Z4A image hosting has been operational since 2016, and it's now almost 8 years since it started. Initially, it was for personal use, but as registration and usage were opened to the public, it has now become a highly loaded, high-storage, and high-share-level image hosting service.…
Today with some spare time, I decided to calculate whether my internet expenses and costs over the past calendar year were indeed powered by passion or if there was a small surplus. This was also part of considering whether to open a sister site to divert traffic for my fully loaded website. So, converting everything into Chinese Yuan, let's tally up.…
Recently, I got some extra cash and am planning to throw it into my mortgage to pay off a bit in advance.…
I once dabbled with WeChat's subscription and official accounts, but that was for a friend's business activity. As for my own blog, I've never hosted it on a server.…
March 2024 has arrived, and for most Resident Aliens (RAs) and Nonresident Aliens (NRAs) in the United States, it's another tax season. However, in distant places, there's a group of friends who, for various reasons, have obtained an ITIN, and now they are in a dilemma about whether to file their taxes.…
As a non-Hong Kong resident, it used to be very inconvenient to obtain a real-name Octopus card. I remember that one must physically be in Hong Kong and then go to the Octopus physical office to handle the process.…
I saw that Alibaba Cloud has a business support plan, which can be applied for with a business license (it must be a new account, and when I applied, individual business licenses were also acceptable).…
Last time, in a hurry, I added another health insurance for myself, guaranteed renewable for 20 years. This weekend, I took a closer look at the 18th edition of Hao Yi Bao (Good Health Insurance) and this 20-year guaranteed renewable one.…
I remember casually buying myself and my family some basic health insurance or welfare insurance because it was cheap and I didn't take it seriously at the time, nor did I consider whether the coverage was appropriate or not.…
Unconsciously, I've been renewing CHATGPT4 for almost half a year now. Although the $20 monthly fee is a bit painful, I've found that I really can't do without it after getting used to it.…
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