Quoting aaronco36 (aaronco36@SDF.ORG):
FYI, http://henryshunan.com/ now links to a blog by a "Henry Shunan" rather than to the intended Henry's Hunan Restaurant in SF :-| It's ultimately up to the BALUG organizer(s) of course, but could/should perhaps the above Henry's Hunan link be changed to something like https://www.yelp.com/biz/henrys-hunan-restaurant-san-francisco (??)
I have a couple'a thoughts about the above, on reflection:
1. In my experience, it is indeed often much more useful to link to the relevant Yelp page about a restaurant than to anywhere else, for lots of reasons including restaurants (like other non-tech firms) being often really dreadful about keeping their online information accurate.
I learned a lesson about this down here in Menlo Park, two years ago: There's a small market called Willows Market, famous for their beer inventory. (One of their sandwich board signs says 'We have 992 great beers and six terribles ones.') Here's their Web site: http://willowsmarket.com/
Notice it says they're open until midnight. A couple of years ago, I really wanted some decent beer, but had evening work to do. I reassured myself that there would be plenty of time to get to Willows before midnight, left home at 11:10, and was annoyed to find the store tightly shut up for the night with signs that it had happened significantly more than an hour ago. All the almost-as-good places for microbrew purchases, such as Whole Paycheck Market (er, Whole Foods Market) and Trader Joe's were now closed. With some irritation, I settled on Safeway and bought a six-pack of Anchor Porter.
Here's the Yelp page: https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-willows-market-menlo-park Notice it says they close at 10pm. Gee, guess who's right?
I called the store the next day during business hours, and said 'Gosh, I really wanted to buy beer from you guys last night, but your Web site's antimarketing drove me to Safeway, instead. Maybe you should consider fixing your goddamned Web site, unless you really prefer losing business.'
The guy said 'Er, sorry about that, but we can't fix it. We hired a firm to create the site years ago, but don't have access to edit it. I was stunned, and all I could say was 'If I were the owner, I would mirror the contents to my local hard drive, create a new site elswhere, re-host the contents _with corrections_, and repoint the firm's DNS to there. And, if the problem is that you don't control your domain or DNS, son, you need to sue.' He said he'd pass on my advice to the owner, which of course I don't believe.
And, two years later, the store's site is still wrong. and Yelp is still far better.
2. It maybe just me, the Hong Kong kid, but, seriously, who needs a restaurant Web site link for a technical meeting and dinner at the restaurant? For what purpose? You need the business name and the street address. In this case, he name tells you it's Hunan style. Is there anyone left in the Bay Area who has absolutely no idea what Hunan-style Chineses food is like?
FWIW, BALE never included a link to the now-vanished restaurant Web site (because that struck me as pointless). Therefore, BALE doesn't need correcting, now. There's a lesson in there, somewhere.
Also, a commentator on another local LUG mailing-list mentioned that Henry's Hunan Restaurant's current big presence is rather on https://www.facebook.com/HenrysHunanNatoma/
_Way_ less informative than the relevant Yelp page, IMO.
Also, Facebook? Eww.