Year 2001

12.31:  Said Farewell to 2001.
12.29:  Installed CJK OS on Palm Vx.
12.28:  Watched "Vidocq" starring Gerard Depardieu.
12.27:  Watched "i-got-i bob-i-da".
12.26:  Watched "Waikiki Brothers".
12.25:  Christmas Day.  Found out that I was not a Scrooge :-)
12.24:  Christmas Eve.  Had a wild party :-)
        Visited ear doctor for treatment.
12.23:  Finished reading "Se-gye-man-hwa-tam-sa" by Sung Wan-Kyong.
12.22:  Watched "Hwa-san-go".
        Finished reading "Sequential Art" by Will Eisner.
12.20:  6:35 AM: Landed at Seoul, Korea.
        Watched "Du-sa-bu-il-che".
12.19:  1:00 AM: Boarded Asiana Airline to fly from SFO to Korea.
12.17:  Watched "The Business of Strangers".
12.14:  Watched "Tuvalu" directed by Viet Helmer.
        Watched "Vanilla Sky" starring Tom Cruise.
12.13:  Received first Christmas Card this year.
        eCard has replaced traditional card in recent years.
12.12:  Watched "Oceans's Eleven" starring G. Clooney and B. Pitt.
12.8:  Reviewed "The Elements of Grammer".
12.5:  Watched "An Affair of Necklace".
12.4:  Attended "Internet Wireless West" SJ CC in the morning.
       Attended "Linux OpenWorld" in SF Moscone Center in the afternoon.
12.3:  Upgraded web broswer to MS Internet Explorer 6.
12.2:  Updated pictures of myself on www.dswkim.org :-)
       Upgrade to Linux Kernel 2.4.7 for babbage.dswkim.org.
12.1:  Fixed babbage.dswkim.org's mislinked glibc. 
11:30:  During the upgrade of babbage.dswkim.org from RedHat 7.0 to 7.2,
        glibc was mislinked and Linux box crashed.
        Watched "Fat Girl (A Ma Soeur)".
        Bought Guess Jean at $34.99, the most expensive clothes I've paid yet.
        (It used to be around $20 for me).
11.29:  Changed the index page of dswkim.org.
11.27:  Bought Nortel stock (NT) at $7.90/share.
11.26:  Sold Apple stock (AAPL) at $21.02/share.
        Bought Cisco stock (CSCO) at $19.80/share.
11.24:  Watched "Out Cold".
        Upgraded poincare.dswkim.org to 512 MB RAM.
        Upgraded riemann.dswkim.org to 512 MB RAM.
11.22:  Started /VisualEssays for pictorial essays.
11.21:  Watched "Spying Game" starring R. Redford and B. Pitt.
        Sold Amazon stock (AMZN) at $8.76/share.
11.20:  Watched "Va Savoir" (Who Knows?).
11.17:  Watched "La Cienega".
11.16:  Watched "Harry Potter, the Sorcerer's Stone".
11.15:  Drove back to SJ from LA after 5:30 hours of driving.
11.11:  Drove to LA taking Freeway 1 and it took 8 hours.
        As it was rainy and foggy, driving Big Sur was dangerous.
        Was greeted with lower gas price and heavier traffic than SJ.
11.10:  Added a picture of home systems under /tools.
11.6:  Watched Jean Luc Godard's "Band of Outsiders".
11.3:  Watched "Waking Life".
11.2:  Watched "Monster, Inc" by Pixar Animation Studio.
       Watched "The One" starring Jet Li.
11.1:  Purchased Amazon stock (AMZN) at $6.90/share.
10.21:  Watched "Jabberwocky" by Terry Gilliam.
10.30:  Watched "Bandits" starring Bruce Willis.
10.29:  Sold all SGI stock (SGI) at $1.93/share.
        Watched "Donnie Darko".
10.27:  Spent a day in Monterey Bay Aquarium.
10.26:  Watched "13 Ghosts".
10.24:  Watched "Bones".
10.22:  Watched "From Hell" starring Johny Depp.
        Experienced first self-checkout at K-Mart.
10.20:  Watched "Mulholland Drive".
10.19:  Watched "Bangkok Dangerous".
10.18:  Watched "The Others".
        Installed Oracle 8.1.7 on Ultra 1 (turing.dswkim.org) for testing.
10.17:  Watched "My First Mister".
10.16:  Upgraded Ultra 1 (turing.dswkim.org) with 2 x 4 GB harddisks.
10:15:  Bought 19" Samsung SyncMaster 955DF and am happy with it.
10.14:  Started to change passwords of all accounts.
10.12:  Watched "Iron Monkey".
10.10:  Watched "Joy Ride".
10.9:  Finished reading "A History of Knowledge" by C. Van Doren.
10.7:  Installed LinkSys Cable/DSL router as a gateway for dswkim.org
       (to replace Linux gateway).
10.5:  Watched "The Endurance".
9.29:  Watched "101 Reykjavik".
       Watched "Together".
9.27:  Added /icons.
9.21:  Watched "Cure".
       Watched "Haiku Tunnel".
9.19:  Watched "Iron Ladies".
9.17:  Decided to use Maya as a main 3-D tool instead of 3D Studio Max.
9.16:  Updated /essays.
9.15:  Updated and restructured menu page.
9.14:  Watched "Our Lady of the Assassins".
9.12:  Re-installed Windows 2000 to Vaio Notebook (dsk-vaio.dswkim.org).
9.11:  Terrorist attacks on USA.
       Two toweres of World Trade Center collapsed.
9.10:  Watched "The Monkey's Mask".
       Watched "Soul Survivor".
9.7:  Updated and re-org'd /links.
      Was locked in car wash due to a mechanical problem:
      Although it was only for 5 minutes, it wasn't pleasant at all.
9.6:  Updated /images.
9.3:  Watched "Ghost World".
      Threw away outdated manuals of X-Windows.
9.1:  Watched "Le Placard (The Closet)".
8.31:  Watched "Memento".  Excellent movie to watch.
       Watched "Akira".
8.28:  Attended LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
8.27:  Upgrading of Windows 98 (riemann.dswkim.org) to Windows 2000
       failed due to a bug in old BIOS in motherboard.
8.25:  Watched "Ghost of Mars".
8.19:  Upgraded NT (poincare.dswkim.org) to Windows 2000.
8.15:  Installed Maya 2.5 in Vaio Notebook.
8.10:  Watched "American Pie 2".
8.9:  Updated /resume
8.8:  Watched "Thomas est amoureux".
8.6:  Started to restructure homepage.
8.4:  Watched "Rush Hour 2".
8.3:  Threw away hundreds of 1.44 floppies.
      Finished updating list of personal projects.
8.2:  Updated /essays.
7.29:  Watched "Brother" (by Takeshi Kitano).
       Finished the draft of business plan.
       Threw away OpenGL 1.1 spec.  Will I ever program in OpenGL again?
7.28:  Watched "Jin-Roh: the Wolf Warrior".
7.27:  Watched "Planet of the Apes".
7.26:  Updated resume to send out.
7.23:  Updated /tips page.
7.22:  Watched "Hedwig and the Angry Inch".
7.21:  Watched "America's Sweethearts"  Was Good.
7.19:  Watched "Jurassic Park III".  Was Good.
       Installed iPlanet LDAP 4.1 on E250 for testing.
7.18:  Finished reading "Graphic Design, A Concise History" by Richard Hollis.
7.17:  Met a nice girl at a cafe in Berkeley ;-)
7.14:  Watched "Bully".
7.13:  Watched "Final Fantasy".
       Started reading "A History of Knowledge" by Van Doren.
7.10:  Watched "Moulin Rouge".
       Updated pics and images on www.dswkim.org.
7.9:  Watched "Kiss of the dragon".
7.8:  Watched "Lost and Delirious".
7.7:  Watched "Scary Movie 2".  So-so.
7.6:  Returned to SJ after driving 6 hours.
7.1:  1:00 PM; Headed for LA for a vacation.
      After 6 hours of driving, arrived at Hawthorne, CA.
6.30:  Watched "A.I."  Slept during screening as I was so tired.
6.27:  Watched "Tomb Raider, Lara Croft".  So-so.
6.26:  Watched "Atlantis".  So-so.
6.24:  7:30 PM; Departed from Inchon Airport as scheduled.
6.17:  Due to a strike of Asiana Airline, couldn't leave Seoul.
5.28:  Flew to Korea by Asiana Airline at 1 AM from SF Airport.
5.26:  Watched "Pearl Harbor".  It was O.K.
5.25:  Left Sun Microsystems.
        Leaving UNIX programmer and admin career?  Getting into management?
       Bought a briefcase with a Java logo, and I like a lot.  Should have bought it earlier.
5.19:  Watched "Shrek".  A must see.
5.18:  Upgraded Vaio Notebook (dsk-vaio.dswkim.org) to Windows 2000.
2.12:  Replaced Netscape with MS Internet Explorer as a default browser.