SF Pride Parade
I went to the San Francisco Pride Parade with a couple of friends today. I'm tired and exhausted from all the walking and sitting in CalTrain and VTA, but what I saw today is definitely interesting.
I'll post pictures with an update, and my writing cannot do justice to describe what I've seen, but this'll do for now.
The CalTrain was jammed packed with people heading to SF. When we arrived SF (after 2 hour and 15 minutes of CalTrain and VTA), we stalked a group of people dressed in funky clothes and eventually reached the parade. I saw everything between neon-colored outfit to black leather strapping, fishnet to nothing but a cup-thing covering the crotch area. But most people in the parade was just supporters in matching tshirts - Democrats trying to get votes, organizations, companies, etc.
The real party was in the next block.
There were long lines that led inside a fenced area. I didn't venture in, so I don't know what's inside. But a sign that says "leather fetish" and another, "steel erections" - I kinda have an idea what's in there.
Hmm, that's all I can think of right now. Plus, I'm dead tired. I'll have more to write when I have the pictures to jog my memory.
Oh also, I saw a guy with iPhone 4 on the bus today. Oh, and Lady Gaga is a big thing in the gay society. I thought that was interesting 
China, Taiwan & Hong Kong get top-level domains in Chinese
FTA:
ICANN today approved the first top-level Chinese language domain names: .中国 and .中國 for China; .台灣 and .台湾 for Taiwan; and .香港 for Hong Kong (China and Taiwan get two each because of Simplified and Traditional Chinese – whereas the characters for Hong Kong are the same in both).
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One disadvantage of course is that non-Chinese speakers will have a harder time finding the website, so it works both ways to an extent
Whoa, seriously? I thought it was a joke until I saw it on ICANN. How's that going to work? Wouldn't the website become inaccessible if you're using a public computer that doesn't support Chinese input? Interesting. Maybe I should nab http://陳威安.台灣 
How much is it to run my site?
Call me a cheap Asian, but I'm starting to think my hosting, NearlyFreeSpeech.Net, is overpriced. On their pricing chart, storage cost is one cent per MB per month. MySQL database is one cent per day.
Say if you have a WordPress running, with 30 MB of stuff, and assuming you have really (really) low bandwidth, that'll be $14.6 a year.
You'd say, come on, $15 a year isn't that much, but keep in mind that's only 30 MB worth of stuff. Let me put it this way - I can store 8.11 GB (276% increase in storage) of stuff on Amazon S3 with the same amount of money; $10 more, I can have Flickr pro, with unlimited storage and bandwidth (∞ increase in storage).
Something to rant about...
On the other hand, Google's CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) is looking promising. This AI-thing is happening sooner than I thought. Also, judging by her blog she created, she's really into pandas (haha)
Google is implementing CADIE on all its services: Docs (Docs on Demand) , Gmail (Google Autopilot)
I’m a poker player
...according to Google.
You know how some people say potential employers will search your name, find out what kind of person you are? Well, I was just looking to see if Google indexed my blog, and I was surprised that, first of all, Google autocorrected my "chen" for "chan" and "william" for "bill", and second, a ton of people are called "william chen". From PhDs to poker player (world series!).
Haha, now I kinda wish I have some exotic name.
I have food!
When you're in a city like College Station, there's not a lot of things you can get excited about. Not only that, but if you want to buy something, it's kinda a hassle. Aaand, that's why I love Amazon.
I bought some instant noodles from Amazon, and although I looked like a weirdo riding a bicycle with a huge Amazon box in my hand (I had to pick it up from Kinko's), I'm still happy nonetheless.
Introducing, sesame chicken flavored instant noodles (to my stomach),
And it's the Taiwan kind too!
