Adam Turner
@adamturner
Award-winning Australian freelance technology journalist and corporate writer
Old school in the state library, but no sign of the great old analogue microfiche readers
Burnt offerings to appease the sun god on the winter solstice - with a pagan Led Zeppelin soundtrack #HoldMyCalls
The hounds insisted on walking to the shops for hot chips on a perfect winters day, who am I to say no?’
Great to finally get a public holiday for his majesty BB King’s birthday
Hiking with my brother in the Dandenong Ranges, follow by Guinness and hot chips at the nearest pub #HoldMyCalls
Fellow space nerds, check out how high the arc of the full Moon is across the sky tonight, compared to the winter Sun - the Moon is roughly following the path of the summer Sun, one of the cool quirks of the approaching Winter solstice
I’ve been stalking my Orbi network for days with Uptime Kuma and PingPlotter Pro to watch for mesh dropouts, finally some action but it’s a false alarm - NBN is down but home network seems fine
Mrs T’s work friend and fellow sci-fi fan Jo was recalling how badly Seven and Nine treated sci-fi back in the day, and Jo cited an article I wrote about free-to-air TV bastardry for The Age’s Green Guide *27* years ago. Nice to know I’m memorable ;-)
Hoping Uptime Kuma running on a raspberry pi can help get to the bottom of my Netgear Orbi mesh shenanigans
About a month ago, I put air in the car tyres and two valve caps vanished into thin air. I swore I put them in my pocket. Reached in today and they’d rematerialised! Turns out some evil genius put *two* coin pockets in these jeans. When did that become a thing?
Okay, so maybe I was a *little* bit overdue for a clean out #PartyLikeATechJounro
Shout-out to the very talented @leighlo.bsky.social – I was so caught up in the #lizzies moment, I failed to notice that we actually *split* highly commended for best tech reviewer, behind @bibbybhoy.bsky.social
Leaving Sydney with a #lizzies hangover and something to hang on the wall - happy to come second my GadgetGuy editor and pre-Lizzies drinking buddy Chris Button @bibbybhoy.bsky.social
My Sydney #lizzies flight departure time is bouncing around like crazy