Tuesday
Alright. Uhh, I don’t know what to talk about today. Have written a couple of stories for work – was a busy kind of morning on that front as per usual for a Tuesday.
Quickly wrote up this one about Mike Cannon-Brookes’s Grok Ventures buying an 11 per cent stake in AGL which was fun. I saw the announcement come in last night and had a giggle at the man announceing like a half a billion dollar purchase and mistagging the company’s account.
So that was okay. I’ve been tired but.
Then finished off a quick write-up of a Privacy Awareness Week webinar thing which wasn’t interesting but I got an okay-ish angle. The idea of them getting the new CEO of Services Australia – an agency which was in charge of Centrelink during the Robodebt fiasco – to talk about privacy and data governance is laughable.
Finally, I wrote a quick one on Standards Australia’s latest report which I’m sure Sama appreciated. Really ran with the angle that they want to add a cyber security label to smart/IoT devices and was lucky enough to find the government’s done a bit of research into that themselves that I could draw on.
After we sent the newsletter I took Daisy for a walk while listening to the Sunny Podcast and then saw a roofer – the latest in a long line of many – who’s had a squiz at the roof (which is fucked) and is sending out some tradies to fix it. I dunno, we’ve had so many people try and deal with this thing. It’s such a nuisance. Plan still is to just move. We’ll get there.
Thinking now about adding my Bullying Bot to this Github because Ben mentioned wanting to have a look at it. Couldn’t hurt. Pretty simple stuff – it’s not a complicated thing.
What else is going on? Not much I guess. Haven’t done any fiction writing today but hey that is what it is. Should really just knock out a couple hundred words for consistency’ sake. Then also get back to building out the synopsis for my novel! Yes, I’m finally writing a novel. Well, I’ve tried a bunch of times unsuccessfully to write one in the past but this time I’m trying to build one with a bit of structure and do the opposite of what I normally do: plan first then write. Usually I just write and then like try to make it make sense during/after the madness of writing. That hasn’t been working for me, not gonna lie.
2022 fiction word count: 12,692
Today’s effort: 314 words on the story of digital artist Kaylene. Planning for Narcissus novel.