I woke up at 4:30 this morning, and was completely wide-awake. Jet-lag, and all that.
So, I got on my computer and finally got around to trying to build a "cafe" (which is what Koreans call user-generated web-forum-blog-type-thingies: "카페") on naver.com. It's a bit challenging for me, since the interface for signing up and doing the configuration and settings is only in Korean. But after looking up lots of Korean words on the various links and buttons and instructions, I succeeded! I have decided that I'm really bad at keeping my own ASP.NET-based website updated, and my students are very comfortable with the Korean internet's cafe concept, that the best way to set up something internet-based for interacting with students and staying in touch would be to make my own cafe.
So, here it is. I even posted something there. I've redirected "jaredway.com" to that location, now, too [update – this "redirect" is no longer true, but the cafe is still there. neglected]. We'll see if it works out for keeping in touch with my former students (and, presumeably, over time, future ones as well?).
Warning — there's a lot of Korean on the site. Not because I put it there, but because the "frame" is part of the naver.com internet portal, which is one of the big 3 Korean internet portals. Of the 3, I like naver.com best because it's the only one that works seemlessly with firefox. The other two seem to be more Microsoft dependent. If your computer doesn't have the Korean character set, you might see a lot of gobblygook.