Zhongguancun before dawn, February 2011

I was just in Beijing.  I stayed at the Yanshan Hotel in Zhongguancun.  One morning I woke up well before dawn and went out to take some pictures.  I basically made a loop, following Kexueyuan South Road from No. 3 Ring Road up to Zhichun Road, then turned left and went along Zhichun Road to Zhongguancun Boulevard, then back down to the hotel.  I was shooting with my Canon S95.  Once again, my SLR remained in its bag.

The following are a few of my favorites, and have been included in my gallery of all-time favorite photos of Zhongguancun from my various visits.  The gallery with all of my shots from this visit is here: http://www.canghuixu.com/China/Beijing-Zhongguancun/Zhongguancun-at-night/21609941_2j2Z9X

 

 

 

 

Peking University before dawn, February 2011

I was in Beijing last week for a meeting.  One morning, I made it up to the campus of Peking University before dawn to take some pictures.  It was very cold, so I ended up going through 3 batteries in something like an hour.  I think I nearly ended up with frostbite on my fingers.  Anyway, I think the results made it worthwhile.   I added the pictures to my existing gallery of night photos from the Peking University campus.  Here are a few of my favorites...

 

 

 

Facebook privacy for subscriptions... FAIL

Recently, I was dabbling with Facebook subscriptions.

As far as I can tell, even if a user configures his or her settings so that subscriptions are supposed to be visible to 'Only me', and the list of people they subscribe to is no longer displayed on their own profile, their name and a link to their profile will still display publicly at the profile of whoever they subscribed to, in the list of subscribers.

Moreover, lists of subscribers are always public.  In my own experiments, once I changed the setting to allow people to subscribe to my page, I couldn't find any way to prevent my list of subscribers from being displayed publicly.

To me, this seems like a flaw.  If I have checked 'Only me' for who can see who I can subscribe to, not only should my subscriptions not be displayed on my own profile, but my name shouldn't show up as a subscriber on the profile of whoever I have subscribed to.  My name showing up on the list of subscribers on another profile sort of defeats the purpose of 'Only me'.

At the very least, Facebook should warn users that even if they choose 'Only me' for who can see who they  subscribe to, it only prevents the list from being displayed on their own profile, and doesn't prevent their name from being include in the list of subscribers at the profile they are subscribed to.

This seems to work differently than the privacy settings for my list of Friends.  As far as I can tell, if I have set my list of friends to 'Only me', not only is my list of friends not displayed on my own profile, but I am not visible in my friends' lists of friends.

Meanwhile, I still can't figure how privacy settings for Likes, Subscriptions, and so forth apply to the information that is displayed in other users' Tickers.  Oh well.