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!
And so ends summer. My week of Monday 25 to Sunday 31 March 2024 was spent in Sydney and contained the first autumn episode of my terrible podcast — to be posted soon — as well as a long weekend and a radio spot. I also visited, or rather walked past, an old home of mine.
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I’ve sometimes said that I seem to operate on a two-week productivity cycle. It therefore comes as no surprise that my week of Monday 18 to Sunday 24 July 2022 was a relatively quiet compared with last week’s burst of productivity.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 634: A lot of sleep, and a little nostalgia for a decade ago”
My week of Monday 15 to 21 November 2021 was full of conferences and fatigue, so while I got a podcast out I didn’t get anything written. I did start thinking about the Beforetimes, though, and stumbled across some photographs from the past.
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Monday 19 to Sunday 25 April 2021 has been strange for me. Introspective, but not just in a nostalgic way. It’s hard to explain. Maybe it’s lingering mood changes from the recent brain meds adjustment. Maybe it’s the weather. Oh well. I still got some things done.
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Monday 12 to Sunday 18 April 2021 was another week in which I started reminiscing about travel, which is why there’s a random old photo of the view from a train window at the head of this post. But there was also a podcast this week, and a ZDNet article, and a failed livestream.
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It’s a year since my last airline flight, returning to Sydney from a conference in Melbourne. What a year it’s been since then! My week of Monday 22 to Sunday 28 February also saw me get a few things written, but you can’t see them today.
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