DRM Round-up: Q4 2020

Wow! It's been a while! Today is International Day Against DRM 2020, which means it's time to check in with my e-book collection for the first time since Q2 2019.

I have a policy of refusing to purchase any e-books encumbered with DRM,

Lodging retrospective tax returns 5 years late

Naughty me!

In late 2014, I registered an ABN for a small Minecraft server hosting business, which remains ongoing to today. Under section 161 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, the Commissioner of Taxation may require certain persons to lodge a tax return.… »

Supplementary content – ‘Let's Talk about being agender, aromantic, asexual and Asian’

This week I chipped in to Seb Whitaker's Let's Talk! podcast about issues related to life at Monash Residential Services, in an episode titled ‘Let's Talk about being agender, aromantic, asexual and Asian (the 4 A's)’. On the podcast, we discussed my experience exploring… »

Hypoactive sexual desire disorder and asexuality

I am not a doctor. I am not your doctor. This is not medical advice.

A Tumblr exchange from early 2018 has been making the rounds on ace social media lately, via the Aces, Aros and Enbies Facebook page, and /r/asexuality.

The exchange refers… »

Customising Pretix defaults with a plugin

Pretix is an open source ticket sales platform with a self-hosted ‘Community’ edition. Pretix is highly versatile, and features a plugin system making it highly customisable, and the API is fairly well-documented. However, complete examples of how exactly to use the API to accomplish certain… »

Monash Medicine in review – Year 3B: MED3100/3200

Year 3B is the first clinical year of the Monash medicine course, and is based entirely within hospital sites, not the main university campus. If the transition from year 12 to medical school is a significant change, the transition from preclinical to clinical medicine is… »