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Tonight is my last night in San Francisco – AFTER ONE HELL OF A WEEKEND.
0Dear Internet,
I have so much to tell you. This past week has been a whirlwind of anime companies, Man v. Food adventures, bridges, trolleys, Silicon Valley, and GBikes.
Yes, GBikes.
As in, “Shannon and I borrowed a couple of Google company bikes and rode them around the Googleplex office buildings and found the Android building with all the cool statues.”
Yup. This trip was THAT cool.
More in the forthcoming days.
My “Going to #Japan” Checklist. Let me know if I’m forgetting anything!
2Tomorrow night I catch a plane and head west… really really far west. I’m flying to Tokyo, Japan for the Tokyo Anime International Fair next week. Before I go, though, I want to make sure I have all my proverbial ducks in a row.
Thus I turn to all of you on Facebook, Twitter and the Internet.
(And all five of you on Google+)
Please check my two lists and let me know what I’m forgetting/what else I need to know. Thanks!
BEFORE LEAVING:
- I called my cell phone company. My cell will work in Japan. Texting will work in Japan. My Internet will NOT work in Japan.
- I called my credit card and bank card companies. They have been notified that the strange charges in Tokyo aren’t from some hacker who hijacked my info.
- I registered on http://travel.state.gov/ and let them know where I was going. (Just in case; I’ve seen too many episodes of “Locked Up Abroad” for my own good.)
THINGS TO SEE:
- The team I’m going with plans on visiting Disney Tokyo Sea.
- I want to visit Tokyo Tower.
- I plan on visiting Shibuya Station.
- There is talk of trying to find time to make it over to Mount Fuji. This one is a “maybe” based on scheduling.
- Word has it that I may be visiting Sanrio Puroland (aka “the Hello Kitty Theme Park.”)
Any feedback in the next twenty-four hours would be appreciated. Thanks, folks!
Regarding Facebook, Google+ and Twitter SUCKING (OMGDRAMAZ!)
0I posted this on G+ this morning, but it bears repeating here:
Facebook changed again and it sucks! Google+ is boring and it sucks! The old Twitter is better than the new one which sucks! I should STOP PAYING for all of these services because I am obviously not getting my money’s worth!
Oh. Wait.
Remember that Blogger that was outed last week…
2Last week I wrote this post in relation to a recent court case in New York about anonymous blogging.
It seems there is a follow up:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25973718-5014239,00.html
It’s a feeble attempt by the blogger to try and spin doctor the situation (her real name, by the way, is Rosemary Port) before getting slammed with the soon to come defamation suit. Rosemary (and her attorney) have some pretty week defensive statements trying to state that documents questioning government from our forefathers are akin to calling a model a skank – but my favorite one is this:
“I would think that a multi-billion dollar conglomerate [Google] would protect the rights of all its users.”
Simple rule in life: YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Blogger is free. You don’t pay to use it – so why are you expecting something other that Google covering their ass? They have better things to do than argue court cases over a name calling contest. In the end, it is easier to give up an identity and allow folks to fend for themselves since bloggers should be responsible for their own words to begin with.
Just my two cents.
