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My week of Monday 14 to Sunday 20 October 2024 was spent on holiday in Queensland, and now it’s already the following Tuesday. I’ll tell you more about the holiday another time, but right now here’s a shorter Weekly Wrap.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 751: My busy holiday certainly didn’t dragon”
My week of Monday 7 to Sunday 13 October 2024 was so productive I’ve gone on a holiday. Yes, I made a podcast about Indonesia and Thailand, as well as The Weekly Cybers and such, but today I flew to Cairns for the start of a week and bit in Queensland.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 750: Virtually South-East Asia, physically Queensland — at least today”
As regular listeners to the Edict will know, I reckon Australians should know more about the other nations in our region. So our special guest today is journalist Erin Cook, who covers South-East Asia, and we’re talking Indonesia and Thailand. Mostly.
Continue reading “The 9pm Indonesia and Thailand Crash Update with Erin Cook”
What a week! Between Monday 30 September and Sunday 6 October 2024 I kicked off a new podcast series, started reviewing my photo archive, and had quite a few naps — but they weren’t as long as last week. I’m very happy with this start to 2024 Q4.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 749: The Moth of Reflection”
The spring series of the Edict kicks off properly with our first special guest and it’s David Gerard, co-editor of the newsletter Pivot to AI. So guess what we talk about.
Continue reading “The 9pm AI Just Doesn’t Work with David Gerard (#NotAllAI)”
Well then, my week of Monday 23 to Sunday 29 September 2024 represented quite a change. Last week was good for me. This week less so. Was I fighting some sort of lurgi? Because by the weekend I was sleeping for most of the day and got almost nothing done. And most of the birds abandoned me.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 748: The escalation of cicadas, the plummet of productivity, but little more”