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Jack Yan on Vox
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Personal addenda from Jack Yan, supplementing his work blog, with posts on humour, politics, the media, cars and anything else that might be of interest.
Recent Posts
Spring photos: ASB’s unconvincing campaign and my flowers
I lost count of how many hours it took for the compose screen to come up, but since it is night-time now, and I am pretty sure there was sunlight when I first began clicking ‘Create’, we can say a good quarter of the da...
Vox’s compose screen load time down to minutes from hours
I’m still testing this site to see how long the compose screen takes to appear. Right now: five minutes. It’s a darned sight better than the 75–120 minutes of last night, and the two days of earlier this month. I suspect Daisy, who is most Voxe...
Seventy-five minutes for Vox to load the compose screen
Wow, Vox took 75 minutes to come up with the compose screen [and it took an extra 120 for it to come up again because I had a tiny edit to make]. I had wanted to send a private, friends-only post tonight, but after clicking ‘Create’ once every fe...
A tribute to Edward Woodward
I wanted to find some clips to pay tribute to the late actor, Edward Woodward. Strangely, the day he died (at a time when I did not know he had passed away), my mind kept thinking back to a joke my friend Ann...
Man on Fire (not the remake)
TV3 just re-ran the 2004 remake of Man on Fire, but I thought it might be interesting to see some clips from the original version, in this preview: I realize Scott Glenn is not as big a name as Denzel Washington (who, let’s face...
QotD: New Moon lights up The Dark Knight
New Moon broke The Dark Knight’s single day box office record. Are you planning on seeing this teenage vampire love story? If so: Team Edward or Team Jacob? Absolutely not. And ever since they said Rachelle Lefèvre was fired from the third pictu....
