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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

facebook-1533664925 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:27:21 -0000

There are other differences between Pages and Groups besides the Wall and New Feeds. See my post above for a few of them.

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”

zedomax — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:30:05 -0000

Sure, if you have disabled user registrations, that takes care of 99% of the worms out there. Of course, Wordpress is a free software, that's why it's very vulnerable, there's not millions of dollars invested in it and it's not a huge team of developers. You can't blame them but there's ways to protect it by using encrypted passwords and disabling user registrations, which are pointless to visitors for most blogs anyways. I am not upgrading btw, I am already protected. :)

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: You say legends, I say leg ends

kateblogs — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:06:57 -0000

I like the way you call her Geraldine :-)

Re: You say legends, I say leg ends

kateblogs — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:05:36 -0000

lol

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

RThomasETC — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:18:08 -0000

Given his track record, he has never been one to be a harbinger of bipartisanship. He says that he wants to be ... we will see.

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

BTCarolus — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:05:00 -0000

And it should be added that the pro-prop 8 folks asked the supreme court to stop any same sex marriages from taking place until after the election, so that this problem would be avoided. They refused to do so, and the couples that married did so knowing that there was a chance the amendment would pass. So in that sense they purposefully took a gamble, and it didn't pay off (although it will if previously married couples decide to sue and judges somehow contrive to find in their favor and rule the amendment invalid [yeah, I know it can't happen, but I also don't trust the courts anymore]).