Through the Flickr blog, I signed up for Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule today.

“The Photo Time Capsule digs up your photos on Flickr from a year ago, choosing the ones that are most interesting (most views, comments, and faves), then sends them to you a quick email. I’ve been using it for a while, and it’s amazing how nostalgia-inducing getting a little time capsule every couple weeks has been.” — Amit Gupta, Photojojo

I immediately received an email and was pleasantly surprised by the photos.  It really jogs your memory as to what you were doing a year ago this week/month.  Last year during this time included Pocky sticks, Myeong-dong with Allison, chicken on a stick in Itaewon, and grilled chicken in Chuncheon.  Boy, I was busy!

The last couple of days have been a pain in the butt.  I did a lot of behind the scene work on my website.

• I switched the registrar for my domain, lao-ocean.com
•  signed up for a new web host
• migrated my blog to the new webhost
• my webhost deactivated my account because my credit card information was for the U.S., but my ISP was in Korea
• had to call and reactivate my account
• upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.3
• spent hours and hours reading about Wordpress themes, plugins, upgrading, blah, blah, blah

Initially, I had considered opening up a Wordpress.com account and just redirecting my domain there.  There were two main reasons I didn’t go that route.  One, I couldn’t customize my theme or install plugins.  Therefore I couldn’t even use my current theme (brown and red with the dragonfly).  Second, I’m hoping to make my blog more multi-media rich in the future, and needed a little more elbow room to stretch my wings.

More work needs to be done tomorrow, but for now, I’m going to relax and enjoy tonight’s episode of Lost.

This postsecret gave me a chuckle:

Then I wondered if this could be my cousin:

Here are some things I found interesting from this interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

TIME: Is Facebook’s popularity connected to its focus on authenticity? On your site, misrepresentation of your real self is a violation of company policy.

Zuckerberg: That’s the critical part of it. Our whole theory is that people have real connections in the world. People communicate most naturally and effectively with their friends and the people around them. What we figured is that if we could model what those connections were, [we could] provide that information to a set of applications through which people want to share information, photos or videos or events. But that only works if those relationships are real.

TIME: With more than 40 billion page views every month, Facebook is the sixth most trafficked site in the U.S., and the top photo-sharing site. What are your international expansion plans?

Zuckerberg: Right now a lot of our growth is happening internationally. We have more than 10% or 15% of the population of Canada on the site. The U.K. has a huge user base.

This month, I’ve been watching a lot of movies.  Two weeks ago, I added the “Flixster” application on Facebook, and am going to list and review all the movies I see from this year on.  So far, all 16 movies listed have been everything I’ve watched since arriving in Oregon for the summer.  The best so far were: Born into Brothels, Transformers, and Hard Candy.  The list of movies to see in the next two days include: Ghost World, Grave of the Fireflies, and The Devil Wears Prada.  At the end of the year, it’ll be interesting to see how many movies I’ve seen from the second half of 2007.  Yesterday, brother rented a Japanese movie that came out this week called, “Yo-Yo Girl Cop.”  Besides the funny title, I can’t decide whether I want to watch it or not.

I don’t know how they did it, but it’s online.  I just heard on the radio today from the editor of the book, adamantly proclaiming the impossibility of it all.  From what he said, copies of upcoming books are normally sent out to bookstores for them to read and decide how many they should order.  In this case, the books weren’t sent to anyone.  It was more like, “This is what it is.  How many do you want?”  I guess he was wrong.  Who knows… maybe someone from the Amazon.com warehouse stole it.

It takes about a minute to download, but it’s here.  Someone took pictures of the pages of the book, up until page 495.  How can you possibly dispute this?

It seems like a pain in the butt, just to read it four days before the release.  I’ve already pre-ordered my book from Amazon and will probably take it back to Korea with me to finish.  Once I do, I’ll most likely re-sell the book on Dave’s ESL or some place like it.  Anyone interested if I do?