Tuesday, July 21, 2009

solar eclipse

Much anticipated here; we planned it to go see on the roof top of our
hotel gym. In the end, rain! We couldn't see it live; but we saw
the effect of it. At 9:38am this morning it was pitch dark on the
street. 5 minutes later gradually brighter.

I tried using the two major online Chinese news sites to watch; they
were promoting live webcasts; right. Too many viewers. Too few
bandwidth. I gave up. Obviously, they did not partner up with CCTV,
the national TV body who did the live Olympic webcasts.

Have to wait for another 300 years to see it live.

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