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- Helvetica in metal, 1985
  - 3 Mar 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - This was the back of Mum’s 1985 tax assessment slip from the IRD.
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- Reduced Facebook? Australia is the lucky country
  - 18 Feb 2021
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  - Whichever side you are on with Facebook imposing a ban on Australians sharing news content, this says it all about the level of intelligence over at Menlo Park.
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- Brand, sub-brand or model? China’s getting into a confusing phase
  - 16 Feb 2021
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  - The Dongfeng Aeolus AX7.
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- COVID-19 infections as a percentage of tests done, February 16
  - 16 Feb 2021
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  - It brings me very little pleasure to do these calculations.
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- The colourless world
  - 14 Feb 2021
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  - This is a development proposed for my old street in Rongotai.
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- More TV Dregs, please
  - 12 Feb 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - I was looking through the old JY&A links’ section, which dates back to the beginning of the site in the 1990s (indeed, back to Windows 3·1, as we couldn’t use a file name with more than three letters in the suffix).
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- How is your ad network different from this?
  - 11 Feb 2021
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  - No point beating around the bush when it comes to yet another advertising network knocking on our door.
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- Facebook fooled us into thinking we were being creative
  - 11 Feb 2021
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  - My friend Keith has been away from Facebook for six weeks, for work reasons, and hasn’t missed it.
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- When fashion magazine websites begin looking the same
  - 8 Feb 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - Above: Vogue Korea’s website follows the æsthetic of a big lead image and smaller subsidiary ones.
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- February 2021 gallery
  - 8 Feb 2021
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  - Finally, let’s begin the February 2021 gallery! .
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- Branding ourselves in the 2020s: a revamp for JY&A Consulting’s website, jya.co
  - 5 Feb 2021
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  - Last night, I uploaded a revised website for JY&A Consulting (jya.
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- Another innocent post at NewTumbl that’s too much for the moderators
  - 2 Feb 2021
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  - Even though I like NewTumbl, it’s never a pleasure to be proved right again about its user-based moderating process, where there is no appeal.
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- A refreshing piece on diversity in our mainstream media
  - 31 Jan 2021
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  - Two fantastic items in my Tweetstream today, the first from journalist Jehan Casinader, a New Zealander of Sri Lankan heritage, in Stuff.
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- From my desk, 1986
  - 24 Jan 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - Before this gets recycled, I thought I’d scan it as a memento: a 1986 printout off our Riteman dot matrix printer (which I still have, with spare cartridges), hooked up to a Commodore 64.
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- In the ‘I told you so’ department: Facebook purges left-wing, anti-war accounts
  - 23 Jan 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - Further to my Lucire op–ed on January 8, and my blog post on January 11, I hinted that this could happen.
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- An unusual 4,400th model on Autocade
  - 23 Jan 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - This was an unusual car to have as the 4,400th on Autocade: the Rosengart Ariette.
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- Like communist dictatorships, Google and Facebook threaten Australia
  - 23 Jan 2021
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  - You know the US tech giants have way too much power, unencumbered by their own government and their own country’s laws, when they think they can strong-arm another nation.
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- Autocade reaches 22 million, while Rachel Hunter appears in Lucire
  - 16 Jan 2021
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  - As I begin this blog post, Autocade has just crossed the 22 million page-view barrier, at 22,000,040.
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- Who’d like to ask the hard questions of Wikipedia as it turns 20?
  - 14 Jan 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - Well, that was a rather sycophantic interview with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, on Radio New Zealand, as the online encyclopædia turns 20.
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- All you need is one NewTumbl user to undo management goodwill
  - 14 Jan 2021
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  - This is a comment (with my reply, in reverse chronology) from a NewTumbl user, Thewonderfulo, who often posts about the site’s rating system.
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- BMW, then and now
  - 12 Jan 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - This isn’t progress. Nice one, as always! Makes me wonder what was wrong with this credo: "Fashionable styling gimmicks are entirely absent, and the dimensions suit the traffic conditions of today." pic.twitter.com/XhpyW6P1Bs — Kolbenkopp (@kolbenkopp) January 7, 2021
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- This was the natural outcome of greed, in the forms of monopoly power and sensationalist media
  - 11 Jan 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - I did indeed write in the wake of January 6, and the lengthy op–ed appears in Lucire, quoting Emily Ratajkowski, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden.
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- NewTumbl takes things seriously
  - 5 Jan 2021
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  - I have to say I’m impressed with NewTumbl as they responded to my Tweets about potential censorship and post moderation.
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- A sure way to lose customers: upload their private information to Facebook
  - 3 Jan 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - I’m still blocked from seeing my advertising preferences on Facebook on the desktop, the only place where you can edit them, something that has plagued them for years and which they’re unlikely to fix.
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- January 2021 gallery
  - 1 Jan 2021
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  - Let’s kick off January’s images right here! .
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