Now, we’re all grown up. We’re adults. We don’t line-up single-file anymore. Nope! We found a better way…

The TTC subway pulls up, with a sea of people crowding in front of the tracks. The door opens, and it’s everyone for themselves. Pushing, shoving, anything goes!

This morning on my commute to work, the subway was delayed at Yonge station (yet again). And there were maybe 3-4 times the normal number of people at the station. Let me just say it wasn’t pretty. When the train finally came and the door opened, people were trying to get on when the other passengers were still trying to get off! All I heard was one lady shouting in a very frustrated voice, “Let the other people off first! Geez!” Finally, one decent person among the zombies.

Why does Toronto, and probably all of North American, suck so much? Why can’t we be like the Japanese and line-up for the trains. The most efficient way to board a train is to line-up. It should be first-in-first-out queue so it’s fair. I hate when you get there first but some punk pushes his/her way in front of you.

From the article, it states that according to the FBI over 40% of missing children (those under 18) in the US are Black, Hispanic and Asian. I wonder what the numbers are in Canada. I bet Statscan has some data on this.

I haven’t really paid attention to whether missing minority children cases are handled differently in Canada. But I wouldn’t be that surprised if they are. It probably also differs between Provinces and cities.

What’s Kobe doing? What about LeBronze. They have stated before the Olympic games started in Beijing that you can’t confuse sports and politics.

I completely disagree with that statement. Sports and politics are very intertwined. How would speaking out against oppression hurt them? Maybe they will have their visa revoked by the Chinese government, just like Joey Cheek. But so what?

Is “redeeming” for Team USA’s past failure to win gold more important than humans lives? Would they NBA discipline them for speaking out during Olympics? Certainly not! In fact, people would applaud them as heroes if they do choose to speak out.

Olympics is such a joke right now. It’s nothing but a distraction from more important world issues. Maybe if the competing athletes actually start to promote peace instead of McDonald’s then I’d have a little more respect for the Games.

Update on the Spanish Ad: It seems Spain and the their basketball players don’t see anything wrong with what they did. Pau Gasol of the LA Lakers said he was uncomfortable doing it, but ended up caving to pressure. So far no one has apologized yet. I wonder if this will play out when Jose Calderon comes back in the fall to play for the Toronto Raptors. Toronto does have a big Chinese community.

When will people get proper education about racism? geez…

I read some tips online about setting up automatic transfers to transfer x amount of money from your cheque into your savings, everytime you get a paycheque. This way you can fool your self to think that you have less money than you actually do. The only problem is that the tip only works if you’re transferring to another bank, like ING. Since I see my money listed there anyway, it’s almost pointless.

That’s where Greasemonkey comes in! Using some JavaScript, I hid my Savings account from the accounts view. Of course, I put in at link that I can click on if I do need to see it. I think it’s going to work well. :)

No, I’m just kidding. I’ve been doing quite a bit in the past little while actually. Aside from the regular house cleaning and cooking tasks, Ams’ and I have started planning our wedding. We even set up a little wedding blog for it!

You might notice the wedding blog is a Django site (so says the little button at the bottom). It’s coded by yours truly, Mr. Jack Hsu. I’ve actually released the code on Google Code with the New BSD License. So if you have Django running somewhere and wanna check out the blog app, please feel free to do so. It’s still a work in progress, and I’ve been working hard the last week or so to get the code ready for public consumption. The documentation is coming along as well!

I <3 Django!

I heard about this other ISP Teksavvy. They rent their lines from Bell who, like Rogers, does traffic shaping. However, Teksavvy seems to be a decent company, and they support Net Neutrality — they were on Parliment Hill protesting… where was Rogers and Bell? Oh wait, I don’t think they support Net Neutrality, just show them the $$$ and they’re happy! Also, Rogers actually breaks into your browsing sessions and rewrite the pages you view to warn you about going above the transfer limit.

Out of principal I want to go with Teksavvy. But for some reason I’m still leaning towards Rogers. I think it’ll be easier to just go with Rogers, and I’m not really sure what to expect from Teksavvy. Am I stupid? :P

PS. There is a forum where users discuss different ISP, and there is a section for Teksavvy.

We’re thinking about setting up a website for our wedding. Maybe some blog posts and stuff. Could be a chance for me to experiment with Django. I can link it up toe del.icio.ius and flickr so we can make micro-blogs. :P

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Enjoy!