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Re: Chrysler Unveils Restructuring Plan - Daily Brief - Portfolio.com

Jack_Yan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:08:57 -0000

Indeed, one might even question if the Chrysler Crossfire was an all-new model, being based on the Mercedes-Benz SLK. However, Mr Vella, I agree with the main point of your article. The transparency presented yesterday brings back confidence, too, to buyers, dealers and suppliers. Chrysler can no longer be perceived as aimless, which it has been for a long time.

Re: The A-Team: First Official Photo

Jack_Yan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:52:44 -0000

This is a good photo. They seem to have struck a nice balance between modernity and the original look.

Re: Facebook Groups Finally Getting a Makeover

Jack_Yan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:30:06 -0000

It makes even less sense to separate fan pages and groups now. While Facebook has given that explanation, considering group messages (with the caveat you make in the post) and fan messages now both appear on members’ feeds, the distinction is irrelevant. Put simply, messages sent by fans to the fan page should behave in the same way as group messages.

Interestingly, this is one of the few surprise Facebook changes that (a) I like and (b) work.

Re: Oneok Sues Twitter For Trademark Infringement

Jack_Yan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:28:16 -0000

What a waste of time, suing Twitter when a simple email to the company would have solved the matter and kept everyone’s blood pressure down. Talk about overreacting, but I suppose in Oneokland, this is normal behaviour. Most people in most civilized countries would sort the matter out like adults.

Re: WordPress Responds to Attack: “Please Upgrade”

Jack_Yan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:20:36 -0000

Thanks for that, Zedomax. While we’ve now upgraded (with extreme difficulty, because the upgrade process takes hours and not the minutes that Wordpress claims), I have disabled user registrations on one of our installations.
Like you, I always have huge problems getting these software companies to believe me, then months down the line I get proved right.

Re: Wordpress and Curing High Server Load

Jack_Yan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:08:30 -0000

It seems there is a successor program now, called WP Super Cache (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache). Thank you for the lead to the original WP-Cache—thanks to you, I began digging around and found this plug-in.

Re: YouTube Launches Its Redesign

Jack_Yan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:17:50 -0000

Never thought too much about it. I’ve had this look for a month or so.

Re: Have You Seen Ashley Summers?

Jack_Yan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:05:50 -0000

It is sad that this case has not received the recognition it deserves, and that the media seem biased toward affluent neighbourhoods. I have Tweeted this link today; maybe it will help a little.

Re: 2010 Audi A5 Sportback officially revealed with pricing, not coming to the U.S.

Jack_Yan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:00:11 -0000

I know the usual excuse for not exporting this to the US is that Americans don’t like hatchbacks, but I think consumer tastes have changed to the point where this model could do well over there. The few comments seem to bear that out and safety-wise, there should be few issues.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Jack_Yan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:28:27 -0000

Good news: it has made it now, though you have to scroll about half-way. (I was the 338th Digger.)

Re: You say legends, I say leg ends

Jack_Yan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:23:33 -0000

I am not sure if Johnny Rotten spits more than Geraldine Halliwell.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Jack_Yan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:19:49 -0000

Also, I agree with commenters who are saying that Digg has done a lousy job of telling its users. It was the same story when they removed the shouts. Do this enough, and it points to some pretty bad behaviour there—just as Facebook’s ill-advised moves do.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Jack_Yan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:18:13 -0000

While I don’t like this move by Digg, it’s been like this for weeks.

Re: Spam Invades Twitter Trends, Again

Jack_Yan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:55:31 -0000

The interesting thing is that one can still search for #pussy as a hashtag, just not Mrs Slocombe’s. What a shame for her worldwide fans.

Re: Twitterature: 19 Year-Olds Score Twitter Book Deal

Jack_Yan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:21:29 -0000

I am having trouble picturing this. Would it be along the lines of this?

Pride & Prejudice: Mum tried to hook Jane up. Darcy can be an SOB, but he does good stuff, cool! Nice ring! Yay Gardiners!

Re: BaAd Placement - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

Jack_Yan — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:01:08 -0000

This is that German humour we’ve been hearing so much about lately.

Re: Oh, Oh My. - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

Jack_Yan — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:57:18 -0000

Awful. Ford might need to have a little more control over dealer-level advertising.

Re: Mashable on Tumblr - Twitter in Plain English This video is almost a...

Jack_Yan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:46:22 -0000

Funny (to me) how the image of the ‘phone’ is a PDA.

Re: The Morning After - Initial Thoughts

Jack_Yan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:22:19 -0000

Hi Randy! Perhaps this is why the President-elect has chosen a partisan figure as his possible chief of staff. It might stop, meanwhile, any of the senior Democrats from pushing President-elect Obama into certain positions. I am trying to read this as positively as possible, because on the flip side one could say that this choice is a harbinger of the partisanship in an Obama cabinet.

Re: No Gloating Zone - A Weird Mix of Emotions

Jack_Yan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:13:45 -0000

I understand your feelings on the issue, Randy. It is hard not to feel some sympathy for any couple, straight or gay, whose union’s recognition has suddenly changed. I always felt that in the California case, where I have read the judgements, the majority judges were not clever enough. If they had an agenda to legalize gay marriage, then their interpretation of the law left matters open to future attacks. Unlike the precedent that some relied upon (Perez) where the legislature had been clumsy (intentionally?), California law was far clearer. You are right that in the case of California, it gave same-sex couples false expectations over the definition of marriage.

Re: The Morning After - Initial Thoughts

Jack_Yan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:08:11 -0000

I want to see if the President-elect can deliver. I worry less about him than Sens. Biden and Reid and Speaker Pelosi. I am not sure if there will be any true bipartisanship in his cabinet yet.

Re: Firefox 3: Fonts and text

Jack_Yan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:23:53 -0000

I have waited a long time to see these features and they were discussed in the font industry almost a decade ago. Firefox has taken four years to display ligatures and speech marks in the same typeface as the rest of the text—but I am glad it has finally made amends and, in fact, headed even further out in front with kerning and discretionary ligature support. I have found it, so far, to be inconsistent but at least it is occasionally working—so I take my hat off to the developers for caring about typography for a change.

Re: Facebook Has a Tough Start to the Week

Jack_Yan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:35:58 -0000

I like the look but it is sluggish. The first load was 56 seconds. I have tried different browsers, different computers (new and old), and it makes no difference. My profile takes around 19 seconds to appear. Comments on the wall take one minute to echo my typing. Many of my applications are incompatible and no longer update. These bugs were around in July, when I first trialled new Facebook; it is sad that in September, nothing has been done about them. I don’t mind a layout change, but there is something seriously wrong with the coding for it to be so inefficient.

Re: The Impact of the New Design on Applications

Jack_Yan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:02:57 -0000

The user experience is an important one to note. While I like the new design, I am appalled by its sluggishness and incompatibility with my most regularly used applications. Very polite feedback to those developers and to Facebook has not been effective. I don’t know much about programming, but I do know that the dial-up-style speed of new Facebook has forced me to cut down my usage substantially. I have removed about half a dozen applications in the hope it would speed Facebook up, to no avail.

With the changes in privacy settings and two phantom applications appearing since I was forced on to new Facebook, I will likely remove more applications as the site becomes less useful—why allow developers to have access to my information when I hardly use the site any more?

While I sympathize with developers, many of whom provided great tools and games in the days of old Facebook, I am not surprised about the decline in application views and, in fact, very surprised that the drop has been as low as 25 per cent for some. New Facebook is the virtual equivalent of new Coke.

Re: Eight things you probably didn’t know about me

Jack_Yan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:43:26 -0000

Thanks for doing the meme, K.!