The Kobe Experience

My wife took me to Alexander's Steakhouse in Cupertino on Saturday night for my b-day.

The menu 

Australian Kobe Steak 

Dessert #2 

Quail egg and kobe chuckroll 

Our appetizers 

Hamachi Shots 

Australian Kobe Steak 

Dessert 

My wife + Prime Ribs 

Japanese Kobe Steak 

She can't teach

"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."

Who said so? Of course, not me. Paul said so. Which Paul? The apostle of Jesus. See Timothy 2:11-14.

And it is quoted by a pastor in his dismissal letter to a female Sunday school teacher in his church.

Maybe he has read too much bible?

Is this censorship?

By now every web surfer must have become familiar with Google's ubiquitous advertisement boxes. Many websites are supported by revenue from Google's ad these days.

My favorite free newspaper Easy Bay Express has this article: "Publishers vs. the Censorbot", about Google pulling ad when it sees sensitive keywords on the page where ad supposed to appear and thus indirectly censoring contents of websites using its ad program.

I'm all against censorship (see my previous posts) I have never been a fan of Google and enjoy reading every bit of criticism on its practice. However, in this case I think it's just a technology issue: while a news report about porn and a story which is porn share some keywords, there must be some that only appears on the latter but not the former. Google's filter is simply not good enough to identify them.

What I'm really curious about is now that my page has the keyword "porn," will Google pull its ad? (i.e., show "public service announcement" instead of revenue generating ad)