IMHO: As soon as I turn my back, it’s strata chaos
In an expanded ramble from the Flat Chat newsletter, JimmyT wonders if it can be a coincidence that strata chaos erupts as soon as he leaves the country.
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Are we about to be rendered redundant by AI?
It started as a bit of fun - ask Artificial Intelligence a question about strata. Turns out some of these platforms are a lot smarter than you might imagine.
IMHO: Let’s hear it for hip and cool hearing aids
Hearing aids don't make you look older - asking people to repeat themselves does. And now you can use your earbuds as basic aids, look cool and hear everything.
Back chatting on the ABC with James Valentine
For longer than either of us can remember, James Valentine used to invite me on to his Afternoons radio show to talk about strata, writes JimmyT. People would call in…
Are Baby Boomers really the new strata baddies?
Who do you think the fastest growing group of strata troublemakers is? Pet owners or pet haters? Airbnb hosts or tenants and owners with by-law blindness? According to some highly…
Podcast: How a lockdown had a silver lining
Are you stuck at home because state borders aren’t as open as they want us to think, or you can’t go anywhere until your covid test results come out? Maybe…
Nothing to do with strata, but … why we’ll never elect a President
It has absolutely nothing to do with strata, but … The recent events in Ukraine and the current turmoil in Washington DC have guaranteed one thing – we will never…
Who are your strata saints and sinners for 2018?
It’s that time of year when Santa has to decide who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. And here in Flat Chat Central we were thinking, why should he have…
How to be a better Airbnb host … no … really!
Regular readers of this column (thank you both) will know that I am not the biggest fan of Airbnb, nor they of me. Let’s just put that down to my…
When ‘common sense’ makes no sense at all
Common sense, that good old standby we apply to any dilemma, however complex, is the thinking equivalent of comfort food: it makes you feel better now but causes problems later.…
The new kit on the block – another podcast lands
Listen to the Dardanelle Towers, Episode 2 podcast HERE Well, this podcasting lark has turned out to be harder than I thought. You write the stuff, read it aloud, read…
Your nuttiest strata committee is now a podcast
Podcasts are all the rage these days, it seems. So we bought the microphone, downloaded the software and attended the seminar – all we needed to create a podcast was…