{"id":1499,"date":"2009-03-07T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2009-03-07T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T17:41:00","slug":"user-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"user names"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">When I first started using the internet many years ago, I quickly discovered that there were too many people out there with the same name as me. Of course the problem was that when I went to create a user name, say on the times in new york, I would find that byap and brianyap and various combinations were already in use. I did not want to have to create a new user name for each site as then I had to write them all down. This particularly applied to sites I rarely use. At the time I was trying to learn Mandarin Chinese so I chose my name in mandarin as my user name &#8211; yewenyi. This is different to my name in hakka (yap) which is on my birth certificate. BTW yap is still spelled incorrectly, it should be yup. For many years this worked. I had my user name to myself. It worked until the chinese started using the internet in large numbers. But still I rarely encounter them and often I will go in and make a user ID if I am considering a site to stop someone else from taking it.<\/p>\n<p>One advantage is that I can search on this name and see how the search engines rank my sites. This morning I thought to look some where else and the result was quite surprising. As far as I can see most of this stuff is virus and other malicious software. Certainly none of it was ever created by myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_JTPT7gbRxcg\/SbFh51N8heI\/AAAAAAAAAD4\/EJynIKvgz7Y\/s1600-h\/LW+yewenyi+part.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 120px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_JTPT7gbRxcg\/SbFh51N8heI\/AAAAAAAAAD4\/EJynIKvgz7Y\/s400\/LW+yewenyi+part.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310133081812534754\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started using the internet many years ago, I quickly discovered that there were too many people out[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}