I’ve added a Calendar to the website. It currently shows the events I plan to attend, and the says I intend to be in Sydney or other cities, as opposed to the Blue Mountains eyrie.
Fine posts for 2012
As in previous years, the list of most popular posts for 2012 was rather disappointing, so I’ve hand-curated this list of eight stories for you to consider.
As usual, this does not include the material I wrote elsewhere, for ZDNet Australia, Technology Spectator, CSO Online, Crikey, ABC The Drum and the rest. That’s all listed on my Media Output page.
- Two casually racist encounters concerning Auburn, being the most recent of my essay-style posts.
- Insulted, ASIO? That’s not really the problem, surely?
- ASIO’s got it easy, says terrorism expert
- Consilium: Social media is destroying society? Good! This is the recording and transcript of my opening and closing remarks at Consilium, and I think I said some good things.
- iSpy: Talking total surveillance at Sydney Writers’ Festival, being the recorded audio of the panel discussion I did.
- Why tweeting my movements isn’t a safety risk, which is what it says.
- Stilgherrian’s advice to a PR student, uhoh, which is some useful if unconventional material.
- Twitter Discourse 1: Fuck off, swearing is my birthright. Because it is.
If you’d like to compare this with previous years, try these:
[Photo: Screenshot of AWStats from this website. It’d make more sense for this image to be on the most-popular story list, but I have my reasons.]
Most popular posts of 2012
Is it that time of year already? Yes, it is. This is the first in a series of posts looking back at what I’ve done and how people reacted, being a list of the most-read posts on this website from 2012.
Like last year, there’s not a lot to choose from because most of my writing is done elsewhere these days. Indeed, there are very few posts apart from the Weekly Wrap posts and the Conversations podcast that contains the radio and TV spots I do. That means some rather mundane pieces of writing, such as the Weekly Wrap, end up on the list. I intend to change this in 2013.
- Twitter screwed up TweetDeck, so here’s the old version, being a place to download the old Adobe AIR version of the popular Twitter client, the last one before Twitter screwed it up.
- Weekly Wrap 101: Codeine and counter-surveillance. I’ve no idea why this routine post proved more popular than usual.
- Two casually racist encounters concerning Auburn, the first item on the list that’s something like the essay-style blog posts I used to do.
- Flame gets me talking cyberwar worms on The Project, containing video of my first appearance on the Channel TEN program, The Project.
- cPanel’s new EULA: more software industry arrogance?, in which I complain that it’s a bit rich to present a new end-user license agreement at the moment new software is being installed on a production server.
- Insulted, ASIO? That’s not really the problem, surely?, an essay that continued my thoughts from that week’s Patch Monday podcast.
- Separated at birth: Bob Katter and Ben Grubb?, which is reasonably self-explanatory.
- Talking new internet domains on ABC RN Sunday Extra, which is also self-explanatory.
- Weekly Wrap 118: Planes, pains and delays
- Twitter Discourse 1: Fuck off, swearing is my birthright. I never did get around to writing Twitter Discourse 2.
Lots coming later in the week
What with the end of last week occupied by Consilium and then travel to San Francisco before covering VMware’s VMworld from today, there will continue to be a few days of radio silence before I post new material here.
But if you want the most current details about what I’m doing you’re already following my Twitter feed, right?
Five catch-up posts follow
I haven’t posted here for a fortnight. The next five posts will be the catch-up, and they’ll all appear in the next 24 hours. Enjoy. Or not.
Things will become more normal after the Solstice
It’s the Winter Solstice in the southern hemisphere today, at 0909 AEST to be precise. I intend to have a quiet, personal ceremony at that time, and then after that try to catch up with the backlog of posts here. Wish me luck.