
It’s Day 72 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. The results of his COVID-19 test from Tuesday’s magical nasopharyngeal swab have arrived.
Continue reading “The 9pm His Plague Diary 11”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!
It’s Day 72 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. The results of his COVID-19 test from Tuesday’s magical nasopharyngeal swab have arrived.
Continue reading “The 9pm His Plague Diary 11”In my week of Monday 18 to Sunday 24 May 2020 I shed a tear when I saw how some of our international students are having to be supported by ad hoc community charities. Our governments have failed.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 521: The true grind of the Quarantimes”Thanks to the COVID-10 lockdown and, it must be admitted, quite a bit of laziness, the entirety of my week of Monday 11 to Sunday 17 May 2020 was spent less than 50 metres from my bed. Well, from the house. I did get out of bed a bit.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 520: The full-week 50-metre challenge”It’s Day 60 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is starting to tell us it’s time to move towards opening the economy. But with COVID-19 infections in the US at such high levels, are we moving to early?
Continue reading “The 9pm His Plague Diary 9”It’s Day 52 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison has now sketched out a three-step plan for rolling back the restrictions on our movements. If everything works. Meanwhile, everything in The America is collapsing.
Continue reading “The 9pm His Plague Diary 8”Last Sunday the Australian government launched its COVIDSafe contact tracing app, and my week of Monday 26 April to Sunday 3 May 2020 contained a lot talking about it — for which I’m not paid of course. However my writing for ZDNet was about longer-term issues of national cyber resilience and diplomacy. Mostly.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 518: COVIDSafe, cybers, and a lot of wind”