My Two Cents on Google in China

For those of you who don't know, Google has agreed to censor material about human rights, Tibet and other sensitive topics to Beijing, such as the Dalai Lama, in China. I am appalled by this. To think that Google would agree to censor material in China, adhering to their laws about free speech, or lack there of, sickens me. From this point on Glynnis and I will no longer be using Google. This will be hard for me and many others who rely on Google as a search engine.
"When a search engine collaborates with the government like this, it makes it much easier for the Chinese government to control what is being said on the Internet," said Julien Pain, Reporters without Boarders.
Not to single Google out, Yahoo and MSN also have restricted, "Chinese friendly" versions of their search engines. This leaves me wondering, how can I search the internet without using a search engine that adheres to the Chinese government's intolerableable regime on free speech.

If you care anything about the rights of the Chinese people, DO NOT support such sites.

ROLLING STONES

Saw The Rolling Stones in concert last night. Enough Said.

Today I lost my Cell Phone...

So, today I left my cell phone in the back of a NYC taxi cab. Yeah. Luckily a nice lady, with a very manly voice, named Vicky picked it up and I was able to get it back. How lucky am I. She just happened to live on 85th and York. Which is only seven blocks from me on 92nd and 1st.

Before I found out Vicky had my phone, my mother's response to this whole thing was to call every taxi company in New York City and see if they had a phone turned in. Yeah. Okay. Like that would really work. She assumed that since taxi drivers keep logs, that the dispatch would be able to find out which cab picked me up from Chelsea Piers today and then went up to 91st and Park, before heading to the Wickham's over on Lex and 72nd. I have to love her for trying, but really that would be like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.