Thursday, November 30th
Dinner last night with Andrea...
Taipei is a small place but how SMALL is small?? I'm five minutes away from Mr. Paco's where Andrea and I decided to have dinner when my cell phone rings. Ginny was having dinner at Paco's TOO and wanted to know what was good there since I eat there all the time. Hello? I just saw her earlier that day and neither of us knew the other would be at Paco's in the evening. GIVE ME A BREAK. Ginny, Tommy, and their two friends were having dinner there, and Andrea and I got seated right next to them. Ginny and I have this very strange Yuan Fen. Very strange.
Anyway, it was GREAT to catch up with Andrea, we keep trying to set a regular time to meet up but we're both so incredibly busy (like everyone else in this town), we attempted to hit the golf range every Saturday afternoon but that lasted for about three weeks. So now we're going to try to at least have dinner together once a month. We see each other all the time at CAPT and at parties but it's hard to sit down and talk with everyone else present. Frank joined us later, and that was fun.
FYI, none of the pictures we took came out, it was too dark in the restaurant. I only got a shot of Mr. Paco himself as he was standing behind the counter, and of Frank's new cell phone only because the panel read, "Chung Hwa Frank". I thought that was funny.
Christ Oh Mighty.
Is it THAT easy to get a plug-in in the Industry Standard newsletter? Sheesh. Check out the "What's Your Impression" section of today's Net Persuasion email newsletter. I spent five minutes writing that up last week and emailed it to Michele Keller, Deputy Editor at the Standard, and sure enough, she plugged me in. Thanks Michele! This is just too funny. HEY! Free publicity to millions of people for five minutes of my time? I know I know, I'm a geek...
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I need to have a word with Jerry...
Okay, I do not know Jerry Yang personally but I FEEL like I do since I use his email system, and because he also has ties to Taiwan. We're uh, also around the same age, cough cough... In fact, I was just complaining to someone the other day how I did NOT appreciate Jerry serving me breast enhancement banners. I'm like, personalization and user profiling is important and all but PLEASE Jerry. You never asked me for my BRA size in my Yahoo profile so how would you KNOW? I had to reload that page A S A P only to have him serve me a "find-a-date" banner.
Sigh... Jerry and I need to talk.
Anyway, today's rant is pretty serious. Yahoo just implemented some kind of a default email checking Security Delivery System, a FIVE-STEP process that entails visiting a seemingly-unrelated website, creating a PassPhrase, receiving a confirmation email, authorizing a link, and then entering the PassPhrase for an email from a friend who wrote, "thanks".
While I really do admire Jerry greatly (actually I LOVE him!), what troubles me is that I was not first INFORMED of the changes that were going to be made to the site interface and then given the option to choose what I want to do. Jerry all you needed to do was to send me a little email giving me a heads up on what's about to happen. Come on man, I've got STOCKS in your company.
Bump it up, bump it up!
I compose and send messages every day as if there was a FIRE in the building, I hardly have time to notice any interface changes on a system I've been using for years. So yesterday I unknowingly sent out a SECURED message to a very important third-party entity that I'm trying to cut a deal with. Had another recipient of that message not written back and suggest that I resend the message using the standard, "non-secured" method, I wouldn't have known.
Gus also sent me two messages from the States this morning using that Secure Delivery thingy so I actually had to go through the whole painful procedure myself. I am certain he didn't purposely do so. How much do you want to bet that within a few days that feature will be changed? Yahoo is going to be receiving lots of complaints, that's for sure.
Jerry really should hire me. Better yet, Jerry should invest in ORIENTED.COM.
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