Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!
Australians are being urged to work from home, thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, but that raises some technological challenges. Will Australia’s NBN be overloaded? What are the cybersecurity risks?
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The week of Monday 9 to Sunday 15 March 2020 saw a shift in Australia’s reaction to the COVID-19 coronavirus, with the first warnings to start “social distancing”. My burst of productivity will be hard to keep going. I’ll write more about this virus thing another time.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 511: Ranting as the world begins to fall apart”
This is something special. Ish. A few days ago I was the guest co-host on Well May We Say, an Australian politics podcast from Jeremy Sear-Pirko in Melbourne. We had fun. We had opinions on things. I thought you might like it as a change. The episode is titled “A Fast-Moving Situation”.
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The week of Monday 2 to Sunday 8 March 2020 started to see the rise of panic buying in Sydney thanks to overblown fears about the novel coronavirus COVID-19. And in Canberra, the government continued to suffer embarrassments.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 510: The beginning of the end of the world”
The week of Monday 24 February to Sunday 1 March 2020 began in a rainy Melbourne and ended in a sunny Sydney, and I made a good podcast.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 509: Politics in a podcast, cybers, and more politics in words”