09/ 3/2004
I will be in Michigan this Labor Day weekend for three days Soccer Event! This year’s NACSL (North America Chinese Soccer League) will be host in Ann Arbor, University of Michigan. I will be member of Texas United team to play in this annual soccer league. Last year in L.A, we had played so hard through the whole game. Thanks god, in the final match, we beat N.Y wild wolf in the penalty game to get the National Champion. I can’t believe that we made it.
Hopefully we are defender this year, every team will give us a hard time. I won't expect too much this year, just enjoy the game with my teammates in Labor Day holiday and do our best. Good luck for Texas United.
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05/ 7/2004
I just got back from San Francisco yesterday, I was so tired in this trip since even miss my flight yesterday morning, fortunately I got another available flight after 3 hours standby. Like a Chinese traditional word says: you never know it's bad or good when things happened. I meet Bruce Sterling (a famous columnist in Wired Magazine) on the flight; he was invited to attend another conference in San Francisco.
When I got back home, I was totally passed out. When I wake up this morning I discovered I sleep over 14 hours. Can you imagine that how tired I am!
On this San Fran trip, I meet whole bunch people and a lot of Bloggers. I have a plenty of inspirations and brainstorms from those intelligent guys come all over the world. I really need some time to digest my mind. Actually I will arrange a list of people I met in this trip and write some brief of this trip later. Also there more 800MB pictures I need to deal with!
Some of mobile pix could be found in my moblog.
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05/ 6/2004
The last day of my San Fran trip, Robert bring us(liang, Ting and me) to a very beautiful restaurant in Jack London square. Our table is nearby the window, the landscape of the city and bay was touching me. This is the most beautiful dinner I never had before. I think that's why San Fran attract me, it's not only the center of techonolgy, but alos the beauty of the City.
When a Beauty meet Crab, can you imagine that?
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02/ 8/2004
"Great Taste, Less Privacy" An article from Wired.com is talking about scanning ID will leak our private information.
In United States, everyone has their own Driver's License (ID) card; it's the same like an identification card in China. But the difference is US ID contained a magnetic strips and bar code on the back which can be scanned/swiped by scanning machine. On the magnetic strips, some can store up to 2000 bytes information on it. Which mean most of our personal information will be stored inside, not only those information shows on the ID card's surface, but also some kinds of private info like: Salary, working status, telephone number etc, even our social security number (SSN). Normally that would be fine for police or other security related issue to identify our identities, or identify a fake ID. But if those information were scanned by commercial companies like bar, restaurant, museum, hotel etc. That would have a potential risk to be leaked out or be collected. We never know how much information was contained in our ID card and how much private information was collected by commercial bloc!
The toll tag operation suddenly brought to my mind. Toll tag is high way auto-payment device, it's a pocket-size card which I can apply online. Once I applied one and put it on my car, every time I pass through the booths on have-to-pay high-way. It will be automatically scanned and charged by Distance scanner. This new technology was used on Toll way system in TEXAS which called E-ZPass toll system. Think about if our ID card embeds this technology in the future, with distance scan, we will never know how and when our personal information was being scanned?!
Absolutely magnetic strips, bar codes and ID card scanner system prevent fake ID and underage drinking; also it's very convenience to use and fast to pass. But it's easy to lose our privacy too. What should we choose?
Refference:
North Texas Toll-way System.
Swipe: Decipher the bar codes on IDs
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01/20/2004
South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) 2004 is coming up this March 17-21 2004. The show located in Austin TX, about 3 hours drive from Dallas. I check their register page today, it's seems I probably need spend $225 bucks for the Interactive access. Actually the most attractive stuff for me are webloggers conference and three day Trade Show. I didn't decided it yet, any of my friends want join this 4 days trip to Austin?
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