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• • EU copyright: as far as we’re concerned, link away

    • 13 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • European Union—www.
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• • Navigating the Julian Assange arrest

    • 12 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I’m finding it disturbing that some of the talking heads here we’ve seen are giving the Julian Assange story the same bias that much of the US mainstream media are.
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• • Facebook: Kiwi lives don’t matter

    • 10 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • As someone who read Confucius as a young man, and was largely raised on his ideas, free speech with self-regulation is my default position—though when it becomes apparent that people simply aren’t civilized enough to use it, then you have to consider other solutions.
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• • Bypass the media, Carlos Ghosn tells it as it is

    • 10 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I haven’t blogged much about Carlos Ghosn, though I’ve Tweeted aplenty since his arrest last November.
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• • When the writers don’t check the Cobra 11 universe

    • 10 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • This is how big an Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei nerd I am.
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• • Work as if it’s 2001

    • 6 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Asus One beauty to having new tech, even if it stretched my budget, is how my use of the desktop and laptop computers is more efficient.
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• • Fighting intolerance is the key to a tolerant society

    • 1 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Hat tip to Mauricio Freitas. Source: Pictoline. pic.twitter.com/eJVhZxA4ZW — Merlin Ks (@Merlin3ks) July 14, 2018    Quite simple, isn’t it? I sense my parents’ generation (who were kids during WWII) would have understood this, but I worry about my generation and the ones following.
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• • Alarm für Cobra 11: why the inconsistent season numbering?

    • 29 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • RTL Above: From the first episode after the half-season break, ‘Endstation’.
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• • The end of the long Instagram video

    • 27 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • After the last 11 months, only two Instagram users—myself and an Indonesian user called TryAink—uploaded videos of over a minute (his were up to four).
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• • In the wake of terrorism in your own country

    • 20 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Above: Flowers at the Islamic Centre in Kilbirnie, Wellington on Monday.
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    Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Autocade turns 11 as the web turns 30

    • 12 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • The latest model to appear on Autocade today: the Mazda CX-30.
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• • After driving automatic and manual trucks, the manual still wins for me

    • 5 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I rented a couple of trucks over the last few days, and I’m surprised that automatics have taken such a hold in this country.
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• • The Singer of desktop PCs

    • 24 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I never planned to spend quite this much on computers in the first two months of the year.
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• • The Singer of desktop PCs

    • 24 Feb 2019
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    • I never planned to spend quite this much on computers in the first two months of the year.
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• • More reminders that Google lies

    • 21 Feb 2019
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    • Nest/Creative Commons We’ve been here countless times before since last decade.
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• • More reminders that Google lies

    • 21 Feb 2019
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    • Nest/Creative Commons We’ve been here countless times before since last decade.
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• • Autocade passes 15 million page views, as SUVs and EVs take hold

    • 11 Feb 2019
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    • Over the weekend, I noticed Autocade’s page-view stat had ticked over the 15,000,000 mark.
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• • Autocade passes 15 million page views, as SUVs and EVs take hold

    • 11 Feb 2019
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    • Over the weekend, I noticed Autocade’s page-view stat had ticked over the 15,000,000 mark.
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• • How to get a perfect 10 in reliability on Windows 10

    • 2 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I’ve had a great week with my new laptop, though it exhibits some of the same traits I’ve frequently seen with Windows 10: settings’ windows vanishing when attempting to load.
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• • How to get a perfect 10 in reliability on Windows 10

    • 2 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I’ve had a great week with my new laptop, though it exhibits some of the same traits I’ve frequently seen with Windows 10: settings’ windows vanishing when attempting to load.
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• • The Asus FX504 is far better than reviewers think

    • 22 Jan 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Top: The new laptop, just unboxed.
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• • The Asus FX504 is far better than reviewers think

    • 22 Jan 2019
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    • Top: The new laptop, just unboxed.
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• • Why Twitter’s stock went down in my book in 2018

    • 1 Jan 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Pixabay Of my friends, about eight or nine voted for President Trump.
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• • Why Twitter’s stock went down in my book in 2018

    • 1 Jan 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Pixabay Of my friends, about eight or nine voted for President Trump.
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• • 2019: replicants beware

    • 1 Jan 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Quick Tweet for the Blade Runner fans. It’s now 2019, which means Deckard has received his latest assignment. Some of those Nexus 6s are going to be retired. On a side note, if you didn’t get your Cherry 2000 out of Zone 7 in 2017, you’re shit out of luck.#BladeRunner — Jack Yan 甄爵恩 (@jackyan) January 1, 2019
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• • 2019: replicants beware

    • 1 Jan 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Quick Tweet for the Blade Runner fans. It’s now 2019, which means Deckard has received his latest assignment. Some of those Nexus 6s are going to be retired. On a side note, if you didn’t get your Cherry 2000 out of Zone 7 in 2017, you’re shit out of luck.#BladeRunner — Jack Yan 甄爵恩 (@jackyan) January 1, 2019
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• • Capturing a buyer: some advice to Renault New Zealand

    • 1 Jan 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • On this Pope Gregory Arbitrary Calendar Start Day, I wrote to a contact of mine at Renault New Zealand.
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• • Capturing a buyer: some advice to Renault New Zealand

    • 1 Jan 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • On this Pope Gregory Arbitrary Calendar Start Day, I wrote to a contact of mine at Renault New Zealand.
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• • The maternity ward of the early 1980s was a very different place

    • 24 Jun 2018
    • Jack Yan
    • Virginia McMillan/Creative Commons Now the PM and her partner, Clarke Gayford, have shown off their daughter to the world (video below), it reminded me of my own experiences in the maternity ward many years ago.
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• • As the most experienced long-video Instagrammer, welcome to the club

    • 21 Jun 2018
    • Jack Yan
    • It appears my friend Justin was spot on: I probably was part of a test group trialling longer Instagram videos since April.
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