My name is K.G. Steely.

I'm a Kentuckian residing nowadays in historic Gyeongju, South Korea. I enjoy computers, audio recording, and complex carbohydrates. A veteran programmer and enthusiastic web developer, I recently took a career sidetrack into teaching English as a foreign language.

You might infer more about me and my interests by glancing at the links dump at the bottom of the page.

Contact me.

Things to check out ~

• Teachers, parents, creative marketers: How about making a custom word search or crossword puzzle?
• How well do you know the Bible?

Notes ~

• 2011.08.10 — Thanks for propping up stocks again, Ben Bernanke.
• 2011.06.03 — Manifestly, building a successful Web 2.0 site consists in putting the microphone up to the speaker.
• 2011.05.07 — Severiano Ballesteros, R.I.P.
  In my high school days, I played many matches between Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman in our side yard. With my imagination and my pitching wedge, I put on some world-class golf events. Norman was always my favorite, but Seve was right up there. I'm sad to learn of his passing today.
• 2011.03.09 — One week ago today, I joined the faculty of Gyeongju University. I'll teach two courses this spring: English for Technology and Global English.
• 2011.02.24 — I'm teaching at an English academy in Gyeongju this month, mostly elementary school students. When they're docile, the younger kids are fun to teach. When they're unruly, I just want to leave the room.
• 2011.01.13 — The Korean version of PuzzleFast Instant Puzzle Maker is now available.
• 2010.12.16 — I'm surprisingly enthusiastic about the new Lincoln dollar coin released last month. The U.S. Mint is determined to get Americans to embrace the dollar coin, but I'm not sure these presidential dollars—one for each president, starting with Washington; four new ones released every year—will do the trick. A single standard design would seem more promising … if only that hadn't already been tried, more than once, without enduring success.
• 2010.11.07 — Congratulations to Calvary Baptist Church in Covington, Kentucky on 90 years of ministry. Back in Kentucky for a while, I was pleased to attend the Heritage Celebration service this morning.
• 2010.11.07 — What does it say about the demographics of your condominium complex when the most prominent content on its homepage, created in 2010, is a message to AOL users?
• 2010.10.09 — Google claims:

  Google Analytics directly calls Google's servers each time a page is visited, even if the page has been cached. Other analytics solutions may not record an additional visit if the page is pulled from a user's or server's cache.

  If the foregoing is so, why do I sometimes see 304 responses in one of my site's server logs with no corresponding hits reflected in Analytics? Analytics basically works for that site, indeed for the very page in question; it's just an occasional 304 going unreported. Curious.
• 2010.10.07 — Facebook's Like Button now appears on websites far and wide. I recently implemented it on one of my sites. It acts funny in some respects, especially the counter function, but the kinks are sure to be worked out. The Like Button represents a hugely successful expansion of Facebook's presence on the web at large. I expect Facebook to perfect unserious site widgets of this kind over time, then to apply the same functionality to micropayments. If the days of paying, say, three or four cents to access protected content on any old site are soon to come, Facebook is the most likely enabler in my opinion.
• 2010.10.06 — Why come out with a new smartphone OS in the face of the Android and iPhone juggernauts? In the case of Windows Phone 7, it's because hubris and a sense of entitlement are in Microsoft's DNA. But that's not to say that Windows Phone 7 is destined to fail. Probably many a successful product has been launched out of sheer hubris and a sense that competitors' eating your lunch in some market segment is unjust, untenable, unacceptable—that it simply can't be happening. Microsoft is in denial, but that's irrelevant to the prospects for Windows Phone 7. Ballmer has rolled the dice. Let's see what happens.
• 2010.10.06 — I'm impressed with many of the sentiments Bob Dylan expressed to interviewer Bill Flanagan regarding Dylan's 2009 Christmas from the Heart CD. That's a masterpiece Christmas album in my opinion. I appreciate the traditionalist mind-set Dylan brought to the project.