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In many ways my week of Monday 17 to Sunday 23 April 2023 represented another calm before a storm. I got plenty of client work done, did a radio spot, and finally locked in a venue for the Public House Forum recording next weekend, but the coming week is the big one.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 673: So much Musk, so much fox trap, so little time”
Monday 10 to Sunday 16 April 2023 contained less weird fatigue, at least towards the end, so I think whatever was causing it has now stopped. Productivity is slowly returning. Meanwhile, there’s the fox…
Continue reading “Weekly wrap 672: A sunny afternoon reveals a silly street sign, and the world improves”
My week of Monday 13 to Sunday 19 March 2023 was less productive than I’d hoped because fatigue levels were high. I don’t know why. This week’s Wrap is late, and very much a by-the-numbers exercise. Even the photo is from the other week.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 668: Weird fatigue and a recent photo of Melbourne”
As you’ll know from the latest episode of my podcast The 9pm Edict, or from my Weekly Wrap posts, or from following me on Twitter itself, I’ve been paying way too much attention to the chaos which is Elon Musk’s botched management of the social media company.
Continue reading “Talking Elon Musk and Twitter on ABC Radio’s PM”“The BBC is preparing to shut down its traditional television and radio broadcasts as it becomes an online-only service over the next decade, according to its director general, Tim Davie,” reported the Guardian. That caught the ear of ABC Adelaide.
Continue reading “Talking an online-only BBC and ABC on ABC Adelaide”In one of Australia’s biggest data breaches ever, private health insurer Medibank has had 9.7 million customer records stolen and they’re being posted on the so-called dark web. On Thursday I did two radio spots explaining the dark web. This is the second and probably better one.
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