A small stone quay at the side of an estuary, water on the left, and a pathway and then lawn on the right. On the quay, four pelicans stand looking at the water, one with its wings outstretched. On the water a group of five pelicans look back. Half a dozen tourists stand watching the scene.
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Weekly Wrap 814: Happy New Year with belated pelicans

Happy New Year. My week of Monday 29 December 2025 to Sunday 4 January 2026 was suitably recreational, although I did insert some podcast post-production — with the result that you have our Bingo Card discussion. The pelicans are from last week

Podcasts

  • The 9pm Full-time Bingo Card Update 2025 with Snarky Platypus, recorded last Sunday and posted on Wednesday, which was New Year’s Eve. There’s some controversial opinions.
  • I still haven’t organised a replacement for the now-dead PodcastDb — although I’m still being charged the subscription! — so I still can’t upload any new episodes of Another Untitled Music Podcast. We have one episode ready to post, however, and will record another one soon so we have an orderly queue for when we do get back online.

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Media Appearances, Corporate Largesse

None of these.

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The Week Ahead

And now we ease into the new working year…

On Monday and Tuesday I’ll be contacting my geekery clients and starting to reorganise the various lists through which I contact my supporters. Currently I’m using Pozible for the regular crowdfunding campaigns, Memberful for subscriber payments, Campaign Monitor for the general mailing list, and Buttondown for The Weekly Cybers. Are there any more?

I’ll figure the rest out later.

I’m also toying with the idea of bringing back The Weekly Cybers this Friday 9 January instead of waiting, because there’s some interesting bits and pieces to report — but I haven’t decided yet..

Further Ahead

I haven’t done much planning for 2026 yet, as is traditional here in Australia. But in January there will definitely be more apartment hunting and podcast recording.

  • Screening for a medical trial, Sydney, 13 January 2026. Assuming I don’t get bounced for some reason, I’ll be taking part in the trial of a new trivalent vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus (hMPV), and human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPV-3). I’m really hoping I get the new vaccine rather than the placebo.
  • The Weekly Cybers newsletter returns on 23 January 2026, unless it returns earlier.

[Photo: A surfeit of pelicans at Parsley Bay next to Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River, photographed on 27 December 2027. Right next to the public boat ramp there’s a stainless steel trough where fisherfolk can clean their catch, and the pelicans know it.]

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