You can’t bank on the Wales Wow, incredibly dumb move, Westpac. I never opted in to your spam lists, and now I find you have done so for me, in every category. What the heck? I know I never opted in, because I usually ask for this stuff in plain text. Considering your first-ever spam arrived today, and one of my companies became your customer in 2006, I’m sure that this decision to spam people was a recent move on your part.   Why would I ask for information on products I don’t have with you, or, for that matter, rewards?   I’ve deleted my email address from your system as well, and, yes, I do feel strongly enough about this that I’ll consider closing my accounts.   I can’t believe I wasted my 5,000th Tumblr post on you, but, there you have it.   Clearly, computers and banks do not mix—remember, cheques took a day to clear in the mid- to late-1970s, and they take five to seven days now. Now I find a foreign bank unable to grasp some basic netiquette.
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You can’t bank on the Wales Wow, incredibly dumb move, Westpac. I never opted in to your spam lists, and now I find you have done so for me, in every category. What the heck? I know I never opted in, because I usually ask for this stuff in plain text. Considering your first-ever spam arrived today, and one of my companies became your customer in 2006, I’m sure that this decision to spam people was a recent move on your part.
   Why would I ask for information on products I don’t have with you, or, for that matter, rewards?
   I’ve deleted my email address from your system as well, and, yes, I do feel strongly enough about this that I’ll consider closing my accounts.
   I can’t believe I wasted my 5,000th Tumblr post on you, but, there you have it.
   Clearly, computers and banks do not mix—remember, cheques took a day to clear in the mid- to late-1970s, and they take five to seven days now. Now I find a foreign bank unable to grasp some basic netiquette.

Farewell to a favourite This was sad news that we broke yesterday. Isn’t it strange that the headline gets more and more extreme the later it’s reported?
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Farewell to a favourite This was sad news that we broke yesterday. Isn’t it strange that the headline gets more and more extreme the later it’s reported?

Wellington isn’t dying—John Key flew into Wellington Airport and misinterpreted what ‘Wellington Terminal’ meant.
Colvin Inglis, via Twitter

Thirty years later Am I the only one who finds Volkswagen’s advertising touting stop–start as a point of difference a little strange? VW, after all, has had Formel E since the early 1980s, and some of those models had stop–start.

On the Terrace The pigeon on the right is thinking: where’s my flatmate?
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On the Terrace The pigeon on the right is thinking: where’s my flatmate?

First Tumblr support #welovewgtn

Thanks to Gunner for the Tumblr support on day two of my Wellington mayoral campaign!

Marriage equality in New Zealand

Sometimes, there’s no shame in coming 13th.

Back Jack 2013 Here’s my first campaign video kicking off my bid for Mayor of Wellington today. Filmed and edited by Komako Silver, motion graphics by Latham at Catalyst90, and overseen by Catalyst90 CEO Tom Reidy. Thank you, team, for an amazing job! More at my main site, jackyan.com.

Authorized by Conrad Johnston, 35–8 Cambridge Terrace, Wellington.

Got the blues about leaving on a jet plane Waiting at Wellington Airport—taken on a cellphone but with the white balance set incorrectly to give this effect.
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Got the blues about leaving on a jet plane Waiting at Wellington Airport—taken on a cellphone but with the white balance set incorrectly to give this effect.

What happens if you press the button? If the lifts don’t operate after store hours, what point is there to pressing ‘level 7’ outside store hours?
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What happens if you press the button? If the lifts don’t operate after store hours, what point is there to pressing ‘level 7’ outside store hours?