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Only 10 months on, let’s not repeat history
- 22 Nov 2020
- Jack Yan
- This was my Tweet after having privately expressed my frustration over the WHO’s failure to declare an emergency of international concern in January: No surprise.
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To Scotland with love
- 10 Nov 2020
- Jack Yan
- Danjaq LLC/United Artists Time for another podcast, this time with a Scottish theme.
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Autocade reaches 4,300 models before the month is out
- 31 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- A very quick note, probably more for me than anyone else: the 4,300th model went up on Autocade tonight.
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Autocade reaches 21 million page views
- 25 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- Above: The 4,283rd model entered into Autocade: the mostly forgotten Isuzu Bellel.
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Language lines on NewTumbl
- 24 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- This post was originally posted to NewTumbl.
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Was it six networks or only five? In all this excitement, it’s ‘Still the One’
- 23 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- I’m sure there are many, many more examples of this tune being used to promote TV networks, but it seems to be a standard in at least three countries I know, and probably far more besides.
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Medinge Group at Dutch Design Week: the contribution from Aotearoa New Zealand
- 19 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- My partner Amanda and I are part of Medinge’s presence at Dutch Design Week this year.
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Oh look, a Gmail privacy leak—it’s really, really time to stop using them
- 19 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- Still want to use Gmail? How’s this for discouragement? Google is now rewriting all URLs in gmail/gsuite email messages, *including those downloaded via IMAP*, to go via Google URL redirection, which is a HUGE privacy leak.
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Payoneer frustrates and sends you round in circles
- 8 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- I can safely say that I wouldn’t choose Payoneer as a payment service.
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If you’re in the ‘New Zealand can’t’ camp, then you’re not a business leader
- 4 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- Which club is the better one to belong to? The ones who have bent the curve down and trying to eliminate COVID-19, or the ones whose curves are heading up? Apparently Air New Zealand’s boss thinks the latter might be better for us.
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Two big reasons not to use Gmail
- 3 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- I was absolutely shocked to learn this is how Gmail works.
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Search engines favour novelty over accuracy and merit
- 1 Oct 2020
- Jack Yan
- I was chatting to another Tweeter recently about the Ford I-Max, and decided I’d have a hunt for its brochure online.
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Another mailbox bites the dust from another crash—what is taking out Eudora’s data?
- 17 Sep 2020
- Jack Yan
- Something is crashing my PC and taking Eudora mailboxes with it.
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Recovering mailboxes and tables of contents in Eudora after an extraordinarily massive crash
- 12 Sep 2020
- Jack Yan
- I’ve used Eudora for around 25 years as my email client and in the early days, when the inbox got too big, I had it crash every now and then, necessitating the program to rebuild the table of contents.
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Forget the stereotypes: how immigrants write with English as their second language
- 12 Sep 2020
- Jack Yan
- How interesting to find a photocopy of a letter my Dad wrote to the Department of Social Welfare in 1986, to apply for National Superannuation on behalf of his parents.
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The accidental 9-11 post: their Republicans and Democrats still have the same concerns
- 11 Sep 2020
- Jack Yan
- Above: I photographed this gentleman praying at Ground Zero during the 9-11 commemorations in 2005.
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Google’s knowledge panels: they don’t know how to give access to a registered user
- 8 Sep 2020
- Jack Yan
- After my last post, it seemed fair to give Google a chance to respond.
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More things that don’t work: Google claimed boxes, and typing in te reo Māori in Facebook
- 6 Sep 2020
- Jack Yan
- A guide to emojis for 2020.
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Podcast for tonight: behind the scenes on The Panel
- 28 Aug 2020
- Jack Yan
- For your listening pleasure, here’s tonight’s podcast, with a bit behind the scenes on my first appearance on RNZ’s The Panel as a panellist, and ‘I’ve Been Thinking’ delivered at a more appropriate pace, without me staring at the clock rushing to finish it before the pips for the 4 p.m. news.
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Thoughts shared on Big Tech
- 28 Aug 2020
- Jack Yan
- Tip of the iceberg.
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How to delete Windows 10 system fonts for real, not just remove registry references to them
- 13 Aug 2020
- Jack Yan
- My last post implied that I ego-surfed and found a Wikipedia chat entry about me, but that’s not the case.
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More Wikiality—and this time it’s about me!
- 13 Aug 2020
- Jack Yan
- Goes to show how seldom I ego-search.
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How Jaguar Land Rover can still win its Land Rover Defender IP case against Ineos
- 9 Aug 2020
- Jack Yan
- I haven’t read the full judgement of the Land Rover Defender case, where Jaguar Land Rover sought to protect the shape of the original Defender under trade mark law, to prevent Ineos from proceeding with the Grenadier.
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Reaching the end of Facebook
- 5 Aug 2020
- Jack Yan
- With the new season of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei nearly upon us, I decided I’d pop into my Facebook group (I’m still an admin) to see what had been happening.
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You can’t bank on the Wales (or, why I closed our Westpac account)
- 31 Jul 2020
- Jack Yan
- At some point as a young man, my Dad worked at a bank.
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