Jack Yan on Vox

I have read the judgement but my views aren’t changed

2008-05-28T06:35:09Z

Finally, I have read the judgement from California about gay marriage. It may be prudent to post a comment from an earlier post, in response to a commenter, Madonna. I should note that I am not part of a conspiracy behind an ‘anti-gay industry’ o...

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A follow-up on the gay marriage post

2008-05-28T05:55:00Z

The following is a comment in response to the exchange from my earlier blog post on gay marriage in California. I believe it is important (for my own ego!) to address charges that I am prejudiced against gays or am a bigot. It is a pity that whil...

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Gene Hunt is a law unto himself—even in real life

2008-05-10T23:50:18Z

The first time I read about Philip Glenister getting his driver off for speeding (35 mph in a 30 mph zone) I chuckled, as he adopted his Gene Hunt persona. The cop saw the actor and said, according to Glenister, ‘I’m terribly sorry about this sir...

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Wordpress to be blocked in Brazil over sex video?

2008-04-29T00:38:06Z

Just got this in from Mike Corso at Cool Site of the Day. A recent Brazilian YouTube sex scandal threatened to close down every WordPress blog around the world. Did you hear about it? It's already called “YouTube Gate”—apparently a spicy sex s...

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Another time the ANZ directors f***ed up banking

2008-03-12T03:39:37Z

I went to deposit, as I often do, a US dollar cheque into a New Zealand dollar account. The nice lady, Bev, tells me that there is now a $5 fee for depositing a foreign cheque. ANZ is totally f***ed up if it believes it can do this. I alr...

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Imagine if ‘Dear John’ didn’t have a Dear John

2008-03-07T05:04:17Z

[Cross-posted] I didn’t do as much witness work for my legal clients during 2005–6 and I was interested to see from a former client a letter from a large New Zealand law ﬁrm’s partner. I won’t reveal any speciﬁc information, of course, but let’s s...

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ANZ lied twice—now it’s time to close our accounts

2008-02-18T09:27:25Z

I am morally against bank fees, and the ANZ Bank has usually been very good at making sure that I am not charged them. However, since late last year, despite protests, they haven’t been able to rid me of a $5 per month charge on an account I h...

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British woman wakes from vegetative state

2008-02-06T23:39:29Z

At least the British don’t pull out feeding tubes. In November 2007, it was reported that a 23-year-old woman, Amy Pickard, who had gone into a coma after a drug overdose (sounds familiar?) woke up thanks to the use of a sleeping pill. The pil...

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E-court: the web can clean up the legal profession

2007-10-03T06:18:03Z

I love it. Dr Jay Parkinson of Brooklyn, NY, has gone online with his practice: http://www.inter-actions.biz/blog/2007/10/is_there_a_doctor_in_the_house.html That means you can reach him via electronic means and he will do diagnoses accordingly, ...

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Anti-spam law won’t change much in New Zealand

2007-09-04T09:51:23Z

[Cross-posted] There have been a lot of domestic businesses emailing me of late out of fear that, if they sent me more bulk emails, they would violate the new anti-spam legislation that comes into force in New Zealand tomorrow. This has been...

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