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Last updated on Friday 19 July 2024.

It’s the last weekday of the school holidays, and so I’m back to school on Monday for the start of Term III. But what else is happening?

Life

I spent the first two weeks of the school holidays in mainland Greece and Crete with a colleague from the Classics Department and twelve boys from Years 10 and 11 — the third Sydney Grammar School Classics Tour. The first week, we visited all the same archaeological sites and museums (and hotels) from the first tour in 2017 (!), but the second week was all new to me, and included sites like the Minoan Palace at Knossos and a second palace at Phaistos, as well as the Minoan town of Gournia and the former hellenistic Greek capital of Gortyn. There was also plenty of swimming and free time in the afternoons and evenings. Looking forward to the fourth tour in 2026.

School

Term III isn’t quite as busy as Term II and there’s a lot of time just to get teaching done. But we do say goodbye to Year 12, and it’s the last term before Year 11 starts its HSC courses, so there’s plenty going on to keep us all occupied.

Podcasting

This weekend, Flight Through Entirety is recording its episode on the 2016 Christmas Special The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and over the weeks after that we’ll be recording (and releasing) our coverage of Doctor Who’s 2017 season, the last year of the Peter Capaldi Era. That’s sixteen episodes in total before FTE goes on a break, and 500 Year Diary takes over the limelight in 2025 (and beyond).

Untitled Star Trek Project and Startling Barbara Bain continue unabated. And any day now I’m expecting the call for the start of recording for the final season of Maximum Power.

Websites

Eleventy is nearing its 3.0.0 release and so I’m updating all the podcasting websites and adding new features. Still more to do: Zach is adding new features to the release just about every day. Exciting times.

I’m also working on a plugin called eleventy-plugin-podcasting, which will depend on the Eleventy 3.0.0 release, and which will include all the functionality needed to create a podcast feed for an Eleventy website. Currently working on documentation and the test suite. I want to do this properly.

What I’m enjoying

The overseas trip left me very little time for media consumption, but I can recommend two things. Douglas is Cancelled is a miniseries by Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat, with a clever and insightful script and a brilliant performance by Karen Gillan. And the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy has just dropped on Netflix — we’ll be recording our take on the first two episodes next week and releasing it the week after that.