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14 January 202428 January 2024

Weekly Wrap 711: A lazy week with a giant caterpillar

My week of Monday 8 to Sunday 14 January 2024 was distinctly unproductive, but I’m going to claim that that was the plan all along. It wasn’t, but here we are.

12 January 202412 January 2024

Digital developments from Canberra 68

Despite it being the summer silly season, we have government sookage over social media, a total rebuild of Services Australia’s networks, some poor audit reports, and 15 government agencies start using AI without governance frameworks.

07 January 202412 January 2024

Weekly Wrap 710: A quiet start to 2024, and an old sunrise

And 2024 begins! Around two decades ago I used to photograph the New Year’s Day sunrise at Bronte Beach in eastern Sydney, or do some other ritual thing. The photo above is from 2005. However my week of Monday 1 to Sunday 7 January 2024 was just a quiet one at home, mostly.

31 December 202302 January 2024

Weekly Wrap 709: Closing off the Year of the Magpies, although other things probably happened as well

And so ends 2023. My week of Monday 25 to Sunday 31 December 2023 was quiet enough. I produced a podcast and pondered the future, but that’s about it. I’ll reflect more upon 2023 during the coming week. Promise.

24 December 202329 December 2023

Weekly Wrap 708: I transform myself for Christmas with a quiz and a podcast and two uncooperative cats, plus some AI

My week of Monday 18 to Sunday 24 December 2023 was a suitably productive wind-down for the 2023 working year. A fun quiz. An interesting podcast. The usual Friday blog post. And positioning myself for a Christmas period of cat-sitting down in Sydney.

18 December 202318 December 2023

Weekly Wrap 707: The diseased pudding podcast week, and much more

In my week of Monday 11 to Sunday 17 December 2023 I posted two podcasts and recorded a third, as well as solving some geekery problems for a client, and posting the usual Friday blog. A very productive week indeed.