliver data at 1.8M~3Mbps rate. EDGE and WCDMA release 99can deliver data at 384kbps however WCDMA released 4 and 5 which can deliver data 5M ~ 14.4Mbps using MIMO technology. Now these Release4/5 are known as HSDPA and HSUPA.

And these technology will eventually evolve to All-IP based technology. 4G is being developed to enable broadband Internet access, high quality video conferencing and video presence, mobile TV, High definition TV content, and other integrating multimedia service by combined with IMS. These technology evolution will bring to us "any device” , “anytime” and “anywhere" communication environment.
Now 2.5 G and 3G technology are existing in the market. However, as the technology evolve, new technology will replace old legacy network technology.

Magic Number

2008-01-07T11:20:00.000+09:00

Number “Three” is mysterious. It is so called "magic number"In the book "Logical Thinking" by McKinsey Consulting, in my memory, the number "Three" is favorite number among consultants when they develop their logic.For me....the number "Three" is very applicable because it is easy to present in one power point page, easy to deliver to the audience , easy to let the audience memorize.

Number "4" is very useful dealing with "Enterprise Architecture.”Enterprise architecture can be developed perspectives and views.There are four views which are Business architecture, Application architecture, Data architecture, and Technology architecture. And there can be four perspectives which is contextual, conceptual, logical and physical perspectives (or one might say, Executive level, Owner level, Designer level, Executer level) So...when we talk about "Enterprise Architecture Framework", 4*4 matrix is generally used in enterprise architecture consulting.

Based on my perspective, number "12" is very very exotic, mysterious.I dare to say, like Jesus and 12 disciples; one cannot serve more than 12 people in one's mind.I am not Jesus so there are no disciples as well, but I would like to invite 12 people in my village (in my heart) , serve them and make them be happy whoever can be a member of my family, religious family, colleague or competitors, in my contemporary society.I would like to find them and complete my village and make them better from now on.

3 이라는 숫자는 매우 신비롭다.한국에서는 삼세판이 통하고, 서양에서는 magic number로 통한다.컨설팅세계에서는 Mckinsey Consulting이 펴낸 책에서, 컨설턴트들이 논리를 펼 때 좋아하는 숫자도 3 이라고 한다.나의 경우도 마찬가지......3은 한 장의 파워 포인트에 담기도 쉽고, 전달하기도 쉽고, 상대방에게 기억을 시키기도 쉽다.

4 라는 숫자도 꽤 유용하다.Enterprise Architecture를 다룰 때 더욱 그런 편. BA/AA/DA/TA 라는 아키텍처 관점의 Point of View와 Executive (Sponsor)/ Planner(or Owner)/Designer/Executer(Programmer) 라는 관점의 Perspective 또는 Contextual, Conceptual, Logical, Physical 역시 4라는 숫자가 매우 유용하다.그래서일까...... EA Framework을 논할 때는 4*4 matrix가 컨설팅에서 매우 일반적으로 쓰인다.

내게 있어 12라는 숫자 또한 매우 신비롭다.예수와 12제자에서 보여지듯이, 한 개인이 섬길 수 있는 믿음의 형제가 12 명 이상을 초과할 수 없다는 묘한 논리를 갖다 붙이고 싶다.내게 있어 12제자는 아니지만, 나와 같은 동시대를 살아가는 사회인들 중에그 사회가 가족사회이든, 종교집단이든, 직장 이라는 사회, 경쟁회사든 간에12명을 내 마음에 Village에 상주시키고 그들을 섬기고 그들과 행복을 나누며 살아가고 싶다.지금부터 나는 그들을 찾아 내 마을을 완성시키고, 더 나은 미래를 만들고 싶다.

The Village Theory

2008-01-06T22:00:00.000+09:00

The village theory in “ The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less” by Richard Koch

Anthropologists stress that the number of exhilarating and important personal relationships that people can establish is limited. Apparently, the common pattern of people in any society is to have two important childhood friends, two significant adult friends, and two doctors. Typically, there are two powerful sexual partners who eclipse the others. Most commonly, you fall in love only once, and there is one member of your family whom you love above all others. The number of significant personal relationships is remarkably similar for everyone, regardless of their location, sophistication or culture. This had led to the anthropologists’ "village theory". In an African village, all these relationships happen within a few hundred meters and are often formed within a short-period of time. For us, these relationships may be spread all over the planet and over a whole lifetime. They nonetheless constitute a village which we each have in our heads, and once these slots are filled, they're filled forever.

그래서 10여명 정도의 인간관계가 내 마음에 살고 있고, 한번 채워진 자리는 절대 다른 이로 대처될수가 없다는 거다.

이러한 마을이론과 더불어, 나는 위로 존경할 수 있는 선배 또는 웃어른을 3명, 아래로 애정으로 이끌수 있는 후배 또는 자식을 3명, 그리고 나와함께 삶을 함께 나누는 관계를 3명 맺으리라 생각해 왔다.
가족중에 가장 사랑하는 어머니의 자리와 ...이제는 대처할 수 없는 첫사랑의 빈자리를 제외하고...

이제....앞으로의 10 여명의 사도를 채워나가고 싶다.

People in my world

2008-01-06T21:05:00.000+09:00

주로 난 내가 처한 환경에서 사람들을 존중하고 관계 맺기를 고수해왔다. 다른 환경의 사람들을 그닥 신뢰하지 않아서가 아니라, 좀 더 이해할 수 있고, 동병상련 이랄까, 과부마음은 과부만 안다고 힘든 상황에서 유사한 업종에서 고민하고 일하는 사람들과 희노애락을 함께하고 싶어서....

컨설팅 생활 8년차에 이르던 어느날 도미한 나지만....늘 고마움을 느끼는 사람들이 있다.
예전 PwC Consulting에서 나를 interview하셨고, 조직의 리더 이자, 내 마음의 리더인 유인철 박사님, 지금은 IBM GBS에서 파트너로 계신다. 외롭고 힘든 삶이지만 늘 웃음 가득, 성공을 빌어주는 밝은 모습으로 응원해 주시는 분....석사 박사 원서 넣을때 마다 바쁘신 와중에도 resume를 늘 써주시던 분.....이 고마움을 제대로 표현하지 못하고 돌아와 맘이 아프다.

역시나 예전 PwC Consulting에서 싸부였던 조영표 선생님, 지금은 KTF 전략기획팀장으로 계신다. 늘 조영표 선생님이 고수의 길을 가르쳐 주던 후배를 아끼고 가르침을 나눠주시던 분. 아마 조영표 팀장님 때문에 KTF의 전략기획실은 승승장구할듯.

그리고 역시나 PwC 시절의 박주혜 선생님, 지금은 AT커니에서 상무로 계신다. 박상무님. 늘 엄마같고 늘 이모같고, 늘 큰언니 같은 .... 사적으로 내 생활을 너무나 잘 꿰뚫고 계시기에....박주혜 선생님은 내 마음의 10명중에 한자리를 넉넉히 차지하신다.

그리고 PwC 시절의 최지호 선생님....늘 최지호 선생님 주위로 모이는 좋은 사람들과의 모임에서 자극도 받고 새로운 기대도 하게 되는 ,initiative를 늘 제공해 주시는 분

내가 언제쯤 이분들에게 도움이 될 수 있을까....
늘 함께 했던 과거를 그리워하지 말고 언제쯤 함께 미래를 만들어 볼 수 있을까....
어떻게 시작해야 할지는 아직 모르겠지만....조만간 그런 미래가 왔음 좋겠다.

How to be a good consultant

2008-01-06T21:03:00.000+09:00

In my world, people say that a professional consultant has so many abilities such as outstanding knowledge in more than one industry, overwhelming persuasion capability, good analytical ability and ceaseless physical strength against excessive stress. But qualifications of being a professional consultant do not contribute to friendship and morality. How can we succeed as a professional, contribute to family, company and the world, make friends and be the person we want to be? Based on my own experience, I want to introduce my personal answers about how to be a good consultant in private life and in relationships.

First of all, take initiatives with seamless efforts and curiosity. Consulting jobs are never the same. That is, every project you encounter has different objectives, different business and technology environment, and different types of clients. Everything something different is not always good, because consultants always have to study and analyze the whole problem. If you lack patience or exhaust your self through stressful projects, you might loose your temper or sometimes you might be scared. To prevent this, you have to be proactive with your curious mind and say for yourself “Enjoy it, if it is inevitable.”

Secondly, in business relations, make long-term relationships with your clients. People commonly make a mistake in a consulting business relationship with their clients because they regard their opportunity as one of the temporary and pass-by project. But remember the saying, “Don’t burn your bridges”. Almost every consulting project is a long-term business or even if it is not, you have to think of it as a long-term business. Clients can be good friends if you show your trust to them first and treat them as partners which will give win-win opportunity.

In summary, to be a good consultant is to be proactive with ceaseless curiosity and make long-term relationships with your business partners. Consulting is a difficult job because selling knowledge and experience can not be seen in the first place. But if you try to do your best in your job and make good friendship with people around you, then you will be a successful consultant in your private life and also your business.

Men are from mars, women are from venus

2008-01-06T19:58:00.001+09:00

화성에서 온 남자, 금성에서 온 여자 라는 책이 있다.
서로 다른 행성에서 온 남자와 여자 라는 종족은 태생부터 그 관심사가 달랐고, 대화방식이라던가 사물을 대하는 느낌이나 태도가 달라서 서로의 다름을 이해하고 대해야 한다는 책.
내가 이책에서 얻은 장점은 회사에서 남자를 대하는 말투나 사고를 적용할 수 있다는 것. 다만, 연애에서는 그다지 적용해보지 않아 딱히 좋다고 머라 말할수가 없다. 많은 부부들이 이 책을 그들의 결혼생활에 적용하는 것을 보아, 아마 가족이라는 구조도 서로간의 이해관계가 다르면서도 목적이 같은 조그만 사회를 형성하기 때문에 이 책을 적용해도 큰 잇점을 얻을 수 있을 것이리라.

이 책에서 내가 발견한 내 삶의 영향은...
사회가 가족이라는 구조를 만드는 경향보다 단일 구성원을 지향하려는 경향이 클 때, 남성성과 여성성이 동시에 발현되지 않을까 라는 점이다. 즉, 화성에서 온 여자이면서 금성에서 온 남자처럼 행동하고 사고하는 경향이 생기지 않을까...

그래서, 나는 화성에서 온 여자처럼 살아오지 않았을까 라는 내 나름대로의 나에 대한 고찰과 내 미래를 화성에서 온 여자 처럼 살아감에 있어 좋은 점은 부각시키고 나쁜 점은 고쳐보려는 노력을 나의 물리적인 삶과 나의 논리적인 삶, 바로 이곳에서 표출하고 싶다.

There is a book, "men are from mars, women are form venus".
This book explored the generic differences between men and women in a way that their concern is diffrent, their communication style is different, their behavior or feeling to objects is different, and guided two opposite sex should understand and communicate each other.
I found the author's guidence was effective in my company life by applying in communication with men. But, I could not apply to my private life , I could not say anything for the time being.
However, many couples applied this book in their private lives, I might say this book will be effective as well, because family is a small society, in which each member has different concern but has the same objective....(But I am not sure 100%, I could not make my family so far.)

But what I found in this book, insights in my life is....
If a society has a trend which is being single life not married rather than being familes, two opposite characteristics - what women are like and what men are like- may be revealed.
That is , there may exist people like men from venus, women from mars.

So, I think I am the one of them, women from mars, if really I am, I want to reveal my effort to live myself to strengthen what I have and to remedy my defects as a girl from mars not only my phisical life but also my logical life , this virtual space.

Prologue

2008-01-06T19:31:00.000+09:00

2008년 새해를 맞이함과 동시에 회색 도시 피츠버그의 우울함에서 벗어나고자 블러그를 시작하다.

지금까지의 모든 내 지식과 경험을 이 블러그에 녹이고자 , 내 과거를 기록하고자... 앞으로의 나를 또다른 디지털 공간에 살아 있게 함으로써 또다른 생명을 부여하고자....

이제 이 블러그는 나 개인의 과거이자 현재, 그리고 미래가 될 것이다.

Why I start this blog...
to meet the new year's day of 2008 ,

to avoid from gloomy mood in the Grey city, Pittsburgh,

to store my knowledge and experience so far in this virtual space,
to record my past,

to give birth to a new life by being in this digital virtual space ,

From today, this blog will be my second life to reveal my past, my present and my future.