April 2013 – Page 2 – Stilgherrian

14 April 2013

Talking NBN on FBi Radio’s Backchat

The Coalition’s national broadband policy dominated the media this week. As part of that, I was interviewed for Backchat, a politics program on Sydney community station FBi Radio.

You can listen to the entire episode at the Backchat website, but I’ve extracted the interview here. I’m not sure about you, but I think I sound a bit tired. Which is fair enough, because I was tired.

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Weekly Wrap 148: Libertarian overload, with heraldry

The week of Monday 1 to Sunday 7 April 2013 was days ago, so once more I’ll just present the basic facts with a random photo.

Articles

Trend Micro’s new paradigm: old (but good) advice in a new bottle, CSO Online, 1 April 2013.
The Spamhaus attack’s real lessons, Technology Spectator, 2 April 2013.
Bitcoin: More ideology than trustworthy currency, ZDNet Australia, 4 April 2013. The comments posted on this story are… remarkable.

Media Appearances

On Thursday I spoke about downloading TV programs, with specific reference to Game of Thrones, on ABC 105.7 Darwin.
I was also a guest on this week’s Download This Show for ABC Radio National. There was mention of teledildonics. It was a great episode. You should listen.

Corporate Largesse

None. But there’ll be plenty this week.

The Week Ahead

Well, Monday’s been done. I wrote a thing for Crikey previewing the Coalition’s broadband policy announcement. We’ll get the actual announcement tomorrow (Tuesday) or the day after (Wednesday, in case you need help working that out), so I’ll write more about it then.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) I’m also taking the train to Sydney for a 1500 meeting in the CBD and subsequent drinks, and then staying overnight for a lunchtime briefing on Wednesday.

The rest of the week will be a mix of writing and geekery, as I choose to take it.

However at some time on the weekend I should be returning to Sydney, to stay there for two weeks while Bunjaree Cottages turns into school holiday mode. In theory. Nothing has been confirmed. And I am actually quite relaxed with this knowledge.

[Photo: Heraldry Overload, an architectural detail on the Union Theatre, Lithgow.]

08 April 2013

Talking downloading TV on ABC 105.7 Darwin

ABC logo The new series of Game of Thrones was released in the US last week, and even though it was broadcast in Australia on pay TV network Foxtel just two hours later, it was still torrented to buggery. Just how entitled are we?

I ended up discussing this very issue with Kate O’Toole on ABC 105.7 Darwin, and here’s the full audio of our conversation from 4 April 2013. Since I’m way behind schedule, I’ll leave this stand without further comment.

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