Elections 2010 / February 2014
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Do mayoral candidates dream of electric sheep?
- Jack Yan
- The original link is long gone, but I sure wish the media here did its job during the 2013 mayoral election and administered the Voigt-Kampf (I know it was spelt differently in the movie) test from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. This was from The Wave, 11 years ago, during San […]
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The religiosity of the superbrands
- Jack Yan
- Another friend asked the Windows laptop v. Macbook question on her Facebook today. You can predict what happens next. The cult came by. As with the last time a friend asked the same question. The cult always comes and proclaims the superiority of the Apple Macintosh. And it is a blinding proclamation, of […]
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Flashback to 2002: Australia’s first Winter Olympic gold
- Jack Yan
- This is the sort of thing I would throw on my Tumblr but the Olympic Committee won’t allow embedding there. Ergo: It’s from the 2002 Games, where Steven Bradbury takes home Australia’s first gold in the Winter Olympics. The last lap is at around the 1′30″ mark. Fast forward to 2014 and remember […]
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Water trumps fire
- Jack Yan
- Since I used to post updates of the web browsers I used: I have switched to Waterfox, replacing Firefox. Since the latest Flash updates a few weeks back, Firefox has been crashing twice a day. Other weird things have happened, too, like the save file dialogue box failing to appear after several hours’ use, […]
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In education, everyone deserves a chance
- Jack Yan
- I am a huge fan of Sir Ken Robinson, the educational expert. This video has been around for a few years, but it’s well worth another watch. Everyone has the potential within them—so we need ways of encouraging this for every life, rather than suppress them in favour of just the three Rs. […]
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This week it’s the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models; what’s next for our destination marketing?
- Jack Yan
- In Lucire’s publication history, more Americans than New Zealanders have read from the title. Online, that was always the case, as we started off in 1997 with a 70 per cent US readership, which has dropped to around 42 per cent with other countries catching up with web browsing over the last 16 years. […]
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Frack away, IGas Energy: the Metropolitan Police has your back
- Jack Yan
- The spirit of Gene Hunt is alive and well in the Greater Manchester Police, in the form of Sgt David Kehoe. Arresting someone over a drink driving when he has neither drunk nor driven reminds me of The Professionals episode, ‘In the Public Interest’, about a corrupt police force in an unnamed English city […]
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MG SUV soon a reality: good
- Jack Yan
- I have to admit I get a bit bored of those crying foul now that MG will launch an SUV, one which seems to have some parallels with the Ssangyong Korando C (left). They say that MG should have made sports cars as part of its revival, and that the brand should not adorn […]
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The Rongotai years
- Jack Yan
- This came up today at Victoria University where an old client of ours asked about my 2013 campaign. I remembered there was something about education that I wanted to address at the time. One of the stranger emails during 2013 came from a former classmate of mine at Rongotai College. A brilliant guy at […]
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