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Posted on 26 December 201626 December 2020 by Stilgherrian

Weekly Wrap 343: Death and Christmas

Exeter Hotel, Rundle Street, Adelaide: click to embiggen

My week of Monday 19 to Sunday 25 December 2016 was one of my more unusual weeks in 2016, and that’s saying something.

I mentioned last week that I planned to be in Adelaide, my home town, on Monday to Wednesday for a family funeral on Tuesday. What I didn’t mention was that my mother was the deceased. We were no longer close, so it felt more like a family duty than an emotional rollercoaster, but visiting your home town after a gap of more than 12 years is always… interesting.

And soon it was Christmas, and soon less than a week remained until 2017. Whose idea was this again?

Articles

  • Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings, ZDNet Australia, 21 December 2016.

Media Appearances

  • On Wednesday I spoke about using retained telecommunications data in civil proceedings on ABC 105.7 Darwin.

Podcasts, Corporate Largesse

None.

The Week Ahead

Monday and Tuesday are meant to be public holidays, but I’m working through. Monday is about tiding up a few loose ends. Then for the rest of the week it’s a bunch of work on the SEKRIT editorial project, and writing for ZDNet.

There will also be an episode of The 9pm Edict podcast recorded on Wednesday 28 December at 2100 AEST. It’ll be streamed live from stilgherrian.com/edict/live/.

Update 27 December 2016: No, let’s do this podcast in the first week of January.

Further Ahead

I’m already scheduling events for 2017. It seems I’ll be covering the RSA Information Security Conference in San Francisco on 13 to 16 February, and the APRICOT 2017 / APNIC43 conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, at the end of February and into early March. Stay tuned.

[Photo: Exeter Hotel, Rundle Street, Adelaide, photographed on 19 December 2016.]

Possibly related posts

  • Talking civil use of metadata on ABC 105.7 Darwin
  • Talking data retention on ABC Radio’s “Life Matters”
  • Fine posts for 2014, such that they are
  • Weekly Wrap 230: Kangaroos and pre-summer thoughts
  • Weekly Wrap 447: It’s still way too busy as Christmas looms
CategoriesWeekly Wrap Tagsadelaide, christmas, data retention, death, exeter hotel, george brandis, law, metadata, zdnet

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